LeTv, a name that may not ring a bell in your mind, is a company that sells budget-friendly – and quite premium-looking – Android phones. Their recent launch – the 1S – is an Android smartphone with high-end specs without the high-end price tag. If you happen to have purchased this phone, you might feel like you’ve explored every feature it has to offer, but, as with most Android phone, you can have more features added to your […]
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If you don’t want to shell out thousands of dollars for an Android phone, the Samsungs Galaxy Star PRO might be a good alternative. Successor to the original Samsung Galaxy Star, the Star PRO offers enhanced features and a little larger screen. The phone runs on Android 4.1 which may seem a little obsolete considering the version of Android available now, but, with a little help from rooting the Galaxy Star PRO, you can get what
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Once the bootloader on the Motorola Moto X Play gets unlocked, it’ll keep showing the bootloader unlocked warning message whenever you reboot the device. In some cases, it’ll even show you the message when the fact is that the bootloader is already re-locked. If you’re in such a situation and can’t find a way out to remove that warning message from appearing on your device, you can flash the Motorola Moto X Play logo on
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YU’s Yuphoria phone belongs to the group of budget smartphones that provide really great features without damaging your wallet. The birth of the phone was inspired by the company’s first successful phone – the YU Yureka. This phone from YU runs Android 5.0 Lollipop and has all of the hardware elements to support the features this version of Android brings with it. While the phone lacks no features to be your daily driver, it can
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HTC’s Incredible S was released quite a while ago. Back then it came with then-latest version of Android called Froyo running on-board and while it’s been several years since the phone was announced, it’s still owned by many people around the world. The phone eventually got various software updates namely Gingerbread and Ice Cream Sandwich, but that’s where it stopped. The latest update it received is now considered to be obsolete as we’ve had quite a few
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Verizon has that habit of not allowing their phones to be customized by the end users. For whatever reason, they keep the bootloader locked on their phones and don’t allow them to be unlocked. This prevents you from gaining root access or flashing a custom ROM on the phone. Things aren’t the same for the Moto X (2013) from Verizon though, as a root method has been found that works even on locked bootloaders and allows you to
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Getting access to the ultra-fast Internet technology called LTE has now become much more affordable than ever, all thanks to Motorola for coming up with the Moto G (2nd Gen) with LTE capabilities. The phone allows you to surf the Internet as fast as what the current technology for cellular phones allow, and not to mention all the features it offers being an Android phone, of course. While the phone offers what you’d expect from
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Motorola launched the MotoActv – an Android powered watch – keeping health conscious people in mind. The device does this job pretty well by providing you with your fitness analytics using various technologies built into it. Not only does the watch have fitness apps, but it also runs Android 2.3.4 and so it has everything that particular version of Android has. While you may have a number of reasons to like this watch from Motorola, there may be some things on it that you don’t
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Somewhere between the One M8 and the One M7 lies the HTC’s latest smartphone called the One A9. The device became very popular in a short period of time and developers produce a root method and a custom recovery shortly thereafter. If you happen to have this device, you are welcome to follow the following guide and gain root on your One A9 and then flash a custom recovery on it. Root access should let you install all
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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 update called Lollipop of the OS for its first gen Moto X. The update brings with it many new features in addition to the existing
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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 KingUser app on your device to manage root-permissions, and for the folks who aren’t fluent in Chinese, I’ll show you in a section below how to
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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 probably best to unroot the OnePlus X before you do anything else. Unrooting the phone is the process of flashing the device’s stock firmware and
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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 to make the software for the fledgling companies new flagship device: the OnePlus One. Sales were good, everything seemed great for the two startups and
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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 a price tag of about $249.00, it sorta is. Despite these well qualified specs, some people do have issue with one thing about the OnePlus
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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 for your own Oppo R7 Lite. Yes, root access has been achieved on the Oppo R7 Lite along with a custom recovery and that should now let
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