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CM9 Nightlies Officially Launched, Available for CDMA Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S and Xoom

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by Stacy Bruce on
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For those of you Android owners who are rooted and love a little custom ROM action, I just might have some good news for you. Last night the CyanogenMod team released the first nightly of the CM9 ROM for the Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S and Xoom tablet. I am sure some of you have already been using one of the few CM9 kangs that are floating around, but rest assured this is the real deal. This is as official as it gets.

Before you get all antsy on me and wipe all your data from your device let me fill you in on some of the details. I haven’t had the chance to check it out yet but according to Reditt user thastig, a few of the CM9 functions are not available yet and appear as dead options. Just because the ROM doesn’t have all of its additional features activated yet doesn’t mean your device won’t be fully functional. Everything is working so you don’t need to worry about loosing any of the stock features from your device (and now you can enjoy that cool boot animation!). As far as custom ROMs and developers go, the CM team and their series of ROMs are one of the most stable options available, support and updates are top notch too.

You can’t go wrong with this ROM, but if you are used to running CND or something similar, be aware you will loose some of the additional features you have come accustomed to. That’s not to say this isn’t an absolute treat by any means, I am super excited to see that we have reached the point of nighties. It’s only going to get better from here folks!

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Barnes & Noble Wants To Re-Configure Your Nook Tablet’s 16GB of Storage To A More Reasonable Allocation

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by Joe Sirianni on
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The folks over at B&N must feel pretty bad about how horribly the Nook Tablet’s 16GB’s of storage has been poorly allocated because they want to make it right with you.  In very fine print, the company has stated that they will be allowing users of the Nook to come in and have their internal storage re-partitioned to a more reasonable configuration, allowing more personal space on the Tablet.  As of now, the device offers 16GB’s of storage of which 13GB’s are strictly for Nook Store content.  That leaves the consumer with a mere 1 GB of personal space to do with what they please.  The decision came in light of the release of the 8GB model of which users had a whopping 4GB’s of the 5 GB’s available to them as personal space.  The company added a quiet statement on their home page which states the following:

If you want to re-configure the internal memory of your NOOK Tablet-16GB for additional personal storage, you need to visit your local Barnes & Noble on or after 3/12/12 for help in doing so.

We’re tipping our hats towards B&N for taking the time to perform this daunting task for the consumer, as it shows where their business model lies, obviously with the customer.  And we’ll take it.  Feel free to leave your thoughts in the comments section below. Hit the source link for more information.

source: Barnes & Noble
via:  Android Police

 

 

 

ASUS Officially Releases Transformer Prime Bootloader Unlock Tool

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by Stacy Bruce on
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Finally! ASUS has officially released the Transformer Prime bootloader unlock tool that they have been talking about for what seems an eternity. Just as they promised, ASUS has delivered the tool in the month of February so now the development side of things is about to get exciting. Before today, the Transformer Prime was blocked from doing any major tinkering, like flashing custom ROMs, kernels and those oh so fun MODs. Once a major deterrent to many perspective buyers, the availability of an unlock tool will now give users the option of customization, probably my most favorite thing about Android.

Available now, the bootloader unlock tool doesn’t come without warning. ASUS makes it clearly known that if you decide to unlock your TP’s bootloader, you will knowingly forfeit your manufacturers warranty and all future OTA updates. Although ASUS claims this method is irreversible, I give it a couple weeks before the development community figures out a way to re-lock the device.

If you’re ready to get your home-brew on, head over to the source link you see below for the full run-down and harrowing warning from ASUS. As always, Talk Android takes no responsibility for what you do to your own device so don’t blame us if something goes awry. That being said, who’s ready for some flashin’ action!? I know I am!

source: ASUS
via: Phandroid

 

[Video] CyanogenMod Reveals CM9 Boot Animation

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by Stacy Bruce on
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Having already spent some time with the early build of CM9 on the Galaxy Tab 10.1, I am getting really excited to see what the final product is going to be like. It already seems like it’s a pretty finished product as is, but I imagine there will be a few tweaks added that will set this ROM above and beyond the rest.

To tease us even more, the CyanogenMod team released a video of the CM9‘s boot animation today and once it’s released I am sure I will probably reboot unnecessarily just to see it over and over. The animation is far from basic and it has a cool Dr. Who Tardis time tunnel feel to it. Excuse me if you don’t know what I am talking about here, but if you check out the video below you will see what I mean (awesome soundtrack included). Now don’t go searching the web for the zip file just yet, this is one I imagine the CM team will keep close to their chests until the ROM is officially released. Hopefully this video will tied you over until then… we’ve got to be close!

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Attention Motorola Users: You Now Have Root!

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by Ed Caggiani on
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A couple of days ago, our own Stacy Bruce reported that the DROID XYBOARD had been rooted. Now, apparently, the developer of this root method, which he calls “Motofail”, is stating that this same exploit works on all current Motorola devices running Gingerbread or Honeycomb.

The Droid 4 root (“Motofail”) should work on all Gingerbread Motorola devices that I know of. The just-released XYBoard root (“XYZ”) should root all Gingerbread and Honeycomb Motorola devices. Both Motofail and XYZ rely on the same vulnerability, but the XYBoard had an additional hurdle in place that required me to exploit a second bug in order to trigger the first one.

