I was doing some routine backup and restore of my apps in between flashing my HTC Hero rom using the awesome Titanium Backup app and came to realize something substantial. If you follow my Twitter feed, you would have noticed the other night I posted that I found a way to get market apps for free. A lot of people asked me how. This is how the other night went. I thought to myself with my overly analytic brain, that surely if...

I have been playing around with a great app for rooting Android handsets. I have shown you before how to ‘root‘ and ‘un-root’ Android handsets, especially the HTC Hero. I came across an app made by RelentlessRooter. Its fairly clever in that it runs the necessary commands that Androids SDK ADB command line offers. Relentless Command Centre The idea is that you drop the recovery image files or the custom ROM files...

  By now you have realized that having an Android phone is great. And you’ve installed all your wonderful apps and played with it to death. But you’ve probably already realized that if you lost your phone, or sent it away for repair, you will likely lose all your nice new shiny apps. In my experience, the whole log back in to the Android market and your apps are there hasn’t really been the case. In one case,...

Having used an Android HTC Hero handset for a few weeks now I have gather around 70 apps. However, some of them are essential and almost seem missing from the released operating system. So I will document the 5 most needed apps to get you started and another five later this week. You should be able to find all of these in the app store. However, with some market restrictions in place, you may need Market Enabler on a Rooted Handset....

          I thought you may find it helpful to have it detailed on how to add the settings to your Android handset. You probably already know I have a HTC Hero, so my information is based on setting up the Hero but it should apply to any Android handset. You should probably bookmark it for future reference. Why? Cause if you play around with your Hero like I do and then do a wipe handset or reset…BOOM!!...