Google’s Nexus 5 smartphone is the first to ship with Android 4.4 KitKat, and the stock software is pretty nice. But if you think you might want to install a custom ROM or custom recovery, it’s a good ...

The Nexus 7 tablet delivers Android 4.1 Jelly Bean at an affordable price and in an easy to root and unlock package. One of the best parts about owning an Android tablet is the ability to root the ...

The Nexus 5 is a Nexus. Of course I’m sure you figured that out. But what that means is that the device was meant to be easily hackable. This also means that you don’t have to go the OEMs website to ...

Cody has been writing with Android Police for ten years. While best known for the hundreds of APK Teardowns and breaking news on many of Google’s new products and services, he also covers deeper ...

Rooting: It is the final process to gain root access. The user can flash the SuperSU or Magisk to gain the root access. This is the procedure to root every Android device. We need to follow the same ...

If you run a Moto X or any of the DROID family of devices from 2013, or one of a handful of other devices from HTC from 2013, then you now have a way to unlock the bootloaders for those devices thanks ...

The Hisense A9 is an Android phone with a 6.1 inch, 1248 x 824 pixel greyscale E Ink display, a Qualcomm Snapdragon 662 processor, and support for up to 8GB of RAM and 256GB of storage. Unlocking the ...

No Android smartphone is safe from the community of developers, not even the recently launched Google Pixel and Pixel XL, as root images and the bootloader unlock for Verizon models are now available ...

We may earn a commission when you click links to retailers and purchase goods. More info. Rooting is becoming less of a necessity for Android phones and more of a luxury for those who want to tinker a ...

In a statement on the official Android developer blog, Google security engineer Nick Kralevich highlighted the relative openness of Google's new Nexus S smartphone, confirming that it provides a ...