February 22, 2012

The new skin I’m in.

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“Skin” as in smartphone case and “I’m” as in my Skyrocket. I was going to go for the obvious blue color that I normally choose, but the only blue they had was ice blue, which is just a bit too close to pastel blue. The only issue is that the screen protector is the glossy [...]

At the end of 2011…

I spent time reading up on how to hack Android devices and then promptly flashed my brother’s Samsung Captivate from Froyo to Gingerbread 2.3.5 using One Click Odin. With that success under my belt, I read up on more manual methods with Odin and then flashed my new Skyrocket with Sky ICS. Finding new bugs [...]

Skyrocket upgrade.

A Skyrocket in my hand

It’s the phone I actually wanted since its announcement, but it wasn’t available in Canada at the time and I just wanted to jump on the Android bandwagon back in the summer. So now I have two phones. I’ll keep using the Xperia Arc while I root and flash the SGS2 with ICS.

Yes, it does!

So I’ll stop it with the test microblog posts. Sorry about that.

It works on my tablet, so it should work on my phone.

Crossing my fingers!