November 24, 2012
Google Now is a great new Android feature that was introduced with Jelly Bean back in June. It was recently named Innovation of the Year by the magazine Popular Science and it’s part of the Google Search app. I personally don’t have Google Now turned on since I currently don’t have much use for it, […]
Posted in Android, Guides and tutorials | Tagged Celsius, Fahrenheit, Google Now, Guide, How to, Temperature, Tutorial, Weather
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, Guides and tutorials | Tagged Boot, Boot into recovery, CWM Manager, ClockworkMod Recovery, Guide, Recovery, Recovery mode, SGS2, Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy SII, 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, Guides and tutorials | Tagged CF-Root, CWM, CWM Manager, Guide, Instructions, Odin3 v1.85, Root, Root access, Rooting, SGS2, Samsung Galaxy S2, Samsung Galaxy SII, 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, Guides and tutorials | Tagged ClockworkMod, ClockworkMod Recovery, Guide, HTC Sensation, How to, How to root HTC Sensation, Instructions, Root, Root access, Superuser access, Tutorial, su-2.3.6.3-ef-signed.zip
March 2, 2011
The Android Debug Bridge, usually referred to as ADB, is a command line tool with the purpose of controlling an Android device from a computer via a USB link. The ADB command comes bundled with the Android SDK (Software Development Kit) that developers need to make apps for the platform. You can do all sorts […]
Posted in Android, Guides and tutorials | Tagged ADB, Android, Android Debug Bridge, Apps, Delete, Guide, HTC Desire, How to, Preinstalled, Push, Remove, Tutorial
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, Guides and tutorials | Tagged A2SD+, Android, ClockworkMod, EXT2/3/4, GParted, Guide, How to, Linux, Partitions, ROM Manager, Recovery, Tutorial, USB flash drive, Unetbootin, Windows, x86
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, Guides and 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 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, Guides and tutorials, Android Basics | Tagged Fede, Federico Carnales, Guide, Homescreen replacements, How to, LP Shortcuts, LauncherPro, LauncherPro Plus, LauncherPro tutorial, 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, Guides and tutorials, Android Basics | Tagged Android, Android 2.2, App 2 SD, Apps2SD, Froyo, Guide, How to, Install apps to SD, Memory Card, Move to SD Card, SDMove, Tips, Tutorials, setInstallLocation 2
September 2, 2010
Nokia’s Symbian powered devices may still often have better cameras than Android phones, but since you’re basically stuck with the default camera application on Symbian, Android gets the upper hand nonetheless. There are excellent camera apps on the Android Market that are state-of-the-art, cool as heck and make taking great looking photos more easy, fun […]
Posted in Android, Guides and tutorials, Android Basics, Reviews | Tagged Android Camera Apps, Camera Apps, Camera Software, Cameras, Effects, Guide, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Real-time effects, Top 5, Vignette
July 19, 2010
I recently checked out a port of Samsung’s TouchWiz: the launcher that is featured on the Android powerhouse Samsung Galaxy S. The port, courtesy of xda-developer’s member rolle3k, is mainly intended for the Nexus One, although it worked fine on my HTC Desire as well. I loved the look of the icons in the app […]
Posted in Android, Guides and tutorials | Tagged Android, Force Close Loop, Guide, How to, Safe Mode, Tutorial
June 4, 2010
I have been a huge fan of emulation on phones ever since I discovered Vampent’s flawless Nintendo emulators for Symbian back in 2006. They couldn’t have worked any better on my device at the time, the Nokia N73, and I loved the idea of having hundreds and hundreds of games in my pocket from all […]
Posted in Android, Games + Emu, Guides and tutorials, Android Basics | Tagged 8-bit, Android, Apps, Atari, C64, Commodore C64, Emulation, Gaming, Genesis, Guide, How to, MAME, Mega Drive, N64, Nintendo, Old-school gaming, Retro, Sega, Tutorial, Video Game Consoles, ZX Spectrum, yongzh
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