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How to Root HTC Glacier / Mytouch 4G

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Cyanogen mod's FAQ was not working for a 2.2.1 T-Mobile Mytouch (HTC Glacier) - I was issued an error occured while running exploit messages upon running /data/local/tmp/fre3vo -debug -start FAA90000 -end FFFFFFFF Upon some digging and trial and error I developed the following … [Read more...]

Howto: Google Voice with Trapcall

TrapCall

How to run a combination of Google Voice, Trapcall, and your Carrier's voicemail at the same time. PREFACE: You can use a combination of Google Voice number and voicemail, your carrier number and voicemail, and Trapcall to have ultimate power and control over your … [Read more...]

Google Voice – All Calls Unkown / No Caller ID

Google Voice

For a few days my phone was showing all incoming calls forwarded through Google Voice as unknown, this was really confusing as my GVoice is the primary business line. I ran some basic testing and was able to verify that Google Voice was able to normally display the caller ID on … [Read more...]

Mytouch4g CM7.1 BATP Mod – Unthrottled and Untracked

CM 7.1

Hello all, this is a lightly modified CyanogenMod 7.1 stable running Android 2.3.7 for the Mytouch 4G aka HTC Glacier. The purpose of this mod is to remove carrier throttling and make it harder for Google to know who you are and where you are while improving your GPS … [Read more...]

T-Mobile Visual Voicemail APK Install

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Sometimes Always market/carrier restrictions end up hampering the user's experience. One such instance is T-Mobile's visual voicemail and I will show you how to fix the problem: The first step you want to do is call T-Mobile customer (Tel:800-866-2453) and ask to have … [Read more...]

Data Retention Periods of Major Cell Service Providers

Dept of Justice

This document, obtained by the ACLU, details data retention policies of the five major US cellphone carriers. The table below is a copy of the original PDF with some info removed, you can see the original at this link. Verizon T-Mobile AT&T / … [Read more...]

How to Outsmart Your Smartphone

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I came across this useful PDF (released by the Chief of Public Affairs Pentagon) regarding the safety issues concerning Geo Tagging. Your Smartphone and many newer digital cameras come with the Geo Tagging feature already enabled. This comprehensive guide will explain the risks … [Read more...]

Removing Factory Apps from Android Phone

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  UPDATE: You can just use Root Explorer. So I recently obtained a G1 which I flashed to Cyanogen 6.0, a problem it runs in to is a lack of ram: background processes like facebook and twitter and DSP manager don't leave much room to breathe... But, there's a way to … [Read more...]