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Team Kang has released b35 of their AOKP ROM. This is their first release after milestone 5 and they've added even more features and squashed more bugs in an attempt to consistantly produce a polished ROM. Head over to the Team Kang forum to update to build 35. http://goo.gl/Tx45p Steve Birchfield takes a look at two different CraigsList apps that promise to give you a better CraigsList experience on your mobile: CraigsList for Android (or, CLApp) and CraigsList Mobile by Dudu Apps. Read more about them on the front page at RootzWiki.com http://goo.gl/3ZyNb We're giving away a Samsung Galaxy TAB 2 7” to one lucky reader! Entering this contest is a piece of cake. Navigate to our Facebook Contest Post or Google+ Contest Post pages and leave us a short answer of what your favorite Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 feature is and how you will use it to make your life easier. Its that easy! The RootzWiki News Team will be reading your entries and will vote on the entry that most impressed them. On Monday, May 21, well select the winning entry. http://goo.gl/zrPjT We've had a LOT of requests for custom RootzWiki cases for your devices. Well, wait no longer! In conjunction with CruzerLite, we've decided to have a little contest to design a custom RootzWiki Galaxy Nexus case! Details will be up on the site today, the official contest will begin on Monday so be sure to keep a close eye on the front page and the forums. Thanks to CruzerLite for sponsoring today's podcast, check them out at www.cruzerlite.com for all of your Android case needs.

Team Gummy has released v1.2 of their popular Gummy ROM on the forums. This is a 4.0.4 build that has been built from pure source. It's got a plethora of bells and whistles and has become one of the most popular custom ROMs on the market. This release supports 14 stable builds and 9 beta builds. Head over to the Team Gummy forums and find your specific device thread to download and give it a flash. http://goo.gl/EzHln We're giving away a Samsung Galaxy TAB 2 7” to one lucky reader! Entering this contest is a piece of cake. Navigate to our Facebook Contest Post or Google+ Contest Post pages and leave us a short answer of what your favorite Samsung Galaxy Tab 2 feature is and how you will use it to make your life easier. Its that easy! The RootzWiki News Team will be reading your entries and will vote on the entry that most impressed them. On Monday, May 21, well select the winning entry. http://goo.gl/zrPjT We've got a lot of extremely talented people that visit the RootzWiki site and forums... and we want to tap into those creative juices. We've had a LOT of requests for custom RootzWiki cases for your devices. Well, wait no longer! In conjunction with CruzerLite, we've decided to have a little contest to design a custom RootzWiki Galaxy Nexus case! Details will be up on the site soon, so be sure to keep a close eye on the front page. As always, show notes are in the description here, check those out and come back every weekday for DailyRootz! Thanks to CruzerLite for sponsoring today's podcast, check them out at www.cruzerlite.com for all of your Android case needs.

RootzLive! Episode #6 (Reto Meier from Google)

Are you a ROM developer looking for a new toy to tinker with? We're holding a developer contest to give away two new HTC One S's. The winners of the devices will be chosen by RootzWiki staff and announced on Monday, May 14th! http://goo.gl/MJGWC We've added a new Asus TF300 forum for all of you Transformer ROM developers. http://goo.gl/7sbJG Google Wallet has recently hit three more devices on Sprint. http://goo.gl/5kVwB Yesterday, Verizon Wireless and HTC officially announced the Droid Incredible 4G LTE at CITA. The Droid Incredible 4G is the third iteration of the Droid Incredible line. As the name denotes, it is the first 4G LTE device to bear the Droid Incredible name. The HTC Droid Incredible 4G LTE will run Android 4and HTC's Sense 4.0 http://goo.gl/OltFB Tonight week on RootzLive! we'll have Reto Meier on the air! He's the author of Professional Android 4 Development and tech lead for the Android Developer Relations team at Google HQ. He's going to answer questions, talk about his book, and give us some awesome insight into developing for Android. We'll also be giving away a copy of his book to one of our live viewers! Thanks to CruzerLite for sponsoring today's podcast, check them out at www.cruzerlite.com for all of your Android case needs.

