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DoomRecovery Sony Xperia S

DoomRecovery Brings Touch Based Custom Recovery For Sony Xperia S

The Xperia S gets a touch based custom recovery, called DoomRecovery, based on the famous ClockworkMod Touch recovery, thanks to the efforts of renowned XDA-Developers forum member and developer DooMLoRD. Credit also goes to Napstar from Team UtterChaos for adding in the touch capabilities to the recovery, Frosty666 for the vibration triggers, FreeXperia Team (Bin4ry [...] (more…)

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How To Easily Root Sony Xperia S On Gingerbread

The Xperia S, with it’s 342ppi pixel density, a 12mp camera packed in a beautifully crafted body, and upgradable to Android 4.0 ICS, certainly deserves to be rooted and it isn’t surprising that the device got rooted pretty quickly. This comes in from XDA-Developers forum member Bin4ry, who has uploaded custom firmware images for Xperia [...] (more…)

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Revert To Stock & Fix Soft Brick On Samsung Galaxy S Blaze 4G

Since the rooting and ClockworkMod installation guides for the the Blaze 4G came out, it is inevitable that a few of us were a little too excited and in the process of rooting or installing ClockworkMod recovery, messed up somewhere to end up with a soft bricked phone. However, user’s need not be dismayed over [...] (more…)

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Root LG Esteem On Android 2.3.4 After OTA Update [How To]

The LG Esteem gets rooted once again! Once again? Well, apparently LG patched up an existing vulnerability via an OTA update, thereby rendering the existing root exploit pretty much useless. This is not the first time we’ve seen manufacturers do that, and certainly this would not be that last, but for an OS that was [...] (more…)

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Root And Install Custom Recovery On Motorola Droid 4 With One Click

Aptly named Droid 4 Utility Pre-Release for Windows, the tool has been developed for the Motorola Droid 4 and released by XDA-Developers forum member mattlgroff which, as the title suggests, includes more than just your one click root. Earlier we covered a guide on rooting the Droid 4, a solution that was out just as [...] (more…)

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Install ClockworkMod Recovery On MOTOACTV Android Watch [How To]

The MOTOACTV (F100) Android watch gets ClockworkMod recovery 5! The tiny 1.6” screen sized Android device is trying to compete with the big guns here, where it was rooted almost as soon as it came out, and a few weeks later, it gets an Alpha version of ClockworMod recovery 5. Does this spell future custom [...] (more…)

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Root MOTOACTV Android Watch On Gingerbread [How To]

The worlds first Android based wrist watch gets rooted! Sporting a tiny 1.6” screen, you’d wonder why would anyone need to root the MOTOACTV. Well, it’s simple, because it can be done, and if you own this one of a kind device, you will definitely want to root it. Intended as a fitness device with [...] (more…)

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How To Root Samsung Captivate Glide On Android 2.3 Gingerbread

The QWERTY keypad equipped Samsung Captivate Glide gets rooted! The root method comes in from XDA-Developers forum member CarpeNoctem along with lambgx02 who provided the Carrier IQ free kernel (by Rogers) and the insecure kernel and the Rogers rooted ROM, and ardatdat who provided the rooted ROM and the overclocked kernel. The root will work [...] (more…)

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Unofficial CM7.2 ROM For LG Optimus Me P350 [Download & Install]

The Optimus Me P350 gets CyanogenMod 7.2! While Android devices are looking forward to Ice Cream Sandwich based ROMs, the unofficial CM7.2 ROM for the P350 is an impressive feat for an other wise budget device. If you have a rooted Optimus Me P350 and want to taste some AOSP goodness, you should give this [...] (more…)

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Samsung Galaxy R Gets Gingerbread Custom ROM [Download & Install]

Android 2.3.6 Gingerbread is now available as a custom ROM for the Galaxy R. This in fact, is the first custom ROM for the Galaxy R since the device got rooted and comes to us from XDA-Developers forum member eaglerazor123. Credit also goes to KitsumiMaru for testing the ROM and Virus, the creator of Infected [...] (more…)

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How To Root Samsung Galaxy R & Install ClockworkMod Recovery

Rooting and custom recoveries go hand in hand for all Android devices. If you own a Galaxy R I9003 and still haven’t rooted the device, you can now do so thanks to the instructions by legion1911 over at XDA-Developers. The process is neither a one click one, nor a complicated and lengthy one. You will [...] (more…)

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How To Install ClockworkMod Recovery 5 On LG Nitro HD

The Nitro HD gets CWM 5! Soon after the device was rooted, users had their hopes pinned on a custom recovery so that custom ROMs and kernels and more could follow. That day is here, thanks to XDA-Developers forum member bytecode64 who has released the CWM v5.0.2.7 for the Nitro HD. Installation is easy, and [...] (more…)

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CyanogenMod 7 ROM For Motorola Droid X2 [Download & Install]

The Droid X2 gets CM7! Ok so the world is moving on to bigger things, ICS and ICS based CM9. The Original Droid just received a port of CM9 but this port of CM7 to the Droid X2 is actually huge. This has now opened up the possibilities of further AOSP ports and development for [...] (more…)

MIUI ROM For Kindle Fire [Download & Install]

The Kindle Fire gets MIUI ROM! The device sure is on fire as it continues to receive massive developer support. The latest being the MIUI 1.12.29 ROM based on Android 2.3.7 Gingerbread, coming straight from XDA-Developers  forum member leech2082. The only known bug so far is the inability to play videos, but hopefully this will [...] (more…)

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Root Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE [How To]

The LTE Version of the Galaxy Tab 8.9 has finally been rooted. This breakthrough comes in from XDA-Developers forum member Da_G who has made rooting the device as easy as flashing a kernel a via ODIN. Once the kernel is flashed, you will have complete root access on the LTE enabled tablet. (more…)