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How to Root the Samsung Galaxy Grand (GT-I9082)

Now that you have the ClockworkMod Recovery present on your Grand, it’s time to go ahead and root it.  And if you are familiar with ClockworkMod Recovery, this will be much more easier although not necessarily required.  So read on then to root your Galaxy Grand. I.  Before You Begin 1.  You need to have custom recovery installed for this guide to work.  Follow our guide on the same to help you. 2.  Charge your device to 75% or more and back up anything you feel is important before you begin. II.  Necessary Downloads 1.  Fix-Recovery.zip 2.  UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.10.zip [or the […]

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How to Get Your Micromax Canvas HD (A116) Back to Stock

If at all you come to a point where you need to get your device into a service center or you are thinking about selling, flashing the device back to stock is a good idea to avoid unwanted questions.  In case of the Micromax Canvas HD, unrooting and bringing it back to stock will be as easy as rooting it and your device should be back to its factory state in no time!  Read on then to know how to get your Canvas HD back to stock. I.  Before You Begin 1.  This will erase all your data, so back

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How to Install Custom Recovery on the Micromax Canvas HD (A116)

The Canvas HD is a low-priced high-featured device that is more popular in India and has gotten pretty good reviews for its 5-inch IPS display, quad-core 1.2GHz CPU and other features.  Rooting this device definitely has its benefits but before doing so, you’ll need to install a custom recovery to actually root the device.  The guide below should take care of that and you will be rooting it in no time! I.  Before You Begin 1.  Back up everything you feel is important. 2.  Charge your device to 75% or more before you begin. 3.  Install the necessary drivers before

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How to Root the Micromax Canvas HD (A116)

Installing custom recovery was the first step in rooting the Canvas HD and we will now show you how to actually root the device.  Rooting bestows your device with capabilities that your manufacturer doesn’t want you to have – overclocking/underclocking, changing themes completely are just some them and you will find out what more you can do with a rooted device when you are done. I.  Before You Begin 1.  You will need to have a custom recovery installed in order to flash unofficial zip files.  Use our guide on the same to help you. 2.  Back up anything you

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How to Update the Samsung Xcover 2 (S7710) to Android 4.1.2

Samsung is trying out a new breed of devices that are good in functionality which can also be sturdy enough to bear the brunt of nature if required.  The Xcover 2 is one of these devices and in addition to being dust and waterproof, comes with Android 4.1 OS out of the box running on a 1GHz dual-core processor and 1GB RAM with a 4-inch display and about 4GB of storage space.  We’ll get you rooted on this device once it is in fact rooted but until then, how about updating it to to the latest official release of Jelly

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How to Unroot the Samsung Galaxy Xcover (S5690) running Android 2.3

Now that you have rooted your Galaxy Xcover, there may come a time when you need to unroot it, like when you are getting it into a service center for any reason or selling it.  The guide below is just for those times and will get you back to stock in no time. I.  Before You Begin 1.  This guide will only work if you have followed our procedure on rooting the Galaxy Xcover.  Trying it after rooting with any other may brick your device! 2.  Back up everything you feel is important. 3.  Make sure you have your device

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How to Root the Samsung Galaxy Xcover (S5690) running Android 2.3

The Xcover is a device that was released back in 2011 and apart from being sturdy with resistance to dirt and water, came with Android 2.3 on board.  Samsung, as usual, hasn’t been too keen on releasing updates for this now low-end device and seems to ignore the fact that users want more from their devices as days go by.  But the developer community hasn’t been idle and as a first step, this device can be rooted to at least install root-requiring apps that enable customizing your device a bit more than what it is at stock.  The guide below

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How to Install TWRP Recovery on the HTC Butterfly (X920D)

