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I. Before You Begin 1. You must have done our How To Root Nexus S procedure. II. Flash a Custom ROM 1. Head over to our Nexus S ROMs section, choose a ROM you want and download it and save it to your computer. 2. Plug your phone in and mount the internal storage so we can transfer files to it. 3. Copy the ROM .zip file over to the root of the internal storage (NOT in any folders, just on the internal storage itself). 4. Turn off the phone. 5. Turn the phone on by holding down Volume Up

I. Before You Begin 1. This will unlock your phone’s bootloader (so you can flash recoveries and ROMs), and can be undone very easily (unlike the Nexus One). 2. This WILL ERASE all your information on the phone. II. Setup ADB 1. Head to our How To Setup ADB procedure, once you can see your phone’s serial number after typing adb devices then come back to this procedure and continue. (MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW ALL THE STEPS IN THE WRITTEN PROCEDURE AS THERE HAVE BEEN UPDATES ADDED). III. Unlock the Bootloader 1. Turn off your phone. 2. Turn it on

  One of the hottest gadgets this holiday season is Microsoft’s Kinect for the Xbox360 (sold out pretty much everywhere). With depth perceiving technology, Kinect scans the scene seamlessly from an infrared light, providing full-body 3D motion capture, along with facial and voice recognition capabilities. Kinect combines with the Xbox 360 to create the ultimate gaming and social experience. Microsoft Kinect is awesome on it’s own as you can see above, but can you imagine what it can do away from the XBox? We can, and so can Adafruit. In November, Adafruit.com offered a $3,000 prize for the first person to come up with

Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) Feature Changes Visible Changes – Black Menu Items (instead of White) Black Status Bar (instead of White) Green Icons (instead of Blue) Phone dialer is black (instead of grey) Voicemail button in dialer (instead of add contact button) Under the contact picture in messages has been turned to dots instead of a line New Keyboard Better Text Selection Options Download Manager is own app instead of built in to browser Invisible Changes – Better Game Development Audio improvements and new formats Developer access to both cameras (front and back) Voip calling built in Better battery management NFC

I. Before You Begin 1. This is for the T-Mobile G2 and T-Mobile MyTouch 4G AFTER you have permanently rooted and gained S-OFF. 2. You must be using a custom ROM that supports ADB Remounting! If it doesn’t work, try using a different ROM. II. Flash the Kernel 1. Download an overclocking kernel file for your device from the respective XDA forums and save it to your computer (do NOT extract it). T-Mobile G2 T-Mobile MyTouch 4G 2. Download the SetCPU apk and save it to your computer as well. SetCPU 3. Plug your phone in via USB cable and

I. Before You Begin 1. This method is for flashing a custom recovery image and custom ROM. 2. You MUST have done our How To Temp Root and the How To Perm Root / S-OFF procedures for the MyTouch 4G BEFORE coming to this procedure. II. Flash a Custom Recovery Image 1. Once you have done the above to procedures, open the Market on your phone and search for ROM Manager (Free). 2. Install it. 3. Open the ROM Manager app and click Menu, then Settings and turn ON Delete Recovery. 4. Click Back and then select Flash Recovery. 5.

I. Before You Begin 1. An explanation of what S OFF is and why you might want it – S Off means security off for your HBoot mode (aka Bootloader). The bootloader is what allows you to flash updates and write to the file system of your phone. By turning the Security OFF, we can flash any updates/ROMs we want without the phone checking to see if it is an official update or not. 2. You MUST have done our Temporary Rooting Method before coming to this method. 3. This ONLY works on T-Mobile MyTouch 4G’s that have gotten the OTA. You

I. Before You Begin 1. This method gives you temporary root, but you can go to the next procedure immediately after finishing this one to get permanent root and s-off. 2. This will allow you to WiFi tether (if you can find an appropriate WiFi tethering app for the phone). 3. If you are on Android 2.3 or higher, you must downgrade first. Head here to do that then come back to this procedure to continue. II. Root the G2 1. On your phone, go to Settings > Applications > Development > and make sure USB Debugging is ON (it

At the D:Dive Into Digital event yesterday, Andy Rubin, VP of Engineering at Google, displayed a yet unannounced tablet that he said is manufactured by Motorola and is running a NVIDIA dual core processor. The tablet itself didn’t quite excite us as much as what was running on the tablet; Android 3.0/Honeycomb. It is only a quick glimpse but it shows you how Google plans to adapt Android for use on tablets in the future. But here, see for yourself: Source

Android 2.3 aka Gingerbread SDK was officially announced/released today (with an OTA update coming to Nexus One users ASAP). So let’s break down the new features so you can see exactly what it is that you’ll be looking forward to: Better Game Development So unless your a developer, this basically means that Google has improved things like touch control responsiveness and CPU usage and given game developers tools to better integrate their high end games into Android and give the user a better overall experience. Also, Gyroscope support has been added as well. Audio Improvements Again, a technical improvement that

So finally Google/Samsung have officially announced the Nexus S. It will be released December 16th at all Best Buy and Best Buy Mobile stores in the US and December 20th in the UK. In the States it will cost $199 on a 2 year contract w/ T-Mobile and $529 unlocked without contract. Here are the official specs: 4″ WVGA Super AMOLED Display Triband HSPA (No HSPA+) 5.0MP Camera 16GB of Internal Storage 1Ghz Cortex A8 Hummingbird Processor 512mbs of RAM Gyroscope VoIP Support Front Facing Camera Android 2.3 Gingerbread Now, is it just me or are these a little too

I. Before You Begin 1. The only real reasons to unroot a phone are if you need to send it in for warranty or if you flashed something that you can’t undo by flashing other ROMs. 2. THIS PROCEDURE CAN BE DANGEROUS, PLEASE FOLLOW THESE INSTRUCTIONS CAREFULLY AND AT YOUR OWN RISK. II. Change the Version Number 1. Download the HexEditor and extract it somewhere on your computer: HexEditor 2. On your phone, download Android Terminal Emulator (free) from the Market. 3. Open the Terminal Emulator and type the following with hitting enter at the end of the line: dd