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 Enable Any App for MultiWindow on the Samsung Galaxy S4

One of the benefits of rooting is the ability to override some of the constraints a manufacturer has put on your device. A great example of this is how Samsung has only enabled certain apps to utilize the multiwindow feature that allows you to show more than one app on

How to Remove Bloatware from Any Android Device (Video)

I understand your pain. Getting a new phone and while you are setting it up, downloading all the apps you want, you begin to notice all the apps that you didn’t download, but instead were already installed on the device when you turned it on. Who said you wanted AT&T’s

How to Remove Bloatware from the Samsung Galaxy S4 (Video)

Samsung’s new flagship device, the Samsung Galaxy S4, is sold with a certain amount of storage advertised. Issue is, with all the bloatware Samsung put on the device before shipping it out, it seems that the amount you can actually use is much less than the advertised amount. Unfortunately, all

How to Flash a Custom Recovery on the Samsung Galaxy S4 (Video)

So you’ve rooted your Samsung Galaxy S 4 and are ready to get into the more… complex… tinkering? First thing you’ll need is a custom recovery image then. A custom recovery image allows us to boot into recovery mode on the device (a mode that we can access before loading

Update to iOS 7 Beta for Free, No UDID Registration Required

I posted yesterday on How to Update to iOS 7 Beta Right Now on Your Apple iPhone and in that procedure I showed you how to register your device as a developer through a third-party that charges $8 to do so. Turns out, there’s a way to do it without

How to Unjailbreak Your iPhone (Video)(Updated 07.08.13)

Load too many mods on your iPhone and slow it down? Maybe you just want to try the iOS 7 Beta out before it’s jailbroken? Or maybe you need to send in your iPhone for warranty reasons. Either way, you’ll need to unjailbreak that sucker. Luckily the process of unjailbreaking

How to Add Yahoo Contacts to Your Android Device

This post is sponsored by Moborobo, a great free all-in-one Android management tool to manage contacts, apps, and even SMS from your desktop. Still have all your contacts in Yahoo? Haven’t joined the Google bandwagon yet? Eh, no big deal. Unless, of course, you might be trying to sync your

How to Root the HTC One (Toolkit Method)(Video)

I love my new HTC One, truly it’s an amazing piece of kit. And even though I don’t mind HTC Sense on it (for the first time every with a device), I do still want to get a bit more out of the device. I can’t help it. There’s an

Blackberry Z10 Review: An Upgrade or Downgrade?

I try and be as unbiased as I can whenever a new device comes out. Be it iOS, Android, or even Windows Phone. So when RIM announced the new Blackberry Z10, I was optimistic, “Maybe this will get Blackberry back on the map.” If we’re honest though, that’s like saying, “Maybe

Facebook Home Review

Before we get to judging Facebook’s new Home app that essentially takes over your Android device’s homescreen with Facebook goodies (and thanks to some developers, for better or for worse, it’s available on most Android devices instead of the select few available at the app’s launch), it’s probably best we

How to Root the Samsung Galaxy Note II (All GSM Versions)(Video)

Want to remove the bloatware on your Samsung Galaxy Note II? Maybe you want to overclock it? Or undervolt it? No problem. With this simple rooting files and Samsung’s own flashing program, you can easily flash your Samsung Galaxy Note II with a rooted firmware and root the Samsung Galaxy

How to Get the Facebook Home on Any Android Device (Updated 04.16.13)

You might have heard about Facebook’s new app, Facebook Home, that replaces the home screen on your Android device. This new app launched on April 12th in the Google Play store but is only currently available for a handful of devices. Thanks to some impatient developers, that exclusivity didn’t last long.