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Although Google does most of the work for us, there are still reasons to have a back-up app on your Android phone. Besides Titanium Backup, I’ve always been a fan of MyBackup & MyBackup Pro ever since I had my G1. Although the pro version is required for all the features on a stock Android...

SGS Tools Screenshot Good news for those of you with a Samsung Galaxy-S phone, you can now update your Camera application to unofficially support Push-To-Zoom. Previously, with the Samsung-provided stock Camera app, you had to use the volume keys to adjust zoom, but thanks to a nifty bit of coding...

Like the rest of the T-Mobile Vibrant owners out there, I find myself getting quite impatient as I hear rumor after rumor about Android 2.2 Froyo for the Samsung Galaxy S family of devices. Samsung has made numerous promises to Galaxy S users worldwide that everyone will have 2.2 Froyo before the end...

I’m sure most of you have heard of the third party app ADW Launcher, or at least the developer behind it, AnderWeb. Less than a year ago, the ADW launcher was nothing more than an attempt at porting the launcher 2 from the newly released Nexus 1 to other devices running Android 1.6 (Donut). Slowly...

Based on the recent OTA update from Samsung and T-Mobile (JI6), Bionix maintains the majority of Samsung’s TouchWiz interface and apps using a custom black theme, but provides a much faster user experience from the stock JI6 OTA build. Bionix Final is the last update to the ROM, as the team...

Most people are familiar with the ADW Launcher by AnderWeb, especially after it was integrated into the CyanogenMOD project. ADW Notifier is a nifty little add-on that adds one simple but infinitely useful feature to the launcher: little red bubbles on certain specific icons. These red bubbles (see...

Based of the recently released JI6 OTA, Bionix maintains the majority of Samsung’s TouchWiz interface and apps, although themed, but provides a much faster user experience from the stock JI6 OTA build. I’ve been using this build for the past few days and have been very impressed with it....

Its finally here folks, the Voodoo lagfix for the T-Mobile Vibrant variant of the Samsung Galaxy S family, courtesy of François Simond (@supercurio) and Andrew Randall (@justanotherdev). A little background on this “voodoo”: @supercurio has been hard at work for the past few months developing...

2014 - My Quadrant Score (OCed 1.2Ghz, Virtual EXT4 partition as /data/data) With the recent explosion of high-end Android devices hitting the market on all of the various carriers, it seems that the benchmark app Quadrant has become the ‘standard’ to test out and compare these new ‘superphones’,...

So you’ve rooted your shiny new Samsung Vibrant, messed around with mounting the system partition, installed a few themes or updates, and, for some reason or another, it won’t boot or is stuck in a boot loop. You’ve been staring at the “Samsung Vibrant” screen for ten minutes...

Itching for an upgrade from my aging G1, I happily picked up the T-Mobile Vibrant (a Samsung Galaxy S variant) within days of its release. After having it for two weeks, I can honestly say that this is one great phone. With its beautiful SuperAMOLED screen , a 1GHZ Hummingbird CPU, and one of the fastest...

Everyone remembers how much of a pain it was to root the G1\Dream: you had to downgrade to an earlier version to exploit a ridiculous bug which interpreted everything as superuser system commands. It took 10-15 minutes, required a complete wipe of your device, and had the potential to brick if you performed...

One of my favorite features of Android and its core apps is Google Maps Navigation. Having the power of Google Search directly connected to navigation within one button press, what else do I need to say? My issue came when I upgraded to the new Samsung Vibrant, only to discover that the GPS never seemed...

Like many of our readers, I’ve been happily customizing my new Vibrant since I got it a few days ago. I’ve installed all of my apps, reset all of my settings, customized all my apps, etc, etc. Although I can backup my apps and settings using Titanium Backup and other backup apps, and Google...

After a few months in a closed beta, LogMeIn Ignition has officially been released and is available on the Android Market for $29.99. On a general note, I’m personally a huge fan of LogMeIn, and have been using their free LogMeIn service for the past few years on dozens of different computers (parents,...