Android Tips and Tricks, the Ultimate Guide

Quick Tip: Boot Motorola Droid Into Safe Mode

Kellen March 22, 2010 37

Over the weekend, we asked Droid Life readers for their input on how to solve a force close loop that many users were running into while testing out the new HelixLauncher. It was pretty amazing to see the number of responses in just a short amount of time and...

Help! HelixLauncher Force Close Loop

Kellen March 21, 2010 37

When the HelixLauncher dropped a week or so ago onto the market, it sort of took the home replacement world by storm. In fact, we had 48% of our readers recommend it as their home replacement app of choice. Unfortunately, not all has been well for everyone...

Making “2.1 Only” Apps Viewable on Android 2.0.1

Kellen March 15, 2010 37

One of the many frustrations that Motorola Droid users running Android 2.0.1 have experienced lately has been from the release of applications in the market which are "2.1 only" apps. You might remember when Google Earth was released? (Luckily we had you...

Returning to Stock 2.0.1 from CyanogenMod

Kellen March 13, 2010 37

Normally I would make a video on how to do this, but I'm not through with CyanogenMod on my phone yet. I'm still incredibly impressed with it and actually don't plan on removing it until the official Android 2.1 update rolls out. And to tell you the truth,...

quick tip: show the swype "edit" keyboard

Kellen March 6, 2010 37

a few of you expressed some concern about the new beta version of swype that was released yesterday as it appeared that it was missing the "edit" keyboard. well a few of our amazing readers would like to point out that it's still definitely there! ...

video: installing a custom rom – blackdroid ultimate droid 5.0

Kellen March 4, 2010 37

the main request i've received over the last week has been "can you show us how to install a custom rom?!?" and today i finally had a chance to put a video together. in this video we chose to use Blackdroid's new Ultimate Droid 5.0 over Bugless Beast, but as...

photo: firefox running on motorola droid

Kellen February 27, 2010 37

there may be a ton of amazing alternative browsers on the market for android, but come on, aren't we really all just waiting for firefox mobile? the firefox posse teased everyone with the above photo via facebook yesterday. sneaky sneaky.

video: 25 tips and tricks for your motorola droid

Kellen February 25, 2010 37

we've had a ton of requests to do a simple motorola droid "tips and tricks" styled video and we finally found a few minutes to step aside and whip one out. the challenge with this was to put 25 of them into one video under 10 minutes which somehow, we...