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Sense ROM For G2 Now Available [Sense 2.1/Gingerbread]

Mar 10th

Posted by Jane in Android User Tips

Are you a T-Mobile G2 owner looking for Gingerbread but would rather use HTC Sense? Boy is it your lucky day: A Sense 2.1 ROM based on dumps from the ‘S’ series of HTC phones is now available for the device. The ROM is named GingerSense and was cooked up by the gracious folks from VillainRom.

There are some issues – including a broken camcorder and borked Bluetooth – but if you don’t care for those two things then the list is minor. Take a look at the full list below and if it’s to your liking, head here to download More >

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How To: Unlock & Root Motorola Xoom Tablet

Mar 10th

Posted by admin in Android User Tips

My faith in Motorola has been reinstated! Once again they provide us with a "Google experience device" that can be easily unlocked for developers to work on. Koush, the legend of custom recoveries (ClockworkMod) and apps such as ROM Manager has compiled a boot.img for the Xoom that runs as "root" allowing us to push the su binary to our device and chmod it properly. To root your Xoom, follow the steps below:

  1. Download xoomroot.zip and unzip it
  2. Place the files in your SDK tools folder
  3. adb reboot bootloader
  4. fastboot oem unlock (be sure fastboot binary is in your path)
  5. Accept the legal More >
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Will My Phone Get Gingerbread? A (Very) Rough Guide to Official Updates

Mar 1st

Posted by admin in Android User Tips

We all know that, for a lot of existing Android phones, ports of Gingerbread are readily available in the form of unofficial ROMs such as CyanogenMod 7. However, there are many who are reluctant to root their phones and would rather wait and see if their device will be receiving an official update from the manufacturers themselves. With the recent announcement of imminent Gingerbread updates for several phones (including the Samsung Galaxy S), we thought that now would be a good time to give you a quick run-down of if and when your phone will be getting Gingerbread. Phones which have More >

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How to Port Honeycomb to Your Favorite Device

Feb 28th

Posted by admin in Android User Tips

The excitement of Honeycomb has been spilling all over XDA for the last couple of weeks. We have seen many regular devices sporting this OS, which is specifically designed for tablet devices. However, not every device out there can have the privilege of running this. In an attempt to make more people happy and possibly to expand Android 3.0′s development, XDA member bypass23 decided to post a guide on how to create a port for your device. While the steps are not hard and the guide is rather well written, this will require that you have some knowledge and at least More >

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