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The Galaxy Note Edge had its 15 minutes of fame as the first device to show off Samsung's ambitious Edge display. With only one Edge it was actually able to keep the stylus and the consumers reaped the benefits. Some brushed off the Note Edge as a gimmicky device with no real extra uses, but for...

Earlier today I published my full review of the Honor 5X. Considering the price point this is one of the best phones your $200 can buy hands down. The one major problem I had with the device is the Emotion UI skin overlay. It is super heavy and just tends to bog things down. One way you can fix...

The good old days of needing to run a custom rom to get custom features on your Android device have all but passed us by. These days all you really need to get custom features on your phone is root and the Xposed Framework. Pretty much every feature found in roms from yester year can be found in...

The OnePlus 2 is pretty popular in the dev and mod community because the OEM that produces it is incredibly developer friendly. Their OnePlus One was one of the first to run Cyanogen natively. The follow up device runs Oxygen OS which is a custom rom by some of the former leadership of the...

Sony does a pretty good job of sticking closely to stock Android. They are also pretty big on providing developer friendly devices. If you want a fully stock experience though you will need to resort to running a Rom. Sony has been working on concept roms for their devices for a while now. They...

The Pixel-C is the highly acclaimed convertible Android tablet. It runs stock Marshmallow Android, but if you are a modder you will be happy to learn that there is now a working TWRP custom recovery available for the tablet. This is unofficial, but is said to be stable enough to use. The only...

One of the easiest ways to update to the newest Android firmware from whatever firmware you are currently running including custom roms is to flash a stock rooted rom. For years Scott of ScottsRoms has been providing us with some of the best stock roms around. He is most well known for his Clean...

As much as I love stock Android on the Nexus 6P I am a flashaholic at heart. This is one of the biggest reasons I love the Nexus 6P is the ability to easily unlock the bootloader and run custom roms. CyanogenMod 13 is officially available for the 6P. This includes all the standard Marshmallow...

Cyanogen is working hard on preparing a stabilized version of CM13 for the multitude of supported devices to be released by the end of January. In anticipation of this release CM has readied the rom for localization. Translators are now able to begin their work on getting the whole system...

The Yu Yunique is a budget phone that has been very popular in emerging markets. The device has gained popularity thanks to CyanogenOS which it runs as its stock firmware. CyanogenOS is still on Lollipop, but you can actually run the latest build of Android Marshmallow 6.0.1 security patches and...

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...

YU devices are among the most popular devices in Asia. They have made a name for themselves by supporting custom rom developers and really embracing the custom rom community. Some of their more recent devices have included CyanogenOS as the stock rom. Yesterday they announced the Android M AOSP...

The Galaxy Note 5 is one of the fastest Galaxy devices ever. Samsung finally put all the pieces together to give us a lag free touchwiz experience. That being said I have owned the Note 5 since release date. As time has passed the Note 5 has slowed down considerably. Roms are one great way to...

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...

It may not sound like big news, another device gains Cyanogenmod support, but trust me this is big! Cyanogen has officially stated that they would not support devices with Exynos chips. The reason being is that Samsung does not do their due diligence to provide developer with the source code...

Welcome to Cortex! This is based on the current Developer Preview. I modeled this after how I have my device set up. Sizable feature list, and will have, as of the time of release, the most current apps available (select apps). Features: - Pre-rooted with SuperSU 2.78-SR5 - Includes Busybox...

Some people love Touchwiz while others absolutely despise it. I personally have grown to tolerate the Samsung overlay. In the beginning I hated touchwiz. It was heavy and slow. With faster processors, more ram, and Samsung's ability to put out a phone without 10GB of bloatware touchwiz is now...

Harnessing the power of the custom rom means you will be able to run the latest and greatest version of Android on your smartphone for years to come! While Roms have seen their pinnacle and recent decline in popularity I hope their is a facet of users that keep them going. With Roms you can...

We are only a few days past the official release of the Nexus 6p and we already have a couple of Roms for the device! For now the available roms are pretty much slightly modified versions of the AOSP Stock rom. Nexus6PAnglerM is a rom based on the MBD08X odexed factory image. The app has been...

The Omni Rom brings a stock Android experience to your device. As they put it, "it's not better it's just different." The rom has just been updated to Android 6.0 Marshmallow on the OnePlus One. This rom brings optimization and some customization options. It's pretty awesome that the dev...