Rooting Droid

Enable ADB access If you would like to get intimate with your Kindle Fire you need ADB access, or Android Developer Bridge. The first thing you need is the Android SDK and then add the Vendor ID for Amazon’s Lab126 9oX1949) to the adb_usb.ini file. Chances are that if you’re doing this, the previous sentence made perfect sense to you, but if not, a quick Google search will yield the…

Great news for Samsung Galaxy S i9000 owners, a new rooting method was created. It is called One Click Root. The rooting tool was created by Senior Member and TGA_Gunnman from XDA – Developers. This tool roots both Android 2.1 Éclair and Android 2.2 Froyo and offers one click unroot option. Next you can find a step by step tutorial on rooting and unrooting Samsung Galaxy S i9000 in just…

MotorolaOneClickRoot is a tool developed by Framework43 and Psouza4, active members of XDA – Developers. This tool grants you access to the core of your phone and thus becoming a superuser. MotorolaOneClickRoot in theory works on all Motorola phones running GingerBread. Because of different reasons, we were unable to get our hands on all Motorola phones. The following phones can be routed with MotorolaOneClickRoot: Motorola Droid 3: the successor of…

CyanogenMod is a custom ROM for Android devices. It is one of the most popular ROMs for Samsung Galaxy S2 available. The particular custom ROM it’s in its early stages of development, and certain apps crash from time to time. But if you don’t want to wait for the RC version, we posted a guide on how to get and install it. Before you get started, make sure your phone…

The alpha version of Android 4.0.1 Ice Cream Sandwich supports the Galaxy Tab now. We have to give thanks to the guys from XDA-Developers, who made possible for us to try this version of Android. Before you get started, make sure you have a rooted device and have ClockworkMod Recovery installed (follow the link if you don’t). The developers say must be on Android 2.X Gingerbread-based bootloader and have EXT4…

Motorola Milestone is the GSM version of Motorola Droid. The Milestones comes with Android 2.1 Éclair as operating system. This OS can be easily rooted with an app that fools the OS to enable the superuser rights for a lot of apps. Still, this rooting method has a draw back. If you are looking to get access to other functions like tethering, screenshots, overclocking or you want to install a…

At last Android 4.0 got an update which can be used on our devices. The first alpha built had a lot of bugs, like no 3G connection, no sound, no Wi – Fi, etc. the latest built supports now almost all options. The update came from Drew Garen (developer of the custom ROM). He had this to say: ICS IS HERE AND IT’S GETTING BETTER EVERY SECOND…Enjoy Your Ice Cream…

For those of you who don’t know, rooting your phone means to get access to the file system. Without this you can’t install custom ROMs, non-Market apps, modding, overclocking CPU, and so on. Basically you are now in full control of the device. Also with different tweaks you can enhance the phones power. The rooting method was developed by clock workmod, which posted a picture with the Nexus S running…

ClockworkMod is what allow you to flash custom ROMs, backup or perform other operations on your Android phone. The ClockworkMod was created by codeworkx , a developer from xda, and it work on Samsung Galaxy S2 i9100 and it powers up the upcoming CyanogenMod 7. If you decide to get it on your phone keep reading this article and you will find everything you need. First you need to download…

The new Android operating system, 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, it is open source. Thanks to some developers from the hacking community, now it can be ported on most popular handsets. This build of the OS is in alpha stage. Some things don’t work correctly yet: the modem, Bluetooth, Wi – Fi, sound, camera. It is recommended to stay away from this built, and wait for the beta version. But if…

Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich is finally ready and Samsung Galaxy S2 is the main candidate for it. When you will get it, if you didn’t already install a liked firmware, you probably want to be the superuser. Why should you be the superuser? Well, here you have more than one reason. A few people already provided us with different methods of rooting your Galaxy S2. Next you will find…

To root a phone is a complicated process. Rooting implies that you must find a weakness in the phones firmware and exploit it. Fortunately, some guys have done this for us and they managed to develop programs or tools which take advantage of those weaknesses.  They released their tools, free of charge for us. The developer of DooMLoRd’s Easy Rooting Toolkit said that his exploit work great on Samsung Galaxy…

The new Samsung Galaxy S2 has huge resources. Still, you should know that when you buy it, the operating system doesn’t allow you to make use of its full power.  If you finally decide to root it, you made the right decision. Now you can explore more of its performances tweaks. The CF Root is the first rooting method introduced that worked on Samsung Galaxy S2. It was hard to…

The Galaxy S2 is a big hit for Samsung. It is a top phone based on Android OS. Because it is such a success and the sales are enormous, the guys from xda-developers, didn’t waste much time, and they figured out a way to root this phone in just a few days after it has been released. There are two tutorials on how to root Samsung Galaxy S2, this tutorial…

Finally the Samsung Galaxy Note is out. And as expected it can be easily rooted. It has a 5 inch, 1280×800 screen and super amoled hd plus display. To get the rooted started you need some files: -          Samsung Keys (download it from Samsung official site) -          Odin3-v1.85 -          Netchips ClockworkMod Recovery Kernel: netchip-cwm-update2.tar -          Superuser zil file: su-2.3.6.1-ef-signed.zip Let’s get started: Step 1 Install Samsung Keys Step 2 Launch…

Use this step by step tutorial which will help you install Android 2.3.5 Gingerbread on your Motorola Droid RAZR. It is a simple procedure, even if you are new to rooting. Let’s get started: Step 1 Download and install the Motorola drivers (only for Windows): -          Windows 32bit OS: Motorola_End_User_Driver_Installation_5.2.0_64bit -           Windows 64bit OS: Motorola_End_User_Driver_Installation_5.2.0_32bit Step 2 Download and install MotorolaOnceClickRoot: MotorolaOneClickRoot_psouza4 Step 3 Now go into your phones menu…

Finally we can root the new DROID Bionic with an one click method. Here you can find the download link for the tool and instructions on how to use it. It will all take just a couple of minutes. Let’s get started: Step 1 Download and install the Motorola drivers: Motorola_End_User_Driver_Installation_5.2.0_64bit Step 2 Download the Motorola one click root: MotorolaOneClickRoot_psouza4 Step 3 Connect your phone to your PC and select…

This tool is a developer preview. Be very careful when using it. This tool helps you install more easily ROMs on your device. Let’s go: Step 1 Go to Revolutionary IO portal. Step 2 On the Revolutionary website go to downloads Step 3 Now click on Download for Windows, Revolutionary Zip file will start downloading and a menu headed with Beta Key will appear Step 4 Select operating system, device…

ClockworkMod is the main tool used to help you root your Android device. If you are a HTC Sensation 4G user, there is no other way to root if you don’t use this tool (Root HTC Sensation 4G: permanently [HowTo]). Features: -      flash unsigned files formatted or .zip –                     Flashes custom ROMs –              …

Most of the internet guides about rooting HTC Sensation 4G are faulty. After the first reboot, the root is lost. This guide gives you all the information you need, to do a successful and stable root. Let’s get started: First you need to do two things -          ClockworkMod recovery needs to be installed on your phone. To do that, follow this tutorial: Install ClockworkMod Recovery 4 on HTC Sensation 4G…