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by Jared DiPane
Nov 29, 2011
Let's start off with this -- no it's not ready, and no we don't know when it will be. Now that we got that out of the way, XDA forums member JackpotCalvin has gotten a build of CM7 to bo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 21, 2011
Read our Galaxy Nexus Review!
It’s not “rooting,” it’s openness
-- Nick Kralevich, Android security engineer
There's a bit of brouhaha on the Internet today a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 21, 2011
If you've got your hands on a Kindle Fire and are having loads of fun playing around with it but would love to have the SwiftKey keyboard to replace the stock Fire issue, you're in luck.&nbs...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 20, 2011
Here's why we love open-source software folks. With the release of the Ice Cream Sandwich trunk of the Android Open Source Project code came the ability to build it yourself instead of wai...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 20, 2011
The Nook Tablet has root access. Repeat: The Nook Tablet has root access. Shouldn't be a huge surprise, given that its older brother, the Nook Color, quickly became one of the most hacked device...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 17, 2011
By the way (if you haven't already noticed this by now): If you root your Kindle Fire, Amazon's streaming video will balk at you. The good news is it takes just a few seconds to unroot using...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 11, 2011
If you've picked up a shiny new Motorola Droid RAZR today -- be sure to read our full review -- and can't wait to get it rooted, well, you don't have to wait to get it rooted. Wicked ove...
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by Jared DiPane
Nov 07, 2011
The HTC Thunderbolt has been quite a doozy for developers, we saw it take quite a while for the CyanogenMod team to get working data and unfortunately it seems all developers are facing the same iss...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 04, 2011
Bazinga. The Qualcomm chip in the T-Mobile Galaxy S II has been overclocked to 1.8GHz, and as far as we know nothing has caught fire and no fuzzy animals have been harmed. The Hercules i...
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by Alex Dobie
Nov 03, 2011
Got your shiny new Samsung Galaxy Nexus yet? Nope, didn't think so. But when you do, you'll be pleased to hear that MoDaCo's Paul O'Brien has already got a root solution ready and wa...
Article
by Anndrew Vacca
Nov 01, 2011
If you got your hands on a shiny new Atrix 2 last week and you're feeling a bit adventureous, XDA forum member Jimmy273 has compiled a pretty straightforward manual root method to achieve covete...
Review
by Joshua Munoz
Oct 31, 2011
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When Google finally unveiled Ice Cream Sandwich to the world, we all knew it was going to be the ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 28, 2011
HTC has made the Gingerbread kernel source for the EVO Shift 4G, HTC Thunderbolt, and Droid Incredible available for download on their developer center website. As always, unless you're a ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 21, 2011
The T-Mobile Galaxy S II has been rooted, thanks to Samsung releasing the kernel source. Like most Samsung Android phones (and tablets) there's no trickery involved, you simply flash the n...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 20, 2011
Developers have worked out a one-click root option for the HTC Amaze 4G, that provides a temporary root option if you have a locked bootloader, or a perm-a-root if you've managed to get the boot...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 19, 2011
With the Galaxy Nexus and Ice Cream Sandwich just around the corner, everyone's excited for all the new features and look. We can't offer a way to get any of the features just yet -- t...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 08, 2011
If you have an HTC EVO 3D, and have had some issues flashing the TWRP (and be sure to check out Josh's awesome hands-on and interview with developer agrabren) while using version 1.5 of hboot, o...
Review
by Joshua Munoz
Sep 27, 2011
I'm an AOSP man. Sense has gotten good, but I just can't seem to tear myself away from vanilla Android, and more specifically, CyanogenMod.
The speed, the themes, and the customization a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 22, 2011
What's thin, elegant, has an incredibe LCD screen and runs CyanogenMod 7? The LG Optimus Black, that's what! Android developer Ricardo Cerqueira has built an early preview of CM 7.1 fo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 19, 2011
If you went out and picked up a Samsung Epic 4G Touch and have plans to hack at it, here's your starting point -- zedomax at XDA has worked out a root method for the new handset, and has full de...
Review
by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 18, 2011
Our pal digitalslacker is back, showing off a little MIUI action for the Nexus S 4G with another great ROM review. Reader submitted reviews are pretty much the best way to get an in-depth look a...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 12, 2011
After a week or so of teasers, unofficial builds of CyanogenMod 7 are now available for the HTC Sensation and HTC EVO 3D. You won't find these n the source tree just yet, and there's no wor...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 11, 2011
Read our Droid Bionic Review
Our man Cory is at it again -- he has the hacking guides for the Motorola Droid Bionic ready to go and you can find them in the Bionic section of the Android Central fo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 11, 2011
Drooooiiiiidddddd... It's a sound plenty of us know and love, and we realize that along with it comes some serious bloatware from the folks at Verizon and Motorola. The Droid 3 is no excep...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 09, 2011
Read our Droid Bionic Review For many of us, half the fun of getting a new Android phone is digging in and trying to break it make it our own. The Droid Bionic is no exception of course, and fo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 09, 2011
If you've picked up a Motorola Droid 3, and love to tinker with things, listen up -- files have surfaced that will allow you to restore your D3 to a "factory-like" state and, more important,...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 08, 2011
Just picked up your Motorola Droid Bionic, eh? After you've got it charged and ready to roll, for many the next step will be to root it and strip out the loads of carrier bloat Verizon so kindly...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 02, 2011
Want a solid aluminum 7-inch Android tablet that runs Honeycomb? If you're sporting an HTC Flyer, today may be your lucky day. The first Honeycomb RUU has been leaked out, and more importa...
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by Phil Nickinson
Sep 02, 2011
Good news for those of you worried about being able to root the Motorola Droid Bionic -- it's already been done. The cats at My Droid World have adapted to the Droid 3 root method to the DB, and as yo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Aug 29, 2011
LG has released the Kernel source and assorted GPL bits for the Gingerbread build on their Optimus S device. No reports of anything showing in the LG updater tool just yet, and rumor says mid-Se...
