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Developers running by the names of Jerpelea, biktor_gj and Bin4ry have successfully gained root access to the Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 smartphone. The terrible trio have also put together a step-by-step walk-through guide aimed at the uninitiated. This way, anyone should be able to grab root access to their Sony Ericsson Xperia X10. Please check [...]

The EVO 4G was rooted a few days back, but Android Central have pieced together a step by step guide on how to do the dirty yourself. This was in large part taken from the xda-developers forums, which is where all the tech stuff has been going down regarding the rooting of the EVO 4G. [...]

Paul O’Brian from Modaco has broken the news that the HTC Desire and HTC Legend have already been ‘rooted‘ prior to their official release. It would seem as though both of these devices are going to walk the same path of The Nexus One and follow the same fate too. By ‘rooting’ a device you [...]

The Motorola Milestone joins the ranks of “rooted” Android devices as the first successful root of the European variant of the DROID has been demonstrated by SeraphimSerapis of Android-Hilfe.de. Similar to the DROID, the process of rooting the Milestone is drop dead easy with a user simply applying an update.zip file during boot. Now that [...]

Remember that ultra sleek gallery app you’ve seen in the many Nexus One videos that have been posted in the last 2 weeks?  Well, now you can have that app on your Android 2.0 or 2.0.1 device, but mainly the Motorola Droid.  The team over at Droidmuff.in have discovered that it has been ported and [...]

Everyone who is gearing up to make their big Nexus One purchase next week can look forward to having root access to their handset right out of the gate. Thanks to some hard work by Paul over a MoDaCo’s Android forums, the not-yet-released Nexus One can be rooted in a simple three step process using [...]

And another one bites the dust – fresh out of  the modmymoto forums is news that the Motorola Cliq has been rooted. As is the case with freshly rooted devices, the root is merely proof of concept and offers no practical advantage to the average user, at least not yet. TheDudesAndroid, who posted up the [...]

It took little over a month but the mighty Motorola DROID has been rooted. The news broke over at AllDroid forums with member embeem posting up the necessary files and the instructions for rooting.  For those ready to install all those wonderful apps available only to rooted devices, slow down a bit as rooting, at [...]

Amon_RA on the XDA-Developers forum has just blessed the Android community with a comprehensive step-by-step process for gaining root access to the MyTouch 3g.  While the necessary items to root the device are mainly software-based, users will need two SD cards.  One is used to create a “Goldcard”, while the other will be used to [...]

As you may remember, last month we revealed how the Android Dev Phone did not have access to the paid applications from the Android market place. This was primarily because of the fact that this version of the HTC Dream provided complete root access to the device, and therefore offered read, write and copy access [...]