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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Feb 03, 2012
MIUI is not the ROM for everyone, we get that. But for those that do enjoy using it, things just got a little better -- Xiaomi has decided to release the source code changes and is in the proc...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 31, 2012
There's a Market update available for ROM Manager, and it brings a new feature that many have been wanting -- automatic installation of ClockworkMod Touch Recovery. ROM Manager itself is s...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 27, 2012
Jailbreaking or rooting your smartphone is currently "legal" under Digital Millennium Copyright Act, but that exemption is set to expire in 2012. The EFF (Electronic Frontier Fo...
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by Jared DiPane
Jan 15, 2012
Been looking for a new ROM for your Samsung Epic Touch 4G on Sprint, well how about a little bit of MIUI love for you? It appears as though an official build has been released for the device, and it...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 14, 2012
It's not easy, and it's surely not pretty, but a handful of developers are making headway into breaking the Nook Tablet out of it's B&N jail and making it a full fledged Android tabl...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 13, 2012
You there! Android hacker! Stop screwing around with your battery stats!
OK, if you're not part of the small subset of rooted users who likes to mess around with things they shouldn't, you ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 05, 2012
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If you hack or flash ROMs and various "stuff" to your Android phone, you know about ClockworkMod recovery. +Nathan Grebowiec has just taken it a ste...
Article
by Phil Nickinson
Jan 04, 2012
We're normally not huge fans of one-click rooting around here. Don't get us wrong, they're simple and the folks who put them together deserve applause. But we also think you should have ...
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by Phil Nickinson
Jan 04, 2012
For those of you who want to root your ASUS Transformer Prime but don't want all the muss and fuss of command lines, the Nachoroot method has been nicely pacakged into a little executable file t...
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ASUS Transformer Prime rooted -- again -- but you'll have to wait for the method [Updated -- or not]
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Jan 03, 2012
The latest firmware for the ASUS Transformer Prime blocks the root method that we found for the pre-production model, but the folks at AndIRC team have discovered a new method for rooting the first ...
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by Alex Dobie
Jan 02, 2012
Following a slew of other phones late last week, the CyanogenMod team has just added nightly build support for three new devices -- Sony Ericsson's Xperia Pro and Xperia Active, as well the LG T...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 30, 2011
Google may not have officially pumped out Ice Cream Sandwich for the Nexus S 4G yet, but that won't stop you from having it. We've got two custom ROMs in the forums that a...
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by Chris Parsons
Dec 30, 2011
While development for the HTC Jetstream has been pretty slim since its release that's not to say the device has been abandoned totally by developers and now, some new doors have been opened. Doo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 29, 2011
Ricardo Cerqueira, a member of the CM team and LG Android device guru, has added official CyanogenMod nightly (CM7 for the time being) support for three new LG devices -- The LG Optimus 3D, th...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 28, 2011
If you've ever wanted to build a ROM yourself from scratch and happen to love CyanogenMod, there's a new tool that you might want to have a look at -- the CyanogenMod compiler. What it...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 25, 2011
The Motorola ACTV (read our review of the Android powered watch thingy here) has been rooted. While this registers a solid 11 on the awesome-meter, we really shouldn't be that...
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by Jared DiPane
Dec 24, 2011
Look at what we have here, an update for the Amazon Kindle Fire on Dec 20, and it has been rooted already again on Dec 23. It is always nice to be able to keep up to date with the most current OS ve...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 24, 2011
Because of the Samsung Nexus S' VGA front camera, face unlock was left out of the official and AOSP builds of last year's reference phone. You know where this is going -- the files hav...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 22, 2011
Sprint has made the EVO View 4G update we told you about earlier official, with a press announcement that gives a bit more detail about what to expect. Besides the normal Honeycomb features, a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 20, 2011
HTC has released the kernel sources for a list of devices (one that's too long to fit in a blog post title even):
HTC Vivid
HTC Salsa
HTC Flyer
HTC Incredible
HTC...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 17, 2011
Samsung Nexus S 4G hacker Beezy has done it again, this time porting the Android 4.0.3 OTA update for T-Mobile phones to the Sprint 4G version. There's no Wimax of course, but for t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 14, 2011
Have an Optimus 3D or LG Thrill 4G (the U.S. version on AT&T)? Here's news you'll love -- Ricardo Cerqueira, an Android hacking mastermind when it comes to high-end LG devices, has...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 14, 2011
HTC has released the kernel source and other GPL bits for the Desire S Gingerbread update, and for the various Sensation XL versions across the globe. As usual, average and well-adjusted peopl...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 13, 2011
It's not anything official, but enterprising Android developer bubby323 has ported CyanogenMod 7.2 to the Sprint Epic 4G Touch. Yes, 7.2 is Gingerbread and not the Ice Cream Sandwich every...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 12, 2011
The Samsung Vibrant (the first of the original Galaxy S devices to hit the U.S.) is no longer supported by CyanogenMod. According to developer Abhisek Devkota, issues with the way the radio in...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 11, 2011
Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich has yet to officially hit any phone other than the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, but since the source code dropped a while back everyone and their brother has been working on ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 08, 2011
Ever do something you shouldn't have whilst hacking away at your phone, and end up stuck in a bootloop? Of course you have, because we all have. That will soon be a thing of the past...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 05, 2011
Dingleberry, the exploit package that roots the BlackBerry PlayBook (and has one of the coolest names ever) has gone public, and everyone who bought a PlayBook can now root the QNX operating system ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 01, 2011
Googler and AOSP gatekeeper Jean-Baptiste Queru announced that the factory restore images for the GSM flavored Samsung Galaxy Nexus are now available for download on the Android Building Google grou...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 30, 2011
I'll let you guys in on a little secret -- Phil's not only the Editor of the best damn Android site on the Internet, but he's also a closet Android-geek. By now you know he's h...
