I. Changing Icons

1. Hold your finger down on the app you want to change; you will feel a small vibration if you have haptic feedback enabled.

2. A menu will come up that says ‘Add to Dock’ at the top, and will have a list of app shortcuts.

3. Select the app you want in the dock and it will immediately change.

4. Be careful not to replace the apps shortcut, or you will not have access to your apps menu.

I. Setting Up Accounts

1. The easiest way to access Universal Inbox is to setup the widget on your phone. Hold your finger down on the screen and select widgets, then Universal Inbox.

2. Now that you have the widget you can click on it and go to add account.

3. Now you should see a screen that says set up accounts with different options. If you want to set up various email accounts just click the email accounts button and you will now see the option to set up your email with the most popular web based programs, as well as the option to set up your own.

4. A green check mark will appear next to the accounts that you have set up through Universal Inbox.

II. Other Information

1. Whenever the Universal Inbox display has nothing in it, meaning you’ve looked through your messages, you have the option to go to messaging. Now you can individually click through the different inboxes if you need to find a specific message.

2. If you select widget settings (the Universal Inbox has to be empty) then you can uncheck any accounts that you no longer want to see. You can also change how long you see the messages for.

3. If you wish to access this app through the menu rather than using the widget, it can be found under Messaging.

Universal Method Disclaimer: This is a universal method. Feel free to try it but if it does NOT work for you, simply head to our How To section and look for your specific phone to see if we have a different procedure for your device and try that instead. Good luck!

I. Before You Begin

1. This method is reported to gain permanent root access on the following devices but might work on other devices as well. Try it out!:

Samsung Galaxy S (All variants)
Backflip
Sony X10
Xperia Mini
Droid 2
Galaxy Tab
Galaxy I5700
Galaxy 3 I5800
Droid X
Samsung Acclaim
Cricket Huawei Ascend
Motorola Cliq
Huawei 8120
Hero
G1
Optimus T
Droid 1 (Non Froyo Versions)
Garmin Asus A50
Motorola Defy
LG Ally
Motorola Flipside
Motorola Milestone 2
Dell streak
X10 Mini Pro
Smartq v7 android 2.1

2. This will NOT work on the following devices:

Desire (requires nand unlock)
Desire HD (requires nand unlock)
Magic (unknown)
Evo (requires nand unlock)
G2 (requires nand unlock)
Archos 70 (unknown)
myTouch 3G (unknown)
Wildfire
Droid Incredible
MyTouch Slide (requires nand unlock)

For these devices check the SuperOneClick method or the Unrevoked Method.

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II. Root your phone.

1. Download the Z4 Root app either from the Market (if it is available) or download it from here and use a file manager (Linda file manager or Astro file manager from the Market) to install it.

2. Plug your phone in via USB cable and mount the storage so we can transfer files to it.

3. Copy the .apk file over to the root of your sd card (not in any folder just on the sd card itself).

3. Download a file manager from the Market then open it and search for the z4 root apk file.

4. Install z4 root.

5. Open z4 root and click Root. Done!

III. (Optional) Install a Custom Recovery Image.

1. If you want to install a custom recovery image, head to our universal procedure here.

1. This is a generic rooting method that should work on a lot of phones, if you have issues with it simply head to our Android How To’s section, look for your device, and use any of the procedures listed to try to root until one works for you. 2. We are refining this procedure as we go! PLEASE POST YOUR DEVICE, ANDROID VERSION, CARRIER THE PHONE IS LOCKED TO, AND IF IT WORKED OR DIDN’T IN THE COMMENTS BELOW SO WE CAN IMPROVE THIS PROCEDURE! (If it did not work, don’t just say “didn’t work” please post the above information then post what exact line you got an error at etc. Be as specific as possible without writing a novel, thanks!)

If you know how to get it to work on the phones we have listed as NOT working, please share so we can make this a truly universal procedure!

