With the constant rush to trumpet the latest phones it's easy to think of old phones as obsolete. Most carriers encourage this with a spotty record on upgrading their existing phones to the latest and ...

(MENAFN- Dubai PR Network) As smartphones age, official software updates often cease, leaving users with outdated systems. Custom ROMs provide an alternative by offering new features, improved ...

There's some trouble brewing ahead for developers of custom ROMs for Pixel phones. In the midst of a reorganization about how the Android open-source project is run, Pixel ROM devs have been caught by ...

Google complicates development of custom ROMs such as Lineage for Pixel smartphones. The hardened Android version GrapheneOS is particularly affected. Google has thrown a spanner in the works of the ...

This is the second installment of our custom-ROM tutorial for Android phones. If you're just tuning in, check out Part I, which covers . Basically, the kernel is the most important piece of most ...

A group of developers have managed to add support for 4G WiMAX to a version of CyanogenMod for the HTC Evo 4G. If that sounds like gobbledy-gook, here’s the translation: Only a handful of smartphones ...

Users who have rooted their phone, have their bootloader unlocked or are using some custom ROMs report that their RCS messages are not being sent, even though RCS ...

Efforts like Graphene OS face increasing pressure from apps that refuse to run on non-standard Android. The custom ROM project characterizes Google’s approach to device attestation as incomplete and ...

Google hasn’t yet released the source code for Google Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. But that hasn’t stopped independent developers from working to port Google’s latest operating system to run on ...

Manuel Vonau was Android Police's Google Editor until April 2024, with expertise in Android, Chrome, Pixels, and other Google products. For five years, he covered tech news and reviewed devices after ...