This video demonstrates a relatively quick and painless mod you can do on your Android powered Droid, Droid 2, Evo 4G, Epic 4G, G1, Mytouch 3G, Mytouch Slide, or basically ANY Android phone with a custom ROM. The only requirement is that the ROM is unodexed (most of the time they are). If you’re not ... Read More »
Just like the Samsung Galaxy S was easily rooted, hackers have also discovered a simple method to unlock the device and allow it to run on other carriers. This means that owners of the T-Mobile Vibrant can get their device working with an AT&T SIM card and the AT&T Captivate can be modified ... Read More »
This video will apply to anyone (Evo 4G, Mytouch Slide, G1, Mytouch 3G, Droid X, Droid Incredible, Droid 2, etc.) with a rooted phone. I made this video in hopes that people will better understand their phone and have full control of some of the basics that involve flashing a custom ROM. I know, it ... Read More »
This is an intro to rooting your Sprint EVO 4G or ANY Android device for that matter. I want everyone to know what root is and why you might need it. Whether you have a G1, MyTouch 3G, Slide, or Nexus One, then you’ve probably heard about rooting or jailbreaking your phone and I just ... Read More »
Just like the Motorola Milestone, it appears the upcoming Droid X and Droid 2 will have a digitally signed bootloader that will prevent users from flashing custom ROMs.
The original Motorola Droid had an unlocked bootloader and that device became one of the most popular among the Android open source community, but it comes as ... Read More »
Samsung’s Galaxy S lineup has yet to arrive in U.S. stores, but it looks like all their devices will be easily rooted thanks to a hack discovered on the international version. Russian developer LeshaK of Samdroid was the first to gain root access on the Galaxy S (i9000) and the community over at ... Read More »
To what lengths would you go to extend the battery life of your Android phone? Would you switch your display to night-vision mode if it could reduce the power consumption in half?
Android engineer Jeff Sharkey has discovered a fun hack that a allows you to power each specific color channel (red, green, ... Read More »
Now that the Android 2.2 source code is available, the development community can begin to tear it apart and cook up some custom ROMs for those users with rooted (hacked) phones. The team behind the popular aftermarket firmware distribution CyanogenMod is already hard at work and they are racing to get ... Read More »
Thanks to the guys over at XDA the Nexus One just got another bullet point for its spec list and that is 720p video recording.
At the moment the hack only works for rooted users running CyanogenMod 5.0.8test3, but they are working on Froyo compatibility and may get that out as early as tonight. I’ll ... Read More »
The guys from Zeemote emailed me last year asking if we knew any Android developers that might be interested in adding support for the JS1 Bluetooth controller. It took them awhile, but Zeemote finally released their Android SDK which allows devs to take advantage of analog control and navigation by integrating ... Read More »
