David Cogen

David opened a cell phone store on his college campus and started TheUnlockr.com as a personal tech blog back in 2009 along side. He gets an unnatural excitement out of showing others new things about their tech that they might not have known. Reach out to him on the following social networks and say hi.

How to Root the LG G2 (All Versions) (Video)

Rooting is the process of telling the Android system that you want full access to everything on the phone. What this does is allow us to then change anything we want on the device, from the Android version (through a custom recovery and ROMs) to removing apps that we otherwise

How to Backup Your Photos and Free Up Storage Space on Your iPhone

Recently, I’ve been asked by four different friends of mine to update their phones to iOS 7. All of them complained that whenever they tried to update it simply “wouldn’t work”. Taking a look at any of these devices and the issue was the same; not enough free storage space

How to Setup Text Shortcuts in iOS 7 (Video)

A neat little feature in iOS 7 that most people don’t know exists is the ability to setup text shortcuts. Essentially, you can use a few letters while typing and have iOS automatically expand it out to whatever phrase you want. For example, “idk” could become “I don’t know”, “omw”

How to Setup Touch ID on the iPhone 5S (Video)

It seems that some people are having a bit of an issue with the Touch ID (aka fingerprint scanner) on the iPhone 5S. Even though they go through the entire process of adding a fingerprint and it says successful, when they try and unlock their phone with that finger it

How to Update to Windows 8.1

If you have Windows 8 running on your device then you most likely are eligible for the free upgrade to Windows 8.1 and I recommend you do it, like as quickly as humanely possible. Reason I say that isn’t because there’s some sort of time limit or restriction on upgrading,

Microsoft Surface 2 & Pro 2: Comparison Charts (Worth the Upgrade?)

When thinking about purchasing a Surface Pro 2 to replace my current Surface Pro, I decided to look for a comparison chart (us tech nerds love a good comparison chart). After quite a while of searching though the internet, I came up empty. Plenty of articles explaining the new features

How to Make iOS 7 Easier on the Eyes (Video)

After hearing a middle-aged woman complaining about how she hated iOS 7 and wishes she never upgraded because she simply can’t see anything on the screen anymore, I decided to intervene (whether she wanted my help or not, of course). After changing the following settings on her iPhone, she literally

How to Remove the Parallax Effect in iOS 7 (Video)

Perhaps you are puking on your iPhone screen a bit too often? Well, you aren’t the only one. It seems that the parallax effect in Apple’s new iOS 7 software is causing some people to get a bit nauseous (some from the feeling it gives them and others from disgust

How to Root the Galaxy Note 3 (T-Mobile Version)(Video)

The Galaxy Note 3 has root access thanks to Chainfire and his CF-Auto-Root method. Now, this does only work on certain versions of the Galaxy Note 3 (mainly the ones with unlocked bootloaders) but if you happen to have one of the versions listed here, then you’re in luck. One

How to Get Free Wifi Tethering on the Moto X (Video)

One of the oldest reasons people used to root their phones was to add the ability to WiFi tether (even before the device manufacturers added this ability into their devices). Now that manufacturers have added this ability though, the wifi tether apps of old are now being used with root

How to Root the Moto X (All Versions)(Video)

AT&T, Verizon, and a few other carriers have made the decision to lock down the bootloaders of their Moto X devices. This has made getting root access on these versions of the device much more difficult in comparison to the unlocked bootloader versions provided by T-Mobile, for example (that simply