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Honeycomb for Dell Streak 5 ROM shows early promise

By Chris Davies
on 8 Feb, 2011

Dell's record releasing firmware for the original 5-inch Streak hasn't been all that hot, so thankfully there are unofficial firmware developers pushing out their own interpretations of what the tablet/smartphone hybrid should run. MoDaCo member Stephen Hyde has delivered the first build of Android 3.0 Honeycomb on the Streak, a very early work-in-progress but certainly more than we expect Dell itself to deliver. Most impressive is that the Streak 5 Honeycomb install was done in a spare evening, hacking up the Android 3.0 SDK and dropping it onto the tablet. Right now the touchscreen isn't doing quite what it should, and since there's no hardware acceleration the 3D graphics are slow, but we're expecting that with a bit more time this could turn out to be quite a popular ROM. [via Engadget]

ClockworkMod Recovery and DL17 for Samsung Continuum Released

By Chris Burns
on 7 Feb, 2011

Hooray! Odd phone users rejoice - if you're one of the 10 people who purchased a Samsung Continuum as your Android Galaxy S phone of choice, you're in luck! ClockworkMod Recovery and a simple DL17 ROM have been released for the double screened wonder, and it's time to get to work on making that extra screen do backflips. This hack is a brand new release and they need YOUR help in making it a bunch better.

ROM Manager (ClockworkMod) Recovery Host Down, Back Up, In Need of Assistance

By Chris Burns
on 5 Feb, 2011

If you're the kind of person who likes to break your Android device down to build it back up in your own image, you know about ClockworkMod and ROM Manager. The fellows involved in this project have done massive workings on the insides of all manner of Android devices and they'll be recorded in the history books of programming as some of the essential unofficial teammates of Google's Android mobile OS. That said, as they are working for the greater good of all developers and hackers of mobile OS, we aught to offer them our help when something blows up in their face. Something has.

ClockworkMod Tips Tablet Availability

By Chris Burns
on 26 Jan, 2011

So it appears that ClockworkMod, one of the greats as far as chopping up and reconstructing your Android goes, is tipping new and exciting additional devices it'll work with. The Huawei Ascend recovery is now on ROM Manager, Epic 4G should be there too. The most exciting thing they've tipped is "a tablet," which they say will be coming this week as well.

ADW Launcher EX Updated, Several Awesome Additions Added

By Chris Burns
on 23 Jan, 2011

So you're the sort of person that likes a custom experience on your Android phone, but you don't necessarily like to hack, yes? You're in luck, as there's one fantastic app that does such a thing and it requires absolutely no rooting, ROM using, or tinkering in the least bit (unless you consider searching through all the new options you'll have to be tinkering.) This home screen replacement app is called ADW Launcher EX, and it's beem updated this weekend to version 1.2.2, a version that, in addition to all the fantastic features it's had in the past, now has a large selection of 8 nice looking custom docks, plus a few more minor (but neato) changes as well.

ClockworkMod Crew Warns of Bad 2.0 recoveries, Notes Official Release

By Chris Burns
on 21 Jan, 2011

So you're one of those people who not only can't get enough hacking of your out of the box devices, but you can't wait to get the official hacks as well! You are just nuts, I be you also decided to read the scripts for the Star Wars prequels before they came out in theaters. ClockworkMod scolds you! In a pair of tweets tweeted late last night, the crew warned everyone that downloading 3.0 recovery from anywhere other than ROM manager, you'll be working with a version that doesn't play well with ROM manager. Imagine that!

NOOKcolor Overclocked to 950Mhz STABLE, 1Ghz CHOKIN

By Chris Burns
on 14 Jan, 2011

Behold the awesome saga of NOOKcolor. When I first set eyes on the ol' NC first, (see those posts here,) I thought she was an OK reader, but she had a lot of potential that was going to waste. Sure enough not 2 days after I sent the NC back through the mail (I was only borrowing it, after all,) we get news that it's been ROOTED. From there, it was a fantasyland of apps, workarounds, ROMs, everything you could want. Except for one thing. Noone had overclocked it, not even a little bit. Well that's changed, and it's changed today.

Installing a NAND Android ROM on a T-Mobile HD2

By Chris Burns
on 12 Jan, 2011

Get ready to get technical. This is for pros, not newbs. If you need to know the difference between a pro and a newb, check out the video below the content in this post. If you are a pro, continue reading. A fellow with one of the greatest screenname/handles I've ever seen, Snarksneeze, has posted to XDA Developer Forums with a big fat set of lists showing the world how to install a NAND Android ROM on your T-Mobile HD2.

Tired of Read Only? MAGLRD for HD2 Lets you Boot Directly to Android!

By Chris Burns
on 30 Dec, 2010

Holy crap! A team of Android and WP7 developers and coders by the name of DFT has found a way to allow you to boot directly to Android, straight from NAND memory! What does this mean? It means that the entire OS is now writeable or otherwise easily modifiable. When you're messing with ROMs, you're in Read-Only, requiring that you flash to modify. When your OS is on NAND, you can modify entirely without a recovery flash. What MAGLDR is is a bootloader for HD2 that lets you boot directly from NAND - the ROM available for you to test out now!

MIUI ROM is Back with Beta #5 and Super Pro Video

By Chris Burns
on 29 Dec, 2010

Holy crap! Even if you have no idea how to hack your handset, even if you've never even considered working with an unofficial user interface for your phone, you're gonna marvel at how amazingly pro the preview video for this custom ROM looks. First, take a look back a few months to September when we first got wind of this crazy maniac, then head below to see the brand new video for Beta #5.