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So yesterday we reported that according to several XDA developers, they have expressed their worry that Amazon’s new Kindle Fire tablets might be hack resistant due to the locked bootloader and extra security measures implemented by Texas Instruments. Well it seems that it did not take long for the rest of the community to put those fears to rest as a root method for the Kindle Fire HD tablet has already been discovered. Credit goes to sparkym3 who discovered the exploit which was also used for the ASUS Transformer Prime. In any case for those who want to root their Kindle Fire HD tablet, you can pop on over to the XDA forums where the relevant files, instructions and a video are available to guide you through the process. We advise you to proceed at your own risk.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Kindle Fire HD Unboxing (7-inch), Amazon Kindle Fire HD gets the teardown treatment,

Only two days after Samsung announced the availability of the Galaxy Note 10.1 (and its source code), it appears to already have been rooted. An XDA user named Zedomax claims to have pulled off the feat by injecting root into the stock European firmware, then installing the superuser’d version in conventional ODIN fashion. With the usual bricking caveats, that’ll let you start installing unsanctioned apps to the pen-enabled beast, while apparently still getting OTA updates from the mother company. We’d love to verify it ourselves with our own GT-N8000, but we don’t have one yet — and neither does hardly anyone else, so you may want to wait for some other brave soul to confirm it before going ahead.

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The CyanogenMod team has done a pretty good job so far at bringing custom ROMs based on the different versions of Android. So far there have been support for plenty of Android devices but if you’re still using an old Android phone, by that we mean that it’s still running on a Qualcomm Snapdragon S1 processor, it seems that future support for your device as far as CyanogenMod 9 and 10 builds are concerned will no longer be available. In case you aren’t familiar, CM9 and CM10 are based on the latest builds of Android, Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0 and Jelly Bean 4.1 respectively.

According to the team, this is due to hardware limitations which they were afraid might impact the quality of the user experience. An example cited would be the Nexus One where in order to run CM9 or 10, the internal memory of the phone would have to be partitioned. However fret not as the team has announced that support for the Gingerbread-based ROM will continue. Ultimately if you’re looking for an ICS or Jelly Bean ROM for your older Android devices, you’ll be out of luck as far as CyanogenMods are concerned, although we’re pretty sure that there are alternatives readily available out there.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: CyanogenMod 9 RC1 now released and ready for download, Galaxy Note CyanogenMod 10 now available,

When the Samsung Galaxy S3 was launched on Verizon, much to the annoyance of many Android users, the bootloader of the device was locked. This pretty much hindered the efforts of developers and modders alike, and Samsung has attempted to rectify this by releasing a developer’s edition of the phone for a whopping $599. Naturally this is a price not many are willing to pay for the sake of modifying their phones but the good news is that Samsung/Verizon have decided to change their stance in response to customer queries. (more…)

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: Samsung Galaxy S3 Developer Edition for Verizon arrives, Verizon Galaxy S3 now available online and in stores,

After months of testing, the CyanogenMod team is finally convinced that it is ready. Today, the team is announcing that CyanogenMod 9 has officially reached release candidate status and that it’s ready to download. Among the devices that can enjoy this treat are the Samsung Galaxy Nexus, the Asus Transformer Prime, and the HTC Sensation. You can check out the full list of devices via Get.CM. The team proudly said via its CyanogenMod blog, that after Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich arrived 225 days ago, over 37 devices will be receiving their RC1 build of CyanogenMod 9 today.

As of this writing, the number of devices that can download CM9 appears to have grown to fifty and beyond. “As we’ve mentioned before, this release serves as the first wave of RC1′s. With the ‘core’ OS stabilized, our device maintainers will continue to work on their device trees to bring up more devices, this includes some of the newer releases as well as some from the older generations; but we’ll save that for another day,” the team said. So, if you love rooting and flashing your Android device with a custom ROM, CyanogenMod is one of the most popular ROMs out there. You can learn more about it here.

By Ubergizmo. Related articles: CyanogenMod 9 progress detailed, MIUI’s MiHome launcher makes its way onto Google Play,