How To: Unlock Your Phone for Free

So you love your phone, but are not too keen on your phone service provider lately? Now, if you bought a phone from your provider when you got service then your phone is most likely locked to that provider and they will never let you leave with it, bwuahahahaha! Ok, so the sinister laugh is uncalled for and that statement is not actually true. I’ll explain. To make a long story short, in the US, […]

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How To: Speed Up Your Hero ROM

Ok, so we all want Hero to be faster, so here are a few tips and tricks to get it running as smoothly as it can. Keep in mind though that regardless of what we do, we still are short on 100Mbs of RAM that HTC Hero ROM was meant to run on so some lag is expected, but let’s see if we can get it to a bearable level, shall we? These tips all

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HTC Hero Official Update to Fix Lag, Released! …Unofficially :)

So thanks to MoDaCo (the guy who did the video showing the official update in our last post), we have a rooted and enhanced ROM based on the official update from HTC. So all of you rooted Hero users get on over to our Downloads section and check it out (or to the updated version of our How To Load a Custom ROM on Your HTC Hero procedure) for a link. For all of you

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HTC Hero Gets an Official Update, and What That Means for Hero ROMs…

HTC has announced the they are coming out with an official update for the HTC Hero “within a few weeks” to fix some complaints of a “slight lag” to the device. I personally have a Hero here to use and can attest to the slight lag (although the phone is still pretty awesome, I would never have an issue with it being smoother than it already is). Below is a video from MoDaCo showing off

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How To: Load a Custom ROM on Your HTC Magic

Before you begin make sure you have done our How To Root Your HTC Magic in One Click! procedure. After you have successfully done that, you can do this procedure. I. Partition Your Memory Card for Apps2SD or Hero 1. Get into recovery mode by holding down Home and Power to turn on the phone (if you are not already there). 2. Click on Wipe Data. Once that is done, click on Format Fat32+Ext2+LinuxSwap and

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How To: Root the HTC Magic in One Click!

I. Read Before You Begin 1. You must downgrade back to cupcake first: Get Back to Cupcake for Magic After you have done the above procedure and are back on cupcake (Android 1.5), you can come back to this procedure and continue. II. How to Check Your Motherboard Version 1. Turn off your phone 2. Turn the phone on by either holding down the volume down button and power button at the same time OR

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How To: Load a Custom ROM on Your HTC Hero

1. Download a ROM from forum.XDA-Developer.com to your computer. Or check our Downloads section and click on Android then ROMs and use the search bar at the top and type in “Hero ROMs”. *IF YOU HAVE A SPRINT HERO MAKE SURE THE ROM YOU WANT IS COMPATIBLE FOR THE SPRINT HERO! 2. Plug in your phone and pull down the Notification bar when the SD notification pops up. 3. Click on the notification and select

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How To: Root Your HTC Hero in One Click! (Updated 03.07.10!)

PLEASE TRY OUR NEW, EASIER PROCEDURE AND SEE IF IT WORKS FOR YOU, IF NOT THEN COME BACK TO THIS PROCEDURE AND CONTINUE. HOW TO ROOT THE HTC HERO (ANDROOT METHOD) I. Read Before You Begin 1. Try the procedure as is first, then if you get a backup failed response from flash rec come back to this section for what you need to do BEFORE using the rest of the procedure. Orange UK Users

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Augmented Reality Browsers: Scary Cool

If you haven’t seen them yet, you have to check them out… Remember the Terminator movies? Remember when you could see what the terminator sees and as he looks at things information about them pop up? If you ever thought how cool that would be, then now is your chance to try it out, sorta… oh the possibilities… A few companies are coming out with Augmented Reality Browsers now, the most popular of which being

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How To: Load a Custom ROM, Load Hero, and/or Setup Apps2SD onto Your G1 or MyTouch 3G (Best Method)

UPDATE! PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING! – This procedure has been updated and simplified, please use one of the below procedures instead of this one: How To: Root the HTC G1 / Dream How To: Root the MyTouch How To: Root the MyTouch 1.2 / Fender (use this one if your MyTouch has a 3.5mm headphone jack at the top). I. Load a Custom Radio (For G1 – Mandatory, For MyTouch – Skip) – 1. Check what

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How To: Root the MyTouch 3G or G1 in One Click!

UPDATE! PLEASE READ BEFORE CONTINUING! – This procedure has been updated and simplified, please use one of the below procedures instead of this one: How To: Root the HTC G1 / Dream How To: Root the MyTouch How To: Root the MyTouch 1.2 / Fender (use this one if your MyTouch has a 3.5mm headphone jack at the top). I. Read Before You Begin 1. THIS ONLY WORK FOR THE OLDER MYTOUCH, and ALL G1’s.

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How To: UnRoot Your MyTouch 3G/MyTouch 1.2 MyTouch and Get Back to Cupcake (Updated 04.19.10)

UPDATE: THIS NOW WORKS ON THE MYTOUCH 1.2 (THE MYTOUCH WITH THE 3.5MM HEADPHONE JACK AT THE TOP) AND THE OLD MYTOUCH AS WELL. 1. Download the correct .nbh file for your device and rename it to sappimg.nbh if necessary (make sure it is sappimg.nbh and NOT sappimg.nbh.nbh or anything else) NBH File (Works for the Old MyTouch) Zip File (Works for the new MyTouch w/ 3.5mm headphone jack) RENAME IT TO sappimg.zip (not sappimg.zip.zip,

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How To: Load Hero onto Your MyTouch 3G (OBSOLETE)

PLEASE NOTE! This method is people who were forced to use the gold card method to root their Magic or MyTouch! If you have done our on click rooting procedure please refer to the newer Rooting/Loading Custom ROM methods on our site: Unroot (G1) OR Unroot(MyTouch), then Root, then Load a Custom ROM, Apps2SD/Hero etc. I. Partition the Memory Card for faster Hero Performance 1. Again, make sure you have rooted your MyTouch first using our video, link

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How To: Root Your MyTouch 3G / Magic (GoldCard Method)

PART II VIDEO: PLEASE NOTE! IF YOU HAVE A MyTouch 1.2 / Fender, STOP! WE ARE DOING A NEW PROCEDURE JUST FOR YOU, HERE. USE THAT PROCEDURE INSTEAD OF THE ONE BELOW! Before Beginning: Have a SPARE memory card (2GB is perfect and relatively cheap) to use for the Goldcard procedure, do NOT use your normal everyday card as it will ONLY be a goldcard after we are done. I. Setup ADB and Create a

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