Improve Camera Quality On HTC Sensation 4G For Sense 3.5 & CM7 ROMs

Do you own an HTC Sensation 4G? If you think the camera or more precisely, the Camcorder on your device is brilliant, it’s about to get even more awesome. Thanks to XDA-Developer |ErosizeD|, you can now mod your camera to record at higher bitrates which according to the developer, is close to BlueRay DVD quality with an increased FPS stability. The mod currently supports ROMs based on Sense 3.0 or 3.5 and CyanogenMod 7 or MIUI. As for the still camera, compression has been set to 0%, thereby the image quality has also been increased. Read More

How To Install Android Market & Google Apps On Kindle Fire

The Kindle Fire Gingerbread tablet is for sure on fire! Earlier we covered a guide on how to root the Kindle Fire and that has paved the way for what may be endless possibilities for the awesome tablet. Google Apps along with the much important Android Market, have now been ported to the tablet, making sure that the device is a huge hit amongst Android fans, and possibly hope to take on the iPad 2 considering the price difference. However, Google Apps and the Android Market can now be installed on the tablet and we’re here to show you just how you can do that! Of course, credits to Jolleyboy over at XDA-Developers for sharing his method with us that seems to be working out quite nicely. Read More

How To Root Motorola Atrix 2 In A Single Click

Those of you who just bought the latest Atrix 2 from Motorola, are in luck. The device running Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread has been successfully rooted. This has been made possible thanks to MyDroidWorld forum member p3droid. Even better the rooting method involved here gives you the single click option without needing you to manually input commands via ADB. While the guides purpose is to prioritize the use of the single click method to root the Atrix 2, but we’ll mention the manual method as well, just in case the single click method fails to work for you. Read More

Install Custom ROM With Sense 3.5 On HTC Droid Incredible 2

Since the rumors and videos of Sense 3.5 being leaked on the Internet, HTC’s latest Sense UI has begun finding its way onto HTC Android devices through way of custom ROMs. The Droid Incredible 2 has just recently received an Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread custom ROM with Sense 3.5 thanks to XDA-Developers forum member newtoroot. Named HTC Bliss Beta, the ROM in fact is a port of T-Mobiles version of the Sense 3.5, hence called mySense 3.5. Read More

Install RCMix3d Bliss Sense 3.5 ROM On HTC Desire HD

The RCTeam continues to bring us the best of ROMs for our Android devices, and those who don’t know about them, they have been here from the days of the HTC Hero. This time around they bring us a custom ROM sporting the much hyped about, Sense 3.5 for the Desire HD. The ROM is based on the Bliss WWE RUU 1.10.401.0 Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread. Read More

Motorola Cliq 2 Gets Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread [Download & Install]

There have been news circulating across the Internet about a Gingerbread leak for the Motorola Cliq 2 for quite a while now, including a screenshot. While we could only speculate, if and when that would actually hit the device for mass users, guess what? It is here. Yes, the Gingerbread leak has been released on the Internet and is up for download and installation. Credit for making all of this happen, goes to the Eccentric Vision Development Team which consists of XDA-Developers forum member tattedman and dlamber7. Please do note, that right now there is no root access available for this firmware, so if that matters to you, you would be better off if you waited out till root access is achieved. Otherwise, the ROM seems to be functioning as it should. Read More

Install Gingerbread Custom ROM With Sense 3.0 On HTC Droid Incredible

The HTC Incredible may have been superseded by the Incredible 2, but the former still packs a punch, and continues to receive the latest ROMs as they happen. Developers loyal to the Incredible are not about to let the phone go down without giving it a chance of tapping into its true potential. Pure Shooter 3 is an Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread based ROM by RootzWiki forum member wildstang83 and sports the latest and awesome Sense 3.0 UI. Read More

HTC Desire HD Gets Android 2.3.4 Custom ROM With Sense 3.0 [Install]

From the RCTeam we now have the RCMix3D 234 ROM for the Desire HD which is based on Android 2.3.4 and sports the latest Sense 3.0 UI. The RCTeam has been bringing us quite a few wonderful ROMs in the past on the HTC Android devices and most of the work has been around porting ROMs from one device to another. According to them, “we enjoy the fun of making something run on the phone that was not meant to.” This rom is based on RUU Pyramid HTC Android 2.3.4 China.

