With the constant rush to trumpet the latest phones it's easy to think of old phones as obsolete. Most carriers encourage this with a spotty record on upgrading their existing phones to the latest and ...

One of the biggest issues with custom ROMs is that you typically can't run banking apps. But this initiative could change things.

The new Migrate app will hopefully make switching custom Android ROMs a breeze. The app is currently in beta on the Google Play Store. Migrate takes what Titanium Backup does but makes it simpler and ...

Want to install CyanogenMod on your phone or tablet, but don’t want to fiddle with unlocking your bootloader, learning how to use adb and fastboot, and other command line tools? CyanogenMod Installer ...

The market of smartphones evolves fast, and sometimes, it's hard to keep up. While some users will be catching new phones every year, others have to keep up with their devices for two, three, or even ...

Even though Android 6.0 Marshmallow has been available since October 2015, its market share is still less than 20 percent, according to the most recent statistics from Google. For most users, the main ...

We've rooted around in the jungle of custom ROMs for the Google Nexus 7 so you don't have trawl the forums. Here's our top six. David Gilson David Gilson has always revelled in tech and started ...

Every user has a different taste as some people buy Xiaomi smartphones to use the MIUI, whereas others often get it root and install custom ROMs. There are various benefits of using the custom ROM on ...

The Samsung Galaxy S8 and its larger Galaxy S8+ sibling are arguably two of the best-looking, and best-performing smartphones this half of the year. But as great as they are, they are by no means ...

The brilliant Nexus 4 is well catered with custom ROMs -- special versions of Android that make things faster, smoother or more intuitive. Damien McFerran has more than a decade of experience in the ...

Looking at the overall situation, more than 70% of Android users have used third-party ROMs, 26% have never used them, and 35% currently using them. This result is strictly from the survey of ...