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A few of you have asked me lately for the best and easiest way to flash the Moto X Pure 2015 to stock. You can flash the stock image manually, but there is a much easier method. The "Restore-To-Stock-Tool". The tool allows you to quickly and easily flash your Moto X back to the original stock...

Google has added a new secret feature "System UI Tuner" which allows you to make a small handful of changes to your UI. This feature is really in its infancy, and Google warns that it is beta and can cause things to bug out, but I am hoping that Google decides to do more with this in the future...

One of the new features in Android 6.0 is Google Now On Tap. When you long press your home button Google Now analyzes the information on your screen and gives you pertinent search results. This feature now also allows you to quickly share your screen. You may prefer for your long press home...

Now is the time to get those older devices sold. With seemingly everyone currently in the market for a new device for Christmas you should be able to get top dollar for your used devices. The LG G4 should be a hot seller as it is only a few months old. If you are looking to replace your LG G4...

Bootloader unlocking veterans probably did the same thing I did when they first got their Nexus 6P. Of course the first thing I wanted to do was get that bootloader unlocked and get TWRP installed. I plugged my 6P into my PC and proceeded to boot the phone into fastboot mode so I could unlock...

If you decided to skip the Galaxy S6 in favor of holding on to your Verizon Galaxy S5 you made a good choice! It took several months just to get the Verizon Galaxy S5 rooted. The Galaxy S5 community pulled their resources together pledging over $20,000 for a root method. Not long after the...

If you have been waiting for an easy way to update your Nexus 5 to Marshmallow your wait is over. Mark Skippen has just released an update for his Nexus 5 Toolkit which now includes support for Marshmallow. It even includes the a stable root method! If you don't have the Marshmallow stock image...

Periscope is the live streaming app that has taken the web by storm. Periscope has quickly grown their user base to over 10million users! Periscopers range from Movie Stars, to comedians, to bored stay at home moms. Periscope is so interesting because you can see what is going on in countries...

The Amazon Fire 5th Gen is finally rooted! The root method is actually pretty simple. All you have to do is download the zip file to a Windows PC/ or Linux, unzip the file, click install.bat and follow the onscreen prompts. Once you are rooted you can install the Play Store which gives you...

Samsung Pay is the game changing Mobile Payment service that allows you to use your phone at virtually any credit card payment terminal. It uses Magnetic Secure Transmission to simulate a card swipe. The only downside to this is that for security reasons you can't be rooted to use this feature...

TheRootNinja is the team behind S-Off and bootloader unlocks for most modern HTC devices and some Motorola handsets. They are most well known for their Sunshine S-Off development. They tweeted today that if you are looking to S-Off an HTC device you should do so prior to updating to 6.0. They...

The best part of owning a Nexus device is the ease at which you can mod it! Rooting and Roming is super easy. If you are into that sort of thing you will be happy to know that RRO Layers Theming is now compatible with the Nexus 5X. You will need to be rooted with busybox installed, you need a...

If you have been able to install the latest and greatest version of Android, Android 6.0 Marshmallow, to your Nexus device you are probably waiting on a root method. A beta method is now available thanks to the work of ChainfireXDA! He recently informed us that he had passed the torch on to...

In the above video I show you how to change the color, style, and size of your SPen strokes. This is actually something that I personally overlooked in the first week of using the device. I figured that if I had overlooked maybe some of you have as well. As it turns out the SPen is pretty versatile.

If you are using the OnePlus 2 one big reason you may have purchased the device was to take advantage of custom roms like CyanogenMod. The bootloader of the OnePlus 2 is easy to unlock. TWRP is readily available for the device and you can easily install custom roms without having to worry about...

The number one reason I always return to Nexus devices year after year is their developer friendliness. These phones are meant to be Google's standard, and as such are a great development tool for app and game developers. This also means that these phones can't be locked down by carriers. The...

Football season is finally here! I personally love to watch football regardless of the team that is playing. I just love the sport! I have my favorite teams and those games matter more to me of course, but I just love to watch football in general! Even though I love football in this way there...

One of the best features of the Note 5 is the fingerprint scanner. It allows you to quickly gain access to your phone without having to input a pesky pin or pattern code. For some reason it wasn't super obvious to me that you can add multiple fingerprints. This is great because it means that you...

This is how I wish all OEMs would sell their phones, direct and without carrier interaction. I have no idea why all OEMs will not adopt this policy of inserting every radio for every carrier and then just selling their phones carrier unlocked. When you buy an unlocked device from an OEM it comes...

One huge complaint from power users is the inclusion of Bloatware on carrier version phones. The worst case of bloatware on the phone has to be the Lenovo K3 Note. The bloatware on this phone was so ridiculous it nearly ruined the device for me. Verizon has been pretty bad about including bloat...