Sometimes you don’t want to have to go searching through all of those apps you’ve downloaded over the years to get to the ones you use often. Instead of just piling all of the apps on to the first home screen, why not put them in the stationary dock at […]
Having a custom recovery on your device is like having a Swiss Army knife in your pocket; you are equipped to deal with most firmware problems that you could face. The guide below should help you get that Swiss Army knife (so to speak) on your Gionee Elife E3 and
The Gionee Elife E3 might not have much going for it in terms of looks, but underneath its rounded exterior, it’s all good – quad-core 1.2GHz processor, 8MP camera, 4.7 inch screen and Android 4.2 Jelly Bean OS. And let’s not forget a very cheap price tag. We’ll show you
Now that you are rooted, you are already in complete control of your device and its functions. If you want to take it a step further though, installing custom ROMs (if there are any available) is a good idea and for that, you’ll need a custom recovery. The guide below
The Jailbreak tweak Applocker has been around for a while. Usually it’s used on a jailbroken iPhone to lock down specific apps by requiring a passcode whenever anyone tries to open them. Even though this isn’t a new tweak, it did just get an update that got it a lot
With its dual-core 1.3GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 5-inch display and a 5MP camera, the Canvas Juice from Micromax may not ace in any benchmarks but still is a worthy mid to high-end device with a very affordable price tag. What could make this device better of course is rooting it
After you jailbreak you iPhone, one of the great benefits are tweaks that allow you to customize your device in ways you wouldn’t normally be allowed to. Some of the most useful of these changes are the ability to add gestures (i.e. pinch with three fingers on the screen causes
The Samsung Galaxy Gear doesn’t come with many options for watch faces so it can be easy to get bored with them. Luckily, though, Samsung has made an app that allows you to create your own watch face for the Gear (albeit in a pretty simple fashion but least it’s
If you have Cydia Substrate installed (formerly known as Mobile Substrate) on your jailbroken iPhone (which you should as a lot of tweaks require it to work), you can use a feature called Safe Mode to get your iPhone or iPad out of a boot loop and get in to
If you’re iPhone 5’s battery will no longer hold a charge, replacing the battery might be a good solution. Thanks to a lot of sellers on Amazon, you can even get the replacement battery for way less than you think (I got mine for under $25). After you get your
Mobile Substrate (now called Cydia Substrate after this update) is required for a lot of jailbroken apps to work properly and, ever since the new iOS 7 Jailbreak came out, it needed an update to work for iOS 7 and for 64-bit Apple devices. That update just arrive today. Simply
Rooting is the process of gaining root access on a device. This allows us full access to all aspects of the device’s operating system. The most popular thing to do once you gain root access is to flash a custom recovery image. Custom ROMs, overclocking kernels, adding certain new features, etc.
A quick overview of what ART is and why you might want to install it. Any app on Android has to be compiled (translated to run on the device from the raw app code) to run on your device. The program that does this compiling at the moment on Android
Maybe you’ve messed-up with your LG Optimus F6? Maybe you want to unroot it for some other reasons? Either way, this guide should help. Unrooting your device is a good idea when you’re going to visit the service center for any warranty reasons. Unrooting reinstates your warranty and sends your
If you’ve rooted your LG Optimus F6 smartphone, then the next obvious step is to flash a custom recovery on it. Having a custom recovery helps flash custom ROMs, custom Mods, create backups, etc. So here’s how you can go about flashing a custom recovery on your Optimus F6 (T-Mobile):
