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Supposed first Jelly Bean build for Samsung Galaxy Note leaks out

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Posted by Richard Devine on 24 Oct 2012 3:21 pm
Samsung Galaxy Note
Excitement continues to build around the world for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 -- we're in NYC tonight for the Next Big Thing event -- but what of its predecessor? Owners of the original Galaxy Note are eagerly awaiting word on Jelly Bean for their beloved devices. XDA Developers forums member eybee1970 has posted what is apparently the first full leaked official build of Android 4.1 for the...

Beats Audio software ported to non-HTC devices

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Posted by Richard Devine on 4 Mar 2012 5:43 pm
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Audio quality is always something that will be subjective. Opinions on what good sounds like will always differ from person to person. This definitely applies to Beats Audio, and the inclusion of Beats on new HTC devices. HTC have just opened up the API to the Beats software for third-party apps to take advantage, but XDA member RockoDev has gone further than that. He has managed to port the...

Android 4.0 updates for Acer's A100, A500 leak ahead of April release

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Posted by Anndrew Vacca on 22 Feb 2012 2:24 pm
Iconia Tab Ice Cream Sandwich
Good news for those of you patiently waiting for Acer's April release of Ice Cream Sandwich for its A100 and A500 tablets: the good people over at XDA seem to have found stable leaks of the update ready for your flashing. XDA forum member vache posted the files today, and says that the leak is running quite nicely on the A500. A quick look through the forum posts indicates that the leaks are...

Sony Tablet S finally rooted thanks to software exploit

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 8 Feb 2012 6:50 pm
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For the Android rooting and hacking community, the Sony Tablet S has been a tough nut to crack. Locked down with some pretty aggressive security controls, those wanting root access on the device have been, until now, out of luck. That changes with the release of the first rooting exploit for the Tablet S, created by Linux hacker Dan "djrbliss" Rosenberg of Vulnfactory.org. Dan's root method is a...

ICS-based MIUI 4 ROM available for Galaxy S II

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 24 Jan 2012 8:32 am
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Two months after the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich source code dropped, we're starting to see more exotic custom ROMs appearing for popular devices like the Samsung Galaxy S II. One such ROM comes from XDA's adyscorpius, and brings MIUI 4.0 and Ice Cream Sandwich to the Galaxy S II. MIUI 4.0 Fresh includes most of the features that you'll need to use this thing as your daily driver, if you're...

Official MIUI release now available for the Samsung Epic Touch 4G

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Posted by Jared DiPane on 15 Jan 2012 6:43 pm
MIUI
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 is now available for your downloading pleasure. For those unfamiliar, MIUI is a custom ROM that is quite similar in many ways to iOS and provides a rather unique Android experience. Rooted and ready...

Ice Cream Sandwich ROM leaked for the Xperia Play

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Posted by Richard Devine on 10 Jan 2012 11:25 am
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In the middle of all the CES excitement, it's sometimes hard to forget about the regular Android world for a while. Fortunately the good folks over at XDA Developers never forget, and the latest goody bag to emerge from them is a leaked Ice Cream Sandwich ROM for the Xperia Play.  The tweaked 4.0.3 ROM has all the look and feel of stock ICS, and takes advantage of the Trebuchet launcher. As...

Amazon's Silk Browser hacked to work with Cyanogenmod

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Posted by Richard Devine on 4 Jan 2012 1:42 pm
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The Silk browser on the Amazon Kindle Fire may or may not be to everyone's liking, but that hasn't stopped the community efforts to port it across to other devices. The ever helpful folks over at the XDA forums have successfully managed to port the browser to work with the Cyanogenmod custom ROM.  It's been tested on a number of different devices, including the Motorola Atrix and Droid X. There...

Motorola Atrix 2 rooted with manual, one click methods

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Posted by Anndrew Vacca on 1 Nov 2011 2:50 pm
Motorola Atrix 2
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 coveted superuser access. Jimmy273 makes it very clear that he cannot take full credit, as he simply translated the root method for the Bionic originally created by p3droid over at the MyDroidWorld forums. Full...

Motorola Atrix Bootloader Unlocked

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Posted by Menno on 23 Jun 2011 9:30 pm
Itching to unlock your bootloader ahead of the official unlock supposedly coming with the Gingerbread update?  The2dcour over at the XDA forums has posted a method that will allow you to unlock the bootloader. This isn't a one-click root method, and it will wipe your phone's data, but it's amazing that a developer figured out how to do this before Motorola officially offered the option. As...

