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Okay, so this is a script to backup the nandroids on your phone. Requirements: Linux (it's a bash script) USB mode for your phone I thought of this as kinda an automated process, so a cronjob. It seems to be working with both AMON RA and CLOCKWORKMOD recoveries. I sent it off to...

Fonts, Nandroids and Lost Data: A Cautionary Tale. Well, as a few of you may know, I've been on MikG3.0B2 for quite a while. Well, I was screwing around trying out the different fonts today... Then I decided that I like the default font a bit better, so I went back to it. Well, at first the...

Don't know if anyone heard about this, I guess it's like an implementation of SELinux for Android, supposedly developed by the NSA lol. It is supposed to prevent a lot of things, including privilege escalation. It also adds greater sandboxing of applications and prevents high level daemons...

I don't know how many of you tried this, but wow. I flashed this file this Sunday after downloading it Saturday. Wow. My gps picked up faster than ever, and more accurately than ever before. For full disclosure though, I feel I should say I did get my first random reboot in quite a while...

Tsk tsk to me. Looks like my last 6 months have been a little too much roaming. Now, to me the curious part is I have (in the past) gotten better signal in the summer. Seems this summer is not the case. Is it really my fault if sprint has been having network issues that cause me to roam...

Well, not sure if anyone else has heard, but Sprint is updating the Mobile Hotspot plan to be capped at 5G per month. Anyone have any idea how this will impact people using hacked hotspots? What about AOSP? Or wired tethering? Just wondering what you guys are thinking about this, I suppose we...

Disclaimer: I am rooted, running CM7, a 'pure' android version. I think this will still apply to all you sense folks out there ;) Feel free to move this thread if this doesn't apply to stock sense users, I think it would, at least conceptually ;) Vibrate no more! Automate Apps (sort of)...

Okay, I've got a couple of quick questions for you guys: 1. Anyone else having AdFree not quite work? I just downloaded it and got the updated hosts, SU and all that jazz. But many ads are still there. I noticed this last week with MikG 2.1/3.0 sense and now with Miui. Any ideas? If I had to...

Well, I have been pretty happy lately, using my phone to tether and whatnot... but then I got worried about data roaming and all that jazz. So I checked the data section of the sprint site for "my account", and it said Usage: XXX kb / unlimited for both Sprint Data and Sprint Roam Data. I was...

Okay, so I flashed CM7 (7.0.3.1) last night, and this morning I went use adblock, and it failed. Last night wireless tether (app) failed. All due to no root. I try term emulator, and SU failes. Don't have permissions. So, thinking my phone lost root I flashed back to Myn's. I have root...

Does anyone know if it is possible to disable the vibration when moving a widget/icon on the homescreens on sense based roms? I'm going to use myn's this weekend, and besides using ADW, I can't figure out a solution. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Okay, for the question, the miui music app, does it require root access? In other words, can I send the .apk to another phone (not rooted)? Now, for a rather interesting observation I made. This was from a notepad doc I was writing up due to boredom and curiosity. That's why the beginning of...

The only reason I tried it was because I've been curious about a few ROMs for a while. While flashing it, I quite enjoyed the text. Much more interesting than most ROMs (don't want to spoil it for anyone). So let me start by saying how impressive the customization is. It doesn't even feel...

Okay, so I may just be a bit paranoid on this one... but how risky is using the free (rooted) wifi tether (sprint or otherwise). I've looked around a bit and found that it does violate the TOS (but so does rooting to my understanding), but has anyone heard of Sprint really canning an account...