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Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread Ported To HTC Sensation [Work In Progress]

Things are moving pretty fast for HTC Sensation after Revolutionary set it’s bootloader free from HTC’s shackles. Xboarder56, Recognized XDA Developer, is in the process of porting AOSP Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread on S-OFF’d and rooted HTC Sensation. So far the development isn’t much of a discussion point with only Wi-Fi and Screen working. But with able devs like Xboarder, T-Junk and redbullcat already in the process of completing the port, we believe that 2.3.5 will soon get implemented on Sensation in it’s true spirit.

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Root And Install xRecovery On Xperia X10 Updated To Official Android Gingerbread [Azuzu Method]

Previously we reported Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread official roll out for Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 and now, the underground development community at XDA, has managed to attain root privileges. There are many pros and cons related to rooting any Android device and you can get a general idea by exploring the post we published sometime back. For those who still want to know “why root”, then a simple answer is that rooting allows you to gain near-to-complete access of your Android device and is a pre-requisite to run awesome mods, hacks, recovery and apks that require special permissions. Read More

CM7 Nightly Builds Roll Out For Galaxy S II I9100 [Download & Install]

Just a few days back, CyanogenMod team announced that they will soon begin pushing out the CM7.1 Nightly builds based on Android 2.3.4 Gingerbread for the Samsung Galaxy S II. They have lived up to their word, as the Nightlies have begun showing up on CyanogenMod for download. This is great news for owners of the Galaxy S II since these builds would hopefully and eventually lead to a proper final build for the device, something that the device truly deserves. If you are familiar with CyanogenMod ROMs, you would understand, that Nightly builds are highly experimental and highly suspicable to instability on the device. However, this is not a certain thing and depending on how you handle your device, you may not have much of an issue using it for phone calls or texting etc. If you do, well, it IS a Nightly after all. Read More

Install Custom HTC Sense 3.0 Gingerbread ROM On Desire Z / G2

HTC Sense 3.0 can now grace the screens of your Desire Z / T-Mobile G2 thanks to XDA-Developers forum members rmk40, Flemmard, Diamondback, Cappychimp, eViL D:, siulimagic, rafyvitto and 911Sniper. The ROM named Virtuous Fusion sports Android 2.3.3 Gingerbread along with the much talked and hyped about, HTC Sense 3.0. More on this ROM and how to install it after the jump! Read More

Enable Landscape View In TouchWiz Launcher For Android Gingerbread

TouchWiz is Samsung’s proprietary UI for it’s Android devices and from being developed for the Samsung Galaxy S Series devices, it has now moved onto the Galaxy S II as well. Those of you running the TouchWiz launcher on their current Android devices would know how the launcher is pretty lacking in features and eye candy. XDA-Developers forum member pawitp has released a mod for Gingerbread based deodexed ROMs that fixes just about all that and as the title suggests, you get more then just a landscape view. Read on for the features and installation of this mod on your device. Read More

Install Android 2.3.1 Gingerbread ROM On Sony Ericsson Xperia X1

Gingerbread keeps extending the lives of not only the older Android devices but, devices like Sony Ericsson Xperia X1 that came with Windows Mobile. And you thought when Android was ported to the Xperia X1 you had reason to rejoice? Well now Xperia X1 owners have reason to go a little crazy. Gingerbread is now available for you to install on your device! The ROM, named F1 Gingerbread 2.3.1 V2 was made possible by XDA-Developers forum member faryaab who claims it to be stable enough for everyday use. For more on this ROM and how to install it on your device, read on! Read More

Install Android 2.3 Gingerbread Keyboard On Samsung Galaxy S

With the release of Android 2.3 Gingerbread, there have been several changes to the Android platform including a new and improved on-screen keyboard. As with many apps of newer Android versions, this keyboard has been ported to use on phones running older versions of Android, thanks to the community at XDA Developers forums. In what follows, we will show you how to install the new Gingerbread keyboard on your Samsung Galaxy S i9000 phone. So what are you waiting for? Read on and get it up and running on your Galaxy S. Read More