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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 22, 2010
If you have a rooted Droid 2, you're going to love this. Team BlackHat has released version 3.0.0 of Froyo for the Droid 2, completely deodexed, with Busybox installed, rooted and ready to go.&n...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 20, 2010
You hear a lot of talk about rooting, especially when a new or difficult handset gets rooted. But what many of us forget, especially those new to Android, is that rooting, and having to root pho...
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by Phil Nickinson
Dec 16, 2010
It's of little surprise that the Nexus S has been rooted and already has Clockworkmod recovery installed, which is what you see above. Just as we predicted, custom ROMs are right around the corner, f...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 15, 2010
While the Nexus S isn't available quite yet, that didn't stop some enterprising hackers from fashioning a re-work of the ho-hum boring original Nexus live wallpaper into the beauty you see above. ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Dec 03, 2010
The fellows behind the ThundeROM for the LG Optimus have cranked things up a notch, and have the benchmarks to prove it. They have edited, tweaked, and monkeyed the system and taken the Optimus ...
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by Menno
Nov 29, 2010
Must be rooted: One of the coolest things about Android is the development community it fosters. These developers bring features and software upgrade to devices long after carriers and manufactu...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 28, 2010
Sprint's latest Android device, the LG Optimus S, now has its own custom ROM from our very own forum moderators KSmithInNy and Beezy. You might be familiar with their excellent work on the Evo 4...
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by Jesse Potter
Nov 26, 2010
Switching between keyboards isn't that difficult, but it can be annoying if it's something you do frequently. It's a few extra long presses and taps that can really slow you down if you just wan...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 15, 2010
The T-Mobile G2 has been overclocked to an astonishing 1.9 GHz. Read it slowly, it's not a typo -- I read it two or three times myself to be sure of what I was seeing. Now to be clear, if ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 12, 2010
So you have your new shiny Galaxy Tab, and you want to root it. I like the way you think. The good news is that the days of SDK's, cryptic shell commands, and crazy Windows USB drivers are...
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by Chris Parsons
Nov 11, 2010
Some lucky folks out there have managed to already receive their shipments for the Droid 2 Global and with that, some have even taken the time to put it to the test to see if it can be rooted and boot...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 11, 2010
Last weekend when the Froyo leak for the Epic 4G rolled out, there was a bit of consternation about the folks that had the leak not wanting to share it with the public-at-large. Somebody, somewh...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 11, 2010
You won't find it for download anywhere, it's being called "very broken" and don't dare ask for an ETA, but here's a quick peek at CyanogenMod 6 on the T-Mobile MyTouch 4G. Less than 2...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Nov 10, 2010
Here's what many were waiting for -- Clockwork recovery for the T-Mobile G2 is now available for all, and is as easy to get as installing Rom Manager from the Android Market. Now all the hackery...
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by Chris Parsons
Nov 09, 2010
Much like the T-Mobile G2, HTC Desire HD and Desire Z, the T-Mobile myTouch 4G has now been freed and permanent root has been obtained. The methods are pretty much the same as the G2 root so with that...
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by Phil Nickinson
Nov 09, 2010
It's been a long time coming, folks, but the T-Mobile G2 -- and with it, the HTC Desire HD and Desire Z -- finally has a permanent root. The work was done by Scott Walker and his merry ...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 29, 2010
Another day, another tip about overclocking -- this time it's the Samsung Vibrant hitting a very fast, yet still believable 1.6 GHz. The method isn't yet public (at the time of this writing), bu...
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by Jesse Potter
Oct 28, 2010
Exactly two months after the release of CyanogenMod 6, CyanogenMod 6.1 RC 1 is now live on the CyanogenMod website, and in the paid version of Rom Manager. Built on Android 2.2.1, and packing al...
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by Jesse Potter
Oct 26, 2010
We stumbled across a minor update release for the Evo 4G, in RUU form. In an attempt to find out which files have been modified in the update, the XDA faithful have already cracked it...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 22, 2010
Original Video - More videos at TinyPic Team DeFuse has overclocked the Droid X and Droid 2 to CPU speeds upwards of 2 GHz. Yes, 2 Ghz. We don't have a lot of details, aside from...
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by Phil Nickinson
Oct 22, 2010
Why would we want to root Google TV? Because it exists, of course. And one step in that process is being able to get into recovery mode. Yes, just like on your Android phone, there are recovery parti...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 19, 2010
We heard that Yahoo Messenger for Android was working on a video chat solution, and it looks like we have it -- straight out of the T-Mobile myTouch 4G ROM leak. Matthewjulian over at XDA-Develo...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 14, 2010
While we're all waiting for a real rooting solution for the T-Mobile G2, part-time car enthusiast and full time Android geek Paul O'Brien has whipped up a really nice one-click solution to get tempora...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 13, 2010
Video may have killed the radio star, but Cyanogen and the fellows behind the MIUI ROM have revived it for the Nexus One -- the code for the FM radio hardware that's inside the Nexus One has been mer...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 10, 2010
The big guns in the Android development/mod community (these guys are more than mere hackers) have had a week to look at the T-Mobile G2, and study the is-it-a-rootkit-or-not mess -- and one of Androi...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 08, 2010
T-Mobile has released its official response to the G2 "rootkit" controversy with a very short press release. It doesn't really say anything the development community hasn't already fig...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Oct 07, 2010
Now that Google has enabled the full Market for quite a few more countries, some great applications that were previously only available through third party sources have shown up for sale. Titani...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 25, 2010
We're all waiting to see what the Desire HD and it's new version of HTC Sense UI brings to the table, but thanks to leaks and ingenious hackers, we can get a pretty good idea of what to expect.&n...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 23, 2010
Koushik Dutta (AKA Koush) has incorporated an awesome new feature into his already indispensable application ROM Manager, called Web Connect. The screen shot says it all -- You can sen...
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by Jerry Hildenbrand
Sep 22, 2010
In a weird twist, while everyone was waiting for the Evo 4G update to show up, the folks over at XDA-Developers have just released the rooted users version of it. Don't ask, we have no answers a...
