TechHackz

Following up on our previous article about the HP TouchPad Performance Tweaks as I am sure many of you bought one recently and if you have not you should try to get one as this is a nice device for $99! If you’ve installed all the patches we talked about yesterday you’re already on the right track but you should still change the Logging Levels to improve further your HP TouchPad performance. More info after the break.

If you took advantage of HP Fire Sale and acquired an HP TouchPad then this article is for you! Out of the box the HP TouchPad is a bit sluggish to say the least, it appears some of it is due to the extensive logging enabled by HP. This might help HP troubleshoot issues but this has a big impact on the end user experience. Luckily those issues can be fixed easily using Preware and a few patches. Let’s find out how.

In this day and age, technology offers users the option to use their Android devices as not only phones but also mobile access to the internet, music, movies, and television. Downloading using mobile broadband to install media on your Android device can be a simple way to pass time or keep up-to-date on the latest releases. The issue comes when deciding what media platform to use to stream your movies. With so many choices available, it can seem daunting to select the one that will work best for your device. Here are 5 great movie players for your Android device.

The Toshiba Folio 100 was one of the first Android tablets available with the NVidia Tegra 2 CPU, it’s main drawback is that it didn’t come with Honeycomb and couldn’t access officially the Android Market… But thanks to the XDA developers we have seen an Honeycomb port for this tablet and now it is the Notion Ink Adam Eden 1.5 OS which has been ported for the Toshiba Folio 100 in FolioNotion 3.0.1. More information after the break.

DFT (DarkForcesTeam) is a very active group for Windows Phone 7 devices, they were the first to release custom Windows Phone 7 ROMs for the HTC HD2 and they’re the first ones to release an Hard SPL (HSPL) for HTC Windows Phone 7 devices (note: HTC phones only). They released recently the second revision of their HSPL

Microsoft will soon release the latest Windows Phone 7 release: Mango or Windows Phone 7.5 but if you feel adventurous you can already install the latest developer build (7720) on your Windows Phone 7 device like the HTC HD7. Build 7720 of Windows Phone 7 is considered to be an RTM release so it’s final code but carriers and OEMs like HTC or LG will most likely add their secret sauce to it prior to its release this Fall. Find out more about installing Mango on your Windows Phone 7 device after the break.

We’ve been following the VegaComb custom ROM for the Advent Vega for a little while now and a brand new release based on Honeycomb 3.2 just came out as VegaComb 3.2. This is a major breakthrough and based on the developer’s comments this is a full fledged native port of Honeycomb 3.2 with hardware acceleration etc. So if you own an Advent Vega tablet you'd better start picking up this VegaComb 3.2 ROM. More info after the break.

The Toshiba Thrive is one of the latest Android Honeycomb tablet, it sports very similar technical specs as many of the recent Android tablets: NVidia Tegra 2 CPU, 10-inch touchscreen, Honeycomb 3.1 etc. What sets it apart from some other tablets like the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 for example is its price but it is also bulkier than the iPad or Galaxy Tab. While the Toshiba Thrive came out recently you can already root it easily. More information after the break.

Thanks to G5 Entertainment, we got a chance to get our hands on an early release of The Mystery of the Crystal Portal for Android devices. This game is an adventure game in which you have to find hidden objects and solve puzzles in gorgeous environments. In The Mystery of the Crystal Portal you control Nicole Rankwist, a journalist in the late 1920s, who is looking for her father who disappeared after making a huge archeological discovery.

The Asus Eee Pad Transformer is one of the best selling Android Honeycomb tablet available for a couple of reasons: fair price, several connectivity options out of the box (HDMI, SD Card, USB etc.), good support from Asus (it just received Honeycomb 3.2 for example). In addition it can also be rooted quite easily and is becoming the tablet of choice for the Android developers: there are numerous custom ROMs available for it. rebound821 @ XDA recently released a one click tool to root any Asus Eee Pad Transformer tablet.

The Motorola Triumph is the latest Android device available on Virgin Mobile in the US, this is the first high-end smartphone available for this carrier. The Motorola Triumph is a great device with a 4.1 inch touch screen, Android 2.2 (FroYo), a 5MP camera and a 1 GHz CPU. This phone came out recently for $299 and has already been rooted, let’s find out how.

This is the second part of our series of articles about apps optimized for Honeycomb tablets. Finding the best apps for your Honeycomb tablet (Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, Motorola XOOM, Asus Eee Pad Transformer, Acer Iconia Tab etc.) can be quite tricky even if Google is trying to make it easier for us. Let’s have a look at a couple more apps for Honeycomb tablets.

Bada is an Operating System created by Samsung and first available with the Samsung Wave devices, critics have been quite happy with Bada and Bada 2.0 but there are not as many apps available for this platform than iOS or Android. That’s why you might be interested in installing Android 2.2 (Froyo) on your Samsung phones running Bada like the Samsung Wave S8500. Let’s see how after the break.

We’ve talked about Windows Phone 7 Backup Tool previously, this app created by hx4700 Killer is written in .NET and has the ability to backup entirely your Windows Phone 7 device. It uses the Zune updater tool in order to accomplish its backup or restore task. In its latest update (v1.6) a couple of new features have been introduced: manage backups and archives, simpler installation (will install Support Tools and PKS files if necessary), path settings can be changed.

As we already know Android tablets are very versatile and open. We’ve seen some of them running Ubuntu, a popular Linux distribution, and now this OS also runs on the latest tablet from Samsung: the Galaxy Tab 10.1. As usual this is coming from an XDA contributor: poitee who recently released instructions and the necessary code to run Ubuntu on your Galaxy Tab. More info after the break.

The Motorola Photon 4G is one of the newest Android smartphones available in US for Sprint, it comes with the usual 1GHz dual-core CPU, 4G and Gingerbread. It’s worth noting that this is a World phone (CDMA and GSM) which is quite rare, a must for those of us who travel often outside of the US. The Motorola Photon 4G can also be connected to a webtop station and this is actually the only way to root this device so far. Let’s find out how.

The Logitech Revue was one of the first Google TV box to hit the market and it is now the first Google TV box to get a Android Honeycomb update! It’s an unofficial update but now that the Logitech Revue price has dropped to $99 how can you resist getting one? Note that is not a leaked version of the official Honeycomb but rather a beta version so you will experience bugs etc. but it’s worth a try if you just want to experiment.

Honey Tribe: Colony Collapse is a great game for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad) which puts you in control of Corbee a bee in charge of collecting nectar for its colony. We gave the game a score of 9 out of 10 in our review @ Honey Tribe Colony Collapse – iOS Game Review. The folks behind this games just let us know that v1.1 of Honey Tribe: Colony Collapse will be released on August 3rd so make sure to check it out.

There is nothing more frustrating then spending $500 or more on a tablet, navigate to a website and find out you only have access to the mobile version of that website… If you’re like me and want to get the full desktop Web experience on your Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 then this post is for you. Thanks to DocRambone @ XDA, there is now a way to modify permanently your Galaxy Tab browser user agent and make sure the websites see your tablet as a PC.