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Captainkrtek
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My name is Steven, Im a resident of Seattle Washington and an owner of a Droid Eris, Moto Droid 1, and an HTC Mega. I moderate 7 forums and am a News Writer for XDA. If you have any news tips or need help with your Android phone feel free to PM me!

CyanogenMod begins Droid 2 Support
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CyanogenMod begins Droid 2 Support

June 18, 2011
XDA member jbirdvegas, with the help of CVPCS, has released CyanogenMod 7 for the Motorola Droid 2. Thanks to the 2nd Init exploit in some Motorola Devices, we are now able to have custom ROMs for other Motorola devices like CM7 for  the Droid X and much more in the near future. There are currently...
Poll: How Many Devices Do You Buy Per Year?
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Poll: How Many Devices Do You Buy Per Year?

May 6, 2011
Every once in a while we like to perform a poll to get some interesting feedback from our community, we want to see how many devices that you buy in a year. With the rapid development and new devices launching every week, we were wondering whether you stick to your current hardware or upgrade with the latest...
Poll: Locked Samsung Bootloader
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Poll: Locked Samsung Bootloader

April 17, 2011
Recently, we have seen and heard rumors on Twitter and XDA in regards to Samsung potentially locking down their devices. We want to hear your opinion about this recent trending topic in the smartphone industry. If you have a few seconds to spare, please fill out the poll linked below. We will share the results...
Help The Victims of the Japanese Earthquake
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Help The Victims of the Japanese Earthquake

March 11, 2011
As you have probably heard, around 2:46PM in Japan on March 11th an 8.9 Magnitude earthquake struck near the coast of Honshu, Japan, which triggered a widespread Tsunami warning all along the Pacific Ocean Coastline, displacing and killing many people, and flooding the land in Japan with Tsunamis. We at XDA don't normally get involved in such...
Process Monitor Widget/App for Android
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Process Monitor Widget/App for Android

February 13, 2011
Want to know what your device is up to at all times? Now you can keep tabs on your devices internal statistics using XDA Member ccounotte's Process Monitor Widget. The app allows you to display, record, and monitor your Android devices activities, including logs and current resource usage. According to the OP, the app has the following...
Android CM7 Apps2sd Script – Simple2Ext
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Android CM7 Apps2sd Script – Simple2Ext

February 13, 2011
Thanks to XDA member OlegKrikun, CM7 users now have a great script to move apps to their devices SD Ext3 Partition. This allows for no loss of app data when switching between ROMs, most of the time when you flash a ROM you have to wipe data, which loses app settings and data. With this...
Android MobileWebCam, WiFi/Mobile Supported, Server Required
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Android MobileWebCam, WiFi/Mobile Supported, Server Required

February 12, 2011
Looking for a use for an old Android device or possibly your own Android device? XDA Member _miha_ has developed a simple yet useful webcam app for you device. It allows you to set your device up as a webcam and access the stream from a PC. The only drawback is it requires that you...
GitHub App for Android – Hubdroid V2.0
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GitHub App for Android – Hubdroid V2.0

February 12, 2011
If you're an Android developer, or any developer for that matter, you will owe a big thank you to XDA member eddieringle after using his app. Hubdroid is an Android app that connects to GitHub's services allowing you to follow repositories, check the latest commits, diff. viewer, and much, much more. Here is a full...
Possible Angry Birds for Bada OS
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Possible Angry Birds for Bada OS

February 12, 2011
According to a message received by XDA Member wavedroid, Angry Bird developers Rovio is in the pre-process of developing Angry Birds for Samsung Bada based devices. According to other members posting in the thread, this may be a good sign for Bada devices but could also just be another update with no avail. Here is the letter received by...
Clockwork Mod Recovery and DL17 Released for Samsung Continuum
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Clockwork Mod Recovery and DL17 Released for Samsung Continuum

February 7, 2011
For those of you on Verizon's Samsung Continuum, you now have XDA member adrynalyne to thank for his work on the Clockwork Mod addition to the Samsung Continuum's development section. He just released Clockwork Mod along with a basic DL17 ROM for the Continuum. There is a note for DL17 from the OP: This is a...
The Weekly Q&A: Week 25
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The Weekly Q&A: Week 25

February 6, 2011
As we do every week, here is the weekly Q&A. In this XDA Feature, we go around the forum and find questions and answers that will hopefully help you answer questions about certain mods, devices, and much more. Here we go with our top 5. Q: Is a backup made with Rom Manager good enough to...
ROM Updating Utility for Android Devices
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ROM Updating Utility for Android Devices

February 6, 2011
Like Koush's ROM Manager, XDA Member elegos's ROM Updater performs many of the same tasks and more for free and without ads. ROM Updater is a stand alone repository based updater, which allows you to add repositories to pull from, along with allowing full and incremental ROM updates. ROM Updater has the following features: Full Recovery...