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Gravity Home: A Live Wallpaper and Home Launcher in One

By Cory Gunther
on 27 Jun, 2011

We all love the live wallpapers on our Android phones right? They allow us to do cool things like fly through space, play duck hunt, or even float through the clouds right on our phones home screen. Today I have something really unique and quite fun to show you. It's called Gravity Home and it is a live wallpaper and a home replacement launcher like ADW or LP but at the same time. Yup it replaces the home launcher with a live wallpaper and adds in some physics that makes your icons float around, neat huh?

LG G2x Overclocked to 1.5 Ghz, scores almost 4600 in Quadrant

By Cory Gunther
on 18 May, 2011

I know we talk about overclocking and benchmarks quite often, but it is a little exciting you have to admit. Seeing what the amazing developers and kernel builders can squeeze out of these devices, all that extra power they can unlock and keep the device stable. Today I have some benchmarks I have done myself this morning on my T-Mobile G2x running at 1.5 Ghz on a EXT4 kernel by Morfic, and I was getting some pretty huge benchmark results.

Samsung Infuse 4G rooted via SuperOneClick

By Cory Gunther
on 12 May, 2011

Well folks it is just that easy. As always the wonderful developers from XDA have done it again and now the brand new Samsung Infuse 4G from AT&T has been rooted with a single click. It doesn't get much easier than that. Using the ever popular SuperOneClick method you simply run the program on your computer, and you are rooted. More details below.

Samsung Galaxy Ace gets Gingerbread update

By James DeRuvo
on 26 Apr, 2011

Tsar3000.com and Sam's Firmware have leaked a Gingerbread ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Ace. The update, which Samsung is developing is for theS5830. It was leaked to commemorate the one year anniversary of Sam's Android partnership with TSAR3000. But as always, these early beta leaks aren't perfect and users are advised they take their phones into their own hands when tasking it.

LG G2x Root and ClockworkMod already, and the easy way

By Cory Gunther
on 21 Apr, 2011

It looks like things are already moving along just fine, just as we expected they would on the LG G2x. It doesn't have locked bootloaders, or any of those other issues all the Motorola and HTC phones have as of late. After day one we are already rooted, and running clockworkmod both on the G2x, next up is CyanogenMod.

HTC Pyramid ROM ported to HTC Desire HD

By James DeRuvo
on 15 Apr, 2011

The gang at XDA has done it again, this time, "CapyChimp" has managed to port the HTC Pyramid Rom to the HTC Desire HD ... and it only took 24 hours. Now granted, with such a slap dash effort to get it ported and out, there's some more work to be done. A LOT of work, in order to iron out the bugs. But it does give users a chance to poke around the neighborhood some. Let's take a look ...

HTC Concept Phone called the New Eden

By Cory Gunther
on 6 Apr, 2011

Today I have a little treat for you all to cap off the day. This is a beautiful and extremely well designed concept phone from an XDA member by the name of Jason Wang. He is not one of the very well known concept designers but I have a feeling after everyone starts to see this latest creation he will be. This is about as clean and elegant as a phone could come.

Android 3.0 Honeycomb gets a Screenshot App

By Cory Gunther
on 24 Mar, 2011

For those that use these kind of apps or have been around lately to notice that we didn't have one. The Motorola Xoom and any Android 3.0 Honeycomb device in general could not take screenshots with an app. There is drocap2, ShootMe and many other screen capture apps for our Android phones and apparently none of them worked on Android 3.0 but now a developer from the XDA forums named ftgg99 has fixed this issue for us. He has developed an app called Screenshot ER.

CyanogenMod 7 Carbonite Theme to make your phone daring and cool

By Cory Gunther
on 24 Mar, 2011

So, you've just flashed the latest CM7 Nightly, or the latest CyanogenMod 7 RC2 build and now you want to customize your device and make it unique to you. I'm with you, I do it all the time. For those like me that love to tinker, hack, or modify anything and everything about our awesome Android phones. I bring you a very well made theme for CM7 by another amazing developer at XDA.

HTC Thunderbolt Download 30+ Skins for Sense UI 2.0

By Cory Gunther
on 23 Mar, 2011

So everyone has started to get their new and awesome HTC Thunderbolts over the last week or so. I'm sure you all love it. For those like me that always want to tinker, or change how things look we have a little treat for you. A XDA member by the name of sopL87 has made a huge collection of unique and nice looking skins for your Sense 2.0 device. They work on the Thunderbolt as well as the Desire HD and basically any Sense 2.0 device. Here are a few of my favorite.