Archive : Community Submitted News

I have a bit of a different story for everyone today and I hope that you understand why I felt compelled to do this. A great man and CyanogenMOD developer by the name of Ryan Scott (aka @Chiefzreloaded) on Twitter has had a long-standing battle with Necrotizing Fasciitis more commonly known as the...

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...

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...

Motorola, We Have Spoken (Again), Update Our Devices!! Long have Motorola Users hoped and wished for unlocked bootloaders, timely updates, and freedom within the devices we pay for outright.  Yes some get their devices subsidized and some buy them outright, in any event, the devices are purchased...

Chinese software company Alibaba created the Aliyum OS which, despite claims to the contrary, is a forked Android OS, along the same lines as the Kindle Fire or Nook. Alibaba claims that its Aliyum OS is Linux based, but oddly there’s several pirated Android apps on the Aliyum app store including...

  Team D.I.R.T develops ROMs from scratch and also does ROM ports for the HTC EVO 4G, EVO 3D, and EVO LTE. They do great graphics as well and some other crazy things. Their most recent development was obtaining root on a Nabi 2 (kids) tablet and were able to push Gapps to it. Check it out, it’s...

BusyMom Toddler Edition is an App that is just for Moms with Toddlers (ages 1-3). It is available on both the Android Market and the Amazon App Store. BusyMom Toddler Edition claims to be four apps in one. It is divided into four sections: Community, Maps, Stories, and Charts. I’ll briefly cover...

This is not the first time we’ve seen a petition of this type floating around. Last month we had a Motorola petition pass through referencing the same topic. While that topic may still be a heated debate, it seems another target has entered the cross-hairs. It seems that more than a few HTC users...

  I love Android. I love the Community. Since my G1 days I have slowly evolved from total noob, to someone who helps answer questions daily on XDA, writing instructional guides, and now testing the waters in app development and theming. The reason I have progressed is the kindness of the community....

It all started with a Dream. A dream of a free, open-source, and infinitely flexible mobile operating system to revolutionize the smartphone market and to free us from Apple’s walled garden. The little green robot’s been with us for almost 4 years now and in that short amount of time it has...

I am now over 20 days into the #unlockmoto bootloader campaign.  I have seen a massive surge in the number of supporters for this petition and have gained a lot of positive and negative attention. I bought my Motorola Atrix phone at the end of February 2011. When I bought the phone I knew what I...