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How to Flash Touch-based TWRP Recovery 2.1 on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus

The days of using volume keys to navigate the Recovery Menu may soon come to an end as more and more recoveries are adopting touch-based interfaces instead of the old ways.  While ClockworkMod Recovery has a touch-based version, TWRP (Team Win Recovery Project) improves upon that popular recovery adding finger-friendly buttons the ability to save custom settings, customize the layout and the ability to install multiple zips in one go.  In this guide, we’ll show you how to get the TWRP Recovery 2.1 on to your Galaxy Nexus and move from ClockworkMod Recovery to something new and different. I.  Before […]

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How to Root the Galaxy Y Pro (B5510) and the Galaxy Y Pro Duos (B5512)

The Galaxy Y Pro and the Galaxy Y Pro Duos are some really affordable handsets that have a major advantage over other Android phones in their segment – a full QWERTY keypad.  In case of the Galaxy Y Pro Duos, users have the added advantage of using two SIMs simultaneously which would make carrying two different devices unnecessary.  We’ll show you how to root both of these devices without breaking a sweat in the following guide. I.  Before You Begin 1.  You need to have updated drivers from Samsung.  You can install these automatically by installing Samsung Kies. 2.  There’s

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How to Access an Android Device if You Forget Your Pattern or Pin

The chances are rare that you will forget your screen lock (pattern or PIN) and are locked out of your device if you are a constant user of your Android device like me but it happens, we know; it could be when you changed your PIN or pattern recently or because your kid decided that the pattern lock looked like a nice enough game to play with.  This guide is just for those times and will show you how to get past that screen lock and access your device. I.  Prerequisites 1.  Your device needs to be connected to the

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How to Root the Dell Streak 5 with Android 2.2.1 on Rogers Canada

The Dell Streak 5 has been around for a long time now and has seen itself through various iterations of Android, starting with Donut 1.6 to Froyo 2.2 currently.  This guide will show you how to root this device running Android 2.2.1 and give it the freedom needed to use root-requiring applications and then go on to install ClockworkMod Recovery and custom ROMs. I.  Before You Begin 1.  Uninstall/disable any antivirus that you installed as this will flag some SuperOneClick files are viruses. 2.  Uninstall delete any previous drivers you have for any other mobile device on your Windows PC.

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How to Install the Android Market and other Google Apps on the Impression i10 9.7 Tablet

So you have rooted your Impression i10 tablet.  Now what? How about getting those Google Apps that all the other tablets seem to have?  This guide below will show you how to do just that. I.  Before You Begin 1.  Your device should be rooted.  Follow our guide on how to do this and you should be set. 2.  Download the Google Apps pack. 3.  Download and install ES File Explorer manager or any other manager that can access system folders. II.  Loading Google Apps 1.  Extract the gapps-hdpi-20100817-Impression_10.zip that you downloaded above to a folder on your desktop.  The folder

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How to Root the Impression i10 9.7 Tablet (using SuperOneClick)

The Impression i10 is a decent tablet with a big 9.7-inch IPS screen, a HDMI port, USB Host ports and a passable 1GHz Cortex A8 CPU.  But it does have one major drawback – as with the other OEM tablets, this device lacks the Android Market (or Play, as it is called now) app.  This guide will show you how to root the Impression i10 which should enable you to install the Market app manually and give access to the hundreds of thousands of apps that are available on it currently.  You can check our post to know how to

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How to Root/Unroot the Cherry Mobile Candy

You may not have heard about the Candy or even the company that manufactures it – Cherry Mobile – but it is a pretty popular brand for affordable Android devices in the Philippines.  In this guide, we’ll show you how to root the Candy, an Android 2.2 device with a bar phone form factor. I.  Before You Begin 1.  Back up your data, although this isn’t exactly mandatory, it’s always better to do so just in case. 2.  Ensure that the Candy is at least 50% to 75% charged. 3.  This procedure will only work on the Cherry Mobile Candy

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How to Take a Screenshot on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus

