Android Tips and Tricks, the Ultimate Guide

Beginner’s Guide to the HTC Thunderbolt

Kellen April 27, 2011 55

HTC Thunderbolt owners, Verizon has released a series of videos to help you better understand your new phone and make the transition to it much more enjoyable. As the first 4G LTE phone, it is a device that has grabbed the attention of users from all sorts of...

Download: DROIDX Gingerbread V4.5.588

Kellen April 12, 2011 55

Well here you go. The random OTA update of Gingerbread for the DROIDX that we talked about earlier is out for everyone to enjoy manually. Just know that you have to be completely stock on Blur 2.3.340 in order to run this update file. There is no root at...

Motorola XOOM Hack Provides Permanent Desktop Browser Fix, Voice Calls and SMS

Kellen April 7, 2011 55

Your Motorola XOOM is about to get awesome-er. Thanks to XDA member sangreal06, XOOM owners can now enjoy the CRT screen-off animation (in portrait), enjoy desktop versions of websites without having to re-do the "about:debug" trick over and over, send SMS...

How to: Organize Your Motorola XOOM Home Screens Using CircleLauncher

Kellen April 1, 2011 55

Just posted up the new Beautiful Widgets tablet version and noticed that a few of you were interested in the setup I have on my XOOM's main home screen and wanted to share. It's really a pretty simple setup that involves CircleLauncher and a couple of quick...

Fugly Android: a blog about horrible home screens

Matt Demers March 30, 2011 55

Every once and awhile a skinning experiment goes awry and our phones don't turn out exactly how we want them to. I know here at Droid Life we can be pretty meticulous about how our Home Screens look, but some people... aren't. Fugly Android is a Tumblr...

New MotoBlur Allows for Quick Text Message Replies to Ignored Calls

Kellen March 29, 2011 55

With the new MotoBlur that comes over top of the leaked Gingerbread (Android 2.3) that we've been talking non-stop about for days, there is this nifty little feature that allows you to ignore incoming calls and then quickly reply to them via text message. As...

How to: Get Rooted Gingerbread on DROID 2

Kellen March 29, 2011 55

As many of you know by now, Gingerbread for the DROID 2 and X was released over the weekend giving all of us a taste of Android 2.3.3 and the new blue Blur from Motorola, only there was one thing missing. Root access. Well, that problem has now been fixed by...

How to: Get Rooted Gingerbread on DROID X

Kellen March 29, 2011 55

As many of you know by now, Gingerbread for the DROID X and 2 was released over the weekend giving all of us a taste of Android 2.3.3 and the new blue Blur from Motorola, only there was one thing missing. Root access. Well, that problem has now been fixed by...