Looking for another way to customize your device? Team Broccoli presents AOKPCB! Now, this theme has been around for a couple of months, but did you know that it supports 11 devices on AOKP Milestone 5? Thanks to Scar45 and remicks from the forums for putting together a brilliant theme! http://goo.gl/oJ11V Mobile_Sensei from Team Gummy has put together a pretty nice app full of The Avengers wallpapers to celebrate the movie coming out last week. http://goo.gl/GTlVK If you're sporting an HTC One X - good news, HTC has released the kernel source code for it! If you've got the dual core AT&T version sold stateside you're out of luck. HTC issued an official statement saying that in order to comply with the carriers wishes, they have no plans to offer an unlock option on HTCDev.com and there is no timeline to release source for that device. However, it shouldn't be too long before we've got a stable root method and you're flashing away! http://goo.gl/PvP8h This week on RootzLive! we'll have Reto Meier on the air! He's the tech lead for the Android Developer Relations team at Google HQ and the author of Professional Android 4 Development. He's going to answer questions, talk about his book, and give us some awesome insight into developing for Android. I'm also going to have a plethora of cases to hand out on the air from Cruzerlite. Be sure you're tuning in to grab one of these Cruzerlite cases! Thanks to CruzerLite for sponsoring today's podcast, check them out at www.cruzerlite.com for all of your Android case needs.

ROM Control: Dutch Danny and the Bindroid team have released Bindroid XTC v2.0 for the HTC One X! They claim that this is a stable build of ICS and Sense 4 with a custom skin and icons. The ROM includes Busybox 1.19.4, a recompressed System, persistent ADB, Aroma installer 2.0, custom boot animation, and a couple apps. You can find the ROM in the HTC One X forums. Go give it a flash and be sure to leave feedback for the developer team in the thread! http://goo.gl/EklNZ News Items: We've got an unboxing video of the HTC One S up on SuperUser.tv. In the video I start with an unsealed box and show you everything up to the end of first boot. If you've been kicking around the idea of picking this device up, you should take a look at our video. You can find it on our YouTube channel at youtube.com/rootzwikitv We've got a great review of the Androidified Case from Cruzerlite up on the front page of the site. Derek De La Cruz gives his thoughts and opinions on this popular TPU case, and at $9.90 each... that's a heck of a bargain! Read the full review at http://goo.gl/GJ2RJ Community Items: Twitter user c_hale22 has released a ton of awesome RootzWiki/SuperUser wallpapers for your enjoyment on Twitter this weekend. Find them in his stream at twitter.com/c_hale22. Thanks for the creativity, dude! As always, show notes are in the description here, check those out and come back every weekday for DailyRootz! Thanks to CruzerLite for sponsoring today's podcast, check them out at www.cruzerlite.com for all of your Android case needs.

Rejoice Evo3D users! Team Virtuous has put together a 4.0.4 build for the CDMA Evo3D. According to the discussion in the forum, this build should work with both the Sprint and Virgin Mobile varients. As this is pretty new, we don't have an official bug list yet... but if you're feeling daring and want some ICS love on your Evo3D head over to the CDMA Evo3D development forum and give it a flash. Help the devs out by leaving bug reports in the thread and let them know what is and isn't working. http://goo.gl/gVQiZ News Items:Google Play is now allowing direct carrier billing for AT&T, T-Mobile, and Sprint. This is a nice option to have that I am sure many will enjoy. The upside of this option is that no credit card or registration is required. Multiple purchasing options are great for everyone as the most convenient way can be picked. Read more on the front page at RootzWiki.com http://goo.gl/Sd7AI The Samsung Galaxy 3 has been announced! After months of leaked images, rumors, speculation, and constant ad-baiting we can finally take it easy. The device was announced yesterday with a worldwide launch date of May 29th... worldwide unless you live in the US. That's supposed to come some time this summer. Samsung has stated that they will have a US event coming up to release official dates and variants for devices coming stateside. We have pre and post event coverage with myself, Steve Smith, Steve Bird, Russell Holly, and Jonathan Steadman. Check it out at youtube.com/rootzwikitv! Weve got all of the press images from Samsung up on the front page of RootzWiki.com If you missed this weeks RootzLive! Episode #5, go check it out on our youtube page at youtube.com/rootzwikitv! We interviewed Greg Carron from bNotions, talked about how HTC unlocking their bootloaders via HTCDev does more harm than good, and we gave away an Asus Transformer Prime on the air! Congrats to our winner SockMonkey!

