The Sony Xperia M was released last month and can be called a mid-range smartphone as it features a 4-inch touchscreen display, a dual-core 1GHz CPU, 1GB RAM and a 5MP camera. Rooting this device is bound to get something more out of it and if this is what you […]
The Lenovo A706 was released recently this year and comes with features such as a quad-core CPU, a 5MP camera, a 4.5 inch touchscreen IPS display and runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean officially. Of course, there have been other latest versions of Android available as of now but to get
Rooting your Lenovo A706 will give it powers it previously lacked. Rooting coupled with flashing a custom recovery will enable you to flash custom ROMs (if any), make/restore backups, mount/unmount storage among various other useful tools. The guide below should help you get the rooting part out of the way
With root-access comes power to customize your device the way you want to. If you’ve rooted your Xperia SP smartphone, you have a number of ways to customize your device. You can flash a custom recovery, then flash mods and ROMs, etc. The guide below shows how you can flash
Did the latest update on your Xperia SP smartphone break the root-access that you’ve had for some good time? No worries, there’s now a root method that lets you re-gain root-access on your device.The firmware verion we’re talking about is 12.0.A.2.254 that has disabled root for many users. Anyway, here’s how
One of the oldest reasons people used to root their phones was to add the ability to WiFi tether (even before the device manufacturers added this ability into their devices). Now that manufacturers have added this ability though, the wifi tether apps of old are now being used with root
AT&T, Verizon, and a few other carriers have made the decision to lock down the bootloaders of their Moto X devices. This has made getting root access on these versions of the device much more difficult in comparison to the unlocked bootloader versions provided by T-Mobile, for example (that simply
According to Jason Mackenzie, HTC’s president of global sales, HTC will go ahead and push Android 4.3 to the HTC One Developer Edition this week. Mackenzie took to Twitter to make the announcement official today. The update will include the latest Sense 5 experience, alongside various Android enhancements that were first unveiled
One cool app for Windows Phone is the Bing translate app. Not only does this app allow you to put in text and have it translated between different languages, but it also allows you to use the camera to translate written text you can see into other languages in semi-real
Hands tied? No problem. Windows Phone has the ability to convert speech to text (and it’s actually pretty accurate and fast). You can use this feature anywhere that you can type text (from email, to text, to any other text input). Here’s how to use the voice recognition in place
Sick of not being able to turn ON the native WiFi Hotspot on your AT&T Samsung Galaxy S4? Want to have the native WiFi tethering working on your device? No worries, this guide should help you do that. By simply modifying a simple APK file, you’ll be able to share
WiFi Tethering is one of the inbuilt features of the Android operating system that allows users to share his/her Internet connection over a WiFi network. Unfortunately carriers like Sprint doesn’t like their users sharing their data plans with their friends and in order to prevent so, such carriers have blocked
The White House filed a petition with the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday requesting that all wireless carriers be required to unlock all mobile devices so that consumers can easily switch between carriers. The petition comes several months after the Obama administration first urged for legislation to unlock cellphones. After
Need to send in your device for warranty reasons? Make sure you unroot it first so you can have your lost warranty back. The guide below shows how to unroot your Samsung Galaxy S4 Active smartphone and get it back to stock. Here you go: I. Before You Begin: 1.
Ever since custom ROMs came into existence, custom recoveries started getting fame. It’s really easy to get a custom ROM up and running on your device using a custom recovery rather than flashing it using tools like Odin and so. Besides, a custom recovery will also let you take a