Phones It Does NOT Work On:

• T-Mobile G1 (Error:Runs of of space when putting superuser in /system/app/) – Click Here Instead for How To Root the T-Mobile G1

Phones it is CONFIRMED To Work on:

• T-Mobile G2 (Temp root access only) – Even though it works on the G2, this procedure here is a lot easier.
• T-Mobile MyTouch Slide – Even though it works on the Slide, this procedure here is better.

If you have a NAND locked phone listed below, simply use an Unrevoked Method (click here and find your phone and look for the Unrevoked rooting method in the list) to root you phone instead of this one:

• Sprint EVO 4G (HTC Supersonic)
• Droid Incredible (HTC Incredible)
• HTC Desire GSM
• HTC Desire CDMA (HTC BravoC)
• HTC Aria
• Droid Eris (HTC DesireC)
• HTC Wildfire (HTC Buzz)
• HTC Legend

II. Setup ADB

1. Head to our How To Setup ADB procedure and come back to this procedure once you can see your phone’s serial number after typing “adb devices”.

III. Root Using RageAgainsttheCage

1. Download the appropriate rooting files for your version of Android and save them to your computer.

RageAgainsttheCage Rooting Files for Android 2.0/2.0.1/2.1/2.2

2. Extract them to the c:\AndroidSDK\tools\ folder so all the files are in the same folder as the adb program (they must NOT be inside a folder inside the tools folder, they must be in the tools folder itself)

3. On the phone, go to Settings > Applications > Development and make sure USB Debugging is Checked ON.

4. Plug your phone in via USB cable and do NOT mount the sdcard/select charge only for the connection mode if your phone has such an option.

5. Open the command prompt on the computer by going to Start then typing cmd and hitting enter.

6. Type the following commands into the command prompt with hitting enter at the end of each line :

cd c:\androidsdk\tools\
adb devices
adb push Superuser.apk /sdcard/
adb push su /sdcard/
adb push rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin /data/local/tmp/
adb shell chmod 0755 /data/local/tmp/rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin
adb install term.apk     (if this says failed, simply go to the Market and download the latest Terminal Emulator for free and install that instead of doing this line. Then just continue)

7. Now, leaving the phone plugged in to the computer, open the Terminal Emulator App on the phone. Then type the following into the terminal program with hitting enter at the end of each line (remember you can hold down the Menu button to bring up the virtual keyboard if necessary):

cd data/local/tmp
./rageagainstthecage-arm5.bin      (Wait until it shows that it “Forked Childs”. This should take a minute or 2. Once it does, continue).

8. Hit back on your phone to exit the Terminal app. Then reopen it (it will most likely force close). Click force close then open it again. This time it will open the terminal app and you should see a # instead of a $ symbol. If you do, continue. If not, redo step 7.

9. In the terminal with the # symbol, type the following with hitting enter at the end of the line: cat /proc/mounts

8. The above command should display a list in the terminal window. Look in the list for this line:

/dev/block/XXXXXXXXXX /system YYYY  ro 0 0     (the XXXXXXXXX part should be different depending on which device you have. The YYYY part will either be; ext2, ext3 or yaffs2 or something similar. )

9. In the terminal window on the phone, type the following with hitting enter at the end of each line (make sure to replace X’s and Y’s with the actual letters/numbers you saw when typing the cat /proc/mounts command above. For example, if you saw “/dev/block/mmcblock3 /system yaffs2 ro 0 0″ then the line below would read “mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock3 /system”)

mount -o rw,remount -t YYYY /dev/block/XXXXXXXXXX /system
cat /sdcard/Superuser.apk > /system/app/Superuser.apk
cat /sdcard/su > /system/bin/su
chmod 4755 /system/bin/su
mount -o ro,remount -t YYYY /dev/block/XXXXXXXXXX /system
exit
exit

10. Now, on the phone, open the app drawer and you should see Superuser permissions inside if done correctly.

Universal Method Disclaimer: This is a universal method. Feel free to try it but if it does NOT work for you, simply head to our How To section and look for your specific phone to see if we have a different procedure for your device and try that instead. Good luck!