Post event coverage on the Samsung Unpacked 2012 Live Event!

There has been a multitude of themes released on the forums lately. Check your specific device thread for something that's going to truly make your device your own. http://goo.gl/k8J3q Samsung Unpacked 2012 is today! We'll be broadcasting on RootzLive! before and after the event to provide commentary and news on the announcements announcements.http://www.rootzlive.com It looks like Amazon has released a desktop app for their cloud service a week after Google Drive was launched. However there is no Android app and the desktop software doesn't provide a dedicated sync folder. http://goo.gl/eH8em LG has announced that they will be sticking with Android and will not be planning to release another LG manufactured Windows Phone any time soon. http://goo.gl/MspCV On SuperUser.tv, Ken Kyger has a great walkthrough of “I can't believe it's not MotoBlur” on a GSM Motorola RAZR. He's pretty impressed by its performance, and the hardware seems to make him happy too. Head over to our youtube channel at www.youtube.com.rootzwikitv to check it out. Last night on RootzLive! We had over 1500 unique IPs join us as we interviewed Greg Carron from bNotions in Toronto. We talked about HTC and their policy on unlocking bootloaders and how it's not always the best thing for developers. Oh, and congratulations to Thomas Philips (aka SockMonkey on Twitter) he was the winner of our Transformer Prime last night on the air! Stay tuned or more giveaways during live shows! You can catch the archive over at SuperUser.tv as well

RootzLive! Episode #5

Team Vicious has released Bully Desensed V 1.10 for the Thunderbolt - there's a few bugs... wifi tether randomly force closes and message icon on home screen with Launcher Pro doesn't work on first boot. However many people in the thread are saying that everything else is running smooth on it. http://goo.gl/BxZAY We've got an excellent editorial on the front page from Jeff McIntire about device leaks and the 24 minute news cycle. In the article Jeff talks about the constant barrage of leaks and false tips regarding Android news and devices and how they effectively end up disappointing consumers once said product is actually released. Read the article and leave Jeff a comment! http://goo.gl/kjidN In other news, Google And Oracle have delivered their closing arguments in the Java lawsuit.Oracle is claiming that Google is making excuses not to pay licensing fees to them for using Java in developing Android, while Google claims that there was no copyright infringement with their usage of Java. We're expecting a verdict within a week.http://goo.gl/nEk97 On SuperUser.tv, I do a fairly thorough walk through of AOKP Milestone 5 on my HTC Sensation, Steve Smith gives a hands on first impression of the HTC One S for T-Mobile, and Ken Kyger talks about stock Motoblur on the Droid RAZR. http://goo.gl/Q5pgj Were giving away a Transformer Prime live on the air this Wednesday on RootzLive! 6PM Pacific/9PM Eastern/0100UTC! You must be viewing to win! Well have well known community developer Greg Carron (aka Pixeladdikt) from bNotions in Toronto Canada on air to talk about his projects, developing in a social arena, and what its like being a developer for a large dev house!

DailyRootz! via BTR May 1st, 2012 ROM Control: JCase has pulled unsecured stock boot images from the G-TAB2 7"... Samsung made them a bit more secure than - head to the Galaxy TAB 2 development forum to grab them or lend a hand on development: http://goo.gl/QHM5C ASUS Transformer - tf101 has an AOKP build thanks to Birdman... still having YouTube issues and the rotation animation isnt as smooth as hed like it, BUT... its AOKP for your Transformer! Hit the Asus Transformer Development forum to grab the ROM and give it a flash:http://goo.gl/mTu10 Forum member 0xD34D has released an unofficial AOKP Milestone 5 port to the Kindle Fire - claims that he hasnt found any bugs yet. However, you must use the 3.0 kernel and flash through TWRP, not CWM recovery. Files and instructions on how to flash can be found in the Kindle Fire Dev forum: http://goo.gl/N5jgD Galaxy TAB 2 7" are in hand - keep a lookout for contest soon from RootzWiki.com Weve got an app review of the TGIFridays app up on the front page of the site. The cool thing about this app? It uses TABBEDOUT to pay your check via mobole payment. Read more at RootzWiki.com: http://goo.gl/b8Ejj Were giving away a Transformer Prime live on the air this Wednesday on RootzLive! 6PM Pacific/9PM Eastern/0100UTC! You must be viewing to win! Well have well known community developer Greg Carron (aka Pixeladdikt) from bNotions in Toronto Canada on air to talk about his projects, developing in a social arena, and what its like being a developer for a large dev house! As always, show notes are in the description here, check those out and come back every weekday for Da

