Feb

2012

Dan Rosenberg Roots The Sony Tablet S

by Josh O'Donnell
tagged customize, Dan Rosenberg, Root, sony tablet s

Dan Rosenberg, the same tech genius that brought us root for our Lenovo ThinkPad Tablets, has struck gold again, rooting the Sony Tablet S. Unfortunately for him, it wasn’t nearly as easy as it was for the Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet. He’s posted the whole process in detail on his blog, so check out the source. [...]

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Jan

2012

Nook Tablet Gets Rooted Via SD Card, Brings Back Android Market Glory

by Roy Alugbue
tagged Android Market, Barnes and Noble, Google, hacks, Nook Tablet, Root, tablet, XDA

The Nook Tablet by Barnes & Noble has been rooted again. Sure this isn’t the first root it has ever received, but newer roots almost always promises bigger and better things. The fine individuals at XDA were at it again bringing a bigger, better root to the Nook. This latest root not only roots [...]

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Jan

2012

ASUS Says Transformer Prime Unlock Tool Will Be Available In February

by Stacy Bruce
tagged asus, bootloader, Root, Transformer Prime, unlock

Well well, what have we hear? Looks like some promising news to me! According to ASUS’ Twitter handle, they are planning to release an official “root tool” (later corrected to “bootloader unlock tool”) for the Transformer Prime’s locked bootloader sometime in February. Here is the revised tweet: I know we have already heard about this mysterious unlock [...]

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Jan

2012

Root and Push Clockwork Recovery to Your Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet

by Jack Holt
tagged adb, ClockworkMod Recovery, CWM, lenovo thinkpad, Root, Vulnfactory.org, Windows PC, XDA

If you have been wanting to root your Lenovo ThinkPad and haven’t had time, knew where to go, or were a little bit apprehensive about doing such things then today is your lucky day as we have the process all lined up for you. Heck we’ll even give you instructions on pushing ClockWork Recovery to [...]

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Jan

2012

Kindle Fire update 6.2.2 – What’s New & How to Regain Root

by Jim Farmer
tagged Kindle Fire, Root

An OTA update for the Kindle Fire was pushed out today bringing the firmware up to 6.2.2. My household Fire got the update this evening and while the update brings the usual handful of performance tweaks and bugs fixes, 6.2.2 also incorporates full screen browsing capability; a feature many Kindle owners have had on their [...]

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Jan

2012

Got Root? The ASUS Transformer Prime Does Now

by Joe Sirianni
tagged Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime, bootloader, Root, unlock, viperMod

Fast on the heels of the Asus Transformer Prime announcing its bootloader unlocked tool, the device is now also capable of being rooted. Thanks to Asus finally listening to the masses, they are making available a new root tool to give you all Superuser access. And thanks to the viperMod Prime Tool, only available for Windows [...]

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Dec

2011

Kindle Fire Can Now Access Web Version Of Android Market

by Harold Williams
tagged amazon fire, Android Market, fire update, market.android.com, Root

If you’re an Amazon Fire owner, you may have noticed you previously couldn’t access the web version of the Android Market via market.android.com. If you attempted to access that site from your Fire, you would be redirected to the Amazon Appstore. With the root breaking 6.2.1 update that recently hit, it looks like that redirect [...]

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Dec

2011

[Download] Enjoy Some Ice Cream Sandwich on your DROID X with CM9 Based ROM EncounterICS X

by Harold Williams
tagged cm9, droid x, EncounterICS X, ice cream sandwich, roms, Root

Any Droid X owners out there, that like me, are a bit depressed they can’t get a Galaxy Nexus right now? Well, here is something that made my day and should make yours too. Rootzwiki member firstEncounter has whipped up a CM9 based ICS ROM for the Droid X and let me be the first to [...]

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Dec

2011

Handster to Lend a Hand to Developers, Bringing Android Apps to the RIM PlayBook

by Stacy Bruce
tagged Android App Player, Android Market, applications, blackberry playbook, Handster, rim, RIM App World, Root, update

The BlackBerry PlayBook has potential to be a formidable Android Tablet, especially since it is receiving a big update in February of 2012 that will add the Android App Player to it. Also, earlier today we showed you how to root the PlayBook, giving access to the Android market. Now, it already seems that the world [...]

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Dec

2011

Flash CyanogenMod 7 to Your Kindle Fire in 43 Easy Steps

by Jack Holt
tagged adb, CM 7, CyanogenMod, guide, Kindle Fire, Root, rootzwiki, XDA

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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