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Dec

21

2011

Team Win Recovery Project 2.0 Kicks Off, Eliminates The Need For Your Volume Rocker

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by Joe Sirianni
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Well, it’s been quite some time since we’ve heard anything from the camp of twrp (Team Win Recovery Project) 2.0.  But finally, the ClockworkMod alternative has finally kicked off for all to download and try out.  For those eagerly anticipating the seamless ability to flash ROMs, back up your devices and wipe your Dalvik cache without being dependent on your volume rocker [...]

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Dec

20

2011

Amazon Kindle Fire 6.2.1 update now available, Warning: will break root.

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by Robert Nazarian
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Shortly after the Amazon Kindle Fire was released, the Android dev community quickly jumped on it and root was quickly achieved that gave us the Android Market and even CyanogenMod 7. Amazon promised a much needed update (6.2.1) that we reported about last week. It’s now live, which brings performance enhancements along with the ability [...]

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Dec

18

2011

Get the Google Wallet APK for your LTE Galaxy Nexus – No Root Required [Courtesy XDA]

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by Jim Farmer
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Yesterday we posted a guide on how to get Google Wallet on your new Galaxy Nexus phone. Trying out the method myself, I ran into some strange behavior as we mentioned in that former post. Other’s never got it working at all. The process was in short, not much fun. Well you can put the [...]

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Dec

17

2011

Motorola Xoom Gets Unofficial Taste of Android 4.0.3 [Courtesy of XDA]

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by Jack Holt
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Quickly after the release of Android Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 and the push to AOSP, developers over at XDA have created an almost fully functional ROM for both versions of the Xoom. A few issues for both the WiFi and 3G/4G versions are apparent and they are as follows: What is working: (That I can tell [...]

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Dec

7

2011

Amazon Kindle Fire Decides It Wants To Taste A Little Ice Cream Sandwich Goodness

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by Roy Alugbue
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So you’ve purchased a brand new Amazon Kindle Fire, but feel Gingerbread 2.3 isn’t sweet enough for you? Well great because you’re in luck! G1011999 has successfully ported that sweet, sweet new treat to the tablet. Oh and what’s more is he wants to tease you by sharing a video of the Kindle Fire not only [...]

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Dec

5

2011

Dan Rosenberg Reverse Engineers Carrier IQ Software, Says “Please Don’t Jump To Conclusions Based On Incomplete Evidence”

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by Joe Sirianni
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Please forgive us if Carrier IQ seems to be a constant item in newsreels around the world lately.  However, we think it’s kind of important so we’ll do our best to summarize topics surrounding it as best we can.  If you’re not familiar with what Carrier IQ is or does, check out our own head honcho, [...]

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Dec

5

2011

Flash CyanogenMod 7 to Your Kindle Fire in 43 Easy Steps

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by Jack Holt
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The other day we told you about the CyanogenMod team bringing CM7 to the Kindle Fire. Well as of today you can too. However, this is a lengthy process (43 steps and use of ADB) and I suggest taking extreme caution by reading through the entire guide before you take on this task. According to the post, this [...]

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Dec

4

2011

Droid Bionic Gets Alpha Build Ice Cream Sandwich ROM

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by Jack Holt
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  Good news for those with rooted Bionics. A somewhat functional, alpha build of Ice Cream Sandwich has been released for the Bionic thanks to dhacker29 of the Th3ORY ROM team.   Not everything works as of right now, so using this as a daily driver is probably not a good idea. Here is what works: – [...]

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Dec

2

2011

CyanogenMod Posts Update on CM 9 Progress

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by Jack Holt
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Chomping at the bit for some Ice Cream Sandwich action brought to you by CM9? Then you’re in luck, sort of. The developers of CyanogenMod released an update to their blog showing progress for CM9. As they say things are “slowly starting to come together.” I think however, that given they got the source code [...]

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Dec

1

2011

Factory Image Released by Google for HSPA+ Galaxy Nexus, ROM Flashers Everywhere Breathe Sigh of Relief

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by Jack Holt
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Good news for you owners of the Galaxy Nexus. The Android Building Google Groups page put up an announcement stating that a complete factory image for your Galaxy Nexus has been released. This image includes the bootloader, baseband, and the rest of the system. As we all know, Google phones have always been easy to [...]

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