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Question of the Day: Would You Buy a Phone That Developers Won’t Support?

Tim March 21, 2013 224

With a recent story about one of, if not the largest custom ROM development teams for Android, possibly not having major support for the upcoming Galaxy S4 smartphone from Samsung, does this affect potential device buyers? For example, only a few months ago I...

It’s Time to Submit Your Suggestions for Custom ROM Friday

Tim March 21, 2013 64

It's Thursday, which means it is time once again to submit your suggestions for tomorrow's Custom ROM Friday. CRF is the perfect time for developers to grab the spotlight and show off what they are bringing to the community. With the number of ROMs growing, it...

Developer Ports Sense 5 ROM to DROID DNA, BlinkFeed in All of Its Glory

Tim March 12, 2013 15

A developer on XDA has been hard at work, porting HTC's newest Sense 5 software to the DROID DNA. Currently, it has some bugs that need working out, but nothing that makes it unusable. For instance, if you had big hopes for HTC Zoe on your DROID, that is...

CyanogenMod 10.1 M2 Builds Running Android 4.2.2 Now Up Flashing

Tim March 4, 2013 45

Today, the newest official builds of CyanogenMod are now up on their servers for flashing. These 10.1 M2 builds run the latest Android 4.2.2 code, bringing the newest Android goodies from Google and tons of custom features, much like you would expect from Team...

Custom ROM Friday: Jelly’Beans’ for the Verizon Galaxy Note 2 and MMuzzyROM for the Galaxy Nexus

Tim March 1, 2013 90

It's Friday, Friday, gotta flash ROM's on Friday! Well, now that you all hate me for getting that stuck in your head, let's start talking geeky ROM goodness. Today, we are featuring custom ROM's for the Galaxy Note 2 on Verizon and the Galaxy Nexus on Verizon....

We’re Now Taking ROM Submissions for Custom ROM Friday!

Tim February 28, 2013 76

Last week's user-submitted Custom ROM Friday went so smoothly, we're doing it again! With so many different phones and tablets out there, we know it's easy to have some great work fall through the cracks and into the black holes of the Internet, so here is...

Friday Poll: Custom ROM or Stock?

Kellen January 18, 2013 136

After the original DROID had finished its run as the top Android phone on Earth and we started to see new phones touch down on what seemed like a weekly basis, we also starting seeing a dip in the development scene. With so many phones, it was tough to...

Custom ROM Friday: BAMF Paradigm for Verizon Galaxy Nexus

Tim August 10, 2012 98

It's an appreciated change of pace when a team of developers can simply state their goal. Over on the BAMF site, the developers intro the Paradigm ROM with, "When we set out to build this ROM, we wanted to keep the feel as stock as possible while adding as...