If, like me, you dislike HTC’s Sense Home and use a different launcher, you will notice getting directly to different settings screens is a much longer process. Changing the lockscreen icons, for example, requires re-launching HTC’s Sense Home, tapping the “Personalize” icon and selecting the lockscreen options. ADW (and other launchers) has a way of [...]
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Root a G1 running Android 1.6 without recovery!
This weekend I finally got myself a native Android powered telephone. I say native as I had previously ported a version of Android (2.2) on my old HTC TyTN II (natively Windows Mobile 6.5). Immediately I had two tasks to undertake.. one was to unlock it (ebay, 20min wait and voila), the second was to [...]
Part III – Device not compatible – Skype on 3
Following on from Part II where I discussed installing Skype on a Windows Mobile Device, in recent months I have moved over to Android and once again found myself in a similar situation as before. Skype on 3 was not supported for my mobile device (No wonder, since it’s the same phone with an Android [...]
Don’t wait, get Swype now!
Swype is an app for Android which enables users to use their on-screen keyboard in a whole new way. By dragging your finger across the keyboard over the letters in the word you want to write, Swype will recognise the characters and in turn the word you’re spelling which helps to speed up your day-to-day [...]