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CyanogenMod decides root access should be optional

By Cory Gunther
on 16 Mar, 2012

Devices running custom ROM's have always been rooted. This is just how things are in the world of Android. Root gives you full control and access to well, root of your device. The power is yours after rooting. Yes you read our title right, moving forward the extremely popular CyanogenMod 9 will no longer be rooted. It will instead be a simple option to enable, but for security sake it will be optional.

Motorola DROID 4 rooted already, get it now

By Cory Gunther
on 13 Feb, 2012

The Motorola DROID 4 QWERTY keyboard slider has only been available for a few days and was just released late last week. Thanks to those awesome developers it appears that we already have a full root method for the device, as well as a script to make the entire process simple for those looking for a little root access.

DROID RAZR Root Utility Tool released, makes rooting and unrooting easy

By Cory Gunther
on 9 Feb, 2012

For all those that love tweaking, hacking and messing with Android things like one-click-root and root tools are becoming extremely popular. Today we have a brand new root tool for the DROID RAZR that will make everyone's life much easier -- so long you know what you're doing. More details and download links after the break.

ASUS Transformer Prime rooted — again

By Cory Gunther
on 24 Jan, 2012

For those with the awesome ASUS Transformer Prime quad-core tablet that need root access we have some good news for you. The latest over the air update for the Prime that broke root -- has finally been rooted and now everyone that wants to take that route can dive in. More details after the break.

ASUS Transformer Prime 1-click root and unroot tool released [Update]

By Cory Gunther
on 4 Jan, 2012

Yesterday brought all kinds of exciting news for ASUS Transformer Prime owners and now we have even more. We learned the bootloader will be unlock-able, and that it will be getting the much anticipated Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich update starting January 12th. Now today the root method we mentioned earlier this week has officially been released, and is as simple as a click.

ASUS Transformer Prime rooted — bootloader will have to wait

By Cory Gunther
on 3 Jan, 2012

The all mighty and powerful ASUS Transformer Prime has been rooted by a few awesome developers from the Android community. Thanks to @TeamAndIRC and their new root tool that hasn't yet been released we now have root access on the quad-core Transformer Prime. With all the recent bootloader news this is a good start indeed.

Galaxy Nexus Tips: Unlock bootloader, root, recovery, more

By Cory Gunther
on 15 Dec, 2011

Now that many of us have a shiny new Galaxy Nexus in our hands, I'm sure many of our readers are looking for a few tips and guides. With this being a Nexus device this will be one of the easiest phones to unlock, root, and fully enjoy but we have all the details round up just in case. Below you'll find a few links to XDA, Google+ and more.

Motorola DROID RAZR rooted already, no surprise

By Cory Gunther
on 4 Nov, 2011

Well, I can safely say I saw this coming. Today a picture has surfaced showing none other than the new Motorola DROID RAZR rooted -- shocking I know. This is basically nothing new and its using the exact same exploit that also rooted the Bionic. The method is actually a very simple 1-click root tool that was developed for the DROID 3 and all the details are right here.

HTC Amaze 4G Gets permanent One-Click Root

By Cory Gunther
on 20 Oct, 2011

T-Mobile and HTC's new flagship phone the HTC Amaze 4G has already been fully rooted thanks to those sneaky developers at XDA. Not only that but it's as simple as can be using an easy one-click-root method, nothing difficult here. Until today they only had a temp root method that didn't last but now we have a full permanent root method for you to give a try below.

Screencast for Android updated, record right off your screen now with Audio

By Cory Gunther
on 14 Oct, 2011

Surely this isn't the first time we've mentioned this app. It is one thing to take a screenshot of what is being displayed on your Android device, but being able to record full video in perfect quality as you flip through homescreens, demo a new game or anything else your heart desires is what we have here. We recently posted a review of Screencast and screen recorder and our only complaint was we didn't have audio, that all changes today as they've just updated and have introduced audio recording to the application.