HTC HD2 and Nexus One get some Gingerbread crumbs (update: EVO, Droid and Desire, too)
With Gingerbread freely distributed to the open-source masses, it probably won't surprise you to hear there already a custom ROM for Google's darling Nexus One . But what if we told you Android 2.3 is now available for the HTC HD2 as well? That's right, the Windows Mobile 6.5 powerhouse can now snap off a sugary piece of the same Android code, and from what we hear in the XDA-developers forums, it works pretty decently, too.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one, Other Tags: entry, gingerbread, hack, hd2, motorola, motorola-droid, nexus, nexusone, relatively-easy, samsung, windows
Nexus S has been rooted, let the madness commence!
Our good friends at xda-developers haven't kept us waiting long. Root access on the Nexus S has been achieved on the phone's day of release , and full instructions for replicating it are available at the link below.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: 2.3, developers, entry, friend-via, gingerbread, hack, hacking, madness, mountain, result, rooted, view, xda
Toshiba TG01 slowly, surely gets hacked to run Android
It's easy to forget about the TG01 nowadays, but bear in mind that Toshiba's WinMo beast from last year was the first production phone in the world to use Qualcomm Snapdragon silicon.
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: capability, developers, hack, honored, htc, phone, silicon, snapdragon, surely-gets, tg01, toshiba, tradition, winmo, world
Windows Phone 7 gets user-friendly hack for bypassing the Marketplace, loading your own apps
Now that you've got your Windows Phone 7 device splayed open for USB mass storage use , why not make it friendly to non-Marketplace apps, too? Microsoft's been insistent so far about keeping sideloaded apps out of the equation unless you're a developer, but a new tool called ChevronWP7 -- compatible with Windows XP SP2 and up -- will "unlock" your little beast so that you can install whatever you like without going through the store.
Categories: Mobile Phone Tags: beast, engadget, equation, hack, iphone, microsoft, phone, sp2, windows
Dell Streak gets SNES controller dock, navigates owner through Yoshi’s Island (video)
Who'd have thought that a little thing like the inclusion of USB Host capabilities could open the door to such wonders as an SNES controller dock? That's exactly what we have here. The Dell Streak 's ability to work with standard USB keyboards has enabled it to also work with a suitably modified SNES controller, having had a cablectomy and the addition of a PDMI connector on top
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: after-the-break, engadget, entry, hack, handiwork, keyboard, mario, pdmi, Snes, supernintendo, usbhost, yoshi
Power mad modder rips the keys out of his Epic 4G, calls it a gamepad (video)
Sometimes a mod is more than just a mod: it's a manifesto.
Categories: Mobile Phone, Other Tags: apple, cosmetic, epic 4g, epic4g, factory-keypad, gamepad, hack, keys, power, reading, rips-the-keys, slider, touchscreen
T-Mobile G2 gets rooted, believe it or not
Who would've thought that a new Android device -- much less an HTC -- would get rooted? Quickly, no less? Okay, so this isn't the first piece of somewhat-obvious news we've had to report today, but it's newsworthy nonetheless: instructions are now online for obtaining root on your shiny new G2 , albeit temporarily
Categories: Android, htc, Mobile Phone Tags: current, engadget-mobile, entry, hack, hack-vanishes, htc, mobile, obtaining-root, result, shiny, Solution
Editorial: Firmware, forums, and desperation — the dark side of Android hacking
That picture above is no joke -- that's where I ended up last night trying to revive my Droid X review unit.
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: back-on-track, droid, droid x, entry, hack, motorola, nerve, result, safety, simple-process, wink
Nokia 5230 brutally overclocked to 800MHz
As overclocking hacks go, Nokia often takes a back seat to Windows Mobile and Android -- but why? In the year 2010, shouldn't we be showing these dusty 434MHz ARM11s some turbocharged mercy
Categories: Android, Mobile Phone Tags: battery, boy, entry, hack, hacks, mobile, result, stock, windows-mobile
HTC Desire HD ROM gets dumped, ported, chopped, and screwed… oh, and benchmarked
Lots of activity involving the just-announced HTC Desire HD in the past couple days, despite the fact that it's yet to be released anywhere -- and frankly, that's just the kind of can-do attitude from the dev community that we like to see.
Categories: htc, Mobile Phone, nexus one Tags: ace, benchmark, dev-community, hack, hd2, nexus one, operating, Reason, rom, similarity, snapdragon