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 […]
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
