It’s easy (and all too common) to share negative stuff. But when something works perfectly or I get great advice/service from someone for my tech questions, I think it’s important to give credit where credit is due. Such is the case with Tim AKA QBKing77. This guy rocks! Though I’ve rooted two phones and two … [Read more…]
And every other step you need to transform and gain control of your stock ROM! Given the fact that T-Mobile and Samsung have made it clear that the Galaxy S Vibrant will not receive Gingerbread, Honeycomb, ICS, or any other functionality update, I made the decision that it was finally time to root my beloved … [Read more…]
(This is actually an older post from April 18, 2011 that I found unpublished) Rooting my tablet and experiencing the different flavors of Android and tablet functionality has been a great thing. It has also been a highly valuable experience in learning how to fix shit when I mess things up. This past weekend I … [Read more…]
Just a handful of months ago I was so happy with my newly-rooted Viewsonic G Tablet running CyanogenMod 7. It was so much better than out of the box and I was really happy. And then… app updates started happening AND jacking up performance. Now with the new market update it immediately force closes until … [Read more…]
Now that you have ClockworkMod Recovery 8 installed, you are almost there. There are many ways to install ROM’s on Android devices, but I find this one is the one that will work well with many of them on your device. Other methods don’t work well with particular ROM’s. And I think this one doesn’t … [Read more…]
In reference to my previously-purchased Viewsonic G Tablet from Woot, I now want to share the how-to’s of “rooting” my tablet. It took a bit of doing, but not because it’s hard to root. What took a bit of doing was getting it to be the way I wanted. Yeah there were a few technical … [Read more…]