The developers of the highly popular custom ROM, AOKP, released the first Android 4.2 builds for four Nexus devices Wednesday night: Galaxy Nexus (maguro), Galaxy Nexus (toro), Nexus 7 (grouper), and the Nexus 4 (mako). Since they had to start over moving onto 4.2, AOKP developer sethyx stated that they mostly focused on features which is why… Read more
The wonderful Android community has once again graciously provided us with manna to bring all things Googleness to our devices running custom ROMs. As we know, our favorite developers are working hard to bring us Android 4.2, and we need gapps with those ROMs. So, just as custom 4.2.1 ROMs are beginning to appear, an updated gapps has been loaded to… Read more
My Google Nexus 7 is a toy. I’m sure there are very productive things to do with it, but the most productive thing my Nexus 7 does for me is save battery life on my phone because I’m using it a lot less. That being said, I like to play with my toys, and a few days ago I decided to flash MIUI’s custom Jelly Bean ROM on my Nexus 7. Only few weeks… Read more
Seeing a pop-up like that on your device running a custom ROM sounds pretty sweet right? I definitely wouldn’t mind seeing it on my phone or Nexus 7. Well, a new start-up, OTA Update Center, has begun providing a new service aiming to make this a reality for our excellent developers on your various Android devices. According to their… Read more
CyanogenMod posted a CM10 preview for the Google Nexus 7 their Google+ last Tuesday night. I thought I’d install on my personal Nexus 7 it to give it a little look see and bring you along with me. A post talking about some of the new features you should see added to Jelly Bean with CM10 can be found here. I obviously forgot to mention some of the… Read more
It has only been 11 days since CyanogenMod announced that devices with CM9 support are likely to be supported with CM10. From CyanogenMod’s Google+, “Our goal is to release a stable CM 9.0.0 (and any needed .1’s). After that, we will work on CM7 and CM10 only. As stated above, CM9 devices are highly likely to get CM10, so maintaining a separate class of… Read more
The Nexus 7 isn’t even available to the masses yet and it’s first custom roms are already appearing. So far, the custom roms we’re seeing are just tweaked stock roms. On the surface it will still be the new Jelly Bean just being awesome. However, there will be a few tweaks underneath the hood that you may be interested in. Below I have the new… Read more
The popular app for rooted Android users has recently received an update adding some interesting new features. If you’re not familiar with Superuser, it’s an app that allows you grant and manage Superuser rights for your phone. What that means is that when you are rooted, apps that require root need access to root files or features. When these… Read more
CyanogenMod announced Tuesday that their release candidate CM9 build, RC1, is now available for 37 devices. These builds will not be wildly different than the nightlies already available, but will be more stable. The CyanogenMod blog states, “It wasn’t quick or easy, but we are extremely proud of this release and what it represents for us as a… Read more
XDA Recognized Developer -viperboy- has been hard at work bringing some customized goodness to the HTC EVO 4G LTE community. There are two items I want to bring to your attention that have been posted on the XDA forums over the last few days. viperROM eLiTE v1.2 This is the first custom rom available for the EVO LTE. -viperboy- states that “you can… Read more
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