Who doesn’t like being rooted? But there comes a time when you may want to unroot your device for some warranty reasons and that’s when our unrooting procedures come handy to you. If you’ve a rooted Samsung Galaxy Star and would like to unroot it, probably to get the lost […]
Done playing with your Nexus 5? Maybe you want to send it in for warranty or sell it to someone? Either way, you should unroot it before doing so. Unrooting a Nexus device requires two main steps. Unrooting it, aka removing root access and any custom ROM, and relocking the
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. Custom ROMs, overclocking kernels, adding certain new features, etc.
iCloud Keychain is a new feature in iOS 7 and OS X Mavericks that syncs your Safari website usernames and passwords, credit card information, and Wi-Fi network information across your Apple devices. I. What Information Does iCloud Keychain Sync Safari website usernames and passwords Credit card information Wi-Fi network information like SSIDs
Screen recording on an Android device isn’t a new concept to those with root access, they’ve been doing it for years frankly. But for the millions of users that don’t root, screen captures (still shots as opposed to video recordings) are all they’ve been able to do. This changes with
Maybe you’ve gone a little too far with rooting your Moto X or perhaps you need to sell it or send it in for warranty? Regardless of the reasoning, sometimes the fun has to end and you need to just get it back to stock. Thanks to some people offloading
Twitter just added the ability to see images uploaded to Twitter as an inline image instead of just a link to the image like they used to have. I personally love this feature, but can understand if you might not. While it’s not possible to remove this feature from the
Unrooting is the process of restoring a phone back to stock after you’ve rooted it. This comes in handy for a number of reasons. One is that it reinstates the warranty that was voided by rooting (usually) and two it helps you start over from scratch, if say, you went
Being a Nexus device usually means it’s quite easy to root and the new Nexus 5 is no exception. Using Chainfire’s CF-Auto_root app you can quickly root your Nexus 5 with a little program. Rooting, by the way, is the process of gaining full permissions on the device. This allows
When Google recently announced that their new Google Home launcher would be able to run on older versions of Android and not just Android 4.4, I figured some of you might want it, too. Let’s face it, anytime I can replace the Samsung TouchWiz UI, or LG UI, with a
I’m all for combining apps. So when Google announced the new Hangouts app that allows me to use SMS from inside it, I wanted it. Let’s face it, anytime I can replace the Samsung TouchWiz UI, or LG UI, with a Google UI version of the app, I’m going to
Done playing around with your rooted LAVA Iris 455? Don’t like those root-only apps anymore? If this is your situation, you may want to unroot your device. Unrooting your device will reinstate your warranty and send your device back to the stock firmware. And don’t worry, the procedure to unroot
The LAVA Iris 455 is a budget Android smartphone that runs the latest Jelly Bean build on-board. If you’ve already purchased this smartphone and are looking to root it, the guide below should help you do that. Root coupled with a custom recovery will let you install a number of
The Xolo A500 is a device manufactured by Lava and primarily available in India, and features a 4-inch touchscreen display, a dual-core 1GHz CPU, and a 5MP camera. While it does sound like a decent mid-range device, coming from an unknown manufacturer, the Xolo A500 does have its share of
If you are wondering what to do with your newly rooted LG G2, the next logical step is to flash a custom recovery image. A custom recovery image allows you to flash kernels, ROMs (different versions of your operating system including vanilla Android versions, newer versions of Android, etc.), and
