We at Ausdroid have occasionally experienced this kind of remorse, and no, you dirty people out there, we’re not talking about regretting our Saturday night exploits. Rather, we’re talking about what happens if you’ve modified your phone and all of a sudden you need to rely on that precious warranty to get it fixed. If [...]

While the phone is yet to be released, and we do know that the Octa-core Exynos 5 CPU powered version of the device will not be available via official channels or carriers within Australia it is of great interest to many to find out that a pre-rooted ROM is already available via the XDA Developers [...]

Koushik Dutta, who you might remember from such popular root applications as ROM manager, Carbon Backup, as well as the ClockworkMod Recovery, has just today released his own, open-source superuser application to the Play Store. I can hear you asking now, ‘Why would I want yet another superuser application on my Android device?’ Well, let [...]

Earlier today, we posted about a security vulnerability that affects certain Samsung devices. True to form, some of the guys at XDA have posted a fix already. It isn’t perfect, but it’s better than nothing. It doesn’t require your phone to be rooted, and it’s completely reversible, but it might screw up your phone’s front-facing [...]

Those of you who were fortunate enough to order your Nexus 4 before the Play Store sold out last week will probably be receiving your devices from today onwards — in fact, we’ve heard that some people received them on Friday last week! As is common with Nexus devices, the issue of rooting one’s phone [...]

We heard a rumor a little while a go that the Galaxy S II would be getting a Jelly Bean Update around Q4 this year, well it seems as though you can download a near to perfect test release of Android 4.1.2 Jelly Bean for the Galaxy S II. SamMobile have some instructions for how [...]

There’s an uprising taking place in the Google Play Store and it’s aimed at the Google Play Movies app. People (read: savvy users) are pissed at Google for not allowing them to rent or buy videos just because their device is rooted. I myself can see both sides of the story — users want freedom; [...]

After reviewing the HTC One XL, I decided that I may as well root it seeing as though there’s currently no way to unlock the bootloader officially and unofficially. It was actually one of the easiest phones to root — at least it was for me. Just download the needed files, follow the instructions, and [...]

Android “hacker” extraordinaire, Chainfire, has already rooted the Samsung Galaxy S III, and it hasn’t even launched yet. Chainfire said he couldn’t release the insecure kernel he has that will allow root access, as it might be traced back to the helpful leaker. However, he did say that any serious developer could achieve the same [...]

Looking to root your brand new HTC One X that you just purchased from Optus, Vodafone, Crazy John’s, Virgin or outright from somewhere? Well you’re in luck. Paul at MoDaCo has released a method to root your brand new device, and it’s fairly simple and straightforward. We’re going to tell you right now we take [...]

We saw a boot.img yesterday which allowed root access to the Galaxy Nexus, albeit only temp root solution, but we will see a permanent root in the future once Developers start delving into files like the ones that Paul O’brien from MoDaCo supplied last night on his forum. Paul had advised that the files he’s [...]

We all knew it would happen sooner or later, the only real surprise is that it happened even before it was released, but the Galaxy Nexus has been rooted. Paul O’Brien, the founder of MoDaCo tweeted that they have put together Superboot which is a boot.img for your Nexus that when booted will root your [...]

And so it begins. Not so long ago Samsung sent a few lucky CM devs their latest and greatest creation, the Samsung Galaxy S II, their mission? develop, and this is what they have done. Starting now, you can get the first nightly, direct from the CyanogenMod mirror network. There are a few things to [...]