Aug

2010

Choosing the right ROM for your Droid Incredible

by Tyler Cunningham
tagged custom, cyanogen, Droid Incredible, HTC, jager, raider, ROM, roms, Root, rooted, rooting, sky, skyraider, unrevolved

So, you’ve managed to root your Incredible, what now? Aside from the obvious gain of free wireless tethering and the ability to remove certain applications which shall remain nameless (cough…CityID…cough) one of the most common questions I have come across is “Why should I bother to root?” On a personal level, the Linux geek inside [...]

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Jul

2010

CyanogenMod V6 RC-1 Available For Evo 4G

by Chris Moor
tagged cyanogen, CyanogenMod, EVO 4G, HTC, mod, release, stable

The wait for Evo users is finally over. Cyanogen and his team has finished making a stable version of CyanogenMod V6 and has released it for everyone to check out. Just so everyone knows, the “RC” stands for Release Candidate, which just means there will still be some minor tweaks before the release has been [...]

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Jul

2010

Motorola says buy from another manufacturer if you want custom ROM’s

by Chris Moor
tagged Android, bugless beast, custom, cyanogen, droid, droid 2, droidx, Google, motorla, nexus one, ROM

Motorola has answered all of the questions about the strongly secured bootloader on the Droid X and the soon to be Droid 2. Lori Fraleigh from Motorola stated “Securing the software on our handsets, thereby preventing a non-Motorola ROM image from being loaded, has been our common practice for many years. This practice is driven [...]

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Jul

2010

Cyanogenmod 6.0 out and making a formidable stance in the modding community

by Chris Moor
tagged 1.1ghz, 2.2, Android, chevyno1, cyanogen, froyo, kernel, mod, ulv

Cyanogenmod released their 6.0 RC1 version recently for the Nexus One, Dream, Magic and Droid. I personally downloaded their version for the Droid via RomManager and have been using it for the last 48 hours paired with the ChevyNo1 1.1GHz ultra low voltage kernel. The combination is very stable and fast with no issues so [...]

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Jun

2010

Nexus One Does 720p With a Few Tweaks

by Chris Moor
tagged 720p, cyanogen, hack, mod, nexus one

Man, is there anything developers can’t do with a Nexus One? We’ve already showed you Sven Killing, who wrote his own USB Host driver for the N1. Well now they’ve figured out how to get a little 720p encoding action going on the phone as well. It’s not as simple as downloading an app, but [...]

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