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Welcome to Chainfire's development blog! This is a site dedicated to my hobby projects, as well as those that are now commercial. I am however not promising I will not post any other completely unrelated nonsense :) Don't see this as my resume.

CF-Root v3.5 for SGS2

Yet another device gets my popular CF-Root (binary hacked stock) kernel !

SGS2 SIM Unlock code finder released

This app finds the SIM unlock code for your SGS2.

Chainfire3D v1.0 released

Chainfire3D v1.0 has been released !

CF3D :: NightMode released !

As a first public test of the CF3D ("Chainfire3D") OpenGL ES proxy driver for Android, I have released the "NightMode" application.

GingerBreak released

The GingerBreak APK is a wrapper around the newly released GingerBreak exploit (credits to The Android Exploid Crew), which is meant to attain root access on GingerBread. This specific exploit may work on various Froyo and Honeycomb versions as well.

live dmesg v1.50 released

live dmesg is the one and only boot animation replacement that shows the actual dmesg log (kernel debug messages). It looks a bit similar to a BIOS boot. Handy for developers too! Unlike other similar apps, the information you see on screen is real a ...

CF-Root (SGS) updated a lot, now at 2.8

CF-Root for the SGS has been updated quite a number of times the past week due to the major Gingerbread leak (the first Gingerbread leak was "meh", this one rocks your socks off).

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Galaxy Tab Bootloaders Patch released !

The bootloader patch for Samsung Galaxy Tab has finally been released. It flashes back unprotected bootloaders over the protected bootloaders, so can flash custom kernels again.

Galaxy Tab HDMI dock review

I've written a short round-up of some test I performed on the HDMI dock for the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which you can read here.