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  • Rooted Users Get Market Movie Rentals with Modified Google Videos App

    Posted Aug 12 2011 by Justin Marden in News, Rumors with 5 Comments

    We were a bit sad when we discovered back in May that rooted Android devices don’t have the ability to rent movies from the Android Market. We got some good news today, and this one comes from the guys over at KnowYourCell. They’ve learned that a …

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  • Droid Charge Blockbuster App Blocked to Rooted Users

    Posted May 26 2011 by Phil Esposito in News with 10 Comments

    If you haven’t heard, Google’s new movie service on Android 3.1 has been blocked to root users. If you have a rooted Xoom running Android 3.1, you cannot rent or purchase videos from the new Movies section in the Android Market. But it doesn’t end …

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  • No Movies For You!

    Posted May 23 2011 by Ray Walters in News with 12 Comments

    I have not written an opinion piece in a long while, mostly because I usually cover my opinions when we have a “Rayge Against the Machine” segment on AGTN. But this morning, I find myself dusting off the old opinion button here at AG, because of the fact that those of us, (pretty much everyone reading this blog), who have rooted devices will not be able to rent movies on the shiny new offering from Google in the Android Web Market.

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  • I/O Galaxy Tab 10.1 Already Rooted!

    Posted May 11 2011 by Ray Walters in News with 1 Comment

    Well that didn’t take long, yet another testament as to why we all love using the Android OS. The snazzy Galaxy Tab 10.1′s that Google handed out to lucky I/O attendees have already been rooted, giving access to the entire device for our grubby little hands to take advantage of. Android Central reported that the process is super easy, simply push a zip file over ADB, reboot into recovery then execute said zip.

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  • Archos Gets Froyo’d and Rooted!

    Posted Dec 7 2010 by Cody Hahn in News with 13 Comments

    If you are like everyone else in the world, you are excited about the fact that we finally are getting some sort of choice in the Android tablet market.  We have high price range tablets like the Galaxy Tab, to the low end Sylvania tablet. …

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  • The Droid Has Been Rooted

    Posted Dec 8 2009 by Scott Webster in News with 11 Comments

    We can add the Droid to the list of Android handsets that have been rooted.   A member of the AllDroid forums is reporting tonight that they’ve been able to successfully get root access on the hottest handset around.  We’ll find out before too long what …

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