For those of you who don’t know, Heimdall is an open source project to bring the functionality of Odin to every platform and build even more functionality on top of that. Odin is a Samsung program that allows you to flash your Samsung phone to new kernels, firmwares, bootloaders, modems, or anything you need. It is often used when the phone is bricked… Read more
T-Mobile only offered the Galaxy Note for a few weeks, until it was cancelled. This obviously created worries that both official updates and the developer community would suffer. However, to ease those worries, the CyanogenMod team has started pushing Jelly Bean nightlies for the device. Remember, rooting and flashing your device might be dangerous… Read more
Since Sense 3.0 was released, HTC had its own theme engine built in, using a proprietary format. Why they used a proprietary format no one knows, but they did. Luckily, two devs by the name of Flemmard and Diamondback found a way to crack the format. With Sense 3.5, HTC changed the format (again, why is HTC so anti-modding?), but they managed to crack… Read more
The developers at XDA Developers have delivered what HTC didn’t: An Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4 ROM with the Sense 3.6 overlay. It’s basically what HTC promised but never delivered. I would like to clarify that HTC could deliver, but they didn’t for a good reason. The update required a partition resizing, meaning user data would be wiped. HTC deemed this… Read more
Some unfortunate news for those clinging to their old devices. The original Snapdragon powered devices (including the Nexus One, EVO 4G, Incredible, and the original Desire are not getting official CyanogenMod 9 builds. The latest CM build these and other older devices will be receiving is CM7.2, Gingerbread. It’s sad, but understandable. Developers… Read more
Sony Xperia devices have been seeing a steady roll out of Ice Cream Sandwich for the most part, and I’m sure customers have been enjoying it quite a bit. But while development has been moving along, AOKP has been missing from Xperia phones. The KangXperiaProject group saw that, and brought AOKP to 16 Xperia phones. That’s a massive amount of phones to… Read more
This has been a question in the back of my mind ever since I flashed my first ROM on the Samsung Captivate almost two years ago. It seems so long ago, but the question remains: how long does a ROM last? It has really come to mind while on a cross country road trip, watching my current ROM deteriorate over time. This has been a problem across all… Read more
The angry pink unicorn gods have once again parted the clouds and shined their majestic rainbow upon us. Milestone 5 of the popular AOKP ROM has been released for all supported devices! With it comes a plethora of fixes and improvements. AOKP is a stock based Ice Cream Sandwich ROM with an incredible amount of customizable options and themes. If you’d… Read more
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