January 26th, 2012 
Dustin Earley 
Could you imagine being throw in jail or fined thousands of dollars just for rooting or jailbreaking your own device? If the US Copyright Office doesn’t renew rooting and jailbreaking’s status as exempt from the laws of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), it could happen.
Back in 2010, the US Copyright Office ruled that [...]
January 26th, 2012 Eric In 2010 the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) was passed to help stem the ever present problem of copyrighting media in the digital age. The Electronic Frontier Foundation worked hard though to get a few exemptions to this bill, namely protectin…
January 26th, 2012 Chris Chavez The Android modding community is a great one all made possible by the tireless efforts of developers who seek to further enrich the Android experience by rooting and modding the software on their smartphones. Well, that whole ecosystem may soon be threatened with the expiration of the jailbreaking (and rooting) exemption law granted by the [...]
January 25th, 2012 Alex Dobie For those of you using two-step authentication for your Google account, a new update for the Google Authenticator app has just landed in the Android Market. Version 0.85 apparently fixes a few security bugs, and adds some UI improvements — though we …
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Tags: Applications, auth, authenticator, Bugs, custom roms, CyanogenMod, google account, google authenticator, hacking, Rooting, security, two-stage authentication 
No Comments » January 24th, 2012 Kevin Krause ASUS issued a quick update on the unlock/root tool for their Transformer Prime tablet, tweeting that the software should be delivered in February. ASUS promised the tool after users from the dev community discovered the slate shipped with a locked bootloader that prevented owners from installing custom versions of the Android operating system onto the [...]
January 24th, 2012 Quentyn Kennemer With new updates to devices often comes a breakage in any existing root method. Such was the case with the Transformer Prime but someone has posted what looks to be a pretty safe method after a rocky start. You might want to read through the full thread (7 pages as of the time of this [...]
Posted in News Tags: ASUS, Asus Transformer Prime, Developers, OTA Updates, Rooting, Tablets No Comments » January 24th, 2012 Quentyn Kennemer With new updates to devices often comes a breakage in any existing root method. Such was the case with the Transformer Prime but someone has posted what looks to be a pretty safe method after a rocky start. You might want to read through the full thread (7 pages as of the time of this [...]
Posted in News Tags: ASUS, Asus Transformer Prime, Developers, OTA Updates, Rooting, Tablets No Comments » January 24th, 2012 Quentyn Kennemer One of the most requested custom ROMs for the Samsung Galaxy S2 was MIUI 4 and it looks like our prayers have finally been answered. Developer adyscorpius from XDA has posted a “very stable” ROM and if what they say is true, I’d say that this is as stable as you could ask for out [...]
January 24th, 2012 Alex Dobie Two months after the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich source code dropped, we're starting to see more exotic custom ROMs appearing for popular devices like the Samsung Galaxy S II. One such ROM comes from XDA's adyscorpius, and brings MIUI 4.0 …
Posted in News Tags: Android 4.0, custom firmware, custom rom, Galaxy S II, hacking, Hacks, Ice Cream Sandwich, ics, miui, Rooting, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S 2, Smartphones, xda No Comments » January 24th, 2012 Alex Dobie Two months after the Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich source code dropped, we're starting to see more exotic custom ROMs appearing for popular devices like the Samsung Galaxy S II. One such ROM comes from XDA's adyscorpius, and brings MIUI 4.0 …
Posted in News Tags: Android 4.0, custom firmware, custom rom, Galaxy S II, hacking, Hacks, Ice Cream Sandwich, ics, miui, Rooting, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy S 2, Smartphones, xda No Comments »
