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The LG G5 has been ROOTED! Team Codefire has uploaded a video showing the LG G5 give rooted app root permissions. The video then goes on to show the phone boot into Team Win Recovery Project. The team has made it pretty clear that they do not have an ETA . While their phone is rooted chances...

When you intend to mod your devices you always have to be mindful of what an update will mean for mods on your phone. Many times OEMs and carriers will patch known root methods as they work to make their devices more secure. Normally when they do this the remove the ability to roll back to a...

The Android N Developer preview has only been out for a few weeks. Of course Chainfire had it rooted in a matter or hours, but it seems that many root users are having problems with specific root apps. Chainfire has offered his explanation of why. According to Chainfire the reason these...

Lions, and Tigers, and Bears, OH MY! This is exactly what I thought of when I read the click bait title. Of course we have another lab created vulnerability that could in theory cripple your Android device. The vulnerability does exist in Millions of Android handsets including some of the Nexus...

The new LG G5 will be released on April 1st according to LG, and we should see root for the device on day one. That is if JCase gets his hands on one. Many of you know Justin Case as the security expert responsible for bringing S-Off and Root to many of the HTC devices over the years as well as...

Don't do the happy dance just yet. This is for the Exynos version only. All US variants still have a locked bootloader and as such have no root method. If you are on T-mobile or AT&T you can more than likely grab an international version with an Exynos processor if you just have to have root...

Where there is a will there is a way. The V10 community has been longing for a root method since the phone released way back in October. A root method has finally emerged! Rooting the phone requires you to download a 1.6GB file which includes a few msi files and a rootedsystem tot file. You will...

If you root your device and have been doing so for a long time then you know what root explorer is. Many root file explorers have come along since the hay day of Root Explorer however I some how find myself going back to Root explorer. It is just one of the most powerful root browsers around...

While the US variants of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge are totally locked down it seems that Exynos versions are not locked down at all. In fact TWRP is already available for the G935F, FD, X, and X8 variants! This means that you will be able to root the devices pretty easily by flashing SuperSU in...

In case you missed it all US variants of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge have locked bootloaders. This is a huge blow for those of us with high hopes of running AOSP on a Snapdragon processor. It was several years ago that CyanogenMod announced that they would not officially support phones with Exynos...

Chainfire has already released SuperSU for the Android N developer preview builds! This is still mostly untested and could cause bootloops, and crashes. Don't say you weren't warned if you decide to flash now. This has only been tested by Chainfire on the Nexus 5X so you could wait for other...

A few weeks ago Google included a patch in their security update which blocked all rooted devices from using Android Pay. It even blocked those devices that were using Xposed Mods. There is apparently a way to bypass the "SafteyNet" checks placed into the latest updates. "jgummerson" posted the...

Wow who knew that their have already been 80 versions of Xposed Framework. These developers have really kept themselves busy! The latest update includes mainly bug fixes. The update fixes some bootloop issues on Android 6.0 especially on LG devices. Bootloop issues on Mediatek devices have been...

The $200 super budget phone from Huawei has just gotten a bit better. I reviewed this phone a few days ago. So far out of all the phones I have used in this price range the Honor 5X is my favorite. Obviously it cuts a few corners to get to $200 like no OIS, no nfc, and last gen wifi radios, but...

FlashFire is the app by ChainFire that allows you to flash roms, wipe data, make backups all straight from your device without having to boot into recovery. This is kind of the younger brother of Mobile ODIN except it is way more versatile. FlashFire has been updated to v0.26. With the update...

Earlier today I published my full review of the Honor 5X. Considering the price point this is one of the best phones your $200 can buy hands down. The one major problem I had with the device is the Emotion UI skin overlay. It is super heavy and just tends to bog things down. One way you can fix...

The good old days of needing to run a custom rom to get custom features on your Android device have all but passed us by. These days all you really need to get custom features on your phone is root and the Xposed Framework. Pretty much every feature found in roms from yester year can be found in...

Android Pay is one of the most convenient ways to pay for goods and services ever for those with NFC enabled devices. Just simply tap your phone to a compatible kiosk and you are done. Root broke this for many, but the Systemless root method by chainfire bypassed the root restriction. The fact...

Several weeks ago Samsung decided to launch a beta program for testing out Marshmallow 6.0.1 on the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge in certain markets. Pretty quickly the beta build hit the net and was flashable through Odin. Yesterday developer "eltoffer" decided to release a prerooted version of the...

The Huawei Mate 8 can now be rooted! In order to root the Mate 8 you will need an unlocked bootloader. There are a few ways to go about this. The legit OEM method requires you to Make a Huawei ID and stay logged in for 14 days before being able to unlock the bootloader through their developer...