A range of other factor should be considered. Some of these are:
- Rogue, badly coded Apps hogging resources
- Rom specific memory issues with system process issues

Or

- Your phone has a lame battery.

If none of these apply and you still think wiping stats will help, check out this myth busting article from XDA

After moving from a heavy CM7 user on my old Nexus One I was sad to see there wasn’t really a stable build for Atrix. Since this though there has been much work on the CM7 front and with stable releases or CM7 we are starting to see some interesting mods.

Currently, I’m running Dorians RedPill CM7 Hybrid V1, (not to be confused with his 2.3.4 beta versions), essentially these are obsolete with the release of CM7 Hybrid.

Visit the XDA developers thread to get some info on this rom or alternatively download it directly here. The download is a flashable .zip which can be flashed using a custom recovery.

This rom DOES NOT contain any of the Google apps, so if you want the “Google experience”, (which I’m guessing you do), head over to the Cyanogen Mod wiki site to grab the latest Gapps.zip, (there is a helpful little table that shows you what version you need).

In summary, the rom is extremely smooth CM7 implementation and as yet (72hrs), I have yet to find any issues.

If you are after installation instructions I will be creating a generic guide to using CWM Recovery soon. Please in the mean time visit this helpful thread detailing all steps required.

Just a quick tip here if you use an app backup utility like Mybackup Pro or Titanium backup on a rooted device.

Sometimes its possible, even on a rooted handset to restore your apps and data and find that the market does not show the apps as being installed.

To fix this goto settings from the home screen on your device by clicking options/settings/applications/manage, then navigate to the Android Market and clear both cache and data. Job done!

If you haven’t heard the buzz About the Facebook session hijack tool FireSheep, (available as a Firefox extension), then you may well not be aware that the same tool is now available as an android app.

FaceNiff has been available for Android for some time with 1.9.4 being the latest stable release. Recently a newer beta version has become available.

Download the official version 2.0 beta release from HERE.

By default the trial is limited to 3 profiles. Follow these sneaky instructions to find out how to easily unlock the app.

Step 1:
Install the apk you just downloaded, open it, allow SU permissions and make sure you run the service by clicking start button.

Step 2:
Press menu and select unlock app,
Stop the service and close the app. Now open your file manager and go to the root of your SD card. You should see

A file named facenif.debug

Open this with your chosen text editor, (screen shot shows text file using Root Explorer).

Once open edit it with your text editor.

Within this file you will see the key for your app displayed.

Simply copy and paste it in the app after clicking unlock.

Enjoy unlimited uses!

Its a bit cheeky but to be honest I’m sure the dev is aware of how easy this is and I wouldn’t be supprised if we were supposedd to find this.

Nexus roms

While hunting for some different roms I failed and found, instead, a neat list of the main players. Links should lead back to original threads. In addition, if you were looking for some stock rom sanity, there are also links to stock roms.

This is something I’ve found as a must over the years. The need to be able to switch off crappy mobile web sites. Automatically going to m.webstie.com often results in the lack of required information.

So here we go to enable some extra options in your android web browser simply enter “about:debug” in the address bar. Hit enter and your done. Nothing will happen but when your don’t go to settings and scroll down to the debug options.

Scroll to the bottom and choose, you will see a few different browser options. Most importantly desktop. Now one of the things you can do with you new powers is work better with Faceniff as whilst sniffing site clicking on the user may result in a mobile site which won’t allow you to manipulate their profile. If your not sure what faceniff is see here.

This is just a quick post to help all those out there that have found their Gingerbread Android handsets spamming them, trying to get you to download games etc from the market. The attack takes the form orlf a tray notification, which to me is a little too personal.

The source of the spam is not too sinister but I don’t like it anyways. Here’s how to stop it.

Open the market app tap the option key then select “settings”. Doing this will show you a screen like this, (see screen shot).

Now un-tick the suggestions box and you will be safe from invasive “suggestion” which are almost hallways nothing to do with your interests and likley go to the highest bidder.

Check out the latest updated version of the Geocaching application for android. amoung some of the major improvements are less battery drain, massively improved hi and new powerfully search options Including an offline mode supporting custom lists.

Get it on the market by visiting this link.

Now this for most power users out there is a nightmare no a2sd and none of the tweaks of Cyanogen. However awesome these features are or how quickly your over clocked nexus might be, one day you’ll be left thinking, ….I need to get this call and not WONK!!!

Follow the instructions below to root an existing installation of Android 2.3.4 on the NEXUS.

In plain and simple english here is what you need!

You will need:

• The download at the bottom of this post.
• Basic command line / Terminal (Mac) knowledge such as navigating to directories and copy and pasting commands out of my post!
• The proper drivers installed, in your on windows they are inside the download, if your not ure how to install a driver for a usb device see HERE.

Get the download at the bottom of the post, unzip to a place you’ll find it!

Step One:

un-zip / copy the the SU folder to the root of your HDD, (or some place you can find it).

Step Two:

Copy the SU.zip file, (located in the download), to your memory card. (i’m not telling you how).

Step Three:

Windows users: “windows key”+”R” then type “cmd’ followed by “Return”.

This will get you the Command prompt, dont be scared.

Mac users: Navigate to the Terminal.app located in your typically located in “Applications/utilities”

Once at the Prompt navigate to the folder you just downloaded, you can do this by typing “cd c:\” then “Return” to get to the root of the HDD then type the name of your folder e.g “cd C:\su” then press “Return”

Step Four:

Copy and paste these commands in blue to your terminal in order:

1 – fastboot devices (Checks to see if your phone is connected in fast boot mode, if it is, you will see a bunch of numbers if you dont, your phone is not recognised properly, DID YOU SKIP A STEP>?).

2 – fastboot flash recovery recovery.img This will push the custom recovery needed to flash the zip file you moved earlier.

NOTE: if your on MAC OS X you will need to replace the words “fastboot” with “fastboot-mac” simple really.

Step Five:

Without rushing, press the power button to get into the boot-loader, then select recovery, using the power buttons to select. recovery.

Once in recovery selcet flash Zip and navigate to the su.zip you plced on the sd card earlier. once you have located it flash it!

Your done, now restart and enjoy stable rooted android fun! any questions drop me an email.

DOWNLOADS:

SU.ZIP Copy to root of SD

FASTBOOT unzip it to C:\. Now you have a folder C:\fastboot\

Custom Recovery (AMON RA) put it in your C:\fastboot\ folder