Beginners, please read this full tutorial as well – It explains some of these steps in more detail.
NOTE: This assumes you are starting fresh, or willing to start fresh with a new Flashable ROM and that you’ve already got it downloaded and extracted. (more…)
This is for any of you who may want to enable or disable the onscreen / virtual softkeys in Android 4.0 and up. Some ROMs have this feature enabled by default, but not everyone likes it as it does take up some screen real estate. Conversely, some people really like the functionality of the virtual softkeys and may want to enable them. (more…)
Note, the general process will be the same for most MTK phones, however do NOT use a scatter or recovery that isn’t made specifically for your phone. The recoveries included are for Hero H7500+/Zopo ZP800H/Zopo ZP810/Zopo ZP950H and exact clones of these phones. I’ve also written a newer post here
NOTE: We now have an updated thread on how to create TWRP custom recovery for the newer SoC China phones such as MT6735 MT6753, MT6755. This method does not require root. Please see the thread linked here. If you’ve got an older phone with MT65xx type SoC, you can continue on with this tutorial.
I take no responsibility for whatever evil may come to your phone from attempting to follow this procedure. (more…)
I’m not sure how many of you out there have this problem. You’ve got 100 or so apps installed and you start to run out of data space. This tutorial will help you with re-partitioning your “4GB” so that you end up with a 2GB or 2.5GB data partition and smaller storage partition. (more…)
“‘ere’s more ‘an one way ta skin a bear” my grand-pappy used to say. At least, I think that’s what he said. He was rather toothless and difficult to understand. Regardless, there’s definitely more than one way to stream your videos, and access your media files and documents on your networked PC with your Android smartphone. (more…)
While logging in remotely to your PC from your Android may give you access to that particular user’s desktop, you’ll likely find yourself restricted from accessing other drives and partitions on the PC. (more…)
In the process of writing a video / media / document streaming / sharing tutorial for Android, I came upon steps that may or may not apply for some people. In an effort to trim and break it down into smaller parts, I’ve decided to write individual posts regarding these steps. (more…)
As reported by one of GizBeat’s users, the PDAnet ADB drivers, and this root method worked for the stock ROM on the Amoi N821, but not the previously linked Jelly Bean ROM, so I’m posting this new ROM here which has root by default. (more…)
11-MAY-2015: Added new tool to auto-install drivers and adb command set to our group.
Came across this excellent software for rooting almost any Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich, Android 4.1 Jelly Bean, Android 4.2 Jelly Bean and Android 4.4 KitKat smartphone. (more…)
NOTE: A reader wrote in with news that this JB build may not be completely stable. I followed up on the message and found that this is unfortunately indeed the case. There is some buggy behavior happening with some users who are installing this build. Keep in mind this is the first public release, so this isn’t exactly unexpected. If you still wish to give it a go, please make sure to make a NAND ROM backup with Titanium backup before you update in case you need/want to switch back. This ROM is released by Amoi. However, REMEMBER that you update at your own risk.
NOTE#2: Readers have reported back that this ROM is working fine for them, however they couldn’t find a way to root it. The root method here worked on the stock ROM for them, but not this updated Jelly Bean ROM.
NOTE#3: I’ve posted a new JB ROM for Amoi N820 and N821 with integrated ROOT. Please check out the post and see if it’s for you.
Someone recently requested some help regarding getting Android Jelly Bean 4.1 onto their Amoi Big V. Rather than upload 700MB, I’ve decided to create this tutorial on how to create a China 360 cloud drive account and add uploaded files to your drive from a shared folder.
