Researchers at U.S.-based mobile security vendor NQ Mobile claim to have discovered the first rootkit designed to insert malicious apps into the install routines of legitimate software to give them ...

Some people may thinking that rooting the Android device is just for advanced user, fortunately, if you want to rooting your Android phone is not difficult anymore. Rooting is similar to jailbreak ...

[Adam Outler] shows us how to expand the Linux tools available on Android without rooting the device. He does this by installing BusyBox. The binary is copied to the device using the Android Developer ...

Gaining root access to your Android operating system allows you tweak your device in a number of ways, including the removal of both native and third-party applications. Because native applications ...

Do you have an old Android that still works perfectly well, but isn’t capable of all the things you’d like it to do—or maybe it doesn’t have these hidden Android features that newer models boast?

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Our Android customization series has, sometimes painstakingly, dedicated itself to non-root tools, tips and tricks to get the most out of your Android device. Today that changes. Last week we showed ...

Referred to as "rooting" because it provides you access to the root directory of your Android's firmware, taking control of an Android once was time-consuming and available only to experts. Recently, ...