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Jun

Motorola Droid X Eye Live Wallpapers Up For Grabs - Install On Any Eclair (2.1) Or Froyo (2.2) Phone

Posted by David Ruddock in Applications, Development, Droid X (Shadow), Eclair 2.1, Froyo 2.2, Motorola, Tips & Tutorials, Verizon Wireless

Obtaining Your Droid X Live Wallpaper

A savvy XDA forum user has taken the initiative to decompile the Droid X’s live wallpapers and provide them to the Android masses. At the moment, 6 live wallpapers of the Droid X “Eye” are available on the thread - 5 from the phone and 1 modified by one of the forum members. Links for each below:

Installing

To install your Droid X Eye live wallpaper, simply

download one of the .apk’s linked above straight from your phone's browser and click on it to install or
move it to your phone from your computer, open using Astro File Manager or another install-capable file manager, and select install

Once installed, the Droid X wallpaper is selected like any other live wallpaper:

go to your home screen
hit the settings key
select wallpapers > live wallpapers
the installed .apk should appear as “DROID X.”

The wallpapers should be installable on any 2.1 or 2.2 Android device, with or without root.

Jun

Eugene373 and ChiefzReloaded Strike Again – G1, MT3G, MT3GS Getting FroYo ROM

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Android OS, Development, Devices By Manufacturer, Froyo 2.2, G1 (Dream), myTouch 3G (Magic), myTouch Slide (Espresso), News, T-Mobile

Man, these guys are good. This is the third time I’m writing about Eugene in the past 2 weeks – first he rooted the MT3GS (June 15), then he rooted the Aria two days after it came out. Now, he and ChiefzReloaded are poised to release FroYo ROM's for the G1, MyTouch 3G, and MyTouch 3G Slide.

Last night Eugene and Chiefz kept us updated via a series of Tweets. While they were hoping to work out all the bugs by the end of the night, they didn’t quite make it and called it quits, and they plan on finishing it up today.

Jun

unrEVOked 2 Released – Install ClockworkMod Recovery On Your EVO 4G, Incredible, Desire, OR Aria

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Aria (Liberty), Desire (Bravo/BravoC), Development, EVO 4G (Supersonic), HTC, Incredible, News

The crew behind the original easy root for HTC EVO 4G and HTC Hero - unrEVOked - has released unrEVOked2 (UR2) – a tool that lets you replace your phone's (see below for supported models) stock Android recovery with the ClockworkMod recovery. ClockworkMod allows users to create nandroid backups, use custom ROMs, and otherwise customize the phone.

UR2 does not unlock the NAND on the phone permanently - it only does it long enough to install a custom recovery.

When coupled with the original unrEVOked, UR2 provides means to easily root (albeit without a permanent NAND unlock) and install ClockworkMod on all of these phones:

HTC EVO 4G
HTC Droid Incredible
HTC Desire
HTC Aria

Version 2, released today, adds the following features:

Mac OS X: Added support for 10.5, not just 10.6.

Jun

Developers: Pre-Order Unity3D Pro Game Engine For Android – Get A Free Nexus One

Posted by Andrew Huff in Apps/Games, Development, Games, News

Unity3D recently announced that pre-sales are going on for their Android version of their great 3D engine. Game developers who are still on the border as to whether or not they want to make the jump to Android or, if you already are developing for Android making the jump to Unity 3D, have a little more incentive now. Unity3D will give the first 500 Unity Pro for Android pre-sale orders a free Nexus One.

Free Nexus One

Yes you heard that correctly. The first 500 pre-sale orders for Unity Pro for Android will receive a free Nexus One phone.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – June 24, 2010 – Unity Technologies, provider of the Unity development platform for highly interactive 3D content on the web, iPhone, iPad, PC, Mac, Android™, Wii™, Xbox 360 and PlayStation®3, today announced that Unity Pro for Android is available for pre-order now at https://store.unity3d.com/shop/.

Jun

SimpleRoot - Fully Root Your HTC EVO 4G In One Click, Including Unlocking NAND And Flashing Recovery [Hands-On]

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Development, EVO 4G (Supersonic), HTC, News, Sprint

Last Updated: August 31st, 2010

This article mentions rooting and flashing of custom ROMs. If you’re unfamiliar with either term, hit up our primers here and here for additional information

This root does not work for Froyo. If you're reading this now, chances are very high that you already have Froyo or something higher, in which case stop and don't run steps from this method. For Froyo root, see this post instead.

