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Oct

29

2011

Confirmed: Nook 2 arrives Nov. 7 – Barnes & Nobel to Add In-Store “Nook Boutique”

by Stacy Bruce
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Barnes & Noble’s Nook line of eBook’s have been fairly popular with consumers, not only as a digital book but as an affordable tablet capable of running the Android OS. Sources say that the newest version of the device, the Nook 2, will beat Amazon’s Kindle Fire to market and will arrive in stores on [...]

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Oct

28

2011

Motorola Devices Receive Possible Permanent Root

by Stacy Bruce
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A new root method for Motorola devices has shown up on the interweb claiming that it may be a permanent solution. There is still the possibility that Moto will patch this method closed in future updates but if you are already rooted you might as well give it a try. It should only take a [...]

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Oct

22

2011

T-Mobile’s Samsung Galaxy S II gets root

by Stacy Bruce
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The new T-Mobile version of the Samsung Galaxy S II is an awesome device, one that many think is the better of all variations – you can peep our initial unboxing and review to check it out for yourself. Ever since Samsung released the kernal source it has just been begging to be rooted. The [...]

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Oct

20

2011

More CM7 Love For The Droid 3 and Bionic

by Axl Logan
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CM7 just seems to be going viral these days and really, we can’t blame anyone for using it.  To be a little more thorough and technical, it’s freaking awesome!  That is, once all of the bugs are ironed out.  Last month the Droid Bionic got its turn to boot up CyanogenMod7 and frankly, it looked [...]

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Oct

16

2011

AppExtractor Lets You Pick And Choose What To Restore From Your Backups [Courtesy of XDA]

by Harold Williams
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Working in conjunction with Rom Manager, AppExtractor will allow you to pick and choose what you want to restore from your backups. This means instead of just restoring an entire backup, you could just restore your apps and text/MMS messages instead. This should certainly be handy to restore things individually from your backups. Brought to [...]

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Oct

10

2011

CyanogenMod 7.1 released, Android 2.3.7 included

by Stacy Bruce
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Today, the long awaited CyanogenMod 7.1 has been released and with it brings added support for some two dozen additional devices. The CM team also mentions that beta builds are available for the HTC Sensation, myTouch 4G Slide, EVO 3D, HP TouchPad, and the LG Optimus. The changelog is below, but the most important one is [...]

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Sep

26

2011

Samsung Epic 4G Touch – Stock kernel available

by Jim Farmer
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Good news Epic owners. If you recently rooted your phone and have since had some troubles, an unrooted stock kernel has successfully been extracted. With the stock kernel you can restore your kernel to its prime factory state. Team ACS, the dev group behind the extraction, have the kernel as well as Samsung’s ODIN available [...]

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Sep

24

2011

Droid X2 and Droid Bionic Join ROM Manager’s List of Supported Devices (Video Tutorial)

by Axl Logan
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With over 3 million downloads, there’s no doubt as to why root users are downloading ROM Manager by the butload.  Its ease and simplicity have made it possible for those who know very little about ROM’ing to get their feet wet.  Well, among those millions we can now add Droid X2 and Droid Bionic users. [...]

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Sep

22

2011

Droid Bionic Receives First Deodexed Version ROM

by Axl Logan
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So, you finally got your hands on a Droid Bionic and you’ve only had to wait since last CES for it.  So now what?  How about a little Root & ROM action?  The initial ”Deodexed” version is now available for your downloading pleasure and there’s promise of more action to follow.  Thanks to Kejar31, you can hack the [...]

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