Netflix app ported to Droid X, Droid 2, and OG Droid

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Posted by Joshua Munoz on 12 May 2011 6:51 pm
Netflix ported to the Droid(s)
I know the Netflix app has been out for all of a few hours, but it looks like that's all it took for some of the hard-working developers at XDA to port it over to the Droid X, Droid 2, and OG Droid. Keep in mind all these phones are running either a leaked Gingerbread build or a custom ROM running Gingerbread, but it's still great to know that Netflix is available to more of the masses.We were...

Kingdom ROM and Sense 3.0 on EVO 4G, Desire HD users don't feel special anymore

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Posted by Joshua Munoz on 9 May 2011 4:30 pm
Kingdom ROM on EVO 4G
Flashaholics and Sense-lovers take notice: that leaked Kingdom ROM (and Sense 3.0!) floating around has successfully been ported to the EVO 4G. It's in it's first release, so there's definitely some bugs to be worked out, but for the most part, all the important bits are working.And when I say the important bits, I mean things like 3G/4G data, hardware acceleration, cameras, Bluetooth, GPS, wifi...

Experimental Honeycomb ROM now available for Samsung Galaxy Tab

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 4 Apr 2011 10:59 am
The unofficial Android 3.0 Honeycomb port for the Samsung Galaxy Tab that we reported a couple of weeks ago has made some pretty impressive progress in a relatively short space of time. Now ROM chef spacemoose1 has made some initial alpha builds available for download, giving the CDMA Galaxy Tab its first taste of Honeycomb. The ROM is based on the Honeycomb SDK build, and although it's (mostly...

Wifi-only Xoom gets its own root method

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 27 Mar 2011 7:02 pm
 Root access is now available on the just-released Wifi-only Motorola Xoom, thanks to some enterprising XDA members. The rooting process involves using the Android SDK, as well as a fair amount of command-line wizardry, so it's certainly not for the feint-hearted. You'll also be on your own if something goes wrong, as rooting will almost certainly void your warranty.Still, if you think the...

Unofficial port bringing Honeycomb to original Galaxy Tab

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 24 Mar 2011 12:49 pm
 XDA user spacemoose1 is very close to having a working version of Honeycomb on the original Samsung Galaxy Tab. He's been documenting his efforts to bring the SDK build of Android 3.0 to Sammy's 7-inch tablet over the past couple of weeks, and he's very close to having a full, working port. Recent progress has involved correcting video driver issues, and spacemoose is now turning his attention...

Nexus S receives BLN notifications thanks to custom kernel

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Posted by Sean Brunett on 23 Mar 2011 11:32 am
The Nexus S is a fantastic device, but users found themselves often missing the blinking notifications found on the Nexus One. Rest assured Nexus S owners, because our friends over at XDA have brought Backlight Notifications to your device thanks to a custom kernel. Please find a video of the notifications after the break.This is amazing news and a testament to how hardworking the development...

HTC Wildfire S ROM and system dump appear online

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 2 Mar 2011 3:45 pm
Yet another upcoming phone has had its software internals laid bare over on XDA. A recent forum thread on the site links to a pre-release ROM for the HTC Wildfire S, as well as a system dump extracted from that ROM. These leaked files give developers access to a potent combination of Android 2.3.2 Gingerbread and HTC Sense 2.1, and some are already working on ways of porting this back to earlier...

Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc system dump appears online

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Posted by Alex Dobie on 28 Feb 2011 9:48 am
 One enterprising XDA forum member has managed to snag a copy of the still unreleased Xperia Arc's /system partition via ADB, and has posted the resulting files online. The /system partition typically contains the core applications and files at the heart of any ROM.As the Arc is powered by Android 2.3 Gingerbread, this system dump may help developers working on custom ROMs for the Xperia X8 and...

Beta HTC Desire HD ROM snagged and leaked shortly after HTC Event

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Posted by Dallin Hampton on 22 Sep 2010 9:21 am
Earlier this month, HTC hosted a meetup in London at which they announced the HTC Desire Z and more importantly, the HTC Desire HD. During the event HTC flashed us a sneak peek of the new Sense UI, and it's definitely garnered some attention. As we've come to expect from the great community that is XDA, user DarkStone1337 nabbed a beta ROM of the HD and put it up for the masses. Join us after...

Android 2.1 hacked onto 4 Windows Mobile phones

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Posted by Casey Chan on 23 Feb 2010 6:04 pm
 It's always fun to have smart people hack away at old phones, sometimes cool things can happen. Case in point: the folks at xda-developers have gotten Android 2.1 (yeah, that's 2.1) onto 4 old Windows Mobile phones. The HTC Kaiser (aka AT&T Tilt), Vogue, Niki, and Polaris have all been hacked to run the elusive Android 2.1. This is especially amazing since so many real Android phones have...

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