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HTC Desire ROM loaded onto a Nexus One already

The HTC Desire and Nexus One have similar physical builds and specs, so it’s no surprise that someone would try to load one ROM on the other, in this case porting the Sense-powered Desire ROM created by HTC onto the Nexus One. Modaco Forums member Paul has posted shots of a Nexus One with Sense [...]

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Developers claim to have root access to Barnes & Noble Nook reader #android

The Barnes & Noble “Nook” ereader has been rooted. On Sunday night, the team of modders at NookDevs.com announced that they had discovered a DNS hack, followed by a teardown of the physical device to gain more information about how the Nook operates. After discovering that the Nook OS is run from the SD card, [...]

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Motorola Droid gets rooted and praised by TIME magazine

Being named one of the best gadgets of the year by Time  magazine would usually warrant top billing in that headline, but not tonight, my friends. As nice it is to see an Android product finally get its due and respect from a major news source, there’s bigger things brewing in the Android world tonight: [...]

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Et tu, Google? The CyanogenMod issue gets a resolution [commentary]

In Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Caesar had a tragic realization in his waning moments. As he lay covered in blood and struggling for air, Caesar looked up and saw his friend Brutus among his attackers. “Et tu, Brute?” (You too, Brutus?) he asked. Thousands of angry Android users now believe they are Caesar and Google is Brutus. [...]

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My Android phone is rooted: now what?

The one-click root method inspired quite a few Android device owners to root their phone. Sadly, not all root functions are as easy to implement as the one-click method. Some of the hacks and features that interested me required careful reading and researching multiple guides to find out the proper way to do certain things. [...]

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How to Understand Android root terms and procedures

Be sure to read our introductory article before proceeding. So you took the plunge and rooted your Android phone. Congrats. Now get to work understanding what that means. First things first: realize that Android devices are different. Before doing anything, make sure it is compatible with your device. That means Rogers Dream owners shouldn’t assume that something [...]

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How to create a 2nd partition to install Android apps on an SD card

If you’ve rooted your Android phone, it may have been because you wanted to free up space and install apps on your SD card. Certain ROM’s have this feature built into, so all a user has to do is create a second partition on his or her SD card. This tutorial will show how to [...]

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Easily root Android phone by installing a program

A blogger has publicized what he says is a “one-click” method for rooting an Android phone, including instructions and files necessary to do so. The author of RyeBrye.com has credited someone using the alias Zinx for a process to root a phone by installing an .apk file on an Android phone that roots the device [...]

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T-Mobile myTouch3g rooted with instructions

Well, that didn’t take long. Roughly a week after being released, members of the XDA Developers Community  have gained root access to the T-Mobile myTouch3g. Earlier this morning, XDA member Amon_RA tweeted that the myTouch had been rooted, and instructions soon followed at the forum. He posted this message to announce the rooting process availability: After [...]

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Geeks’Phone “One” is an Android phone with root access

Anybody interested in an unlocked phone that comes with root access the minute you buy it? It has a 624 MHZ processor, a 3.2 megapixel camera with autofocus, and Digital TV Tuner to sweeten the pot. If your interest has been tickled, get a load of the Geeks’Phone One. Spanish-based Geeks’Phone is releasing One as an [...]

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