Despite AT&T’s wishes that your HTC One X remain firmly locked and un-hackable, the fine folks at XDA have shown their hacking chops are still strong. To begin, all you need is a rooted AT&T HTC One X. Simple enough. Next, some knowledge in the world of ADB as well as a familiarity with a hex editor are necessary. Get past that and you’re quickly on your way to having a much more open One X. The goal of the hack above is simply to change your...
Motorola XOOM owners waiting impatiently for their own custom ROMs can finally breathe a sigh of relief/excitement. A new, lightly modified XOOM ROM called “Tiamat Xoom Rom 1.0″ has popped up over at XDA with some rather nifty tweaks in tow: Tiamat 1.4.4 stock GPU, Root access with SU and superuser, Desktop UA string , Gingerbread style CRT Screen Off Animation, Call setting with SIP and SMS capabilities enabled, Supercircle 100 point battery mod, modified...
What’s happening on the bleeding edge of Android these days? Animated notification drawer backgrounds. In the video inside you’ll see that while pretty cool, a lot of work needs to be done. It’s laggy as hell on both the animation and pull down fronts, though has some promise. While we don’t necessarily see Google jumping too fast to integrate this into the next versin of Android, we’re sure that once the kinks are ironed out your favorite...
For many years HTC has been “the” phone manufacturer for enthusiasts in that bootloaders and other digital nannies were at a bare minimum. But recently HTC changed their stance most notably with the HTC Thunderbolt on Verizon Wireless. In contrast to some of their competitors, however, HTC listens. New statements on the company’s Twitter and Facebook pages signals the company is having a change of heart. Facebook: Thanks so much for providing feedback,...
The HTC Thunderbolt launched to great fanfare being that it was the first publicly available LTE device. As usual, however, it wasn’t perfect out of the gate. If you’re growing a bit testy while you wait for Verizon and HTC to issue a string of updates on their own, you can take matters into your own hands. A new ROM has leaked for the Thunderbolt that includes a few requested fixes: New radio version (1.16.00.402), GPS location services fix, LTE/3G handoff...
