Archive : Customize

Who bought an LG Optimus G? How about changing that Optimus G into a Nexus 4? Wait, you do not want to? I would not blame you. I played with in Optimus G yesterday for the first time, and I found it oh so sexy. Even LG’s UI did not bother me at all. It has a lot of great features, and just the...

Those unfamiliar with any of this or what’s the big deal about booloaders, unlocking them is the first step in a process of getting root access to your Android device. A quick rundown is 1.) unlock the bootloader; 2.) flash (or install) a custom recovery; 3a.) flash Superuser or SuperSU for root...

For those curious android users who love to root their devices and install custom kernels; haven’t you wanted to know what goes in to building ROM? You find the theme given by various Launchers not that friendly, and often think you can have done better with the design or the logos.  To promote...

Azuro Metalico, sounds so damn exotic, well, it is domestic, but it is pretty freaking sweet.  Azuro Metalico is a theme developed and released by Senor JatX2wnE for those with the CM Theme Chooser baked into the Rom they’re running.  At the moment I’m rolling some good ole AOKP and my...

Welcome one and all.  I was recently blessed with a pack of themes to check out and review, this review is of one of my faves, well, probably my favorite out of the bunch.  Designed and releaesd by JatX2wnE for the masses with CM’s Theme Chooser this theme is KICKIN’.  This theme paired...

Watch Your Phone Come “Alive” Well my Android friends, Bonne App! has done it again.  On November 28th they launched their newest goody for our devices.  They have offered several awesome hits in the past with their innovative “Real Life” videos that reside as your wallpaper,...

Well this little bit of goodness should help out our developers tremendously. HTC has just released the kernel source for the new HTC DROID DNA. Giving devs a little help in their pursuit for DROID domination. That and to help them tweak things a bit more and make the device even more spectacular. After...

  UPDATE:  Nitroglycerine33 has released Build 2 of the progress builds, this time with sweet new changes in the System settings for Battery Icon Mods (one of my faves) and a few other tasty treats.  If you’re not on the Progress Builds already, you’re missing out, get over there,...

Custom 4.2 Visits Toro With each new release of the sweet treats from the Android Mother Ship, Google, there is a race (at times a meander) to get a solid stable build up that is full of clean coding, buttery smoothness, and all around Android tastiness.  In my mind the race from 4.1.2 to 4.2 was no...

B-boytm Asking for a Little Help Master Theme creator B-boy has reached out to our generous community for a little assistance on his new project, #Ceethroo.  He isn’t looking for someone to completely take over the project, just someone who is able to help push it out and get it to the drooling...

A Whole Lotta Win Happening Here, TeamWin That Is Team Win updates to 2.3.2.1 with the advent of Jelly Bean 4.2 and it’s new style file system.  A little tweaking is necessary with the new features Google is pumping into their beloved OS.  The new system is laden (for tablets) with multiple...

#Ceethroo  #Innovative, these are just a couple of the tags you will stumble on if you go searching for @B-boytm‘s theme, Ceethroo.  This is a cool ass theme.  Look through the glass through the back of many of your favorite apps, Dialer, Contacts, Dropbox (one of my faves), even comes with...

The back of the new LG Nexus 4 is a pretty sight to look at. It gives the device some glitz and glamour when it is in your hand and easily draws people’s attention to try to see what you are holding. Not all of us are lucky enough to be snagging a Nexus 4. Either because we are broke, or because...

Who is Tha PHLASH? He is a mystery man. The man behind the man is not really a man, but an Android ICON, or legend. Which ever you prefer. He is the man who keeps bringing more customized Android icons to the world than anyone else on the planet. We have shared a number of his icon packs here and...

   ”The source code for 4.2 is being pushed to AOSP right now. Look for it under the name “android-4.2_r1″ once the replication completes. The matching development branch (for CTS contributions) is jb-mr1-dev, and all the changes are merged into the master branch where platform contributions...