Smartphone - How To

If the thought of flashing an incomplete developer preview on your Nexus 5 to get Android L turns you off, you can look to CyanogenMod's impressive theme engine instead.

With one simple trick you can enable the ''Ok Google'' hotword voice search from any screen, not just your home screens. It's super easy and takes about ten seconds!

The Nexus 5 is capable of making use of LG's great Knock On feature, where you double tap the screen to wake the device up. Here's how to get it.

Ads - whether static, video or audio - can be annoying as well as big data hogs. In our guide, find out how to block ads and pop-ups with ad blockers on Android.

Today we'll give you a few pointers on how you can not only speed up your Galaxy Note 2, but also ways to make using a lot more effective! Let's get cracking!

We just got our LG G Watch and thought we'd show you how easy it is to get Android Wear installed on your device and your Android Wear smartwatch up and running.

We will show you how you can unlock the bootloader of your device with one-click across multiple manufacturers. You will need to have your device rooted.

We recently showed you a bunch of reasons why you should root your device, but what about the other side? Here's some reasons why you shouldn't root your device.

CyanogenMod is popular, but it also is a custom ROM and needs to have root access to be installed. Here's how you can get some of the features without needing to tinker.

While there are a wealth of reasons to root your phone, not all of them are immediately obvious when you're first considering it. Here's the ten best reasons to root.

To improve the performance of the Nexus 5, the last yet effective resort is to do a factory reset, whether the sotware or hardware way.

Keeping the pretty tiny battery in the Nexus 4 running at its peak rate isn't as hard as you may think. Here's five tips to avoid battery drain on your your Nexus 4.

We talk about it all the time: rooting your device and installing a custom ROM. What exactly does it mean though? We take a look into it.

The Nexus 7 2013 isn’t fault-free, and can be buggy and laggy on occasion. Here are some ways you can speed up the performance of your Nexus 7 2013!

Today we’ll explain how to root the HTC One (M8) using the Toolkit program which can be done in one easy step! Great for beginners!

A recent Google Now update allows you to set a timer on devices with KitKat and later versions of Android Jelly Bean, all without having to touch your Android device.

The Moto E has just been officially added to Motorola's Bootloader Unlock program, pretty much instantly making it the official partner of modders and tweakers worldwide.

Want a better Nexus 4? Check out our tips on how you can boost the speed of various components of your Google smartphone.

There are so many drains on our smartphone batteries it's not funny, but limiting the drains we don't even need or use is the best way to maximize your battery life.

Today we will tell you how to fix the annoying camera failed problem on the Galaxy S3, which many users have. The solutions are simple and there are few to consider.