How To’s

How to Set Custom Vibrations on the iPhone (Video)

Remember when custom ringtones were cool? Everyone had them and even had different ones for each contact etc. But as phones evolved and we ended up getting more and more notifications, it seems we all, maybe even subconsciously, got sick of our phones making noise. Enter the world of vibrate. Pretty […]

Android N on Nexus

How to Get the Android N on a Nexus (Using Android Beta) (Video)

Google surprised everyone this week and, instead of announcing their new Android verison developer preview at their developer I/O conference (in May), they randomly announced it. Android N as it is being called (Nougat maybe when it’s final?) seems to most a small bump up from Android Marshmallow, 6.1 maybe

iOS 9.1

How to Jailbreak iOS 9.1

I almost didn’t do this tutorial as it seems a bit unnecessary considering we are almost on iOS 9.3 now and most people are past 9.1 I’d imagine. But, I figured maybe there are some people who are still lingering on iOS 9.1 at the moment and want to jailbreak so

Root AT&T Moto X

How to Root the Motorola Moto X (AT&T) (Android 5.1)

The Motorola Moto X (First Gen) is now of those devices running the Android 5.1 Lollipop version as their operating system. While the second and third generation of the device are already enjoying the latest version of the Android OS, it didn’t take too long for Motorola to roll-out the major

Huawei Y6

How to Root the Huawei Y6

While there’s a requirement of unlocking the bootloader and flashing a custom recovery for rooting many Huawei devices, gaining root on the Huawei Y6 isn’t as cumbersome. The device can be rooted using the universal KingRoot app that can root a number of Android devices. Once rooted, you’ll get the Chinese

OnePlus X Unrooted

Video: How to Unroot the OnePlus X

You’ve rooted your phone maybe you’ve been tinkering a bit too much with your OnePlus X? Maybe you need to send it to OnePlus for warranty reasons but with root access you’re worried they’ll refuse to do the warranty repairs? If you find yourself in either of these situations, it’s

CyanogenMod on OnePlus X

Video: How to Install CyanogenMod on the OnePlus X

CyanogenMod is a small company that makes custom ROMs for Android devices run by a community of developers. This community and the ROMs have become hugely popular with tinkerers of their devices and when OnePlus began developing their first device, it makes some sense as to why they were tapped

Root on the OnePlus X

Video: How to Root the OnePlus X

The OnePlus X is OnePlus’ latest phone to hit the market and instead of going for a flagship killer, the X is aimed slightly lower (only slightly). With a quad-core processor, 3GBs of RAM, and a slick body of Onyx (seriously it’s slick), it’s still no budget phone. Yet with

Rooting the Oppo R7 Lite

How to Root the Oppo R7 Lite

Seeing a number of root guides for the other R7 devices from Oppo but not seeing one for your R7 Lite will probably make you feel a little low, but you shouldn’t worry as there’s always something being cooked in the Android world and this time it’s a root method

Unrooting the Oppo R7 Lite

How to Unroot the Oppo R7 Lite

Unrooting the Oppo R7 Lite is as easy as rooting it and all it requires you to do is install a couple of apps and you’re good to go. You don’t even have to flash the stock ROM (which erases your device) to unroot the device as these two apps should

Unroot the Huawei Ascend Y520

How to Unroot the Huawei Ascend Y520

People have their own reasons to unroot their Huawei Ascend Y520 and you also have your own reasons. Maybe you loaded tons of root-only apps on your device after rooting it and they’re now causing issues and your device’s crashing too often, or maybe you loaded a custom ROM on your

Root the Huawei Ascend Y520

How to Root the Huawei Ascend Y520

While many universal methods have failed to root the Huawei Ascend Y520, there is one method that’s confirmed to be working and that is to flash a custom recovery and then use it to flash SuperSU to gain root. It works for a number of devices including the Huawei’s Ascend Y520.

Root Galaxy S6 Edge Plus

Video: How to Root the Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus

Want to root your Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus and get rid of some of that annoying bloatware Samsung puts on the phone? I don’t blame you. I’m pretty vocal about my disdain for the majority of custom UI’s that manufacturers put on their devices in an effort to make

Root Galaxy Note 5

Video: How to Root the Samsung Galaxy Note 5

Looking to root the Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and remove some of Samsung’s bloated software on the phone? So long as you have a specific version of the Note 5, it’s a pretty easy affair. Essentially, we can just flash a rooted kernel onto the phone via Odin, Samsung’s own