Archive : Tutorials

  Samsung Galaxy S4 is the latest addition to the Galaxy family and it has accumulated just as much hype. However, even though it won’t be getting any official CyanogenMod love, it would not be complete without root. Well, fear not, as wonderful developers have come to your rescue with...

I loaded up CyanogenMod7 on my Nook Color via microSD card (grab it here thanks to XDA member verygreen) and it works great but one of the biggest issues that I had was finding a way to partition my sd card to open up the unused space on it after writing CM7 on it.  There’s plenty of instructions...

Among the many customizations available for the various amounts of Android devices, themes are probably one of the biggest. There’s no better way to express yourself than a completely custom interpretation  of what you think your device’s interface, as a whole, should look like. While all...

On the last Angry Birds Seasons updates I brought you daily videos to complete the Christmas edition. Not to long ago Rovio launched the Valentines day edition of their extremely popular and addictive game. Since I know many of you are probably pulling your hair out trying to find the Golden Eggs on...

Getting Honeycomb on your Nook Color just got easier. We posted before about the beta release of Honeycomb for your Nook Color by deeper-blue on xda-developers. Well now it’s flashable via ClockworkMod Recovery thanks to samuelhalff, and ready to sweeten your e-reader. Based off of deeper-blue’s...

Themes are always a great way to customize your device.We have many great themers out there. Some themes are a flashable zip for your current ROM others are themes made for ADW.Launcher or LauncherPRO. Anyway you think of a theme, there are always some slight modifications you would like to see changed....

.wp-caption { margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 25px; } Since Android-x86 2.2 was officially released a few days ago, I figured I’d provide a quick rundown of how to get it up and running in VirtualBox. All in all, it is pretty straightforward. Download, install, download, install. But if you’ve...

Sometimes you just meet peoople and hit it off or just get a good feeling about them. Gridlock32404 is one of those guys I talk to frequently on GChat and is responsible for compiling the current round of CM7 source code into usable releases for around 10 of the latest and greatest super phones. He...

In Part One of a series of articles, I mentioned the TOTAL absence of NFC enabled cell phones at CES 2011.  In this article I am going to look at Infotainment/Car Audio/Car Navigation systems.  This was not a complete wash, as we found the Parrot Asteroid, Phandroid found the Foryou/Adayo and Nvidia...

Again, our good friend ritalin, has tipped me off to some more amazing tricks. You can actually use Picasa 3.8 to sync video files to your Android phone and stream them over 3G, 4G or WiFi. I must say it is pretty amazing and works extremely well. He has even informed me that it works great on older...

Sprint rolling out Froyo (2.2) OTA We all thought this day would never come, or at least I did.  According to Brief Mobile – Sprint has begun rolling out Froyo to Epic 4G owners.  This seems to be Sprint’s new style.  Just as they did with the Evo 4G, the release of Froyo for a Galaxy...

Craig Johnston just completed his 432 page book that will walk you step -by-step through the HTC Droid Incredible, Droid Eris, Motorola Droid, Droid 2 and Droid X. This book looks amazing. It is full of tips and tricks that will help you take full potential of any of these devices. What an amazing feat! With...

Hey everyone, I hope we are all doing well. Yesterday we learned what a method was. The best part was that it wasn’t painful at all since we have been using them for a week already. We have just now put a name to them. After that we took a look at how to use return in a method to return something...

Here is where we left off. We created a Class (book.java) then we created a book object inside (Store.java). Then we took the Object (book1) in the Store.java file and invoked it inside the book.java file. So the Main class (book) referenced the book1 object to run the application and deliver to us...

I hope everyone was able to get through Part A without any trouble. Of course, as I mentioned before, what we just went through and created won’t do anything yet. That is where Part B comes in. Don’t worry it won’t be as intense as part A was. First things first though. We want to...