Who knew the evening adventures of one man trying to root his new phone would inspire a new version of ClockworkMod recovery? Well Wil Wheaton was trying to root his HTC One yesterday, and he had some trouble. He unlocked his bootloader and installed a recovery, but his partitions didn't want to mount. He ended up posting about it on Google+, showing... Read more

We recently found out that AT&T has locked the bootloader on the Galaxy S 4, something I can't forgive them for. But as sucky as the carriers can get, the developers are much more capable. After some people said it might be impossible to unlock without a leak of the keys, the infamous Dan Rosenberg posted this photo on his twitter, showing that he... Read more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CC-hSUR0dyU Before the HTC One was released, there was a big debate going on about whether you could make the HTC logo between the two buttons function as another button with a custom kernel. Many said yes, but many said no due to it seeming like the digitizer didn't reach there. Luckily, we don't... Read more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=74_1nB_Z1Hw#! If there is one thing to be said about Sony, it's that they are dedicated to the developer community. Though they lock bootloaders, they provide a good unlock tool, source code, and work with other companies to get as much source code out there as possible. Once, they even added the... Read more

There were whispers around the internet that AT&T would keep their HTC One from being bootloader unlocked by the HTC Dev site. Luckily, it can be unlocked right now! Those who were lucky enough to get the HTC One early from AT&T have confirmed that it can be unlocked with official tools, just like the international version. The root and ClockWorkMod... Read more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjWAeU6BqcY Do you want to try out Facebook Home, but have an unsupported device? Luckily, it isn't too hard to get Facebook Home to work! Of course, you'll need root, and this involves modifying system files. So do this at your own risk, as it could end up messing up your device. But it's a fairly simple process, and all... Read more

If you're not currently in the US, you may be suffering from envy over us having Facebook Home, don't. You're not missing out on much: But we firmly believe that you shouldn't bash it till you try it, and those of you who want to try it outside of the US are now capable! All you have to do is download the file from the first post and install it... Read more

Today the highly popular custom ROM development team CyanogenMod released stable M-series snapshot builds for CM10.1 for what I've counted as 30 devices so far.  I've seen reports for fewer devices so my guess is that this list has been growing and may continue to grow.  I have a  list below with the 30 devices that have the new M3 build released... Read more

We really never thought this day would come, but it has. Multiple Motorola phones now have their bootloader unofficially unlocked, by way of a new tool made by Dan Rosenberg. The tool will unlock the bootloader of the Motorola RAZR HD, RAZR MAXX HD, RAZR M, and Atrix HD. This only applies to these four phones; other phones, especially OMAP based phones,... Read more

While earlier reports of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 I9500 (Exynos) being rooted were fake, a real root method has been found for the I9505 Qualcomm model. If you're wondering who managed this, it was none other than Chainfire, a very famous developer for good reason. Despite the standard method of injecting su into a stock ROM and flashing with Odin not... Read more