Author: Tarandeep Kaur

Root functionality allows you to do access hidden folders, change permissions of certain folders that you cannot do without root and run applications that require Super User (Super SU) access. Fortunately rooting HTC Desire 616 is fairly easy. All you have to do is download Kingroot’s apk from here and put it in your device.

Then Open the application ,with Internet on and press the Green Circle and wait for few minutes. That is it, your phone is rooted when you see this screen.  close the application and enjoy your rooted HTC Desire 616. Then download Supersu from the play store. Go Supersu settings > click on "Install SuperSu into /system" and then remove Kinguser.

It shall kept in mind that in case something goes wrong, you should be on stock ROM and rooting voids warranty.

CWM a k a clock work recovery is a software that allows you to install custom firmwares and all sorts of hacks including ability to root HTC Desire 616. Fortunately CWM for HTC Desire 616 is now available. To install CWM on HTC Desire 616, you must use SP Flash Tool to install.

You can download it but before you use it on your computer, you must install driver for SP Flash Tool for windows. Then select MTK_AllInOne_DA.bin and then MT6592_Android_scatter.txt.

After that press download button and turn off phone (wait for it turn off completely) and plug the  USB cable into phone. The SP Flash tool will auto detect your Desire 616 phone and write recovery.img into phone.

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Every time you install a tweak or root Grand Prime, you void the warranty of your phone. Many times users brick their phone and the only solution is to flash the stock ROM. By downloading and installing this Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime firmware, you will be back to stock and everything installed and stored on your phone will be deleted as well.

Pre requirements

1. Samsung USB Driver
2.Odin from here http://devfilescloud.com/download/4
3. Stock Firmware (In the search box enter your model then select your region then download)
4. Please make sure that the battery juice is more than 40 percent

Instructions:

1. Download the USB Driver Install in our computer
2. Download the firmware from and extract you will see file tar.md5
3. Power off your grand prime
4. Boot into download mode by pushing volume down + home + power together
5. Press volume up
6. Connect the usb between mobile and computer
7. Extract Odin zip
8. Open Odin.exe
9. When You open you will see yellow color in BOX that means your phone is connected
10. Now Click on PDA and browse to the extract of the firmware and select where pda in file
11. Now Click on CSC and browse to the extract of the firmware and select where csc in file
12. Now click on PHONE and browse to the extract of the firmware and select where modem in file
13. After that click on start button
14. When the process complete unplug your phone
15. When your phone reboot remove your battery
16. Now push Volume up + power + home together to go in recovery
17. Now navigate to wipe data reset by pressing volume up /down
18. Click on wipe data reset by pressing power
19. Again Navigate to reboot system now and click on it
20. Be patient first boot may take time

So you just bought the amazing Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime but you are not so amused with the camera application and have been wondering would it be great to get the Sony camera app on it? Well thanks to XDA it is finally possible. The app can be flashed on to the Galaxy Grand Prime easily.

The only requirement is CWM recovery for Grand Prime. So download the file from here, reboot into recovery; Flash zip and Clear cache > Reboot.

The feature list of Sony camera include manual focus, Face tracking, Auto Focus, Auto intelligence mode, HDR MODE, Shot and clear, Panorama, Vr panorama, Burst shot, Beauty and Night mode. Some extra features included are scene mode, brightness control, cheese shutter and smile detection. All pictures are captured using in 13 MP (4160X3120).

Chainfire is yet to release a root for the Samsung Galaxy Grand Prime GM-G530H but we have the instructions on how to get it done. To get Galaxy Grand Prime rooted, you will have to download the modified version of CF-auto root from here  and put it on your computer. The zip file contains three files, Odin v3.07, 2_cache_recovery_stock_mohan_sm-g530h.md5 and 1_cfroot_sm-g530h_mohan.tar.md5.

To root Grand Prime, boot your phone into download mode (power button, home button and volume down key simultaneously) and connect it to the computer. Start up Odin on your computer and flash the first file by clicking on PDA and selection this file: 2_cache_recovery_stock_mohan_sm-g530h.md5. The device will boot up again.

