September 13, 2011
I rooted my Samsung Galaxy S2 today and the actual rooting process went great. Afterwards I made a complete NANDroid backup with ClockworkMod Recovery and I also did a backup of all my apps with Titanium Backup – since I now enjoyed root access Titanium could also backup all the Market links. However, after I [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Boot, Boot into recovery, ClockworkMod Recovery, CWM Manager, Guide, Recovery, Recovery mode, Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy SII, SGS2, Tips
![How to root the Samsung Galaxy S2 [Tutorial]](http://www.techcredo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/how-to-root-samsung-galaxy-sii-100x100.jpg)
September 13, 2011
Here’s a no-frills and fool proof guide to rooting the Samsung Galaxy S2. The SGS2 is a great smartphone and it’s even better with root access. Let’s rock. 1) Download Odin3-v1.85.zip from the xda-developers forum and extract it on your computer to the folder of your choice. 2) Now you need to grab the correct [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged CF-Root, CWM, CWM Manager, Guide, Instructions, Odin3 v1.85, Root, Root access, Rooting, Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy SII, SGS2, Tutorial
![The best, easiest and safest way to root and S-OFF the HTC Sensation [Tutorial]](http://www.techcredo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/how-to-root-the-htc-sensation-100x100.jpg)
September 10, 2011
To prove that TechCredo isn’t dead and that it just has been hibernating for a few months, here’s a guide to root the HTC Sensation. It also describes how to S-OFF the Sensation and install ClockworkMod Recovery. There are tons of different tutorials on the interwebs for rooting HTC’s flagship Android and it can be [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged ClockworkMod, ClockworkMod Recovery, Guide, How to, How to root HTC Sensation, HTC Sensation, Instructions, Root, Root access, su-2.3.6.3-ef-signed.zip, Superuser access, Tutorial
February 19, 2011
To change the homescreen wallpaper is of course the easiest and most popular way of customizing an Android device. I usually copy entire folders with wallpapers in them from my computer to the Images folder on my Android’s SD card, and TechCredo hosts many large wallpaper collections. But there are several excellent apps in the [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Reviews, Wallpapers | Tagged Android, Backgrounds, Best, Grallery, Top, Wallpaper apps, Wallpapers, Zedge Ringtones & Wallpapers
February 17, 2011
I already discussed this in my Motorola Atrix post in early January, but I’m so excited about the possibilities of these recently announced systems-on-chips (SoC) and how they in due course will change the way we use computers. I don’t think many people realize it now — a better way of putting it is perhaps [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Random Tech | Tagged ARM Cortex A9, Computer chips, Convergence, Docks, Future of computing, GPUs, Mobile chips, Mobile processors, Nvidia, Power VR, Project Kar-El, Qualcomm, Series 6 Rogue, Snapdragon, SoC, Stark, System-on-chip, Tegra, Tegra 3, Texas Instruments, TI, TI OMAP 5
February 5, 2011
Every time I’ve flashed a vanilla Android ROM on my HTC Desire, there hasn’t been a picture for “Me” in the native Messaging app. In other words, the little contact photo box next to my own messages in conversation lists has always been gray. Even though I had set a contact picture in Gmail and [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Android, Contact photo, Conversation list, Default, Gmail, Grey, Me picture, Messaging app, Native, Set phone number, SIM, Vanilla
February 5, 2011
I recently started running Gingerbread again on my HTC Desire, instead of the custom Android ROM MIUI. I love Android 2.3, but one of the things I really miss is MIUI’s native file manager that could turn my SD card into an FTP server with the simple press of a button. I had gotten used [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Android apps, Dave Revell, File management, FileZilla, FTP server, How to, MIUI, SD card, SwiFTP, Transfers, Tutorial, Wi-Fi, Wireless
January 31, 2011
Many of us believe that the web-based version of the Android Market lacks several key features it should have had from the start. Grandmaster G has promised a big update, so hopefully we’ll see some major improvements soon, including a feature that will push apps from the Market website directly to our phones. It’s good [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides | Tagged Android app sites, Android apps, AndroidAppolo, App discovery, AppAware, AppBrain, Discover apps
January 29, 2011
Have you ever gotten that mildly heartbreaking “SD card damaged / You may have to reformat it” message on your Android phone? Alas, I’ve seen it quite a few times on my HTC Desire. I don’t know if it’s the actual device that causes the error, my 16GB SD card or even Android itself. I’m [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials
January 25, 2011
There are certainly Android apps that are more cool, innovative and advanced, but these are the 20 applications I use the most from day to day. The list may be a bit boring, predictable and familiar, but the most practical apps are often less exotic. Games aren’t included in this list, and neither are native [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Guides, Reviews | Tagged Android apps, Essential apps, List, Most used, Top 20
January 19, 2011
The single most common question TechCredo gets is easily “what’s the name of that awesome clock widget?” The clock people ask about is featured in several of the live wallpaper demo videos and in some of the Android screen shots on TechCredo. I try to leave a reply whenever the question is asked, but now [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Reviews | Tagged Android, Beautiful Widgets, Clocks, Epic-Justice, LevelUp Studio, Themes, Top themes, Weather apps
January 15, 2011
One of the main benefits with having root access on an Android device with a limited amount of internal storage such as the HTC Desire, is support for A2SD+. Of course, with root access, you also gain full control over your phone, can install a bunch of great apps only available to root users, and [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged A2SD+, Android, ClockworkMod, EXT2/3/4, GParted, Guide, How to, Linux, Partitions, Recovery, ROM Manager, Tutorial, Unetbootin, USB flash drive, Windows, x86
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