Sony Ericsson is properly aware of the Android modding community and as opposed to other OEM&rsquos who try and squash it, they&rsquore performing their part to support support it. No matter whether it&rsquos developing a custom ROM or modifying the kernel, the Sony Ericsson Developer program is aimed at helping these devs cook up good and stable custom ROMs and they&rsquore beginning with a group of devs named &ldquoFreeXperia.&rdquo These are the guys responsible for creating custom ROMs based on CyanognenMod and porting/modifying them to various Xperia devices lke the Play and Arc.

Sony Ericsson was one of &mdash if not the first Android OEM to announce they would present the selection to unlock the bootloaders in their 2011 Xperia lineup. Karl-Johan Dahlstr&oumlm, Head of Developer Relations for Sony Ericsson and all about nice guy (whom I had the pleasure of meeting at E3 this year), has been performing a great job at keeping Sony Ericsson devices open thanks to his close perform with developers. According to Mr. Dahlstr&oumlm,

&ldquoWe firmly believe in the openness of Android and we are actually impressed by the massive activity shown in our items. By getting supportive and open, we hope to both learn from the open community, and also share expertise when that is feasible.

When it came to Sony Ericsson&rsquos involvement with the FreeXperia developers,

We were impressed by the passion shown and decided to assist out with some bits and pieces. A couple of proprietary solutions needed to be explained and we helped them with that. We also supported the group with approximately 20 devices, to make their work simpler.

Sony Ericsson would also like to remind you that unlocking the bootloader and loading a custom ROM on their devices will more than most likely void your warranty. A risk we&rsquove been willing to take given that rooting our G1&primes back in the day. For your standard, typical Joe Schmoe consumer, keeping your device is 100% stock is usually the wisest choice. Either way, it&rsquos refreshing to see the actions Sony Ericsson has taken to support the Android modding community and something other Android OEM&rsquos can definitely learn a thing or two from.

[By way of SonyEricssonBlog]

Android Telephone Fans

If you fancy your self a music aficionado but the current crop of music players for Android just aren’t doin’ it for ya, a new challenger has entered the ring. UberMusic was just released nowadays onto the Android Market place and comes to you from the creative force behind Launcher Pro, Federico Carnales. Certainly, Mr. Carnales knows a little one thing about customizing and this is where UberMusic receives arguably, its biggest feature: themes. Yup, it’s probable to get 3rd party skins from the Marketplace that will allow you to completely transform the whole UI of UberMusic, even adding custom themed widgets and an “uber” nice live wallpaper. So if you have often been into the appear of say, the Zune music player (guilty!), you can finally have your cake and eat it too.

UberMusic is accessible proper now in the Android Market place for $ 3.50 and if you’re one of “those kinds” that doesn’t like paying for their apps or merely can’t because of your region, Mr. Carnales mentioned right now via Twitter that a totally free version of the app could be in the works.

[Via Engadget and Twitter]

Android Phone Fans

Who’s ready for a long weekend? I’m sure those here in the States are looking forward to celebrating some Fourth of July festivities with family and friends over the weekend, and here at Phandroid we’re about ready to do the same ourselves. If you still need more to satiate your Android cravings we will leave the below tidbits for your perusal.

• Official HTC desktop dock is available for $ 60. Charges, syncs and even comes with a spare battery slot. [HTCPedia]
• The Motorola CLIQ 2 has finally gotten a custom recovery. [AndroidForums.com]
• Samsung has sued Apple in the UK, as well.
• RadioShack is running a contest that could win you free phones for life.
• The HTC Flyer is headed to T-Mobile UK later this month.

Android Phone Fans

Who’s ready for a long weekend? I’m sure those here in the States are looking forward to celebrating some Fourth of July festivities with family and friends over the weekend, and here at Phandroid we’re about ready to do the same ourselves. If you still need more to satiate your Android cravings we will leave the below tidbits for your perusal.

• Official HTC desktop dock is available for $ 60. Charges, syncs and even comes with a spare battery slot. [HTCPedia]
• The Motorola CLIQ 2 has finally gotten a custom recovery. [AndroidForums.com]
• Samsung has sued Apple in the UK, as well.
• RadioShack is running a contest that could win you free phones for life.
• The HTC Flyer is headed to T-Mobile UK later this month.

Android Phone Fans

Who’s ready for a long weekend? I’m sure those here in the States are looking forward to celebrating some Fourth of July festivities with family and friends over the weekend, and here at Phandroid we’re about ready to do the same ourselves. If you still need more to satiate your Android cravings we will leave the below tidbits for your perusal.

• Official HTC desktop dock is available for $ 60. Charges, syncs and even comes with a spare battery slot. [HTCPedia]
• The Motorola CLIQ 2 has finally gotten a custom recovery. [AndroidForums.com]
• Samsung has sued Apple in the UK, as well.
• RadioShack is running a contest that could win you free phones for life.
• The HTC Flyer is headed to T-Mobile UK later this month.

