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HTC Sense UI Overview

HTC’ Sense UI Added User Features: Widgets: Tons of new widgets for the home screen. Clocks, animated weather widgets, twitter feeds, text messaging, email, etc. Amount of Home Screens: HTC Sense takes the normal 3/5 home screens and turns them into 7 homescreens (to display all the new widgets). New Launcher Button: Replaces the normal app drawer launcher with 3 buttons, one for the phone, one for the launcher and one for adding things to the home screen.

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Android 2.0 Overview

Android 2.0 “Eclair” (Includes 2.0.1, and 2.1) Added User Features: Contacts and accounts – 1. Multiple accounts can be added to a device for email and contact synchronization, including Exchange accounts. (Handset manufacturers can choose whether to include Exchange support in their devices.) 2. Developers can create sync adapters that provide synchronization with additional data sources. 3. Quick Contact for Android provides instant access to a contact’s information and communication modes. For example, a user can tap a contact photo and select to call, SMS, or email the person. Other applications such as Email, Messaging, and Calendar can also reveal

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Android 1.6 Overview

Android 1.6 “Donut” Added User Features: Quick Search Box for Android – Android 1.6 includes a redesigned search framework that provides a quick, effective, and consistent way for users to search across multiple sources—such as browser bookmarks & history, contacts, and the web—directly from the home screen.  The system constantly learns which search results are more relevant based on what is clicked. So popular contacts or apps that have previously been picked will bubble up to the top when a user types the first few letters of a relevant query. The search framework also provides developers a way to easily

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How To: Overclock Your Nokia N900

I Before You Begin 1. THIS DOES NOT WORK ON WINDOWS 7 BECAUSE OF USB ISSUES. FIND A WINDOWS VISTA OR LOWER SYSTEM TO USE TO DO THIS! II. Download the Firmware Flasher and the Overclocked zImage You Want 1. Download the Flasher 3.5 program from here and then run the .exe (at the time of writing this, it is called “maemo_flasher-3.5_2.5.2.2.exe”: Flasher 3.5 2. Then download the Overclocked Image you want here and save it to the Flasher 3.5 folder that was created by the flasher-3.5.exe program you installer earlier (which should be Program Files > Maemo > Flasher-3.5).

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How To: Unroot the Samsung Galaxy

We apologize for any inconvenience but due to Megaupload going down, we can no longer find the necessary files for this procedure (this procedure is for the original Samsung Galaxy and it is quite old now). If you know where to find these files, please use the contact us form and we’ll be happy to add them. I. Before You Begin. 1. We are assuming you did our How To Root the Samsung Galaxy procedure. II. Download the ROM and ODIN Flasher and Flash the ROM 1. Download the ODIN Flasher and Original OPS file. Unzip the file somewhere on

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How To: Load a Custom ROM on the Samsung Galaxy

I Before You Begin 1. You MUST do our How To Root the Samsung Galaxy procedure then come to this one to load a ROM. II. Download the ROM and Flash It 1. Download the ROM you want from our Samsung Galaxy ROMs section. 2. Plug in your phone via usb cable, mount the SD card so we can transfer files to it. 3. Copy the ROM file (leave it as a .zip file) to the root of the sd card (NOT in any folders, just on the SD card itself). 4. Turn off the phone. 5. Turn the phone on

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How To: Hard Reset Your Nokia N900 (Get It Back to Out of Box State)

I Before You Begin 1. This will completely erase everything on your Nokia N900 and get it back to exactly the way it was when it arrived in the box. 2. This is perfect for people reselling their Nokia N900 or just want to start from scratch. 3. THIS DOES NOT WORK ON WINDOWS 7 BECAUSE OF USB ISSUES. FIND A WINDOWS VISTA OR LOWER SYSTEM TO USE TO DO THIS! II. Download the Firmware, eMMC, and Firmware Flasher 1. Download the Flasher 3.5 program from here and then run the .exe (at the time of writing this, it is

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How To: Unroot the Acer Liquid

I. Before You Begin 1. This will bring you back to the original Acer Firmware. II. Download and install the Liquid Drivers 1. Download the drivers Acer Liquid Drivers (x86 for 32bit Windows, x64 for 64bit Windows) 2. Click Acer Liquid Tool Setup and follow the steps to install the drivers. III. Flash the Firmware with the Acer Flashing Tool 1. Download the Acer Liquid Original Firmware Acer Liquid Original Firmware (European / EMEA Version) Acer Liquid Original Firmware (Asian / AAP Version) Acer Liquid E Original Firmware 2. Extract the .bin file from inside the .rar file somewhere on

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How To: Load a Custom ROM on the Acer Liquid

I. Before You Begin 1. We are assuming you did our How To Root the Acer Liquid procedure. II. Flash a ROM Through Recovery Mode 1. Plug your phone in via USB cable. 2. Download Superboot2 and extract it somewhere on your computer (if you don’t already have it from the rooting procedure). Superboot2.zip 3. Double click the reboot to recovery.bat to boot the phone into recovery mode. 4. Download whatever ROM you want in update.zip format from our Acer Liquid ROMs section and save it to your computer (do NOT extract it). 5. In recovery mode on the phone,

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How To: Unroot the Samsung Behold 2

I Before You Begin 1. You MUST do our How To Root the Samsung Behold 2 procedure then come to this one to load a ROM. II. Download the ROM and ODIN Flasher and Flash the ROM 1. Download the ODIN Flasher and Original Behold 2 .md5 file. Unzip the file somewhere on your computer. ODIN Flasher and Original Firmware 2. Open the Odin Mult Download program. 3. Under Select OPS, Choose the Behold_Partiton.ops from the ODIN Flasher file we just downloaded. 4. Click PDA, then choose the T939UVIJ6-PDA-CL81521-REV1.tar.md5 file in the ODIN .zip file you downloaded. 5. Turn off your phone

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How To: Load a Custom ROM on the Samsung Behold 2 (Using Odin)

I Before You Begin 1. You MUST do our How To Root the Samsung Behold 2 procedure then come to this one to load a ROM. II. Download the ROM and ODIN Flasher and Flash the ROM 1. Download the ODIN Flasher and Original Behold 2 .md5 file. Unzip the file somewhere on your computer. ODIN Flasher and Original Firmware 2. Download an ODIN ROM from our Samsung Behold 2 ROMs section and save it to your computer. Extract the files inside the zip folder somewhere on your computer. 3. Open the Odin Mult Download program. 4. Under Select OPS,

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How To: Root the Samsung Behold 2

Please keep in mind that ADB does NOT work on 64 bit systems for the Behold 2… Check the How To Setup ADB Procedure for details. I. Setup ADB and USB Drivers 1. Follow our How To Setup ADB procedure then once you can see the phone’s serial number when typing adb devices, you can come back to this procedure and continue. 2. Make sure Menu > Settings > Applications > Developement > USB Debug is Checked On. II. Download Files and Run ADB Commands 1. Download this file and place them all in the AndroidSDK > Tools folder (same

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