Still using Android 2.2? Even with Google’s latest Android 2.2.1 update, you are probably not up to speed unless you’ve got the Android 2.3 Gingerbread ROM. Actually there’s a bunch out there now but the one I recommend to install on your rooted Nexus One is the LeoGingerbread ROM.
Here’s the files you need to update your rooted Nexus One to LeoGingerbread A
For the remaining people who have a Nexus One under their wing, here is a hack that should help you hold signals and support for T-Mobile’s WiFi calling feature. Credit goes to XDA forums member Rsotbiemrptson for this hack.
The hack calls for you to root your phone, install a modified firmware, flash your kernel, install a few hacked apps and so on If you want the complete details, you can check it out
It looks like the Google Nexus One will soon be getting a new ROM, thanks to Android’s open sourcing. This time around it looks like MeeGo will be ported to the Nexus One and perhaps the HTC Desire and Dell Streak too.
The reason the three devices are getting the most focus from the development community is because they all share the same Qualcomm chipset, the Snapdragon QSD8250.
Though it may take more time to full
For those of you who want to play games on your Nexus One with your Wiimote, you can get a Nexus One bike mount, hack your Nexus One on a Wiimote so it sits on top of it, then turn on bluetooth and run the Wiimote app.
Clever idea to get your
UPDATE: I’ve made a new site called AndroLinux.com to dedicate to Android on Ubuntu.
(World’s first installation of Ubuntu on an Android smartphone! WHOOHOO!)
This guide is for those of you who want to install Ubuntu as a sub-system under your Nexus One or any oth
Over the Independence Day weekend, I was able to install both Debian and Ubuntu to run on my Nexus One.
UPDATE: I’ve posted full step-by-step guide on how to install Ubuntu and X11 on your Nexus One here!
I spent about 5 days straight of craziness, even trying to get it working while my friends were barbecuing tri-tips and firing off fireworks in the background. Well, let’s just say I started the challenge to myself of being able to run Ubuntu couple days back and it li
Jeff Sharkey has figured out how to double Nexus One’s battery life by applying OLED hack that involves putting your phone into “red” mode. Might not be pretty but could be a great way to keep using your phone when its running out of batteries at the end of the day.
Best all, this might actually work on other Android phones, I don’t see why not.
Filtering to show only red pixels only requires 35% of the original baseline OLED pa
You thought playing Scrabble with an iPad with iPhones were amazing, think again as Nexus One has beat that with an HDTV multi-player game. Grant Skinner, the guy who made the gas-pedal wireless controllers about a week back, has made a prototype of his multiplayer game that allows any “Android” phone to be used as game controller.
Androideroids is a prototype multiplayer asteroids game in which each player uses an Android phone as their game
Here’s an incredible hack involving the use of Nexus One as gas pedal for wireless speed control of RC cars. Sure sounds like a lot of fun.
To summarize: The generic mobile client connects over the LAN to the desktop app. The desktop app sends it a “surface” SWF which contains all of the graphics and logic for the interaction (allowing the host to dictate the experience). The mobile client then sends accelerometer data to the host, which interprets the data, and sends back commands to update the client UI. The host communicates with a Phidgets motor contro
Wow, someone “hacked” their Nexus One to do 720P HD video! The quality is shockingly good.
Now there’s 720P HD on the Nexus One, I don’t think it’s too long before it starts hitting the rest of Android smartphones. Of course, don’t forget that we always knew Nexus One was HD-capable.
To get 720P HD video on your Nexus One, your will need
