Back at the beginning of June, HTC let it be known to the world that they would be opening the gates to those who love to tinker with their HTC-manufactured phones. Specifically, the company would be allowing those who want it, the ability to get their hands on kernel source codes right from the source, as well as plenty of other tools that would be made… Read more
Begin update: Michael was kind enough to share a link in the comments to the XDA thread with the appropriate downloads and information to get your G2 headed down the fast lane. There’s also some proper screen shots and the same video that you’ll find below. The usual “only you are responsible for what you do to your device” disclaimer applies. End… Read more
EDIT: This video is by LincKraker. I posted earlier today about a cooked ROM for hacked Moments that was rocking 2.1. I still can’t fully endorse it because I don’t have a Moment on hand, but here’s a video of a phone that was hacked using the process followed in that same thread. As always, embarking on this journey is done at your own risk, but I… Read more
I realize that dabbling with cooked ROMs is an at-your-own-risk type of business, but there are a few big names out there that we all know we can trust – Cyanogen, MoDaCo, a bunch of other folks who post over at xda-developers… Flashing ROMs released by these cats is a pretty safe endeavor. But what do you do when tempted by someone who appears to be a… Read more
A lot of you probably caught the news yesterday that gIMpSTa over at xda-developers released themed versions of the HTC IME (virtual QWERTY) for root users that can be flashed, as a zip, from recovery mode or be applied via the MetaMorph app (free and $1.00 donation versions available), which allows you to cherry pick elements from various themes and apply… Read more
I don’t follow the cooking community closely enough to know about every ROM that’s released, and definitely not closely enough to know about each hack included, but I stumbled across a couple of things today that I thought were worth mentioning. One is the video after the break, which features a Nexus One with some hacked-in settings that allow the user to… Read more
Hey everyone, In the video below, I review the Darkstar theme made by FreekyFroggy. It is, in my opinion, the best theme out right now. Here’s the link to download it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=589409 -Carlos… Read more
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