Yesterday, the folks over at XDA Developers found a major vulnerability flaw within the Samsung Exynos 4210 and 4412 chips. The flaw gives users access to all of the physical memory of the device, which in ways is both beneficial and detrimental to devices containing those chips. The good news is that devices containing those chips will be super easy… Read more
The Asus-made Google Nexus 7 is for some the defintive Android tablet on the market. The device was the first Android tablet to have Jelly Bean and has openly encouraged developers to hack into it’s open source code. Well some fun news has come out from the XDA community. Despite only having a 1.2-MP front facing camera, a new mod has found a method of… Read more
Since the release of Verizon’s Samsung Galaxy S3, developers at XDA have worked diligently to crack the device. As of early this morning, their mission was accomplished. Should you choose to unlock your phone, beware: ”once the unsecure bootloader has been flashed to a device using this method, a user will no longer be able to install official… Read more
For Verizon customers traveling abroad, Big Red’s Galaxy S III becomes nothing more than a glorified media player, as it’s cell phone capabilities are rendered useless. Prior to the phone’s launch, Verizon had promised it’s customers that global roaming would be enabled at some point in the future via an OTA update. Now a month into the phone’s release… Read more
With the Jelly Bean SDK already in the wild, we knew it was just a matter of time before someone uploaded downloads we’d all want pulled straight from the SDK. Thanks to the boys at XDA, the very first thing you can grab are wallpapers Google has designed for Jelly Bean. The file is just 2.2MB in size and has 12 wallpapers all found in the new Jelly… Read more
In an interesting yet convenient/understandable move, the XDA Developers forums have moved all US Samsung Galaxy S III variant forums under one roof. Due to Samsung pulling off the unimaginable, these devices being released in the US really are pretty much the same device only with different radios. We’ve seen the evidence of this ourselves while… Read more
This isn’t device news, but if you own a Android device, this should be somewhat exciting news for you. The extremely popular XDA Developers forums is testing a new beta layout for their forums. If you’re not familiar with the XDA forums, I highly suggest you start snooping around there if you’re planning on doing any type of modification for your… Read more
If you want something to do this weekend, take advantage of a newly leaked APK for Samsung’s soon-to-be-released S Voice application for the Galaxy S III on any rooted phone running Android 4.0 or above. We’re hearing that the software is imperfect and that’s to be expected from a piece of unfinished software from an unfinished ROM. Stated another… 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
Flipboard for Android is here, it’s really really here. The app made a limited debut last week at Samsung’s Galaxy S III unveiling in London and was primed to be an exclusive app. Except, nothing is exclusive when the boys from XDA Developers get involved as the 2.32MB APK hit XDA this morning and should install on any Android… Read more
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