The Samsung Galaxy Nexus is a great device and with Ice-Cream Sandwich on board, the device is just pure joy to use.  The device (and the OS) has many features that many other devices currently lack, mainly because some of these devices are yet to receive their ICS update.  One of these features is the ability to take screenshots on the Galaxy Nexus, which is useful in sharing your settings or showing off your new wallpaper, in a few easy steps.  We’ll show you below just how to do this below. I.  Hitting the Right Buttons 1.  Make sure you

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How to trick the Google Play Market into thinking you are in a different country

There are times when Google Play just doesn’t show the app that you have been waiting for so long.  A good example is the Paypal app, which is only available from the US version of the Google Play.  We’ll show you in this guide how to fake the country you are from so that you gain access to those apps restricted to specific regions. I.  Before You Begin Ensure that your device is rooted.  If it is isn’t, chances are that we will have a How-To on how to gain root access for your device in our How-To section. II. 

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How to root a Galaxy Tab (P1000) running Gingerbread 2.3.5 (zergRush Exploit Method)

While we do have a guide on how to root the Galaxy Tab already, many readers have pointed out that it doesn’t work with the Galaxy Tab running Android 2.3.5.  Hence, this How-To that will show you how to gain root access on the Galaxy Tab running Gingerbread 2.3.5 specifically and install Busybox and Superuser apps at the same time. I.  Before You Begin 1.  This only works with the P1000 version of the Galaxy Tab, running Gingerbread 2.3.5; so make sure that this is the device and OS you currently have. 2.  Ensure that you have ADB drivers installed. 

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Volume+; a viable solution to audio woes on the Galaxy Nexus

The update released last December to address this specific problem might have fixed the low volume on the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, but I personally feel the volume could have been a bit more higher, in comparison with other devices. There were times when I couldn’t even hear a notification sound, but a bit of searching led me to Volume+, a solution that has really done the trick. The app, available on Google Play in both paid and free versions, boosts the volume up on the Gnex (or any other device) to a considerable level, with none of that tinny sounds

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Desire S and Desire HD get Android 4.0 port; courtesy of HTC One V

HTC has promised ICS for the Desire S and Desire HD but without a proper timeframe, it’s people like proxuser who have to come to the rescue of aging devices like these.  The custom ROM, titled Primo-S, is based on the official Android 4.0.3 ROM running on the new HTC One V and will bring all the goodies that HTC tucked into it, including the latest Sense UI. This is bound to be a nice change from Gingerbread and could be a great stepup until HTC outs ICS for these devices officially.  But being labeled a ‘work in progress’, the

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Motoblur ICS Launcher available to install on any Android device

The Motoblur UI has taken a lot of flak for being slow, cumbersome and “downright useless” as a friend of mine succinctly put to me some time ago.  It seems that things have changed for the better, at least with the Android 4.0 version of the overlay from Moto, and if you want proof of that claim, you can try now to know for yourself. Pulled from a Droid RAZR, the launcher is now ready to be installed on any non-Motorola device, with a caveat that you should be running ICS.  It has already been said to work on the

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S.onyTablet.S – an all-in-one tool for the Sony Tablet S and P

These two Sony-branded devices have been around for a long time for devs to fine-tune the little details and simplify those long, arduous procedures to get root or flash a custom recovery and the end result of all that culminated effort is this – the S.onyTablet.S tool-kit. This all-in-one utility helps you root and unroot with ease and among other things, can: Change regions to dupe Google Play (or the Market as it was called before).  Disable/enable OTA updates. Improve the speed of GPS. Change the device ID to be recognized as the Galaxy Tab, Galaxy SII, Acer A500 or

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Samsung Galaxy W gets CM9 ROM; still in alpha stages

CyanogenMod is a pretty well-known name in modding circles but many times, the custom ROMs built by this group are limited to high-end, popular devices, unless some enterprising owner of an ignored device takes up the mantle.  The same is true in the case of Galaxy W, a 1.4GHz CPU mid-range device, which will now see Ice-Cream Sandwich thanks to arco68, a Galaxy W user who just wasn’t satisfied with what he had. The guy has ported CM9 to work with the Galaxy W and while still in its alpha stages, this could be your daily driver, if you can

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