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Jul

21

2011

Synergy ROM Updated to RC2

by Andrew Greenfield
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Team Synergy has been hard at work. After about 2 weeks of nightlies they’ve given us another, more stable, release candidate that has a lot of extra goodies packed in. The ROM is for the Evo, The Droid Incredible, and the My Touch 4G but is starting to be ported to other devices as well. [...]

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Jul

21

2011

God Mode brings unbelievable speeds to new custom Android ROMs

by Dustin Karnes
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While there are a lot of people out there who will argue that benchmarks are ridiculous, the opposite argument always remains. Benchmarks are a great way to let you know how your Android device is performing overall, and also let you know just how much better your device is than your buddies. In the latest [...]

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Jul

19

2011

DROIDX2 ROM Available For Download With Performance Based Enhancements

by Joe Sirianni
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Droid X2 users, your day has come.  The first ROM is now available and the developer touts that it offers several performance based enhancements for Motorola’s giant work horse.  Developer and XDA member c21johnson has created what appears to be a very sharp looking black theme to enhance the device’s UI and states that it’s [...]

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Jul

18

2011

CyanogenMod 7 Nightlies Coming To A Samsung Galaxy S II Near You (Video)

by Joe Sirianni
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With CyanogenMod making its way to over 500,000 devices, it was only a matter of time before we saw the custom ROM hit one of the most powerful devices in the industry.  That’s right, The Samsung Galaxy S II is going to get a little visit from the CyanogenMod 7 Nightlies fairy.  A while back, [...]

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Jul

11

2011

HTC will unlock bootloaders for Sensation and EVO 3D by early September

by Robert Nazarian
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Back in May, HTC announced that they would no longer lock bootloaders, but they could not ship the Sensation or the EVO 3D with the capability. It looks like HTC will officially unlock them staring in August with the global Sensation, followed by the Sensation 4G and the EVO 3D. They are currently in the [...]

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Jun

30

2011

Project Synergy for the Evo 4G: The ROM You Should Be Using

by Andrew Greenfield
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While a lot of Evo users in the rooting world have opted to follow the developers to the 3D, the developers for the Evo 4G, the Incredible, and the My Touch 4G have not forgotten about you. In fact, they pulled together to make quite possibly the greatest experience you could ask for on your [...]

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Jun

23

2011

Motorola Atrix Gingerbread update brings unlocked bootloader? [Video]

by Robert Nazarian
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Motorola has been promising unlocked bootloaders, but not until later in the year. We also never expected that they would unlock existing phones. We reported that a leak of a Gingerbread update surfaced, but we just found out that it will allow users to unlock the bootloader using the traditional command: “fastboot oem unlock.” The [...]

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May

20

2011

XDA To The Rescue, Netflix Running On The T-Mobile Vibrant

by Joe Sirianni
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Well, after months and months of waiting we finally saw the highly coveted Netflix app for Android hit the market.  Unfortunately, there were only a handful of devices supported.  But as expected, upon launch, it was only a matter of time before our developing dogs at XDA caught the scent and modified a couple of [...]

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