Android Phone Fans

Who’s ready for a long weekend? I’m sure those here in the States are looking forward to celebrating some Fourth of July festivities with family and friends over the weekend, and here at Phandroid we’re about ready to do the same ourselves. If you still need more to satiate your Android cravings we will leave the below tidbits for your perusal.

• Official HTC desktop dock is available for $ 60. Charges, syncs and even comes with a spare battery slot. [HTCPedia]
• The Motorola CLIQ 2 has finally gotten a custom recovery. [AndroidForums.com]
• Samsung has sued Apple in the UK, as well.
• RadioShack is running a contest that could win you free phones for life.
• The HTC Flyer is headed to T-Mobile UK later this month.

Android Phone Fans

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The Motorola XOOM has received it’s first custom-baked ROM, the result of work undertaken by bigrushdog of XDA and the Tiamat Team. The ROM goes by the fairly uninspired XOOM Rom 1.0 Deodexed name, but the custom software is far from basic.  – all sorts of advanced options come neatly packaged inside. The bad news is though the ROM is based off of a stock build of XOOM software taken from the Verizon 3G version of the tablet, installing it will break 3G service if you are a current VZW subscriber. A pretty epic win for the XOOM community, nonetheless. Find full instructions at the source link below.

[via XDA]

Android Phone Fans

Just a few quick bites before the weekend turns over. We’ll wrap up an exciting week the included the introduction of two new Motorola handsets for Sprint with word from Virgin Mobile that they have made a decision to not include custom UIs on any of their Android phones. Yep, it was a request from the carrier that let to the beautiful stock experience that is the Motorola TRIUMPH More follows below.

• Sony Ericsson may launch the Xperia Pro in July. [SE Blog]
• The Samsung Fascinate is getting a minor ED04 update. [Android Police]
• The Otterbox Defender case is now available for the Motorola XOOM.
• Amazon and Wirefly are both offering deal on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Play seeing the handset priced at less than $ 1.
• The Samsung Infuse 4G will carry Android 2.3 when it launches in Canada.

Android Phone Fans

The Droid Charge has been out just over a week, and is a solid device. Samsung has always given us fairly “moddable” phones, and have been doing it for quite a while…it’s not a huge surprise that the mod community is quick to pounce, successfully, on a custom ROM.
Read More…

Dev Community Brings First Custom ROM to Droid Charge

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Feeling used by the merchandising nightmare that is Valentine’s Day? Fight back by surprising anyone and everyone in your circle of friends with a custom font.

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The ROM/UI everyone has been going nuts over is now available for your Samsung Vibrant and running on Android 2.2.1 Froyo, thanks to Jamezelle. It’s still in the alpha stage of development meaning somethings aren’t working (i.e. GPS, cellular radio, data), and it’s not considered completely stable. So its probably not a good idea for a daily driver, considering it’s basically a pretty brick at the moment, but it’s still a nice addition to the Vibrant development scene.

Installation is the same as any other Vibrant ROM, you can download it here. For the full scope and the continued development of this ROM, which will be carried out by jumaaneface and Master™, check out the official XDA thread.

Thanks, Ali.

[Disclaimer: We are not responsible for anything going wrong during installation or anything else. You flash this at your on risk. If you're unsure how to do that I would suggest that you not mess with it until you can figure it out.]

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Here at TalkAndroid, we love LauncherPro. We love it for its customizability, its flash, and frankly, its speed. One of the xda-developers members has found a way to help you customize it further. User Motomilestone has gathered up an assortment of backgrounds for your icon dock. Hit the source link to find 80 designs and see if there’s one you might want on your own device.

Custom Dock Backgrounds for LauncherPro Android Launcher

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Universal Search on OS6 is pretty darn sweet. If you really get into using it you’ll see it truly is a valuable tool. While the native OS allows for a decent amount of customization, you really can’t add your own searches into the mix. That’s where SearchIt for OS6 comes in. With SearchIt you can easily add custom sites to Universal Search on your device. Add popular sites like Twitter, IMDB, Amazon, YouTube, Wikipedia and more. On sale now for just $1.99 this really is a great app you shouldn’t pass up.

Contest: We have 50 copies of SearchIt for OS6 to give away. Just leave a single comment on this post to enter. Contest ends this Sunday at midnight PST.

More information/download of SearchIt for OS6
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CrackBerry.com‘s feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. Add custom searches with SearchIt for OS6- 50 copies to be won

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After we released a linked page to the LauncherPRO docks and advised they work on the latest update for ADW.Launcher EX, we have noticed a pretty good amount of traffic to it. I thought we should keep with that trend and see about finding more docks to share.

Developer mowmo from xda-developers, has released 11 new custom docks recently.  All of them were designed for use with ADW.Lancher EX but will of course work with LauncherPRO as well.

They are all fairly basic but definitely worth the download. It never hurts to have a whole bunch of dock files in your device. I change my device up almost everyday, no matter how perfect it looks.

You can locate the thread at xda-developers and the download file can be located at MobileGeek.it.

