stephen is a freelance writer at android police who primarily covers how to guides features and the occasional in depth explainer across various topics he came on board with the team in late 2021 bringing his strong technical background in computers smartphones and customer service with him as a long time power user who knows his devices from the inside out he uses that knowledge to tweak and customize them to better fit his specific needs stephen previously worked as a freelance how to guide writer for the android rooting modding and custom rom section at gadget hacks he has actively followed the android scene since 2008 with the htc dream known by most as the t mobile g1 however he didn t get his first android device until 2009 with the original motorola droid after that stephen quickly learned about unlocking the bootloader and gaining full root access both changed his smartphone life forever he would frequently install custom roms kernels and recoveries to improve his android experience beyond what stock could provide although not as popular as it once was he still continues to root his primary devices today using the latest version of magisk stephen has been passionate about writing his entire life and finally turned it into a professional career in 2016 he started out as a lesson plan writer in computer science and it for study com which allows students to earn real college credits online that led him to gadget hacks where stephen got to write educational and informative pieces for android smartphones and now he continues down that same path at android police using his technical knowledge and skills to write how to guides his goal has always been to help as many people as possible learn something new about technology
stephen is a freelance writer at android police who primarily covers how to guides features and the occasional in depth explainer across various topics he came on board with the team in late 2021 bringing his strong technical background in computers smartphones and customer service with him as a long time power user who knows his devices from the inside out he uses that knowledge to tweak and customize them to better fit his specific needs stephen previously worked as a freelance how to guide writer for the android rooting modding and custom rom section at gadget hacks he has actively followed the android scene since 2008 with the htc dream known by most as the t mobile g1 however he didn t get his first android device until 2009 with the original motorola droid after that stephen quickly learned about unlocking the bootloader and gaining full root access both changed his smartphone life forever he would frequently install custom roms kernels and recoveries to improve his android experience beyond what stock could provide although not as popular as it once was he still continues to root his primary devices today using the latest version of magisk stephen has been passionate about writing his entire life and finally turned it into a professional career in 2016 he started out as a lesson plan writer in computer science and it for study com which allows students to earn real college credits online that led him to gadget hacks where stephen got to write educational and informative pieces for android smartphones and now he continues down that same path at android police using his technical knowledge and skills to write how to guides his goal has always been to help as many people as possible learn something new about technology
stephen is a freelance writer at android police who primarily covers how to guides features and the occasional in depth explainer across various topics he came on board with the team in late 2021 bringing his strong technical background in computers smartphones and customer service with him as a long time power user who knows his devices from the inside out he uses that knowledge to tweak and customize them to better fit his specific needs stephen previously worked as a freelance how to guide writer for the android rooting modding and custom rom section at gadget hacks he has actively followed the android scene since 2008 with the htc dream known by most as the t mobile g1 however he didn t get his first android device until 2009 with the original motorola droid after that stephen quickly learned about unlocking the bootloader and gaining full root access both changed his smartphone life forever he would frequently install custom roms kernels and recoveries to improve his android experience beyond what stock could provide although not as popular as it once was he still continues to root his primary devices today using the latest version of magisk stephen has been passionate about writing his entire life and finally turned it into a professional career in 2016 he started out as a lesson plan writer in computer science and it for study com which allows students to earn real college credits online that led him to gadget hacks where stephen got to write educational and informative pieces for android smartphones and now he continues down that same path at android police using his technical knowledge and skills to write how to guides his goal has always been to help as many people as possible learn something new about technology