We tend to cover custom ROMs and other mods pretty heavily, but there’s an incredibly vibrant theme community around Android. One of its most active participants is Team Carbon, which announced today that its themes for the CyanogenMod (AKA T-Mobile) theme engine have reached a million active users. That’s not total downloads, mind you – …
Ever since an insane fire sale chopped the price off of the HP TouchPad down to $100, the one and only WebOS tablet has become something of a modder’s dandy. While they’re nearly impossible to find at retail these days, the cheeky salesmen at Woot.com have managed to snag an unknown quantity of the upgraded 32GB version, …
As much as we like to put new software on old machines, sometimes they just can’t take it – you wouldn’t try to play Crysis on your grandmother’s 98 HP, after all. That’s why we’re so glad that the CyanogenMod team is continuing to support its Gingerbread build, CyanogenMod 7, with an updated release. Version …
Koush’s ClockworkMod custom recovery is the de facto standard for Android modders out there, and in the last few months a few devices like the Galaxy Nexus have been given beta versions of ClockworkMod Touch. Today that small number of (official) devices extended by two. The ASUS Eee Pad Transformer Prime and the original Transformer are …
For anyone who’s rooted their Android phone or tablet, the SuperUser app is a familiar and friendly face. If you don’t know what it is, it’s that “Droid and crossbones” menu that pops up to allow you to confirm or deny root permissions. After several years as the de facto standard, one XDA member named …
Well that didn’t take long. Just five days after Sony’s unique Tablet P landed on American shores for the first time courtesy of AT&T, someone’s given it the Android Rite of Passage and rooted it. In a bit of a departure from the norm, it’s not coming from XDA or RootzWiki, but from a little …
There’s more than a few early adopters of the Motorola DROID RAZR who felt miffed after Verizon unveiled the DROID RAZR MAXX at CES, just a couple of months after the original was released. As noted in our review, the hardware is staggeringly similar and the software is actually identical – literally the only difference is a …
It’s finally time, Eee Pad Transformer Prime owners: Asus has graced you with its promised bootloader unlock tool. If you don’t want to waste precious seconds reading, click this here link to get to the download page. Select “Android” in the OS pull-down menu, then click “Utilities”, then click the download link under “Unlock Device App: Unlock …
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, …
Between the hubbub over the Eee Pad Transformer Prime’s locked bootloader and the continuing fervor surrounding Motorola’s locked down models, the ability for end users to access the hardware and software that they’ve purchased is becoming a major theme in the Android world. The level of access is, for some users at least, one of the most …
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