Team Kang - AOKP 4.0.0 Releases Milestone 5 for multiple devices: http://goo.gl/s8zoa Galaxy TAB2 7 has been rooted by @nycbjr: http://goo.gl/stn7D Verizon Screen Shot leak shows HTC THunderbolt to receive update on May 10th: http://goo.gl/eP4kI Verizon Summer/Fall roadmap leaked: http://goo.gl/diuem RootzLive! is giving away a Transformer Prime on the air this week: http://goo.gl/x7J8o Big Android BBQ dates released October 19th - 21st, Dallas Texas www.bigandroidbbq.com

Episode #4 of RootzLive! is ready to hit the air tonight at 6PM Pacific (9PM Eastern/0100GMT) with a whole boat-load of awesomeness for you! Our new weekly broadcast has garnered a lot of great attention and has been extremely well received by our viewers... if you have yet to watch, you should tune in and see what the buzz is all about! First up, well be interviewing noted developer from Team Kang, Jonathan Steadman (WhiteHawkx) about his involvement with developing AOKP. Hell give us insight on the team, his history in developing, and opinions on current Android projects. Well also be discussing and taking your calls on a few noteworthy topics... What is your perfect Android device? Google finally released the highly-anticipated GDrive Samsung Galaxy TAB 2 - good idea, or destined to fail? As usual well be joined by our awesome group of friends: Steve Smith, Steve Bird, SassiBob, Jeff "Azrienoch" Smith, and Ken Kyger! **WE WILL ALSO BE ANNOUNCING DETAILS OF OUR AWESOME NEW CONTEST** Be sure to tune in at 6PM Pacific (thats 9PM Eastern/0100UTC) for RootzLive! While youre at it... Go subscribe to our SuperUser.tv channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/rootzwikitv Subscribe to our audio podcast with Google Listen or any other RSS reader: http://www.blogtalkr...m/rootzlive.rss Subscribe to the audio podcast using iTunes: itpc://www.blogtalkradio.com/rootzlive.rss

This week well be interviewing noted RootzWiki developer Roman about his latest app RootzBox, previous projects, and future endeavors! Well also get to know more about him on a personal level... history, hobbies... etc. Also, well have SassiBob and Jeff "Azrienoch" Smith back on the air with us this week. They were VERY popular with you, and Im pretty sure that youll enjoy what they have to share with us this week. Your favorite RootzWiki Admins, Steve Bird and Steve Smith will be on air to give us a "State of the Site" update and to go over some of the more popular threads in the forums. Well also be talking with Daniel Benavides from Andys Threads. They are launching new product and taking pre-orders for some of the sweetest Android related swag available. While hes on the air with us, well be giving away one of the Andys Threads new items to one of our viewers, the Rorsach Andy T-shirt! Also, hes said that if we can get the Andys Threads Twitter account up to 500 followers, hell also give away a Global Andy Hoodie (hint, go circle them right now)! Rorshach Andy T-Shirt Global Andy Hoodie Of course well have discussion on some of the latest happenings in the forums and other topics around the site! If youve got any specific questions youd like our guests to answer, or anything else youd like us to discuss on the air, please be sure to let me know in this thread and Ill get it worked in... As usual, subscribe to the audio only podcast with your favorite RSS reader or iTunes! Thanks, and Im looking forward to seeing everybody for RootzLive! Wednesday evening at 6PM Pacific/9PM Eastern!