I. Before You Begin

1. YOU MUST HAVE DONE A ONE CLICK ROOT METHOD, LIKE OUR HOW TO ROOT YOUR ANDROID PHONE (SUPERONECLICK) OR Z4ROOT PROCEDURE FIRST, THEN COME TO THIS ONE AND CONTINUE.

2. This procedure will flash a custom recovery image onto your phone, then show you how to use that recovery image to flash custom ROMs.

3. Your phone must be on Android 1.6 or higher as ROM Manager only works on Android 1.6 or higher).

II. Flash a Custom Recovery Image

1. Search the Market on your phone for ROM Manager. Download and install the free version.

2. Open the ROM Manager app and click on Flash Recovery, choose your phone model and wait for it to finish. (You may need to click Allow if Superuser Permissions pops up).

3. After it says success, you have a custom recovery image and can continue.

III. Flash a Custom ROM

1. Head to our Android ROMs section and choose the phone model you have.

2. Click on the ROM you want to download and save the ROM’s .zip file to your computer.

3. Plug in your phone via USB cable and mount the SD card so we can transfer files to it.

4. Copy the ROM’s .zip file to the root of the sd card (NOT in any folders, just on the SD card itself) (Do NOT extract the .zip file, leave it as a .zip file).

5. Unplug the phone from the computer.

6. Open ROM Manager and click on Reboot Recovery.

7. Once in the custom recovery image, do a Nandroid backup.

8. Once the backup is done, click Wipe Data / Factory Reset.

9. Once the wipe is complete, select flash .zip from sd card and flash the ROM you put on the sd card.

10. Once it is done, select reboot system now. Enjoy!

IF YOU HAVE TRIED THIS PROCEDURE AND IT STILL DOES NOT WORK, JUST HEAD TO OUR ANDROID HOW TO’S SECTION AND CHOOSE YOUR PHONE TO BE PRESENTED WITH OTHER METHODS THAT WORK ON YOUR SPECIFIC PHONE (THIS IS JUST THE EASIEST SO WORTH A TRY FIRST)!

I. Before You Begin

1. Here is the phones this should work on:

Please note that if you device is not listed here, it doesn’t automatically make it incompatible. The list is definitely incomplete. If it does work for you, and your device is NOT listed, please contact us so we can add it to the procedure.

Acer Liquid Metal
Dell Streak
HTC Magic (Sapphire) 32B
HTC MyTouch 3G
HTC Bee
LG Ally
LG G2X
Motorola Atrix 4G
Motorola Charm
Motorola Cliq
Motorola Droid
Motorola Flipside
Motorola Flipout
Motorola Milestone
Motorola Pro +
Nexus One
Samsung Captivate
Samsung Galaxy 551 (GT-I5510)
Samsung Galaxy Portal/Spica I5700
Samsung Galaxy S 4G
Samsung Galaxy S I9000
Samsung Galaxy S SCH-I500
Samsung Galaxy Tab
Samsung Galaxy 5
Samsung Transform M920
Samsung Vibrant
Sony Ericsson Xperia X8
Sony Ericsson Xperia X10
Sony Xperia Arc
Sprint Hero
Telus Fascinate
Toshiba Folio 100

2. Here is a list of phones that it does NOT work on so far:

Sprint EVO 4G (HTC Supersonic)
Droid Incredible (HTC Incredible)HTC Desire GSM
HTC Desire CDMA (HTC BravoC)
HTC Aria
Droid Eris (HTC DesireC)
HTC Wildfire (HTC Buzz)
HTC Legend
MyTouch Slide

For those phones head here for our Unrevoked Method or rooting instead.

3. This procedure gives you root access on your phone, in order to load a custom ROM, please do this procedure then continue to the next procedure for your specific device at the end of this procedure.

4. This currently only works on Windows computers. If you do not have a Windows computer, please find a friend with a Windows computer to do this (I guarantee you have at least one).

