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
![The Motorola Atrix and its docking solution might have been the coolest things at CES 2011 [videos]](http://www.techcredo.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/motorola-atrix-100x100.jpg)
January 10, 2011
TechCredo isn’t about bringing the latest news; it’s more about documenting and listing the coolest things in mobile technology – the truly innovative stuff, stuff that’s impressive enough to even geek out a hardened tech geek. Such as the recently revealed Motorola Atrix superphone running Android that also can serve as a desktop and netbook [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Motorola, Videos | Tagged Android, CES 2011, Convergence, Demo, Hands-on, Linux, Motorola, Motorola Atrix, Tegra 2, Videos, Webtop
January 8, 2011
Almost two years ago, when even Android 1.5 Cupcake hadn’t been released yet, Russian über phone insider Eldar Murtazin labeled Android 2.0 “pretty sad”, but version 3.0 of the platform “fantastic”. Apparently, Eldar dropped those comments after having viewed closed demos of Honeycomb as it looked back then at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Videos | Tagged Android 3.0, Andy Rubin, Demo, Eldar Murtazin, Google, Honeycomb, Interface, Matias Duarte, Preview, Promo, Tablets, UI, Videos
December 15, 2010
TechCredo has already praised MIUI to the skies – the ROM from a group of Chinese developers that has taken parts of the Android community by storm since the beginning of the fall 2010. The MIUI team has arguably done more with Google’s platform and taken it further, in a much shorter period of time, [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides | Tagged Access, Features, File explorer, File manager, FTP server, MIUI, MIUI ROM, SD card, Wi-Fi
November 7, 2010
Hardware keyboards on handsets have been a priority for me personally, for obvious reasons such as quick and convenient text input, but also to aid gaming and emulation. Still, my last two devices, the HTC Hero and Desire, have both been all about the touchscreen. And thanks to great software keyboards like those on this [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Reviews | Tagged 8pen, BlindType, Dasher, HTC IME, HTC Keyboard, On-screen keyboards, SlideIT, Soft keyboards, Software keyboards, SwiftKey, Swype
November 5, 2010
LauncherPro is the most popular homescreen replacement for Android, mainly due to its speed, look, flexibility and ever-expanding set of features. Another benefit of LauncherPro is that it’s easy to customize and personalize the app. Users can make their homescreens look unique, and this post shows how to customize LauncherPro with docks, icons and wallpapers. [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Customization, Desktop Visualizer, Docks, Icons, LauncherPro, LauncherPro customization, LauncherPro Plus, Personalization, Tutorial, Wallpapers
October 31, 2010
Last month, a heavily skinned and customized version of Android 2.2 from a team of Chinese developers made a splash in the Android blogosphere. It’s called MIUI, and it takes the best from Froyo, Samsung’s TouchWiz interface and iOS, and transforms the various elements into something quite unique that has managed to make many people [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides | Tagged Android, Custom ROMs, Customization, iOS, MIUI, MIUI features, MIUI ROM, MIUI v10.29, Modding, ROMs, TouchWiz, webOS, xda
October 31, 2010
The solution in one sentence: it’s most likely the .android_secure folder in the root of your memory card that’s causing the Market errors, where Android 2.2 and above stores all apps installed to the SD card – deleting it and starting over might solve the issues. A more detailed explanation and other popular solutions below. [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged .android_secure, Android Market, Download unsuccessful, How to, Installation unsuccessful, Market issues, Solution, Tutorial
October 26, 2010
Swype is probably the most hyped, loved, and fun and innovative input method to have hit mobile devices since T9 (Text on 9 keys). If you haven’t heard of Swype yet, check out the demo video at the bottom of the post. However, Swype for Android is still in closed beta for some reason, even [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Android, Guide, How to, How to install Swype, Multilanguage Swype, Multilingual, On-screen keyboards, Swype, Swype 1.6, Swype v1.60.36.8214, Tutorial, v2.15.56.14870
October 26, 2010
Setting a new default on-screen keyboard on Android might be too easy to warrant a tutorial, but while the process on HTC Sense devices indeed is uncomplicated – it’s not that obvious. There are many great Android software keyboards to choose from now, such as the groundbreaking Swype, as well as SwiftKey, BlindType that Google [...]
Posted in Android, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Android, Android on-screen keyboards, How to, HTC Keyboard, On-screen keyboards, SwiftKey, Swype, Top Software, Tutorial
October 23, 2010
LauncherPro became one of the most popular homescreen replacements for Android in just a matter of weeks after its initial release in May 2010. It currently has an average rating of 4.69 in the Market based on almost 100 000 reviews. It’s easy to see why: the app is fast, powerful, very customizable and foremost [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Fede, Federico Carnales, Guide, Homescreen replacements, How to, LauncherPro, LauncherPro Plus, LauncherPro tutorial, LP Shortcuts, Swipe gestures, Tips, Tricks, Tutorials
September 18, 2010
Got 2.2 Froyo running on your Android yet? Good. Now let’s move some apps to the SD card and free up precious internal storage! To install an app to the SD card on Android Froyo, the application itself is supposed to support it first. Furthermore, Froyo installs all new apps on the internal storage by [...]
Posted in Android, Android Basics, Featured Posts, Guides, Tutorials | Tagged Android, Android 2.2, App 2 SD, Apps2SD, Froyo, Guide, How to, Install apps to SD, Memory Card, Move to SD Card, SDMove, setInstallLocation 2, Tips, Tutorials
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