Android smartphone users looking for more control over their devices have been rooting their phones and using software like SetCPU to manually adjust the processor speed for years. But now that dual, and even quad-core phones are becoming the norm, there’s another way to speed up your phone or adjust performance to improve battery life: decide how many processor cores should run at a given… Read more »

Just days after confirming that it’s possible to jailbreak and Apple device running iOS 5.1, pod2g has confirmed that the jailbreak also works on iOS 5.1.1. It’s already possible to jailbreak some devices running iOS 5.1.1, but there are two big differences in pod2g’s upcoming tool. First, it will support newer devices including the latest iPad and iPhone models. Second, it’s an untethered jailbreak, which means… Read more »

The CyanogenMod team has released a second release candidate of CyanogenMod 7.2 for a few dozen smartphones and tablets. CyanogenMod 7.2 RC2 is a custom version of Google Android 2.3 Gingerbread with a number of tweaks and special features including customizable lock screen and notification areas and a theme manager. While much of the development team’s work is now on developing a custom version of Android 4.0… Read more »

Shortly after Apple released iOS 5.1.1 users discovered they could jailbreak Apple’s latest operating system. But the current jailbreak tools only work on older iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad models — and it’s a tethered jailbreak which means you need to connect to a PC and run the software again every time you reboot. Now iOS hacker pod2g is demonstrating an untethered jailbreak that works on devices… Read more »

As promised the iPhone Dev Team has released a new version of the redsn0w jailbreak utility with one major new feature: You can now use redsn0w to downgrade any current iOS device to an earlier version of Apple’s operating system. There’s a new “restore” option in redsn0w 0.9.11b1 and later under the “Extras -> Even More” menu. In order for the restore function to work… Read more »

Samsung has started to push out an Android 4.0 software update for the Samsung Galaxy Note. Right now the update only seems to be rolling out officially in Germany — but xda-developers forum member Faryaab has repackaged the update so that you can flash it manually on any Galaxy Note. Keep in mind, you’ll probably void your warranty if you use Faryaab’s method — and… Read more »

An upcoming version of redsn0w will allow users to downgrade an iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad from one version of iOS to an earlier version. Redsn0w is one of the most popular tools for jailbreaking iOS devices, but the utility also includes a number of other tools which let you save SHSH blobs, get out of recovery mode if your phone or tablet is stuck,… Read more »

CyanogenMod is a popular Android-based operating system designed to run on dozens of phones and tablets. There aren’t any devices that ship with CyanogenMod. Instead you can unlock the bootloader on many Android devices and replace the default operating system with CyanogenMod. There are currently two main branches of the operating system. CyanogenMod 7 is based on Android 2.3 while CyanogenMod 9 is based on… Read more »

The HTC One X is one of the hottest smartphones around. It has a large 4.7 inch, 1280 x 720 pixel display, a fast processor, and a high capacity battery. It also uses the latest version of HTC’s Sense software, which blends in with Google Android 4.0′s default look and feel much better than earlier versions of Sense. Unfortunately while HTC offers official tools that… Read more »

Apple released iOS 5.1.1 today. It fixes a number of bugs in iOS 5.1, but doesn’t add any major new features. Unless you’ve jailbroken your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad there’s no reason not to upgrade. But if you do have a jailbroken device, upgrading to iOS 5.1.1 will remove your jailbreak. The good news is that you can already re-jailbreak Apple’s latest mobile operating… Read more »