Tag Archives: ROM

Amiga Forever Essentials for Android promises to expand your emulation options

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There’s already a number of Amiga emulators for Android, but using them has so far required you to provide your own Amiga system files to actually get that emulation started. Cloanto’s set out to change that today, though, releasing its Amiga Fore…


Get an early look at Facebook Home with these leaked pre-release APKs

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Facebook Home’s making its official debut on the HTC First and a handful of big-hitting Android handsets this Friday, but MoDaCo has come across a trio of APKs which offer an early taste. The leaked APKs have been stripped from a pre-release HTC Firs…


Father hacks ‘Donkey Kong’ for daughter, makes Pauline the heroine

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When Mike Mika saw the disappointment on his daughter’s face when she realized Pauline wasn’t a playable character in Donkey Kong, he felt a call to action. Thankfully Mika happens to be a competent developer, and after a few late-nig…


CyanogenMod 10.1 M2 builds bring Android 4.2.2 base

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With Android 4.2.2 code hitting AOSP you had to think the CyanogenMod team would make quick work out of it. The folks behind the world’s biggest custom Android ROM have gotten CyanogenMod 10.1 to build M2, and that brings us all the latest and greatest code from both the official AOSP trunk and from the [...]


Sony shows it’s serious about Firefox OS, releases experimental ROM for Xperia E

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It’s been just two days since Sony announced that it’s developing phones to run Mozilla’s new Firefox OS, but the Japanese manufacturer has already released an experimental ROM for its Xperia E smartphone. The Xperia E is an u…


ROM Manager now supports TWRP, incremental ROM updates

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After slaving away at Carbon, the app sync and backup app, Koushik Dutta has turned back to his age-old classic ROM Manager to add some much needed features. For starters, TWRP — or, the TeamWin Recovery Project — is now supported, meaning ClockworkMod Recovery is no longer the only recovery you can use to jump [...]


Android Overload: Sony Xperia Z kernel source available, Canadian Bell Galaxy S2 to receive Jelly Bean, and more

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The Android Overload is where we feature the biggest news stories from throughout the day (see above video), as well as stash all of the stories/articles/news bits that didn’t make it onto our front page. But just because they weren’t featured doesn’t mean they aren’t worth taking a look at. In fact, there’s almost always [...]


CyanogenMod’s Chronus clock widget renamed to “cLock” after getting hit with C&D letter

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Well, that was quick. Last night the boys at CyanogenMod turned to the community to help with renaming their lockscreen clock widget — found on their popular custom ROM — after they were hit with a C&D letter (cease and desist) from someone claiming to own the rights to the name. Rather than get involved [...]


HTCRuu.com shut down at request of HTC, ROM files also in danger

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Some rather interesting news has come through the wire courtesy of the owner of HTCRuu.com. According to them, HTC contacted the owner in order to seize the domain and to remove all copyrighted HTC logos on it. The reasoning was simple — HTC felt users would get confused and mistake the website for a legitimate [...]


CyanogenMod continues M-Series builds with version 10.1

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CyanogenMod fans will be delighted to learn that the team has finally reintroduced M-Series builds for version 10.1 of its AOSP-based custom ROM. Development of M-Builds were temporarily suspended as the team worked on CyanogenMod 10.1, the Android 4.2 base which we’ve all been waiting for. The CyaogenMod team classifies an M-Series build as a [...]