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The Nexus Root Toolkit is still the easiest way to Root your phone. It also does things like unlock your bootloader, install custom recovery, and flash stock images to unbrick your phone. The utility is able to find and download pretty much anything you need so this is a one stop shop for...

The Huawei Mate 8 was shown off at CES the other day. It basically looks like a Nexus 6P with a janky Android overlay. Huawei's EMUI is not my favorite with its heavy theming and lack of an app drawer. It can quickly become a mess depending on how many apps you have installed on your phone. If...

The Mskip Nexus toolkit has just been updated for the Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 5X, Nexus 6P, Nexus 7, Nexus 9, and Nexus 10. This update is available for those of you with the pro version of the toolkit as an update module. The update includes systemless root for Android 6.0.1. It also includes...

Xposed Installer is the one stop shop for customizing your rooted Android smartphone. With most Android phones running either Lollipop or Marshmallow these days the old theming of the Xposed Installer can seem a bit antiquated. There is now a version of the Xposed Installer that features a...

Center clock is the best way to view the clock on your status bar in my opinion. It may sound strange, but having the clock in the center can clean up the status bar and just make finding the time easier as the clock stands out being in the center of your notifications, and status icons. This...

If you are not familiar with CF-Auto Root just know that this is a method for rooting your device without having to go through the full method of unlocking your bootloader, installing recovery, and then rooting your device. CF-Auto Root keeps your device as close to stock as possible, and allows...

Unfortunately the Beta build of Marshmallow for the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge is only available for the UK variant. If you are willing to tinker around a bit you can actually run the Marshmallow Beta build on other variants. If you are able to get 6.0 loaded on your S6 or S6 Edge you can actually...

When you root your device there is only one way to know that the series of steps you took to get the job done actually worked.... you run the Root Check app. I mean I guess you could just try using an app that needs root access, but root checking apps are a quick and easy way to make sure you...

Xposed Framework is known as the golden ticket of customization on Android! This allows you to have pretty much every customization available for rom users without actually having to install a rom to your device. All you need for Xposed to work on your phone is root! Just a few weeks ago Xposed...

We are starting to get somewhere with the root bounty for the AT&T and Verizon variants of the LG V10! The bounty total has now reached more than $2500. Yesterday a couple more devs announced they would step up to the challenge. There are now more than a handful of devs working on this, and one...

The 5th Gen Amazon Fire is no flagship tablet, but is pretty good at doing what is made to do which is consume media. With root you can modify this tablet to make it even more useful. For starters you will be able to add the Google Play Store which means you will be able to use apps you have...

If you want a quick method to easily root your Nexus 10 the Root Toolkit by Mskip is one of the easiest ways. He has just added support for the latest Android update. This includes systemless root for installing SuperSU without having to flash a patched boot image. To obtain the update you will...

The HTC One A9 seems to have been quite the flop. It is HTC's mid tier offering for late 2015. It looks eerily similar to the iPhone 6s, however HTC will swear to you that Apple stole design ques from them when designing the iPhone 6. That is neither here nor there. One great thing about the A9...

A few months after Chainfire said that he would be taking a step back from supersu development his work on the app has seemingly not missed a beat. The last few updates install SuperSU without modifying the system since boot.img is being modified anyhow. The latest update to v2.61 will work with...

If you want to root your Nexus 6P you will have to forfeit the use of Android Pay. At least that used to be the case. There is now a custom rom that allows you to be both rooted and use Android Pay! The Chroma Rom gives you a mostly stock AOSP experience with some custom mods which help with the...

Rooting our Android devices is getting more and more difficult. The biggest change with rooting Android 6.0 Marshmallow is the need to flash a modified System image with the boot.img patch prior to installing the custom recovery and flashing the superuser.zip. Chainfire has already updated the...

The Nexus devices are always the first to receive the latest and greatest software from Google. Even older devices like the Nexus 5 generally end up getting the updates. Applying the update is not always the easiest for those of us who like to root and rom our devices. Accepting an OTA update is...

Hi all.. I am having some issues with both rooting and modding my build.prop. My ultimate goal right now is to have a stable root, on essentially stock rom, with a modded/bypassed native tether app (I have unlimited data and verizon blocks it). I am having issues with both processes, and if...

I have had the privilege of using the Zuk Z1 for the past few weeks. For a plastic budget phone this device is super sturdy and doesn't look or feel cheap. The best part is that this phone runs CyanogenOS natively. CyanogenOS is pretty great. It performs well and battery life is great. You also...

Unlocking the Bootloader on most phones is normally pretty simple. It simply requires that you boot the phone into fastboot and then run the "oem unlock" command. That won't work with the Zuk Z1. The reason for this is that the device does not show up as a fastboot device. You have to specifiy...