-Dan Rosenberg

This is great news for the modding community. With this root method, dozens of devices can now be rooted, including the Droid 4, Droid RAZR, Droid Maxx, Droid Bionic, Atrix, Atrix 2, Xoom, and many more. Interestingly, reports are coming in that the this exploit is NOT working on the Xoom Family Edition.

This comes on the heels of Motorola’s Ice Cream Sandwich upgrade schedule for many of their devices. Some updates are coming in Q2 or Q3, and some are not coming at all. Perfect timing for those on the “not coming at all” list.

source: androidcommunity

All DROID XBOARD Owners – You Now Have Root

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by Stacy Bruce on
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For those of you who picked up a new DROID XYBOARD with the hopes of doing some MODing or ROMing in the near future, boy do I have some good news for you! No its not an unlocked bootloader, but it’s the next best thing – root access.

According to a post over at MyDroidWorld, Dan Rosenberg has a root method ready and MDW user bignadad plans on releasing a 1-click method for rooting the XYBOARD tomorrow on his forum thread. He has been able to confirm the method works on the 10-inch with and without the recent OTA update, and should work with the 8-inch. He even plans on releasing a theme for the tablet by this weekend. Sounds exciting. Hit up the source link for more info.

source: mydroidworld

 

 

Auraslate’s Open Source Tablet Is An Android Dev/Hacker’s Delight

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by Joe Sirianni on
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If you’re of the Rootin’, ROM’in and hackin’ community we’ve got some good news for you.  Check out the Auraslate by Aura Design, an extremely affordable tablet for the dev who wants to launch that next big idea but still remain within his/her budget.

Aura Design is an Android Tablet Design Start-Up assist other companies or start-ups develop their own unique tablet for consumer , commercial, or industrial uses.

We encourage mischievous and curious individuals to see what comes naturally for them to dig in and see what possibilities this tablet may become.

The device is an Ice Cream Sandwich compatible 10.4-inch tab built from scratch with dev’s and hackers in mind.  The company is offering the device in two flavors.  They’ll make a 7-inch and 10.4-inch available for you and will also toss in a hardware source disk because the hardware itself is open source as well ($20 extra).   Keep in mind that the device is not meant for high-end performance with said specs, but rather you’ll get just what you need with a doable Android Cortex A9 under the hood.  Auraslate is offering a ton of support for the device with a promise to keep the updates coming as well as making a support community available.  This should be of great value to someone working on a project as he/she will able to communicate with others using the same hardware that they are.  If this sounds like something you’d like to hop on, check out the source link for more information.  I’m certainly looking forward to seeing how and if this takes off with devs and hackers, so stay tuned to TA.

source: Auraslate

LG Optimus 2X, T-Mobile G2X Get (Somewhat) Working CyanogenMod 9 Build

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by Josh O'Donnell on
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Good news for owners of the T-Mobile G2X and its international brother the LG Optimus 2X, Ricardo Cerquiera has released a functional (albeit finicky) build of CyanogenMod 9. He mentions, of course, that these builds are not supported and do not guarantee any further updates. It seems that these builds are primarily good for testing out the look and feel of CM9 before the official release as there is no media acceleration for either encoding or decoding, and some Android 4.0 ICS graphics implementations will be glitchy. Hit up the source if you’re interested in giving CM9 a test run!

Source: ricardo cerqueira

Looking to get your hands on Droid 4 wallpapers and ringtones? Look no further…

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by Chris Stewart on
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There are many hooks that draw us into the Android Ecosystem for the first time but it surely must be the tireless support from the developers that keep us coming back for more. The latest example of the awesome work going on has seen Androidcentral forum mainstay, Jerry Hildenbrand working hard dissecting a Droid 4 to bring us it’s hidden bounty. Jerry has selflessly packaged together the wallpapers and ringtones for your immediate perusal.

The Droid 4 is available to order right now but if you’d prefer to get a little taste sooner rather than later, hit the links after the break.

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Root the Droid 4 Thanks to This Exploit by Dan Rosenberg

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by Jack Holt on
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While all evidence that the 4th iteration of the original Droid pointed at a December release it was pushed back to February of 2012 and a lot of folks became a bit grumpy. Well it’s finally February, the Droid 4 has been officially announced and is upon us. Released yesterday it didn’t take long for the development community to root the device. Security Researcher Dan Rosenberg was able to get root only hours after the device went on sale. However, before he released the exploit he decided to try an experiment.

He would only release the exploit if a $500 bounty was met. This bounty though, wasn’t an attempt at holding a file hostage to make a quick buck but rather, for a good cause. He wanted the first $200 so that he could continue modding and developing support of the device. The other $300 would be donated to the American Red Cross.

Personally I feel that this is a noble idea. Seriously, everyone paying a few bucks to get this man a phone to continue custom development on a new device while also giving money to a charity in the process; it’s an honorable concept. Well apparently I am in the minority in this thinking as Mr. Rosenberg received a number of complaints in how this idea was unfair. Worry not, rather than abandon his work and not release the exploit Rosenberg took the high road. He has decided to release the exploit free of charge and any money donated for his hard work will be donated straight to the American Red Cross.  » Read the rest

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