So far I haven’t been shown any logical or legitimate reason why someone shouldn’t root their Android device. Everything from custom skins and themes to overclocked speed can be had. Not only that, but rooting your device can allow users to remove bloatware from their phone that otherwise sits there and sucks up precious MB’s. Now, however, I have a reason to caution potential Android rooters — login credentials are stored as plain text. Granted,...

Originally, tears of sorrow and words of sadness oozed forth from potential Android buyers over Motorola’s decision to lock up their devices as tight as possible. Horror stories of bricked devices spread around the web (yes, I helped) with tasks such as flashing ROMS all but impossible. But never fear for the fine folks at XDA-Forums can and always will find a way to prevail. Ladies and gents: Droid 2 haz root. A mere 2 weeks after release sounds pretty awesome. ...

We may have been pretty vocal about the slim chances of custom rom goodness on Motorola devices with locked bootloaders, but it appears that the dev community and perseverance have prevailed. Popular Android dev “Koush”, has managed to get Clockwork Recovery up and running on a Droid X by hijacking the int.rc. Now that the recovery is taken care of, Koush says we’ll start to see custom roms for the Droid X as devs jump on board. With 1GHz of power and...

A couple of months back, we heard horror stories of Motorola’s locked bootloader and eForce chip shenanigans. Locking out an admittingly small, yet loyal group of Android users for no good reason was a strike against the regaining mobile champ. But alas, what manufacturers mess up, the Android community fixes and makes even better. It seems the devs are full steam ahead on breaking the X and several other Moto Android devices. It’s win win for everyone the...

Android root users and overclocking enthusiasts rejoice! Temp Monitor 3.0 is here. Besides the shiny new number, a slew of new features have been added. It’s easily one of the must-have Android apps as among other things, several very handy widgets are included. But there’s a lot more. So, without wasting anymore time, let’s get right to it… Widgets: 4 widget styles (2×3 and 3×3) — Simplicity, 80′s Night, Red-Eye, and...