Gadget & Mobile Phone Tips

The Ice Cream Sandwich has started its invasion to the second generation of Samsung famous phone, the Galaxy S II. However, it does not come in the form of official ICS. This time, the Galaxy S II users have a chance to taste the ICS through a port MIUI v4. This ROM has been made available for the Galaxy S II users by the XDA-Developers forum member adyscorpius. Mostly, the ROM is based on the CM9 ROM and is reportedly to become a stable ROM. However, despite there was positive news regarding to the ROM’s stability, there are still several bugs and issues appeared on this ROM. In case you are interested to try this ROM on your Galaxy S II, there are more information available you need to read regarding to the ROM. So read on this article to learn more about the ROM and find how to get this ROM installed on your Samsung Galaxy S II. Continue reading ‘Systematic Guide to Port MIUI v4 ICS ROM to Samsung Galaxy S II I9100’ »

Let’s see who is going to be the winner of today’s comparison between the new Huawei Ascend P1 S and the second generation of Galaxy S, the Samsung Galaxy S2. Therefore, why we don’t just start comparing these two Android running devices to see which phone is better than another. Let’s begin. Continue reading ‘Android Phone Battle – Huawei Ascend P1 S against Samsung Galaxy S2’ »

Good news for the Galaxy SL users as one of XDA-Developers forum member fuss132 has managed porting the MIUI ROM. The CyanogenMod 7 based ROM is now still in Beta version, so no wonder if there were broken features spotted in this ROM. However, much of the basic and main functionality still work properly among the broken features spotted on the ROM. Read on this article to find what is working or not working on the ROM and learn to get this ROM installed on the device. Continue reading ‘How to Port MIUI ROM to Samsung Galaxy SL’ »

As the Android fans have known, rooting an Android running device will open the gate of full customization of the device wide open. By gaining the root access, the Android device users are allowed to install custom ROM and root-only applications too. This time, we are going to share about how to root the LTE Version of the Galaxy Tab 8.9. If you were one of the users of such device, today could be your lucky day as one of XDA-Developers forum member Da_G has brought a solution for this. The rooting process involves ODIN to flash the kernel. So what do you think? If you were interested to root your tablet using this method, simply read on to this article. Continue reading ‘How to Root Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 LTE via ODIN’ »

Samsung Transform was first time available on the market with packing Google’s Android 2.1 Éclair, but then updated to higher version, the Android 2.2 Froyo. Good news to those who still got this phone as you guys have a chance to install custom ROM, it still becomes a good news despite the users are stuck with Froyo. However, in order to manage installing a custom ROM on your Samsung Transform, you need to root your device first. Rooting an Android running device is not only becoming an essential part of installing custom ROMs, but it has been also become a must thing to do for installing root only applications. If you owned a completely stock Samsung Transform and now are interested to root your device, simply read on this article to learn how to get everything done. Continue reading ‘Guide to Root Samsung Transform M920 on Froyo without PC’ »

In case you are one of Galaxy Nexus running on Ice Cream Sandwich users who bothered with inability of the OS to remove the Google Search bar on the device, good news for you as one of Android developers at XDA-Developer forum member named djmcnz has just released the solution for this. The solution involved a mod that is allowing the Galaxy Nexus owners to remove the search bar giving the owners a 4×5 grid, rather than the 4×4 originally. Read on this article to find out what does the mod offer and how does it work. Continue reading ‘How to Remove Search Bar in ICS on Galaxy Nexus and Enable 4×5 Portrait Grid’ »

Good news for the entire Nexus S 4G as the method to gain root access of your device without making your hand dirty with meandering ADB rooting method has been made available for your device. This time, rooting the Nexus S 4G will involve a Single Click Root. Regarding to the availability of this PC based rooting utility for Nexus S and Sprint Nexus S 4G, we should show our gratitude to Chris378 and the Android developer ShabbyPenguin for their generosity for sharing this with the entire Nexus S 4G users looking for this method. In case you have expected this method for quite a moment, simply read on this article then you will find out how to get everything done. Continue reading ‘Systematic Guide for Rooting Nexus S 4G using Single Click Root’ »