Month: July 2012
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Rooting and installing Gapps on Coby 1042 tablet from Linux/OSX
Vacation time is great! I went into Fry’s today and found they have the Coby 1042 (10.1″, Android 4.0.3) on sale. Normally I don’t pay much attention to the lower end tablets because they miss one or more features I think are pretty critical in a tablet: Capacitive display Fast CPUs SD card slots Ice…
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Root Bionic / Razr with Ice Cream Sandwich from OSX
Dan Rosenberg (@djrbliss), a security researcher, recently published an exploit for Motorola RAZR devices running Ice Cream Sandwich which allows you to gain root access. Ice Cream Sandwich is about to be released for the Motorola Bionic, and fortunately Dan’s vulnerability exploit works for the Bionic also. Unfortunately, it only run on MS Windows, so…
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Installing a leaked ICS build on a Droid Bionic from OSX
I spent quite some time over the last few days getting together the process for installing the latest leaked ICS builds on my Droid Bionic. There’s a lot of information but I was working under some specific constraints: I’m using OSX, and not MS Windows I have a rooted Bionic I didn’t want to lose…
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