With the ridiculous amount of capability hackers have shoehorned into rooted Android images, wouldn't it be nice to be able to harness all of that into a desktop manager? Well, it's as if the Droid Explorer project (ironically hosted on Microsoft's CodePlex open source project hosting service) read your mind, because that's exactly what it does. The Windows-based app includes everything from backup management to a debug console, a screen capture utility, a task manager, and countless other goodies under one umbrella. It's compatible with about a dozen models right now -- including multiple Galaxy S variants -- and it requires root... but if you're on an Android phone with an available root, you've already rooted, right? Right?Droid Explorer explores your rooted Droid (or Nexus One, or Galaxy S, or...) originally appeared on Engadget Mobile on Sun, 31 Oct 2010 11:59:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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