Rooting an Android device can be as easy as installing a custom recovery through Fastboot mode, booting into the custom recovery, then selecting to install a Superuser client to the /system partition.

The HTC Butterfly 2 is a phone forever trapped in a nightmarish puberty of HTC industrial design. It uses high-end specifications like a 1080p screen and a Snapdragon 801 processor, but its plastic ...

Android One devices are the fruit of Google’s efforts to bring a better Android smartphone experience to emerging markets, while still offering those devices at an affordable cost to the consumer.

One of the things that makes Google’s Nexus phones different from most Android devices on the market is that they tend to be developer-friendly. Unlocking the bootloader is usually as trivial as ...

Sometimes, things go wrong, making your device's hardware and software experience less than ideal. It may be related to a change you made or a newly installed system update that is causing glitches.

The LineageOS development team posted a blog post today with a ton of news and updates. The LineageOS team has a new director, there’s a new Lineage Recovery, and new devices now support LineageOS ...

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If you’ve sniffed around blogs or articles about mobile phones, you’ve probably seen mention of “custom ROMs” or “mods.” What do they do for a phone? As with rooting, a ton of information is out there ...

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A bootable program on an Android flash memory partition that is used to perform a factory reset or restore the original OS version. In order to install a different OS version (a different ROM), the ...

For Android enthusiasts, rooting and custom ROMs were once the ultimate draw. They made Android exciting and turned every phone into a project worth tinkering with. But the modding scene's golden age ...

Samsung’s first smartwatch may have shipped with Google’s Android Wear software, but every smartwatch the company has released since then has been powered by the Linux-based Tizen operating system.