I was thinking about making a few docks myself. Would any of you guys like to see an AndroidSPIN dock? Let me know, I just might make it for myself, but would be happy to share with everyone when I make a few variations.

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It sure was refreshing to see ADW Launcher gaining that missing ability of customized docks. That simple addition makes, in my opinion, ADW and Launcher PRO almost equals in home replacement. I felt compelled to make sure that when I wrote this post for you all that Launcher PRO was listed first. Since there have been so many amazing people out there creating and developing these docks specifically for that application.

Now that ADW has custom dock settings, we can use the same images. The site I found has well over 150 different styles to choose from.

You can head on over to launcherpro.droidicon and manually download them and transfer them to your device. There is also a very handy application available with oodles of icons and docks to choose from. The app makes it a little simpler because it directly downloads to your phone with out the need to transfer from your PC to your device. I have yet to use the application myself, but you can find it below. It should work with ADWLauncher just as well as it does for Launcher PRO.

Let us know if you find other great sources for new docks. We are all very excited to start using this new feature.

Click or Scan the QRCode below to find out more information about the LauncherPRO Icons and Docks application. 

Summary and Downloads:

Application: LauncherPRO icons and Docks
Developer: jonfhancock
Cost: $1.99

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GarageBand ’11 has a lot of automated features to get you started, but musician Jim Galbraith prefers to customize GarageBand’s templates for his own compositions. He walks you through the steps.

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Click or Scan the QRCode below to find out more information about the Blink application. You can also find more info and share the application with your friends on the AndroidSPIN App Site.

Summary and Downloads:

Application: AndroidSPIN News
Developer: AndroidSPIN
Cost: FREE

Use another notifcation app? Tell us in the comments.

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If you’re developing any Adobe AIR apps for the BlackBerry PlayBook then this update should excite you. The SDK for Adobe AIR has been updated to v0.9.2 and introduces some features that were previously not available to the BlackBerry PlayBook. The key ones, as noted in our live blog being the ability to add custom app splash screens as well as the ability to make use of potrait mode within the BlackBerry PlayBook. Many folks had portrait mode at the top of their list and finally Research In Motion has taken care of that. You can grab the latest Adobe AIR SDK from the BlackBerry developers page today.

Download the updated Adobe AIR SDK

CrackBerry.com‘s feed sponsored by ShopCrackBerry.com. Adobe AIR SDK updated to v0.9.2 – Now supports custom splash screens and portrait mode on the BlackBerry PlayBook

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The Android market has a ton of ridiculously cool, highly customizable apps. But sometimes, for the TRULY customizable capabilities, you have to turn to the third-party devs working on the customizable apps. To that end, we present to you two very powerful apps created by XDA-Developers.

Up first, ykk_five has created an app that allows you to see not only the time your texts were received, but the time they were actually sent. Follow the steps in the first source article, and you’ll have some help seeing when texts were sent, not just when they were received.

Equally cool, KuRouZu has developed an app that will let you pull from many sources like Megavideo and will stream TV shows and other random video to your Android device. The UI is apparently very intuitive, although it requires Froyo with Flash Player 10.1.

XDA Brings You Custom Apps: See The Time Text Was Sent, and Stream TV

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Gotta love the guys over at XDA.  They just keep bringing customizable goodness on a daily basis for the win.  Our next creation conceived comes to us by way of member Unconn.  He has developed a very simple yet contemporary clock widget that can be tailored to your liking, should you become weary of your OS’s default clock.  Hit the break for pics and more info on the app as well as for instructions on how to download it. Read More…

Custom Clock Widget Comes To Android By Way Of XDA

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In our haste to find great icon sets for our Android devices, we sometimes forget other avenues that exist. I am always on the hunt for something different that will make my home screen stand out from the rest. Of course it is always best if you can take the time to sit down and make your own. I know I would love to do that myself, but lets face it, we are all really busy.

The icon set is called Clear Bubble by WebTreatsETC. In this pack there are currently 158 different icons to choose from. They are all free and can also be used on your PC as well if you are looking to unit your phone and PC visually.  I located this icon set on iconspedia, which hosts a wide variety of icons for free and some with a licence required.

These  icons can be used with Bettercut, ADW.Lanucher, LauncherPRO and GO Launcher. Take a look at this whole pack and feel free to browse iconspedia website. Let us know what icon you find and love.

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Do-it-yourself sites inspire imaginative designs for original iPhone cases and covers. Here’s where you can go to create a unique holiday gift.

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CyanogenMod has released a custom ROM with a lockscreen gesture feature courtesy of mtwebster. A version of this ROM is now available for the original DROID.

Gestures is the ability to “draw” out anything you wish onto your lock screen which will then launch an application or phone activity that is associated with that drawing, similar to Google’s Gesture Search app.

For now, only DROID users can try out this custom ROM, but there will be more devices supported soon. Click the CyanogenMod source link if you want to check out this ROM!

CyanogenMod releases custom ROM with lockscreen gestures for DROID

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