It looks like the Droid 2 will be getting an FM radio after all! Well technically that is since it will be ported thanks to the efforts of some XDA developers (Slayher). He was able to successfully port a DX FM radio to his full QWERTY slider. The instructions are stated below.
As most ROMs and hacks, owners are advised to be responsible for applying the said porting. You will need this
Shipped-roms have come out with a full Droid Incredible Android 2.2 Build ROM Upgrade Utility (RUU) exe file, coming with radio 2.15.00 07.28 and is ready for use. Hence, this piece of news should be a big one for the Droid Incredible owners waiting for the Froyo update.
Of course being unofficial, the risk is yours to take. But if you could care less and have confidence in the ROM, by all means get it. Here is a video
Yesterday, I stumbled onto a cool hack where this guy has supposedly found a way to run Windows 3.1 on his Droid smartphone. Upon closer investigation, I found out that you can indeed install Windows 3.1 running on top of an Android app called DosBox. (See here for full instructions)
Of course, this isn’t the “true” way of running an operating system (over an app) but still, you can run your favorite Dos programs by instal
Well, Firefox for Android is now available as beta under “Firefox Fennec”. I’ve downloaded last night and have been playing with it. Overall, it performs pretty fast, there’s still room for more improvements such as “pinch-and-zoom” are not supported yet.
Definitely though, there’s some positives for the Firefox Fennec as it has tabbed b
Warning: Downloading Paid Apps is probably illegal and we don’t advise you to do this, this is for informational purposes ONLY!
For those of you who want to install paid Android apps for FREE, there’s actually a rather simple way, as Ray has pointed out here using his Droid:
Basically what you do is do a Google search for any .apk files. For example, if you wante
I know this is a blog about Nexus One but today I installed Thai font for one of my Thai friends who wanted to view and type Thai on their Droid.
It took me about an hour to do it and it’s rather simple but let me guide you step-by-step as some of the steps required additional hacking on my part.
Basically, you need to root your Droid first, then install Busybox, which allows you to do basic linux command, then you simply copy over Thai-enabled Droid Sans font files to system font directory.
1) So, first, you will need to root your Droid. Follow our
I have tried to root Droid but one of the problems I found with the guides I found online was that the rooting zip file was no longer there.
Well, I did find an alternative that worked.
Here’s how to root your Droid, for version Android 2.0.1:
1) Download the zip file here and rename it as “update.zip”. (Thanks to Android-Devs.org forum
