Archive : Root

While many might scoff at the Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G, some were drawn to it. Probably just the 4G in the title or the attractive price point. For those of you that snagged one and aren’t looking for the latest greatest device, at least you now have root and ClockworkMOD recovery available....

In the wonderful world of Android that we live in, there are a few constants that many can count on. Many of which aren’t timely updates from a manufacturer or the death of a despised UI. The constants the exist in our lives and keep up going and buying these high-end devices lands solely on the...

The development community is pretty on point to hack and slash their way into devices so that we can truly enjoy them. Some devices are harder to crack than others. While many of the main stream devices receive the root treatment before they ever even launch. After many many painstaking hours of hackery, vdsirotkin...

Owners of the Asus Eee Pad Transformer have had quite the week. After all was said and done, Asus made good on their promise to roll out Ice Cream Sandwich and even managed to surprise the world by doing so in February. As a new owner of the tablet, I was quite pleased with the performance of Honeycomb....

Google TV as a whole has had quite the rocky road since it launched. Being locked down, limited functionality and lack of content from providers has made for a troublesome GTV experience. I personally can’t say I hate my GTV unit, I just wish it could do more. Well, if you are the owner of a Sony...

Like always, when new devices are about to about to be released, someone brings it to its roots. The Galaxy Note is almost upon us, and XDA Member Da_G, has his very own thread to flash his kernel via ODIN.  The kernel also enables custom boot animations, adb root and init.d scripts. So if you got...

Again with the root for the DROID 4, I know right. We covered a story just the other day about root being obtained with a $500 bounty to release it. The principal was nice, $300 went to the American Red Cross and $200 went to the purchase of a DROID 4. We aren’t strangers to community members...

And just like that, root on the DROID 4 has been achieved. As a previous DROID 3 owner,  I know how annoying it is to wait for your device to be rooted. DJRbliss, better yet known as Dan Rosenberg, has achieved root on the Motorola DROID 4 that was just released today. However, he is not releasing...

Have you been considering rooting your Droid RAZR? We don’t blame you. What reasonable person wouldn’t want too? Thanks to some work by mattlgroff  over at XDA, you now have a great Windows based utility to work with. The developer of the tool has a lite and full version available for...

When many of us think of a ROM we think of the argues task ahead of us. We have to get the ROM, put it on the SD, boot to recovery, make a backup, wipe everything, flash it and then hope it all goes well and boots up. It can be a little scary when the first boot screen comes up and stays put for a little...

Earlier today we found out that ASUS has every intention of releasing a tool to officially unlock the bootloaders on the Transformer Prime. They also made mention that Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich) would be making its debut on the 12th of January. Now we have some new information that roots that...

Xoot, Xoot, Xoot. Isn’t that a cool word to say. I like it better than the Xoom. Since Motorola is so insistent on naming their tablets crazy outlandish names, why shouldn’t a tool that helps you root your tablet be anything less than crazy too. XDA member epic118 has just released...

The MOTOACT is one of those odd, yet somewhat compelling little devices that we see no real need for, but just want to have for some reason. For the tech junkie it isn’t about what the device was designed for or able to do out of the box, it is what it can do and how to push the limits of the device....

Great news for the Android development community. The Galaxy Nexus has achieved perm-root status thanks to XDA member paulobrien, who has devised a method that will allow all you lucky SOB’s who got a G-Nex to obtain permanent root and all the freedom that comes along with it. The “fix” is rather...

Anytime a new device is launched the devs and the people want a couple of things. They want source code, which we have. They want root, which we now have and they want ROMs, which are soon to follow. Thanks to some great investigative work by XDA member death2all110 , rooting your device is as easy...