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The XDA Developers forum is a massive online community dedicated to trying new things on Android. They’re well-known for their comprehensive Android rooting and ROM flashing guides for virtually every ...

Among the 15 million developers, hackers, and tinkerers who visit XDA Developers every month, there’s a recurring joke that the site should just build its own smartphone. XDA hosts one of the largest ...

HONOR is now offering a limited number of bootloader unlock codes via the XDA forum. The HUAWEI sub-brand requires applicants to be a member of the forum to qualify for a code. The codes only apply to ...

While many of you continue your quest for an Eee Pad Transformer, some folks, predictably, have already figured out how to overclock it. Netarchy over at the XDA forum posted a custom kernel allowing ...

Android Honeycomb won’t be officially introduced until Google’s big event on February 2nd, but it’s already been hacked onto a tablet. And who else would be behind the hack other than a member of the ...

Many users of the Samsung Galaxy S6 and the Galaxy S6 Edge have been facing memory issues with their handsets. Now, an XDA Developers forum thread offers a possible fix for the problem. Samsung ...

In a continuing trend of ‘but does it run Android?’, enterprising folk over at the XDA-Developers forum have found a way to get LineageOS (the successor to CyanogenMod) installed and running on the ...

Just a few days after hackers figured out how to run unauthorized desktop apps on Windows RT tablets, a hacker on the XDA Developers forum has posted a download-and-click jailbreak tool for the ...

The F(x)tec Pro1 is one of the only modern smartphone to feature a physical keyboard. Soon it will also be one of the phones available with a choice of the Android-based LineageOS or Linux-based ...