Install the Official TWRP App from the Play Store to start the installation process. Back up your device and ensure it is rooted before installing TWRP to avoid issues. Use TWRP to try new software ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. The last time we covered LineageOS, the most popular custom Android ...

The HTC Butterfly 2 is a phone forever trapped in a nightmarish puberty of HTC industrial design. It uses high-end specifications like a 1080p screen and a Snapdragon 801 processor, but its plastic ...

Android One devices are the fruit of Google’s efforts to bring a better Android smartphone experience to emerging markets, while still offering those devices at an affordable cost to the consumer.

Android L, the next major version of Android, was launched at Google I/O this week. As promised during the keynote, Google has released a developer preview to try out. It didn’t take long though for ...

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 ...

The LineageOS development team posted a blog post today with a ton of news and updates. The LineageOS team has a new director, there’s a new Lineage Recovery, and new devices now support LineageOS ...

A bootable program on an Android flash memory partition that is used to perform a factory reset or restore the original OS version. In order to install a different OS version (a different ROM), the ...

Google’s Nexus 5 smartphone is the first to ship with Android 4.4 KitKat, and the stock software is pretty nice. But if you think you might want to install a custom ROM or custom recovery, it’s a good ...

If you’ve sniffed around blogs or articles about mobile phones, you’ve probably seen mention of “custom ROMs” or “mods.” What do they do for a phone? As with rooting, a ton of information is out there ...

Samsung’s first smartwatch may have shipped with Google’s Android Wear software, but every smartwatch the company has released since then has been powered by the Linux-based Tizen operating system.