Archive : Mod

While the word ‘buffering’ is well over four letter words, it is definitely a word we don’t want our phone displaying to us. Nothing is more irritating than trying to watch a show and see that infamous circle start rotating and ‘buffering’ plastered across your screen....

With every version of CyanogenMod build awesomeness, a creative boot animation has been born. From Andy skating onto our screens, to the newly welcomed Cid showing us what seems to be angry eyes while going through a worm hole. Flashing early builds of CM10 on my phone, the developers have either went...

There isn’t much big news running around the web today other than the new Google gift cards for the Play Store. We have seen images of what it looks like on a device, we see landing pages up from Google and we even have cards for sale at a few local retailers. What we don’t see yet though...

In the wonderful world of Android battery life is always a major concern. The fine line between crystal clear bright screens and your device lasting into the teens is a tough one. on a personal note, I keep my brightness as low as possible and adjust it throughout the day depending on the lighting environment...

Everyone that can’t have Jelly Bean just yet still really wants Google Now. We reported on a port that was being worked on where it would install, but you had to type everything. That sort of defeated the purpose of the whole experience. We all want voice. Now there is a new process for installation...

Just yesterday, we a got a little tease of CM10 running on an LG Optimus 4X HD, and tonight…we have Cyanogen’s Jelly Bean running on the ASUS Transformer Prime. I must say, CM10 is showing up on some random devices. You would think we would see it running on the Galaxy Nexus or even the...

Google apps are a staple in many of our lives when it comes to productivity, communication and life in general. While the apps themselves are great, their theme tends to be fairly boring. Offering up near white backgrounds that are blinding late a t night and can consume precious battery power....

Everyone out there that loves Android wants Jelly Bean on their device, like last week. We have seen a number of developers already working there magic on various devices and are getting there slowly. We also know that an update to the mainstream isn’t likely for a while. Does that mean that there...

Today it was reported that the Cyanogen Team will shortly start working on CM10, which of course will be based on the newly released Jelly Bean OS. They informed us that it will not take nearly as long as CM9 has taken, simply because there are minor tweaks in the Android code to get it from ICS...

New devices, new specs, new hardware and lots more money out of pocket. Not that we all have the cash to toss around or contracts that are ready to be upgraded. Some of us are still stuck using the last ‘great’ device that went out of style 6 months after it was released. We could probably...

Let’s just keep making your “non-Jelly Bean” a Jelly Bean phone. We got wallpapers, some themes, the Google Sound Search Widget, now we got the Jelly Bean boot animation. Yes this comes from a nice little zip file over in an XDA thread, and what better way to celebrate Jelly Bean with...

  It is almost strange writing about CM7  with CM9 slowly making its way out to us. Thinking any build that is not ICS is just alien to me now. But I shall shake that off, and tell you that CyanogenMod 7.2 is hitting a slew of devices with a nice fresh stable build. Lets see who made the cut: Barnes&Noble NOOK...

The CyanogenMod team has a nice little treat for us. Looks like they dropped a nice little video on their YouTube channel, showing off the custom animation for the highly-anticipated CM9 build we are all waiting to try. The new animation features their new mascot, Cid, and I must say they have done...

Pretty exciting news for you guys out there rocking a Samsung Galaxy S II model number I9100G. CM9 nightlies are now in full throttle and ready for you to try out. And these are OFFICIAL thanks to  elite XDA member codeworkx of Team Hacksung. Only a couple issues plague the build, but it is ready...

Oh T-Mobile, how do we love thee, let us count the ways.. One.. Two… ummm, that’s about as far as we can go. While most of us here at the SPIN have T-Mobile as our service provider and we love them, their are times we want to just scream. Service inside some locations being one of them. That...