SammyHub is reporting this morning that there is a beta ICS build for the Galaxy Note (i9220) that has been leaked in China. This is not compatible with Galaxy Note GT-N7000 or the i717 (AT&T) versions. But this does mean there are likely steps being taken to bring ICS ROMs to your Rooted Galaxy Notes. [...]

Do you have a Galaxy Nexus? Well so do hundreds of other people. But like all red-blooded Android freaks you know you’re itching to customize it to your own personality. So you already Rooted and have a custom ROM on your shiny new baby. You’ve loaded it up with your favorite launcher and downloaded a very [...]

Last week during the Big Android BBQ in Austin, Texas; our very own Simon Cowell…I mean Simon Walker had the chance to meet with a developer that goes by the name of davidjr621. David has had his hand in Rom development, theming, as well as boot animation development, and now he is working on his [...]

From the “It didn’t take long to root that device” file, the folks over at XDA have gained root access to the rugged and rough Motorola defy. We’re not talking big bulky Nextel looking rugged, but we broke the water proof video right here at Androidspin in October and this phone is rugged.. but not [...]

And then there was root. The Galaxy S phones are familiar with root, but the Samsung Mesmerize, which was launched yesterday, got its first taste of root. The Samsung Mesmerize is the regional carrier’s Galaxy S device. The device was rooted using the rageagainstthecage exploit by C-skills. The SuperOneClick root method has been confirmed as [...]

Well, sort of- rooted but only temporarily. Our dear friends at XDA Developers have been able to get root access to the T-Mobile G2 smartphone … until you reboot the device – then all super user access permissions are reverted. Not quite the ideal scenario we are looking for but it tells us that a [...]

Well the team working on unrevoked has released there one click root, as I said before very similar to the cupcake method. Try it out and let me know how it works, I don’t have a EVO 4G or a CDMA (Sprint) Hero to test. As always, rooting your phone will void your warranty and [...]

Well the HTC EVO 4G has been successfully rooted. As most of you know, rooting is not equivalent to jailbreaking for a few reasons. One because it gives you more options other than apps but secondly because it’s much harder for the average Joe. One of the original rooters, Matt Mastracci, there are a number [...]

I’ve been meaning to write a review about Titanium Backup for quite a while now, but everytime I started to put together my thoughts about it, Joel Bourquard released a new update with a new feature to test out. I finally got a chance to sit down and write a review about this app, currently [...]

The Samsung Moment Android 2.1 ROM has only just been leaked and already the guys over at sdx-developers have rooted it and released a guide for your rooting pleasure. Brief Directions Use 7zip to extract both .tar files from the Moment_2.1.7z file. Copy SPH-M900_MR2_DD03_REL.tar into the Sprint Update Tool binary folder. Default path to binary [...]

Speeddymon over on AllDroid.org has found way to modify the update.zip used to update your DROID to Androd 2.1 and give you root access in the process. All credit goes to the original Droid exploiter, Zinx Verituse. I got in contact with him after a tool on his site didn’t work properly for me, and [...]