Note: If your EVO software version starts with 1.47.651, we have an updated post with an updated SimpleRoot version right here.

EVO 4G owning ladies and gentlemen, if you've been waiting for a simpler full root that, unlike the first version of unrevoked, offers full write access to /system from within Android, you are in luck.

Jun

Droid X Internal Files Leaked - Boot Screen and Keyboard Ports Follow

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Development, Droid X (Shadow), Motorola, News

Some lucky new Droid X user has leaked a Droid X system dump (the phones internal files). As a result, you can now download anything found on the Droid X – wallpapers, ringtones, apps (such as the video editor, backup assistant, and photo app), and boot animations. Not only that, but the legion of Android hackers is hard at work porting various features from the X – such as the multi-touch keyboard (which has already been ported to the Incredible) and the boot screen.

Nicely done, everyone. Looking forward to seeing some of that stuff ported to the original Droid.

[Source: AndroidCentral Forums]

Jun

Latest Nexus One Froyo ROM Leak: FRF83

Posted by Ian Douglas in Development, Froyo 2.2, Nexus One (Passion)

Plain vanilla post folks, 'cause I don't have the time or means to make it as pretty as I usually would.

For those of you still holding out on FRF50, here's an update to the latest leaked ROM:

http://android.clients.google.com/packages/passion/signed-passion-FRF83-from-FRF50.38d66b26.zip

~~You CANNOT update to this FRF83 version if you have~~ ~~FRF72~~ ~~installed. You can ONLY update to this ROM if you have already updated to FRF50.~~

You can now update from FRF72 - see Update 3 below.

For instructions please check the original FRF50 post. I'll add more content to this post as I have it available to me, and time to make it pretty.

Jun

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HTC Aria Rooted Two Days After Release, Instructions Are Live

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Aria (Liberty), Development, HTC, News

This article mentions rooting and flashing of non-stock ROMs. If you’re unfamiliar with either term, hit up our primers here and here for additional information

After being out for just two days, the HTC Aria has been rooted. Turns out the method Android hacker and XDA-Devs forum member Eugene373 (you may remember him as the man who also rooted the MyTouch 3G Slide last Tuesday) used to hack the Slide works for the Aria as well.

The full root is a 19-step process, and while it isn’t exceedingly tricky, it isn’t simple either – first time rooters, beware. The root requires a Gold Card, and as with the MT3GS, the process involves booting the phone into recovery and then pushing the update onto the card, loading a .zip, and installing Superuser.

Jun

802.11n Available For Rooted EVOs And Incredibles, (Maybe) Officially Coming Soon To Incredible

Posted by Aaron Gingrich in Development, Devices By Manufacturer, EVO 4G (Supersonic), Incredible, News

As if the EVO and Incredible weren’t already great phones, it turns out both are capable of 802.11n.

Incredible

An FCC filing by HTC was posted a few days ago, revealing that the Droid Incredible packs a chip that supports 802.11n, though currently not supported by the OS itself. Speculation around the interwebs is that it means such support will be added in a future update from HTC. I’m slightly less convinced of this than the rest of the blogger-army, but more on that in a minute. Regardless, the Android-hacking community already came up with a way to enable 802.11n on the Incredible.

Jun

Samsung Galaxy S Already Rooted!

Posted by Artem Russakovskii in Development, Galaxy S, News, Samsung

This article mentions rooting and flashing of non-stock ROMs. If you’re unfamiliar with either term, hit up our primers here and here for additional information

Well, this didn't take long. A samdroid.net admin by the name of LeshaK just announced that he had rooted Galaxy S, after playing with the open source code released by Samsung earlier:

Now we have
1. Full Root access from adb
2. Root in terminal via 'su'

More detailed instructions are posted in the thread.

While I haven't seen anyone verify LeshaK's statement yet, if true, this is going to make the upcoming Galaxy S series phones twice as delicious - perhaps somebody will come up with a Froyo ROM before they are even released here in the US (Galaxy S is out in Europe).