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Canonical Shows Off New Dual Boot Feature For Ubuntu In Latest Developer Preview

Rithvik December 23, 2013 23

Canonical today unveiled their latest work on their underdog Ubuntu mobile operating system. If you can remember, it was only October when Canonical announced Ubuntu 13.10 for smartphones, with a fully featured system attempting to rival Android. Today, in a...

CyanogenMod 11 M1 Released for Nexus 7 Variants, Nexus 5, Nexus 4, and Nexus 10

Tim December 6, 2013 40

The CyanogenMod team officially launched a CyanogenMod 11 M1 build yesterday, available for anyone rocking an actively AOSP-supported Nexus device. Usually, the team would release nightly builds to start tracking bugs, but according to the blog post, that...

Moto X Running Android 4.4 Already has Root

Kellen November 25, 2013 83

Thanks to a new beta tool created by Justin Case, the Moto X on Verizon and AT&T running the new Android 4.4 update has been rooted. The process isn't necessarily as simple as it has been in the past, but this method installs a "backdoor" to help regain...

Verizon LG G2 Receives Working Kit Kat ROM Built From AOSP

Tim November 21, 2013 176

Verizon customers that are into the rooting and custom ROM game, that happen to rock an LG G2, should know that your vanilla AOSP dreams have been answered in the form of Gummy ROM. While this ROM isn't completely stock, as a few tweaks have been made and...

Galaxy Gear Gets Custom ROM Treatment, Features Custom Launcher and Web Browsing Support

Tim November 18, 2013 55

The Galaxy Gear smartwatch, a device hindered by its maker to only work on phones running TouchWiz, is becoming a bit more interesting this week. As reported today by several sources, the watch has sold only about 50,000 units, a number that is remarkably low...

Modders Aim to Fix Nexus 5 Camera Before Google, Release Flashable Zip With All Sorts of Tweaks

Kellen November 8, 2013 231

Early reports (and even our own personal experiences) suggest that the Nexus 5 camera, even with its Optical Image Stabilization, isn't exactly on par with other top tier smartphone cameras. We wish that it was, but also aren't exactly surprised as Nexus...

How to: Root the Nexus 5

Kellen November 4, 2013 86

Now that the bootloader on your Nexus 5 is unlocked, you are probably thinking about whether or not you should flash a custom recovery and root. If you decide that root is for you, we've put together a set of instructions for you to root your device in the old...

How to: Unlock the Nexus 5 Bootloader

Kellen November 4, 2013 101

Whenever we get a new Nexus device, like the Nexus 5, our mind thinks two things immediately. The first is to unbox the device (Nexus 5 unboxing) and let you all see which product is up next for us to review. Once we are finished there, we immediately go and...