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Samsung Galaxy Note rocking Android 4.0 with CM9

By Cory Gunther
on 3 Jan, 2012

Probably one of the most impressive devices as of late is the Samsung Galaxy Note. While it's still currently not available in the US or many other parts of the world it still has seen wide adoption with over 1 million sales, and the development community is flourishing. Below we have some Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on the 5.3" phone -- tablet -- cutting board.

NOOK Color gets an Ice Cream Sandwich CM9 ROM

By Cory Gunther
on 29 Dec, 2011

As to be expected we are seeing loads and loads of CM9 or Ice Cream Sandwich ROM's for all types of Android devices. The popular NOOK Color that was highly hackable and enjoyed Honeycomb before many others is taking the same route with Ice Cream Sandwich. Thanks to a few hard working developers over at XDA the NOOK Color is starting to see new life and 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is coming along quite nicely.

HTC Sensation Android 4.0 ROM Leaks, teases Sense UI on ICS

By Cory Gunther
on 21 Dec, 2011

While developers have been going crazy porting and working on ROM's for all devices to get a taste of Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich today we have something even better. This appears to be a full Android 4.0 ROM for the Sensation XE that was leaked to the public. Developers have already ported this to the regular HTC Sensation and it seems to be working great. This also gives us our first glace at what to expect with HTC's Sense UI on Ice Cream Sandwich -- more of the same sadly.

NOOK Tablet update killed root and side-loading apps — here’s a fix

By Cory Gunther
on 20 Dec, 2011

One of the biggest reasons many Android fans bought the NOOK Tablet aside from the great hardware and eReader capabilities is the fact that we can side-load apps, root, and install 3rd party ROM's -- not to mention eventually stable Ice Cream Sandwich builds. An update that started rolling out yesterday has killed root access, and we no longer have the easy option to side-load Android apps without some serious modification and hacking. Don't worry our fellow readers, we have a fix.

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.

HTC Droid Incredible up next for Sense UI 3.5 Port

By Cory Gunther
on 6 Sep, 2011

Hey folks, it was only a matter of time before all the HTC phones started getting ports of the recently leaked HTC Sense UI 3.5 seen here. Thanks to the HTC Bliss we even received some hands-on video with the new Sense UI. Now all of the developers over at XDA are starting to port the awesome new UI over to all of our favorite HTC phones and the DROID Incredible is up next.

HTC Flyer Honeycomb Screenshots and Instructions Appear

By Cory Gunther
on 5 Sep, 2011

In case you were all busy preparing for this holiday weekend, Friday we brought news regarding Honeycomb on the HTC Flyer. What happened is a RUU build of Honeycomb 3.2 with Sense UI for tablets was leaked for the HTC Flyer, a device we still weren't sure would even get the update to Honeycomb in the first place. MoDaCo's Paul O'Brien and many others have been working hard and things are developing already.

HTC Sensation ROM provides 1.56GHz Overclock

By Chris Burns
on 5 Sep, 2011

It appears that the developer known as mike1986 has created a lovely new ROM for the HTC Sensation specifically which bumps the device's processor speed up to 1.56 GHz. While this device's original dual-core processor speed was clocked at 1.2GHz, this ROM provides the device with the original stock speed of its MSN8660 chipset, that being 1.51GHz by default, here controlled automatically by built-in O/C Daemon. In addition to this speed boost, you'll find that there's only speed boosts and power optimizations across the board: that means your device will look and feel exactly the same, it'll just be BETTER!

HTC Sense UI 3.5 Screenshots Leaked

By Cory Gunther
on 25 Aug, 2011

We have been hearing from a few different sources that a new HTC Sense UI 3.5 is headed to a few upcoming smartphones from HTC. One of those being the HTC Bliss we showed you again yesterday. While the leaked photos didn't show us the new user interface, today they have leaked for your viewing pleasure and we have all the goods after the break below.

Motorola Droid 3 Receives Root Access [Updated with 1-click]

By Cory Gunther
on 25 Aug, 2011

Thanks to XDA Forums member djrbliss, who hasn't ever actually touched the Droid 3, found a nice and simple exploit that has allowed the Droid 3 to be successfully rooted. He has yet to unveil the full exploit used but he was nice enough to give everyone some instructions to do this on their own. No one click root here, this requires some ADB shell skills so make sure you know what you're getting into.