Alan Martin

How to hack apps into multi

Even better than the S Pen, and all its genius trickery, the option to have more than one app open at once on the Samsung Galaxy Note 2‘s gorgeous massive screen is the reason I can’t go back to smaller phones. Having a video open while catching up on Twitter is a multi-tasker’s dream, but …

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How to recover a bricked Galaxy Ace 2 to factory settings

If you’ve rooted your trusty Galaxy Ace 2, and played around with custom ROMs, you’re probably having the time of your life — but there are reasons you might want your old phone back. Perhaps you want to sell it, or maybe it’s bricked and won’t boot up anymore. Don’t panic, as the sacred text tells us: all may not …

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How to restore a Galaxy Note 2 from rooted to factory settings

So, you’ve been tinkering with our favourite custom ROMs for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, but oh no! Something’s gone wrong and you’ve ended up with a bricked phablet? Or perhaps you’ve just had enough of customised Android and want to go back to the stock ROM the phone came with? Either way, you’ve come to the right place. If …

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How to root the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2

The Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 is a sharp little phone (and having recently bought a Note 2, I really do mean little). It’s far from top of the Android pile, but it’s a cheap and cheerful device with enough power to keep the majority of people happy — and it doesn’t come close to breaking the bank. As a result, …

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How to install Jelly Bean on the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2

The Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 may be a cracking choice for the Android lover on a budget, but it doesn’t have the latest version of Android on it. Today we’re going to set that straight, by switching the stock Gingerbread ROM for one that emulates the sweet delights of Jelly Bean, skipping Ice Cream Sandwich altogether. For the good of …

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Top 5 custom ROMs for the Samsung Galaxy Note 2

If you followed our instructions to the letter, you should have a rooted Samsung Galaxy Note 2. You might be wondering what all the fuss was about, as it’s pretty much identical to how it was before — hardly worth the years taken off your life by the stress of breaking the warranty on your new £500 gadget. But we …

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How to root the Samsung Galaxy Note 2

So you’ve decided you can’t be having with normal-sized phones? I hear you — I’m in the same boat, and as a proud new owner of the Samsung Galaxy Note 2, the first thing I wanted to do was root it, play around with custom ROMs, get rid of the bloatware and truly make the phone my own. It’s a …

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How to get Jelly Bean on your Samsung Galaxy S3

If you’ve munched your way through Gingerbread, Honeycomb and Ice Cream Sandwich and you’re still craving the next sugary Android fix — and can’t wait for the software update to be dished out to your Samsung Galaxy S3 — then read on. Jelly Bean (or Android 4.1, if you want to be all serious about it), was launched with the …

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Top 5 Samsung Galaxy S3 custom ROMs

You want to bring the best out of your Samsung Galaxy S3 phone by using a custom ROM, but you dread spending days trawling the web for the best ones? Good news then, as I’ve done the dirty work for you. There are myriad benefits to enjoy from installing a custom ROM, over and above what you’d get with the …

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How to record calls on your Samsung Galaxy S2 and S3

How many times have you ended a call with someone, only to realise that you’re already starting to forget useful things you talked about? Recording calls isn’t something that’s offered out of the box on the Samsung Galaxy S2 or S3 — and it seems there’s a good reason for that — but it is possible. To find out how, …

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