Well let’s make the best Android phone at the moment just a little more fantastic. Trinity by Morfic is now available for the Samsung Galaxy Nexus to those of you that dare to push your phone of awesomeness to epic levels. Trinity kernels have been popular with the Nexus S, G2X, and the HTC Sensation, so [...]
Now it’s not like the phone actually needed it, but it looks like there is a kernel released for the Galaxy S II SGH-989 (Hercules) phone that sups up that damn thing to 1.8 GHZ. Okay so does this mean it can travel into the future? Maybe the Past? This just goes to show you [...]
While CyanogenMOD CM6 for the T-Mobile myTouch 4G is still in the boiling pot being cooked and not available on the nightly mirror servers of teamdouche, I decided to install the nightly build released on XDA by Zinx Verituse and see how the first beta version is running. For those of you who didn’t know, the T-Mobile myTouch 4G [...]
It looks like KingKlick may the first person to release an updated Kernel for the T-Mobile myTouch 4G allowing the device to be overclocked to 1.5 GHz. We haven’t tried the new Kernel yet, but KingKlick normally does some good work. We’ve looked at a couple of guides that had already been written, but they [...]
Its finally here folks, the Voodoo lagfix for the T-Mobile Vibrant variant of the Samsung Galaxy S family, courtesy of François Simond (@supercurio) and Andrew Randall (@justanotherdev). A little background on this “voodoo”: @supercurio has been hard at work for the past few months developing a permanent, easy to use fix for the “lag” that a [...]
Itching for an upgrade from my aging G1, I happily picked up the T-Mobile Vibrant (a Samsung Galaxy S variant) within days of its release. After having it for two weeks, I can honestly say that this is one great phone. With its beautiful SuperAMOLED screen , a 1GHZ Hummingbird CPU, and one of the fastest [...]
This morning, member intersectRaven over at XDA posted his latest kernel [.35-rcX]intersectRaven’s Kernel (FM SUPPORT!!!). After testing on Desire ROM’s, I found that MoDaCo’s r19 ROM works! I plugged in the Nexus One stock headset and opened the FM Radio application and the app began turning on the FM radio and then started scanning for stations. [...]
As everyone knows, we all want the ability to go all day on a single charge on our phones, but for some of us it’s not possible with the usage we put our phones through. So developers started to build kernels to under-volt the processors while still keeping the the stock speed of the phone. As with anything, we [...]
After the overclocking rumor that was spread a few months ago, I was quite hesitant when I saw another overclocking patch for the Dream\Sapphire. However, being the techie that I am, I couldn’t resist taking a closer look. After a few days of testing on Cyanogen’s recently released 5.0.7-DS (Eclair) builds, I am thrilled to [...]
I am happy to announce that after numerous closed betas, the OpenEclair team has officially released the new v1.3.0.1 of the OpenEclair ROM. See the credits, links, and info below. Contributors Developer – Wes Garner - Twitter Developer – ctso - Twitter Porters – Brian Cook, Piotr Maksymiuk (Movi) Complete OpenEclair Credits List: http://short.to/18h0a — LWPs break [...]
The OpenEclair team has been pretty quiet to the general public for a while now, but the developers, wesgarner and ChrisSoyars, have been hard at work getting the new version 2.0 of OpenEclair ready for public consumption. With the help of a select few Alpha testers, the team has been working though many issues and [...]
Keyan Mobli (@Kmobs) is a 19 year old Android developer. He is currently a Sophomore at the University of Texas. He is majoring in Neurobiology with hopes of going on to medical school. His love for technology began at age 9, when his dad took him into the garage where a disassembled computer was waiting. [...]
The boys have done it again and the Nexus One, more specifically, TheDudesAndroid’s JP1, is moving up the Linpack Android Top 10. For the past few days, certain members of the Android development community have been pushing the limits of the Nexus One to see just how super this “superphone” is. During their first round [...]
@kmobs is one bad mutha…shut yo mouth! Thanks to his kernel and some stupidly brave souls, @WootRoot, @TheDudesAndroid and @Acsteffy87, the Nexus One has made it to the top 10 in Linpack results. 10. thedude 22.186 Nexus One/ cm50b3/kmobs kernel 1267.2MHz google/passion/passion/mahimahi:2.1/ERD79/22607:user/release-keys/kmobs With a MFLOP/s result of 22.186 and overclocked to 1267.2MHz, @TheDudesAndroid’s Nexus One [...]
Linus Torvalds, self proclaimed phone hater and founder of the Linux kernel, just bought a Nexus One and he loves it. He wrote about it in his blog yesterday. He described cellphones as “an opportunity to be irritated wherever you are”. He was hesitant to purchase a handset from the internet without having seen it [...]