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 Unroot the T-Mobile G2X and Return it to Stock

Have a T-Mobile G2X and need to send it in for warranty? Or perhaps you just want to start over from scratch with the whole rooting thing? Either way, you need to get back to stock. Well, here’s how to revert your T-Mobile G2X back to the way it was

TheUnlockr.com is Hiring NYC Interns!

If you live in NYC, are a current college student, and love technology, here’s your chance to get your foot in the door! We are hiring interns immediately. All of these positions are paid (a small stipend per post) and come with a byline on each post. This is a

How To Transfer Files Between Your Android Tablet and Mac

  Have a Motorola Xoom, Asus Transformer, or any other Android Honeycomb tablet, but also have a Mac? Having an issue with getting them to play nice with each other? Well, one thing you may have noticed is that when you plug it in and try to mount the storage/sd

How To Take Screenshots on an Android Device

  I’ve always just rooted my devices and then added any one of the plethora of apps on the Market to then take advantage of that root access to do screenshots. I do, however, understand that there are still a lot of users that don’t want to have to root

How To Tether Your Android Phone without Needing the Market or Root

Apparently, Verizon and AT&T users can no longer find tethering apps in the Android Market (thanks to Google hiding them from those devices after being bugged by the carriers to remove them). So for those users, here’s how to still be able to tether without needing the Android Market. 1.

Official Gingerbread ROM for the T-Mobile G2X Leaks

The Gingerbread ROM for the T-Mobile G2X seems to have made it’s way onto the internet. This update is most likely final, or at least close to final. Also, thanks to the Paul over at Modaco, there is a rooted unsigned version for you to flash onto your rooted G2X via

Need an App Made?

Think you have the next big app idea? Only one tiny problem though. You can’t write code. Well, don’t worry, there are other ways (and they don’t have to cost an arm and a leg). You may or may not be familiar with an app I designed, called ChowSpots for

How To Load a Custom ROM on the T-Mobile G2X

That custom recovery is ready to go on your phone? Ready to use it for something? Well, the thing you can do with the most drastic increase in performance and feel you your device would be to load a custom ROM. Not only can you get better performance, different icons,

How To Flash a Custom Recovery on the T-Mobile G2X

So you’ve rooted your T-Mobile G2X? Ready for the fun stuff now? Well, first up, you have to flash a custom recovery image. A custom recovery image allows us to make backups (something very necessary when messing with your phone), flash custom ROMs, kernels, and tons of other neat stuff.

How To Root the T-Mobile G2X

  So you have your shiny new T-Mobile G2X and you’re already bored with it, wish it was a little faster, and/or want to get rid of all the software that happened to come on it that you’ll never use (T-Mobile Mail? Really?!). No problem. All you have to do

How To Load a Custom ROM on the Motorola Xoom

*At the time of writing this, there are no custom ROMs available, but this is how you would load them once they become available (unless something drastic changes, then in that case we would redo the video). Also you can use this method to flash custom Kernels, etc. as well.

LG G2X Specifications

A phone you want us to add to this list? Notice an error on a spec page? Use this form to tell us. LG G2X Specifications User Ratings: [ratings] Network – GSM/CDMA: GSM Carrier: T-Mobile 2G Technology (Frequencies): GSM (850/900/1800/1900mhz) 3G Technology (Frequencies): HSDPA (850/1700/1900/2100mhz) 4G Technology (Frequencies): HSPA+ 14.4mbps (850/1700/1900/2100mhz) Size

HTC Thunderbolt Specifications

A phone you want us to add to this list? Notice an error on a spec page? Use this form to tell us. HTC Thunderbolt Specifications User Ratings: [ratings] Network – GSM/CDMA: CDMA Carrier: Verizon 2G Technology (Frequencies): CDMA (800/1900mhz) 3G Technology (Frequencies): 1xEV-DO (2000mhz) 4G Technology (Frequencies): LTE (700mhz) Size

How To See Where Your Android Device Has Been Tracking You

  Laughing at iPhone users for having their every move recorded by their iPhone? Well, you may want to bite your tongue cause, that’s right, Android tracks your moves as well. Your Android device records your location and even Wifi checkins and saves them to the device’s cache (for a