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How to root the Google Nexus 7, unlock the bootloader, install custom recovery

The Google Nexus 7 is a pretty great tablet right out of the box. It has a speedy NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, a 7 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, and Android 4.1 Jelly Bean software. But before doing anything else with my Nexus 7 when it arrived, I wanted to unlock the bootloader, […]

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How to enable Android’s tablet UI on the Google Nexus 7

The Google Nexus 7 may be the first tablet to ship with Google Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. But like Android 4.0, Jelly Bean has slightly different user interfaces for smartphones and tablets — and for some reason Google decided to make the smartphone UI the default on the Nexus 7 tablet. If you’d rather use […]

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Google Nexus 7 hacking begins (root, custom recovery, system dump, more)

The Google Nexus 7 is an Android tablet with a 1.3 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad-core processor, a 7 inch, 1280 x 800 pixel display, and a starting price of just $199. It’s also Google’s latest flagship device aimed at least in part at developers. So it should come as no surprise that it’s extraordinarily […]

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Leak: Asus Nexus 7 tablet to launch soon for $199 and up

Google will likely introduce a 7 inch Nexus tablet at the Google I/O conference later this week. But the folks at Gizmodo Australia stole a bit of the company’s thunder today by publishing some of the most important details. The information comes from a leaked training document, and fits pretty well with all the rumors […]