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The days have come and gone where a great percentage of Android users rooted their phones to get access to features like screenshots, wireless hotspots, and first access to new updates and features. I had my G1 all the way up to Android 2.2 before I moved on to a different phone.

PdaNet is the most popular and reliable app to help you tether (push your phone’s internet to your computer) via a USB cable from your Android phone. Naturally you can expect that the internet isn’t going to…

My dad saw the power of my rooted phone to run an app called aNet Share which turns your phone into a “secure” wireless router (it saved us 20 bucks a day paying for wifi in the hotel we were staying at) but wondered what the other advantages of rooting were…

Brandon & I have been looking at the latest in Custom Roms since JF is no longer working. In the last week we have both updated to the most recent stable version of Cyanogen’s Build and we have partitioned our SD Cards to increase memory space and speed up the phone. So far so good. We are going to work on a new set of instructions to root your phone and a new set of instructions to update to Cyanogen if you

Getting root on your phone involves exploiting a security hole that existed in an early version of Android. The versions with the security holes are known as RC19, RC28, and RC29 (or RC7 or lower for UK phones). As of RC30 (RC8 on UK), Google patched the security hole so that your phone can not be rooted (don’t worry, we can still root it!).