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Legendary Android developer Chainfire seems to be calling it quits with anything related to Android at this time, and so he has made an official announcement that all his root-related apps are now end-of-life. The developer admitted that they have been unofficially that way for some time now, and...

Around two years ago, Chainfire sold SuperSU to Chinese company CCMT, which prompted a lot of questions from the Android aftermarket community. Chainfire was already a legendary name in Android aftermarket software development at that time, being the first to produce SuperSU, a piece of software that has become...

Legendary developer Chainfire has put up a new website for public use, and it looks to be a useful one moving forward. The website – firmware.mobi – is part of the developers plan to have a place where you can grab stock boot and recovery images. He says this...

Google recently outed Android O Developer Preview 3, and little by little, it’s getting traction from the hard core Android O early adopters and beta program jumpers. And because no version of SuperSU works with DP3 initially, Chainfire is releasing SuperSU 2.82 SR1 just for that very reason. The whole...

Over the last couple of days, some of SuperSU’s users have complained that version 2.80 and 2.81 of the popular rooting app have caused issues on Sony Xperia devices. Legendary coder Chainfire – father to SuperSU – has put out a recommendation that users of Sony Xperia phones stay...

Legendary developer Chainfire has a few updates up his sleeve to the apps he’s been taking care of the past few years – this includes CF.lumen, the app that adjusts your screen’s display warmth and color so that they match the time of day, and an app called Recently,...

So it seemed that the earlier release of SuperSU 2.78 (that was SR4) had compatibility issues with a few devices which released their Nougat firmware just recently. So the legendary Chainfire has put out SuperSU 2.78 SR5 to fix these issues. In addition, Chainfire also put out a special...

We told you about Chainfire putting out some SuperSU boot-to-root images for Android 7.1 Nougat on Google’s new Pixel smartphones. Apparently, the TWRP custom recovery designed for the same system breaks SuperSU’s images so it’s going to be a problem if you want to keep systemless root access and...

Getting root access has become a more complicated thing ever since Google tightened up on the security and file integrity protocols of Android starting with Marshmallow, and now into Android Nougat. Developers have had to become more creative in gaining root, but that is not stopping the legendary Chainfire....

So you may know Chainfire from the ubiquitous SuperSU root manager app, but most people don’t know that he has other apps in his arsenal. One of them is DSLR Controller, and it works just like it sounds. For the longest time, the app has been in beta, but...

So there are a lot of reasons why you would want to gain root access to your device. Gaining root is usually the gateway to a lot of tweaks and more personalization in an Android device. But root also has its downsides – mainly that apps that need security...

Chainfire, one of the legendary names in Android aftermarket development and maker of the popular root access manager app SuperSU, took to his Google+ account to say that SuperSU will have problems with the way Samsung has coded the kernel of the new Galaxy Note 7. SuperSU, through some...