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Apr

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[Complete Guide] How To Fully Back Up And Restore Your Android Phone Using Nandroid Backup

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Development, Tips & Tutorials

Last Updated: January 20th, 2011

Introduction

In this tutorial, I will guide you through the easiest and most reliable way to fully and 100% back up and restore your Android phone.

By fully back up, I don't mean backing up just your address book or your emails, or your dog. I mean EVERYTHING that resides on your phone with the exception of the SD card - what we will create is essentially a full image of your phone's current state that you can restore to at any time as if nothing happened. This image will be written to your SD card which you are then free to copy around and back up on your computer.

Apr

CyanogenMod ROM 5.0.6 For Nexus One And Motorola Droid Released

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Development, Droid (Sholes), HTC, Motorola, News, Nexus One (Passion)

A few moments ago, Cyanogen announced version 5.0.6 of his ROM for HTC Nexus One and Motorola Droid. This release contains a whole plethora of bug fixes and enhancements for the Nexus One and a few for the Droid.

The release follows the drama with Cyanogen and the Ultimate Droid ROM creator The BlackDroid, which you can read about here and here, which explains the note at the bottom of Cyanogen's announcement that reads

"PS: Expect Ultimate Droid v11 soon! :) :) :)"

Check out the full changelog here:

CHANGELOG

---- 5.0.6-Droid

* Fixed MMS Videos (PDR447, slayher, DroidMod all had a hand in this)

* Fixups to 4/5 column launcher

* Fixed ##program menu

* Fix fstab bug (DroidMod)

---- 5.0.6-N1

* Merged AOSP from Google as of 3/31/2010

* Ability to move installed applications between internal storage and SD (from Chris Soyars)

* Added libncurses, lsof, irssi, htop, bash, nano and powertop.

Apr

[Updated] Rooting Explained + Top 5 Benefits Of Rooting Your Android Phone

Posted by Sarah Morrow in Development, Tips & Tutorials

Last Updated: July 6th, 2012

In this article, I will discuss all kinds of aspects of rooting your Android phone and the benefits that come with it.

Maybe you've heard about "rooting" a phone from a friend or read about it somewhere on the Internet. Maybe you even *kind of* know what it is but aren't sure what you can do with it. Or maybe you are already running a rooted phone and looking for more ways you can utilize it. Whatever the case may be, this article is for you.

What Is Rooting?

First, for the newbies, let me clarify what rooting is. Getting root or rooting your phone is the process of modifying the operating system that shipped with your device to grant you complete control over it.

Apr

Cyanogen Banned From DroidForums.net Part Deux - Update

Posted by Andrew Huff in Development, News

If you were following the news at all yesterday regarding anything to do with ROMs and the Android dev community, then you might have heard or read about what has been going on between Cyanogen and DroidForums.net (and The BlackAndroid who developed the Ultimate Droid ROM).

In short, Cyanogen, a well respected, if not the most respected, Android ROM developer, called out another developer by the name of The BlackAndroid for ripping part of his code without giving credit. Instead of a peaceful resolution and an apology, harsh words were thrown around and Cyanogen ended up getting banned from DroidForums.net where this ordeal had originally started.

Apr

Cyanogen Banned From DroidForums.net For Calling Out BlackAndroid – Drama Ensues

Posted by Andrew Huff in Development, News

Today seems to be the day of drama in the wonderful Android world that we live in. It’s no secret that people rip apps off the Android market and post them elsewhere for free. It’s also no surprise that with Open Source material, people base their apps/Roms off others' work and with that, you always give credit where credit is due.

However, a certain someone, named The BlackAndroid, over at DroidForums, would rather take people’s work, mod it and call it his own. Even better is that they he actually insulted the creator of the source he used, and this creator happened to be Cyanogen, a well respected and known ROM creator.

Apr

BREAKING: Samsung Moment Leaked Android 2.1 Update Rooted Only A Few Hours Later - Available Now

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Development, News

Only a few hours since we broke the news about a leaked Samsung Moment Android 2.1, another member of the same forum by the name of joeykrim that posted the original ROM announced that they have successfully rooted it.

Yes, that's right, Samsung Moment with Android 2.1 is now rooted.

So head over, no jet over, to the good old SDX-Developers forum and look at this post for detailed instructions which I will duplicate here.

General Android 2.1 Info including instructions and download locations - http://www.sdx-developers.com/index.php?topic=1436.0;topicseen
This thread is only regarding rooting Android 2.1.
IF YOU POST ANYTHING IN HERE WHICH DOESN'T RELATE TO APPLYING ROOT IN ANDROID 2.1 I WILL DELETE YOUR POST
This gets us root, but it isn't the prettiest method.

Apr

Samsung Moment Android 2.1 ROM Leaked, Available For Download

Posted by Android Police Team in Development, Moment, News, Samsung

We just got word that the long awaited Samsung Moment 2.1 update ROM was leaked and is available for your flashing pleasures. Android Police seems to be the first Android blog to break the news.

Head over to this SDX-Developers.com forum post to download it. Here is the ROM download link, in case the forum goes down.

SDX forum members have tested the ROM out and found it working, with the exception of some of them not being able to log into the Market. A phone reset reportedly fixes this problem. Of course, proceed at your own risk.

The leaked ROM comes after Sprint earlier this week reportedly began internal testing of Android 2.1 on the Moment by releasing it to some of its employees.

Apr

OpenEclair - ROM That Brings Android 2.1 To Dream/G1 And Sapphire/myTouch3G - v1.3 Released

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Development, Dream, G1 (Dream), HTC, myTouch 3G (Magic), Sapphire

We have some great news this morning for the rooting/ROM fans out there - a new milestone of OpenEclair has been reached and version 1.3 is now available for download here.

If you are interested in the discussion around this release, head over here.

What Is OpenEclair?

OpenEclair is a community ROM based on the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) 2.1 source code (with lots of Cyanogen mixed in).

The goal of OpenEclair is to bring to the community a fast and stable Eclair 2.1 ROM, with contributions from numerous ROM developers.

To clarify what may not be obvious on the OpenEclair site, the ROM is aimed at 2 devices specifically:

HTC Dream - T-Mobile G1
HTC Sapphire - T-Mobile myTouch 3G

OpenEclair is actively developed (just look at the number of filed and fixed bugs), maintained, and tested by the community which means frequent releases, attention to users and testers, $0 price tag (of course), and all the great stuff open source software development brings with it.