To root the HTC Butterfly, you’ll need a custom recovery before anything else but on doing so, it’s not just root access you’ll be achieving.  Having a custom recovery (and being rooted) will give you the power to back up your device state before trying a new custom ROM just to fall back on if you don’t like what you flashed, or use the custom recovery to wipe cache/data/system so you can start afresh.  Of the custom recoveries available though, the TWRP Recovery seems to be the current popular choice as it offers touch-based menus rather than the older recoveries

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How to Root the HTC Butterfly (X920D)

Now that you have TWRP on your HTC Butterfly, it’s time to go ahead and finally root the heck out of it.  And as we promised in our previous post on flashing TWRP Recovery, this is pretty easy and you should be done in minutes!  So read on then if you want to know how to root your HTC Butterfly. I.  Before You Begin 1.  Back up everything you deem important. 2.  Charge your device to 75% or more before you begin. 3.  You need to have TWRP Recovery (or any other custom recovery) installed for this procedure to work. 

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How to Install TWRP Recovery on the HTC J Butterfly (HTL21)

Installing a custom ROM requires that you be rooted and have a custom recovery capable of flashing zips from unofficial sources.  For the HTC J Butterfly, the process is no different except for the minor fact that you’ll be installing a custom recovery before you root it, while this is the other way around for most other devices.  So, if you want to install a custom ROM on HTC J, you’ll need to install a custom recovery and root it and this guide takes care of the first step – installing TWRP Recovery (a touch-based custom recovery). I.  Before You

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How to Unlock the Bootloader on the HTC J Butterfly (HTL21) on KDDI

The HTC J is the Japanese version for KDDI network of the Butterfly, and is a pretty packed device with a 4.3-inch display, 1.5GHz dual-core CPU coupled with 1GB RAM, an 8MP camera and running Android 4.0.4 out of the box.  All of those specs seem pretty good except for the last part, the part about it running ICS 4.0.4.  With Jelly Bean already popular, HTC could have released the device with it but they didn’t so.  So is there any other way to get to JB? Of course there is, and to do that, you’ll need to unlock your

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How to Root the HTC J Butterfly (HTL21)

Now that you have your bootloader unlocked and have a custom recovery installed, it’s time to go on and do the most important thing if you want custom ROMs and use root-only apps – rooting the HTC J Butterfly.  The guide below will make it as painless for you as possible and you should be rooted and flashing custom ROMs in no time! I.  Before You Begin 1.  You will need to have custom recovery installed on your device for this to work.  Use our guide on the same for help with this. 2.  You will need to have an

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How to Root and Install ClockworkMod Recovery on the Samsung Captivate (i897) running Android 2.3.5

To use custom ROMs is to lease a new life for your device as things will be different and much more user friendly than stock firmware.  This would be a great way to renew an old device, like the Samsung Captivate, as you could be installing a custom ROM based on much newer firmware than the one that the manufacturer last updated you with.  For this though, your device (or the Samsung Captivate in this case) will need to have root privileges and have a custom recovery installed beforehand and this is exactly what you will be able to do

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How to Root the Verizon Droid Charge (I510) running Android 2.3.x (FP5)

Now that you have the required custom recovery, the next step is to root the Droid Charge to gain root access so you can customize your device the way your manufacturer didn’t want you to.  Rooting is fairly harmless unless you really botch up the procedure and this guide should make it much more easier to do so (not the botching, but rooting). I.  Before You Begin 1.  You will need to have ClockworkMod Recovery installed on your device for this procedure to work.  Use our guide on how to do this to help you. 2.  Charge your device to

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How to Flash a Custom Recovery on the Verizon Droid Charge (I510)

The Verizon Droid Charge has been around roughly for the past two years, and is surely waning in its popularity in the deluge in newer, far more superior devices.  For those who still have it though, rooting it and installing a custom recovery on it will make them love it for a bit longer.  If you are one of those and want to try rooting, installing custom recovery is the very first step you’ll need to take.  So read on if you want to know how to install ClockworkMod Recovery (a very popular custom recovery) on your Samsung Droid Charge.

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