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DROID RAZR locked bootloader gets an early work-around

14 April 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (3)

Hands-down the biggest dissapointment of the Motorola DROID RAZR launch announcement was the fact that despite Moto’s commitment to more open bootloaders, the flagship phone would be locked down just like previous Motorola-Verizon devices. Even after considerable customer backlash and unlocking the bootloader on the international GSM RAZR, not to mention the fact that both Samsung and …

Sony’s Google TV gets root and unsigned kernels

20 February 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (0)

Now that Logitech’s out of the game and Google’s new partners seem more interested in promoting their own Smart TV regimes, Sony remains one of the few Google TV promoters left. And considering that the Revue still has a locked bootloader, Sony’s set-top box and/or integrated TV remains the ony one that you can root, …

ASUS Transformer Prime update rolling out — fixes reboot issue, improves WiFi

08 February 2012 by Cory Gunther Discuss (57)

Good news for all the ASUS Transformer Prime owners today folks. You should have a new update ready to install for your Android 4.0 powered tablet this afternoon. Today ASUS has officially started pushing their latest update to the quad-core device and it should be fixing a number of problems and enhancing overall performance.

AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note source code released

01 February 2012 by Cory Gunther Discuss (1)

More source code news today — and no we don’t mean the Jake Gyllenhaal movie either. Today Samsung has just pushed the kernel source code out for their new Samsung Galaxy Note with AT&T LTE. The code was released some time ago but this new release is specific to the AT&T 4G LTE model that …

Galaxy Nexus Franco kernel shows us the need for speed, and great battery life

30 January 2012 by Cory Gunther Discuss (6)

Recently here at Android Community we’ve been enjoying many different kernels for the Galaxy Nexus and have even featured a few here in the recent past. While many are great and work well today we have what appears to be one of the absolute best at the moment. That is the Franco kernel. More details …

Galaxy Nexus receives Trinity kernel, brings better battery life and overclocking

24 January 2012 by Cory Gunther Discuss (5)

The Galaxy Nexus being an easily unlocked Google experience device we knew it would receive tons of mods, hacks, kernels, and roms but one of my personal favorites has finally landed. Trinity by Morfic for the Galaxy Nexus is available now. More details and downloads links are available below for those who dare.

Hardware mod bypasses Nook Tablet’s locked bootloader

06 January 2012 by Michael Crider Discuss (1)

This one is not for the faint of heart. After Barnes & Noble released the upgraded Nook Tablet in November, early buyers were surprised and angry to find a locked bootloader and a mere 1GB of user-accessible storage. Now a brave XDA modder has combined some of the latest software tricks with an actual physical …

HTC releases source code for Sensation, Sensation XL, Rhyme, and more

14 December 2011 by Cory Gunther Discuss (1)

HTC is at it again today and have released the source code for many of their current and recently updates smartphones. It’s nice to see that HTC is continuing to honor the GLP terms by offering these releases — although I’m sure many wish they’d offer them a little faster. The Sensation has been around …

ASUS Transformer Prime kernel source code leaked, quickly removed

25 November 2011 by Cory Gunther Discuss (2)

Last week the official ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime product page went live from ASUS and while we already know plenty about this quad-core packing tablet it was good to finally see everything official. Apparently the same product page over in Germany had the entire kernel source code nicely listed right on the download page …

Galaxy Nexus receives MoDaCo custom kernel, courtesy of Paul O’Brien

23 November 2011 by Sam Koutroulakis Discuss (1)

Paul O’Brien has whipped up a custom kernel for some of our international Samsung Galaxy Nexus owners that will now support keyboard, USB drive, and mouse bluetooth peripheral devices. The kernel is modded, but still very much based on the stock kernel source with a few of the dev’s “touches” here and there.

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