by J. Angelo Racoma, 1 month ago

If you thought the Amazon Kindle Fire HD 7″ was a great, inexpensive tablet for $199, there might be one concern. By default, the Kindle Fire line comes with Amazon’s own fork of Android, and…

by Andrew Grush, 2 months ago

Do you have a version of the Sony Xperia Z that features a locked bootloader? We feel for you, and we have some good news. XDA forum member goroh_kun has found an exploit that will…

by David Gonzales, 2 months ago

The LG Nexus 4 may be considered by some people as the latest and greatest Android-powered device to date, but the truth is it’s far from perfect. In fact, it has a number of flaws…

by Tanay Sood, 3 months ago

If you have a Nexus device with an unlocked bootloader, this is for you. Chances are if you think of big name, multi-device ROMs, Paranoid Android will be right up there with the likes of…

by Conan Hughes, 3 months ago

Only a few days have passed since Verizon released a strange software update for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2 that turned out to be a security fix for the Exynos exploit. Pretty much like T-Mobile’s…

by Andrew Grush, 4 months ago

Considering the LG Optimus G as an alternative to the elusive Nexus 4, but just won’t settle for anything less than stock Android? A new mod could be the solution to your problems, transforming the…

by Derek Ross, 4 months ago

  From all of us here at Android Authority, we hope you’re having a wonderful holiday season. Being the time of year that it is, we have just a short, roughly 30 minute show for…

by Gary Sims, 5 months ago

A clever developer, who goes by the name of Hashcode, has released a stock Android 4.2.1 Jelly Bean firmware for the original Amazon Kindle Fire. Using the new firmware users will be able to run…

by Robert Triggs, 5 months ago

Anyone worried about the Exynos chip exploit we covered yesterday? Well you should be able to sleep a little easier tonight, as one of the folks over at XDA-Developers has already created a fix for…

by Robert Triggs, 5 months ago

Thanks to XDA member itsmikeramsay, Galaxy S3 owners on T-Mobile and AT&T networks can now install the beloved Cyanogenmod 10.1 (Android 4.2) on their handsets. As with many early builds of custom ROMs some options…

by Robert Triggs, 5 months ago

It never takes those guys over at XDA Developers long to break into anything it seems, and the Verizson’s Galaxy Note 2 is their latest success. With the bootloader unlocked the Note 2 is now…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 6 months ago

  The playground is open. That’s just one of the slogans used by Google to illustrate how anyone can mold and modify Android to suit his or hers needs and desires, but unfortunately we’re still…

by Bogdan Petrovan, 9 months ago

Two months after the Transformer Pad 300 got its official bootloader unlocking tool, it’s now time for its big brother, the ASUS Transformer Pad Infinity, to receive its passport to freedom. The Transformer Pad Infinity…

by Lucian Armasu, 10 months ago

These days it seems like phones and other mobile devices based on the ARM architecture are getting dangerously close to the performance of desktop machines. There’s still a lot of difference in absolute raw performance,…

by Adrian Diaconescu, 11 months ago

With over 4.5 million registered users, the XDA-Developers community has established itself as one of the strongest and most connected Android hacking online “groups”. And what better way to grow and expand than by helping…