Android Customization

Android operating systems are always similar when running on each device but what separates them is the hardware that the operating system is using to run on. Sometimes the lower end devices have minuscule specs in comparison to the top […]

All Android geeks know that versions of Android operating systems are based on the Linux kernel, and if you have experience with Linux, then you have likely use Terminal. The Terminal in Linux is like the command prompt in Windows […]

If you dig around the Google Play Store long enough, you may find that some applications will not run unless something called root access is granted. Some apps need to have access to the more inner workings of Android before […]

No smartphones that run on Android come with the operating system already rooted when you first open it out of the box. But many manufacturers do offer a way that you can go about getting lower level access to the […]

It’s possible that you want to run an app from the Google Play Store or from the XDA-Developers web forum that can’t run. If you’ve ever wondered how that can be the case, it’s less confusing than you might think. […]

The CF-Auto-Root tool is what you are going to be using in the guide below to root the Samsung Galaxy S7 SM-G930V smartphone. The man behind the CF-Auto-Root tool is the same guy who makes SuperSU. That makes sense since […]

If you aren’t going to install a custom recovery image and then install SuperSU from the custom recovery, then you are likely going to be getting root access with a one-click root method instead. Over the years, many people have […]

You can open up avenues to more features when you have an Android operating system that has root access. These features are always coming to you for the use of applications. Everyone knows that the Google Play Store is where […]

Rooting Android was a very popular thing to do about five years ago. Since then the popularity has dwindled a bit because there are fewer reasons to need to do it. As time has gone on, many of the features […]

The root user has full access to the entire Android 7.0 operating system. If you are running on a stock version of Android, then you don’t have full access. Some limitations prevent you from installing all apps. There is no […]

The Android Nougat software update is still the latest version of Android that is officially out, but we are closing in on Android O becoming a thing very soon. That’s not a bad thing though — it means that more […]

The systemless root version of the SuperSU has been around since Android 6.0 Marshmallow and is still here now with the version that works for the Android 7.0 Nougat update. It’s called “systemless” because it now goes around the /system […]

Google and Android collectively ramped up the security in Android 6.0 Marshmallow and Android 7.0 Nougat so that the older way of getting root access was no longer an option. The way it used to happen as that the CF-Auto-Root […]

The CF-Auto-Root tool has been around for a long time now, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t taken continual development from Chainfire to keep it up to date. In truth, just about every version of Android that arrives, i.e., Android […]

Most people go to the effort of unlocking the bootloader and installing a custom recovery image to get SuperSU installed, but it isn’t a requirement. The guy who develops SuperSU also has created a one-click rooting tool predominantly for Samsung […]

The version of Android that you are always given comes locked much the same way as iOS comes locked. Apple locks people into using Apple’s environment, so Apple continues to make as much money as possible from purchases. With Android, […]