image credit umpire.org Com2Us are the distributors and developers on a semi-popular game in the Android Market — Homerun Battle 3D. Recently, in order to try to kill the rampant cheating that goes on in the multi-player online games, they made a huge mistake. Com2Us sent out an update that blocked anyone who had rooted [...]
Huzzah! Another weekend is upon us and its been busy this past week for Android news. If for some reason you managed to miss out on anything, make sure you head on back a few pages — get yourself caught up. Check out the Android Central podcast, and be sure to cruise on into the [...]
Busy day for news. Galaxy Nexus root, HTC Rezound announced — Awesome. If you missed out on anything, navigate a page back and get caught up. Otherwise, check out some of the posts in the Android Central forums: HTC Rezound Forums – $299 not a bad price Samsung Galaxy Nexus Forums – Root timeline? Acheivement [...]
XMBC, the very popular open-source media center software, has been successfully ported to Android. The folks at XMBC tell us this on their blog – Today we announce XBMC for Android. Not a remote, not a thin client; the real deal. No root or jailbreak required. XBMC can be launched as an application on your set-top-box, [...]
So you have a modern (read one that has or is going to get ICS) HTC Android phone, and want to restore the hyperlinked data option menu that Apple spent millions of dollars to take away from you? Hell, yeah, you do. We don't blame you one bit — these phones were made for hackin' [...]
I knew this was going to happen. From midmofan in the EVO 4G LTE forums - Phil … got to do with it? What's root but a second hand emoticon? What's root got to do, got to do with it? Who needs an I-phone When it can't be jail-broken? It may seem to you That I'm [...]
While HTC claims restrictions prevent them from unlocking the bootloader of the AT&T HTC One X, that has not stopped the development community from banding together to unlock root access on the phone. A new post by kennethpenn on XDA-Developers delivers a one-click rooting option for the HTC One X which takes advantage of an exploit identified by the community. [...]
The Snapdragon S4-based One X has been rooted, thanks to kennethpenn? of XDA-developers. This isn't a bootloader unlock, but it is full root, so apps like Titanium Backup will work just fine. It's also been confirmed to work on the AT&T version (I'm enjoying root now yay!). The developer has been nice enough to make a neat [...]
As you might've heard, popular custom ROM CyanogenMod 9 is introducing some changes in the way it handles root access. The gist of it is that root is now an option, not the default setting. It's still available if you need it, but you'll need to go into "developer options" and select whether you want apps, [...]
Since the earliest days of unofficial Android ROMs, root access and custom firmwares like CyanogenMod have gone hand in hand. However, future versions of CyanogenMod will take a step back from always-on root, disabling root access by default but allowing users to easily enable it through a menu. In a statement on their official site, the [...]
