The famous CyanogenMod team has taken a revamp on their CM9 ROM boot animation. It now features their newly touted mascot by the name of CiD. You can find this new boot-animation in the most recent CM9 ROM nightlies. If you want to see a quick preview of the animation then head over to the video below! What do you guys think of CiD in the new… Read more
Today HTC has given developers some treats by releasing the source code for the HTC One S kernel. Head over to the HTC Dev center and you can download it yourself. Keep in mind that it is categorized by region and carrier. While this is a bit of good news, the bad news is that the T-Mobile version of the One S has been left out. The same thing also… Read more
Looks like Google isn’t the only search giant with its own Android ROM. Granted, Google created Android, but Chinese search giant Baidu has created an entire Nexus S ROM. Much like Google, Baidu does it all. It has similar services to Google Drive, Picasa, Maps, Calendar, and more. So making a ROM with all those services integrated seems like a… Read more
Team Kang’s AOKP, an acronym of Android Open Kang Project, has made a huge splash in the Android world since it’s debut late last year. But it wasn’t till the head team members got a hold of the GSM Google Galaxy Nexus that the team and their ROM really gained a lot of popularity, and quite frankly maybe even a cult following much like the CyanogenMod… Read more
Well, this morning has already been with the news that S-Voice is no longer working. Thanks to XDA user ithehappy there is plenty more to try from the leaked Galaxy S III rom that doesn’t require server side support like S-Voice — which means if you can get it installed, it should run like a champ. The XDA thread includes links to Accuweather, stock… Read more
If the HTC HD2 isn’t one of the most important phones of the decade, well you can just take my journalism badge. It was released in 2009 with the first ever 4.3″ display and a beastly (at the time) 1 GHz Snapdragon CPU. It was a massive monster people couldn’t fathom back then, let alone hold. 4.3″ was just too big! Or so we said 3 years ago, with a… Read more
Looking for a reason to take advantage of Amazon’s special offer on the HTC One X from AT&T? How about an unofficial root thanks to the super hackers over at XDA Developers? Before you get to excited, the device still has a locked bootloader making it impossible to upload any new ROMs. Even with the bootloader locked, accessing root… 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
There are plenty of customizable, user-created ROMs out there. A lot of them. But there are only a few which manage to garner the attention of mainstream developers within the Android modding community, and manage to stick around over the years. Xiaomi, the company behind the ROM itself, has decided to go the open source route, providing the details of the… Read more
While the DROID Bionic receiving a major software update is good news for owners out there, many of you probably moved onto bigger and thinner things, like the DROID RAZR. And while we know that Motorola is planning on officially bringing Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich to the thin 4G LTE phone sometime next year, waiting is a hard thing to do. While the ROM… Read more
PhoneDog TmoNews TodaysiPhone