Infected apps are becoming a routine in the Android Market. Over the weekend, mobile security firm Lookout announced that they have found 25 new infected apps in the Android Market. The company said these apps are likely developed by the same people that did the March attack which included 50 apps.

The infected apps were packaged in copies of legitimate apps, listed below, and posted to Google’s Android market by four fraudulent developers, Lookout says: Magic Photo Studio, Mango Studio, E.T. Tean, and BeeGoo.

The list of infected applications (by developer name) includes:

Magic Photo Studio

• Sexy Girls: Hot Japanese
• Sexy Legs
• HOT Girls 4
• Beauty Breasts
• Sex Sound
• Sex Sound: Japanese
• HOT Girls 1
• HOT Girls 2
• HOT Girls 3

Mango Studio

• Floating Image Free
• System Monitor
• Super StopWatch and Timer
• System Info Manager

E.T. Tean

• Call End Vibrate

BeeGoo

• Quick Photo Grid
• Delete Contacts
• Quick Uninstaller
• Contact Master
• Brightness Settings
• Volume Manager
• Super Photo Enhance
• Super Color Flashlight
• Paint Master

UPDATE: DroidPlus

• Quick Cleaner
• Super App Manager
• Quick SMS Backup

Lockout suggested you do the following to be safe:

Source

If you have being emvious of the iOS users because of Plants vs. Zombies,  Plant vs. Zombio for Android is finally here.  But there a few catches to it: it is  75 megabytes which may feel heavy on older Android phones; and it only available at the Amazon AppStore for now. And today alone, it is free. To over to the Amazon and get loaded. For it’s worth, you get 49 killer plants and 26 varieties of zombies.

Go to the Amazon Appstore to download.

Google has pulled popular game emulator apps, including Nesoid, Snesoid, N64oid,  Gensoid among others, from the Android Market. Google also went further to revoke the developer right on the Yong Zhang, the developer.

Yong has now listed his entire *oid line of emulator apps, completely free, at SlideME for a two-week-period to allow current users who’ve already purchased them to get a copy before it’s too late. If you were thinking of getting one of them and just hadn’t gotten around to it, now’s the time—they may not be there much long. This will also be a good time to backup and keep them in a safe place if your already have them.

If you own Archos Gen8 Android Tablet and can’t wait to have to root it, read on for the complete instructions to guide you through the process.

 Requirements:

•  Archos Firmware 2.1.02 or 2.1.03
• Archos SDE
• Custom initramfs and kernel provided by xda developer. Download Firmware 2.1.02/ Download Firmware 2.1.03

 Procedure:

Step 1: Reboot the device and keep the “Vol-” button pressed after the screen goes black. It gets the laptop into recovery mode.

 Step 2: Choose the “Update Firmware” option and connect your device to your computer via USB.

Step 3: Transfer the SDE firmware to the tablet and safely remove the device from the USB devices on your computer.

Step 4: Select ‘OK’> Archos SDE is installed> Reboot the device. Archos SDE has been successfully installed, now.

Step 5: Install android firmware. Reboot the device and keep the ‘Volume down’ button pressed once the screen goes blank.

Step 6: Select ‘Update Firmware’ option and connect your device to your computer via USB.

Step 7: Now transfer the firmware file to your device and then safely remove the device from the USB devices on your computer.

 Step 8: Click ‘OK’ and after the firmware has been updated, reboot your device. The Archos Firmware should now be working on your device.

Step 9: Now you can install the custom kernel + initramfs provided above. Reboot your tablet by holding down the volume button.

 Step10: Go to ‘Recovery Menu’ > ‘Developer Edition’ > ‘Flash kernel and initramfs’

 Step 11: Connect your tablet to your PC via USB, transfer the ‘zImage and initramfs.cpio.gz’ to it.

Step 12: Safely disconnect the device from your computer.

Step 13: Press ‘OK’  on your tablet and then reboot while holding the Volume Down button.

Step 14: Now just keep the volume-down button pressed once the screen turns black.

 Step 15: Select ‘Developer Edition’, it will provide a temporary root access to your phone.

 Now you have temporary root access, and to gain permanent root the tablet as follows:

Step 1: Reboot the device while keeping the ‘Volume Down’ keys pressed.

 Step 2: Go to ‘Recovery Menu’ > ‘Developer Edition Menu’ and select ‘Remove Android Kernel’

 Step 3: Reboot your device and you should now have permanent root on it.

Viola! It works. Let us know your experience in the comment box below.

Clockwork Recovery aka ClockworkMod Recovery/ ClockworkMod is a recovery console for performing a wide range of operations on Android devices. People customizing their phones by flashing custom ROMS extensively use ClockworkMod. Additionally, it allows you to perform and restore backups of your Android phone. Luckily, installing it is a very easy process

The phone must be rooted prior to the installation of ClockworkMod. Once the phone has been rooted, follow the below mentioned instructions to obtain ClockworkMod on your phone in a jiffy!

Instructions:

Step 1: Download free app ROM Manager from Android Market. Install it.

 Step 2: When installed, launch ROM Manager on the smartphone.

Step 3: In ROM Manager, tap Flash ClockworkMod Recovery. Specify or confirm your phone model if prompted during the process, and follow any on-screen instructions.

Step 4: It would take a few minutes for ClockworkMod Recovery to install. Upon successful completion of the process, ClockworkMod is ready for use.

If you want to boot into ClockworkMod recovery, launch Rom Manager and tap ‘Reboot into Recovery 

Have you tried installing something that went wrong and now you want to revert to original factory default state?

You can easily restore (unbrick) your Nook Color to its factory settings by following the instructions below. It will allow you to start fresh, as the device was the way, before you attempted to install that fancy app/custom ROM.

Ingredients:

• A bricked Nook Color
• Android SDK installed and running
•  Original Factory Boot Image
• Original System Boot Image

 Procedure:

Step 1: Download the above Boot and System Images.

Step 2:  Unzip and extract to the root of your SD card.

Step 3:  Plug your Nook color into your PC using USB Interface.

Step 4:  Go to your Android SDK Folder and run ADB as instructed in the above tutorial.

 Step 5: Go to ADB Shell and type

dd if=/sdcard/boot.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1

dd if=/sdcard/system.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5

This will restore :

Nook Color’s Boot Image

Nook Color’s System Image

Nook Color’s Original Parition Structure

 Step 6: Type ‘adb reboot’ to reboot your Nook Color into original factory state.

 Viola! Your Nook Color has been restored to its original condition & settings.

This procedure can also be used to unbrick your Nook Color if any issue during normal usage or flashing of any custom Android ROMs available like Honeycomb and Froyo. 

Have you tried installing something that went wrong and now you want to revert to original factory default state?