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What is Rooting on Android? The Advantages and Disadvantages “What is rooting? Why should I root my Android device?” These are common questions that I get asked quite often. Today’s lesson is to talk to you about both the advantages and disadvantages of rooting your Android devices. But before we get started, a word of caution: rooting or modifying your phone in any way will void your manufacturer’s warranty and possibly “brick” it.

How to Break Down the Barrier Between Your Android and Computer @Ph0Xy: FTP Server, its in the market and free @Ph0Xy: Personally, I have used FTPServer with my phone connected to my Wifi network alongside FileZilla on my PC. It works flawlessly. @Ph0Xy: I use DavDrive on the phone (Moto Droid), which sets up a WebDAV share on port 8888 of your phone. It supports upload and download, a configurable password, and using it is pretty much a matter of "hit the one big button in the middle of the screen". DOWNLOAD An Android Guide : These Are The Droids You’re Looking For Learn everything you want to learn about Android, for free! This Android Guide”, by author Matt Smith, is another free manual from MakeUseOf.com. Outlining the ins and outs of Android, this guide covers basic everything from basic usage to rooting your phone, and is a must-have if you use Google’s smartphone OS. Android is among the most influential operating systems crafted this century. Along with iOS, it has paved the way for mobile devices that offer an unprecedented level of functionality. Currently Android is the most common mobile operating system — and there’s no sign that its popularity will wane anytime soon.

UPDATE[7/22/12] The Beginners Guide !!! (NOOBS)[ALL IN 1 RESOURCE GUIDE] UPDATE[7/22/12] The Beginners Guide !!! (NOOBS)[ALL IN 1 RESOURCE GUIDE] Hopefully this will get some attention and help some people out before they dig that treacherous hole that they cant get out of and of course for the ever present (NOOBS) The guys that are brand new to Android and hit the ground running full speed with the itch to do something but just dont know what to do So with that said before you go junking up the forums asking for help. Do us all a big favor and USE THE SEARCH BUTTON!!!!!!

Supercharge Your Smartphone This Weekend Nobody should be using or recommending (I'm looking at you, Adam Dachis) "SMS Backup" Use "SMS Backup +" instead: [github.com] This is a fork of the Android backup tool SMS Backup, where development has stopped a while ago [December 2009]. The rise of mobile apps and the decline of the open web — a threat or an over-reaction? As the use of mobile devices continues to climb, the use of dedicated apps is also increasing — but is this a natural evolution, or should we be worried about apps winning and the open web losing? Chris Dixon, a partner with venture-capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, argues in a recent blog post that we should be concerned, because it is creating a future in which the web becomes a “niche product,” and the dominant environment is one of proprietary walled gardens run by a couple of web giants — and that this is bad for innovation. Dixon’s evidence consists in part of two recent charts: one is from the web analytics company comScore, and shows that mobile usage has overtaken desktop usage — an event that occurred in January of this year. The second chart is from Flurry, which tracks app usage, and it shows that apps account for the vast majority of time spent vs. the mobile web, an amount that Flurry says is still growing.

How To: Install ADB and Fastboot on your Windows computer for use with your Android phone Anyone that has ever tried to mod their Android phone has come across users telling other users to run various different ADB and/or Fastboot commands. The only problem is the average Joe has no idea what ADB and Fastboot are because, well, they aren’t your run-of-the-mill applications. I was completely lost myself when I first ventured into the world of Android. While yes, developer hubs like XDA-Developers do provide instructions on how to get ADB/Fastboot installed, there are so many convoluted guides out there, it is easy to throw one’s hands up in defeat. Hopefully this guide makes it simple and straightforward to get ADB and Fastboot installed on your computer. How to Replace Your Wallet with Your Phone Good article, but I think we're still a couple of years away from this being feasible en masse. Even when the NFC technology is built into phones, retailers will be much slower in updating their POS systems to support it. Plus, if your phone battery dies, you're kinda screwed.

[HOW TO] Root Coby Kyros 1126 ICS 4.0.3 (WorkInProgress) Hello, I'm a Coby Kyros 1126 user and as many of you all too, you might be having some sort of trouble trying to root the new update. I leave you with this simple and direct tutorial. I am, in no way, responsible for damages to your tablet.This tutorial is a WorkInProgress. 1-Click Cleaner Quickly Cleans Up Your Android Phone Nope. I am not referring to cleaning up your virus-infected phone, but if you are looking to clean up your cache and history to free up the storage space and system resources, 1-Click Cleaner allows you to do so easily. Regardless how big the storage space you have in your Android phone, if you do not maintain it, plenty of useless stuff (such as cache, app history, leftover files and folders after you have deleted the app etc) will pile up and affect the performance of your phone. If you have installed and uninstalled plenty of apps, it can be troublesome and difficult for you to go into your phone internal system to delete every single leftover and useless file. 1-Click Cleaner aims to make that process a breeze. After you have installed 1-Click Cleaner, all you need to one click (or should I say, one tap) to clean up your system. 1.

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