5. You must have Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 or higher. If not, download it from here (32 bit) or here (64 bit).

THANKS AndroidPolice for the Tip!
THANKS CLShortFuse for the super easy program!

IF YOU ENJOYED USING THIS PROGRAM PLEASE THANK/DONATE TO CLSHORTFUSE HERE.

II. Root the Phone

1. Download and install the latest version of the rooting program, unzip it, and install it on your computer:

One Click Rooting Program

2. On your phone, go to Settings > Applications > Development > Make sure USB Debugging is checked ON.

3. Plug your phone in via USB cable to the computer.

4. Right click the program and click Run As Administrator (or just double click it if using Windows XP).

5. Click the Root button and wait for it to finish.

6. Once done, you should see superuser permissions in your phone’s apps. If so, you are all set!

III. (Optional) Enable WiFi Tethering

1. Once you have root access, you can install WiFi tethering for your phone. Head to the WiFi tethering site and download the appropriate version for your phone (if your phone is not listed, they do not currently support your model):

WiFi Tethering .apk

2. Then save it to your phone’s SD Card.

3. Download Linda File Manager (free) from the Market on your phone and open it.

4. Navigate to where the .apk file is saved on your phone’s memory card and click it to install it.

5. When you open the WiFi tethering app for the first time, click Allow when Superuser pops up asking for permission. All set!

IV. (Optional) Load a Custom Recovery Image/ROM

1. To load a custom ROM you need a custom recovery image. Please click the procedure below to load a custom recovery image onto your phone:

How To Flash a Custom ROM (ROM Manager Method)

Reported Issues:

Issue: It gets stuck on waiting for device…

Solutions: Try these solutions, starting with the first then retry, then the second and retry, and so on until it works.

1. Check to make sure USB debugging is checked on in Settings > Applications > Development.

2. Close the rooting program. Turn off your phone (keeping it still plugged in). Open the rooting program and click root. Then turn on your phone and see if it continues.

3. Close the program and unplug the phone. Download and install PDANet and follow it’s on screen directions to get it to install the drivers manually for your phone. Once it is done installing, plug the phone in and reopen the rooting program.

4. If that still doesn’t work, then go to our How To Setup ADB Procedure, finish it and return here to start over.

IF YOU HAVE TRIED THIS PROCEDURE (INCLUDING ALL THE REPORTED ISSUE STEPS) AND IT STILL DOES NOT WORK, JUST HEAD TO OUR ANDROID HOW TO’S SECTION AND CHOOSE YOUR PHONE TO BE PRESENTED WITH OTHER ROOTING METHODS THAT WORK ON YOUR SPECIFIC PHONE (THIS IS JUST THE EASIEST SO WORTH A TRY FIRST)!

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I. Bypass the Activation Screen on a Droid Phone -

1. On the Welcome screen with the touch the android to begin icon, do the following:

2. Tap the top left corner of the screen then

3. Tap the top right corner of the screen then

4. Tap the bottom right corner of the screen ( just above the grey bar along the bottom with emergency dial and change language in it) then

5. Tap the bottom left corner of the screen ( just above the grey bar along the bottom with emergency dial and change language in it).

6. That’s it, should pop up the home screen shortly, if not retry. Remember not to drag your finger, simple tap top left, top right, bottom right, bottom left.

I. Before You Begin

1. This will root your device so you can use root required applications (like WiFi Tether etc). This will NOT allow you to flash custom ROMs, yet…

II. Root the Phone

1. Download the Root .zip file

DroidXRoot.zip

2. On your phone, go to Settings > Applications > Development > USB Debugging > and make sure it is checked ON.

3. Plug your phone in to the computer via USB and select Charge Only when it pops up on the phone’s screen.

4. Unzip the DroidXRoot.zip file and extract it’s content somewhere on the computer.

5. Right click the DroidRootX.exe file and select Run As Administrator (if using XP just double click it)

6. Click the Root Me button and wait for it to finish. Enjoy!