Also check out instructions to root Galaxy Grand Quattro.

Again go into download mode and flash the second file (select PDA again): 1_cfroot_sm-g530h_mohan.tar.md5. The device will reboot and you will find SuperSU installed. Open it and it will ask to disable knox notification. Press Cancel and if SuperSU asks for su binary update, just press the Normal button.

Great news for those who had eyes set on Nokia Lumia 830. AT&T is now giving away a free Fitbit Flex activity tracker when you buy a Nokia Lumia 830 on contract on Microsoft store. It is also possible to buy it off contract for $ 399 and you will still get the $ 90 Fitbit Flex for free. Amazon too is offering Fitbit Flex for free.

However we feel that it would have made more sense to offer the Nokia Lumia 830 for free under contract and a free Microsoft Band or may be for $ 99 instead of $ 199.

• Via nokiaviews.com

If you do not like the boot animation of your Motorola Moto X, you can easily change it. Same goes for the logo – if you do not like it, you can change it easily. The only requirement is that you need a rooted Moto X which fortunately can done easily.

Installation instruction for changing Moto X boot animation are given below:

1. Download the file from here and rename it to bootanimation.zip
2. Copy to /system/media/
3. Set permissions to root:root and rw-r-r
4. Reboot.

Instructions for changing logo are:

1. Download and rename to logo.bin
2. Reboot to bootloader.
3. Run "fastboot flash logo logo.bin" (No quotes)
4. Reboot

That is it – you can enjoy and install custom bootscreen and logo on your Moto X.

Cyanogen Mod 12 a k a CM12 is now available for the Motorola Moto X. Cyanogen Mod has its own fanbase and the development is also much faster than the standard android that comes preinstalled on your Moto X. This particular ROM comes with ad blocker pre installed so no more ads in apps.

The complete feature list includes:
Nav bar customizations;
Animated rotation tile;
Wake up on plug;
Development shortcut;
Clock and time clickable in expanded status bar;
Notification ticker;
Quick unlock;
PIN keypad shuffler;
Custom lockscreen shortcuts;
Answer calls with hardware home button;
Status bar clock tweaks (right, center or hide clock with many dates formats to show. Custom colors included);
Notifications counter;
Volume keys wake the device;
Ability to hide the alarm clock icon from status bar;
Dialer Lookup;
Profiles form CyanogenMod (new merges and lollipop style);
Protected apps (using trebuchet launcher);
Filter spam notifications;
CyanogenMod SuperUser;
Clear all button in recent panel with custom option (hide, top right or top left);
Privacy guard from CyanogenMod;
Quick settings pull down with one finger (right, left or off);
Smart pull down;
Configurable 0, 90, 180 and 270 degree rotation;
Toggle to not allow quick settings on secure lockscreen;
Brightness control through status bar;
Double tap status bar sleep;
Data activity indicators;
Call blacklist support;
Increasing ring tone;
In call vibrations;
Advanced reboot menu;
Option to hide adb notification;
Screen shot quick delete with confirmation;
Long press back to kill with configurable timeout;
Less frequent notifications sound;
Advanced keyboard features (auto rotation with timeout, disable full screen, selector notification, show enter key, volume key cursor control);
New Eleven music player and AudioFX from CyanogenMod;
Statusbar network speeds;
AOKP system animations;
Left handed navbar during landscape mode;
App circle sidebar;
Toast Animations;
Media Scanner on boot behaviour;
Gesture Anywhere;
Omniswitch;
Screenrecorder;
Weather banner;
Search bar in recents;
Ability to use Omniswitch instead of aosp recents;
Wakelock blocker;
Advanced powermenu;
Lcd density;
cLock;
Ad blocker;

Installation instructions are given below:

– Make sure you’re running a proper working Recovery (CWM or TWRP)
– Copy GApps and crDroid zip to your internal SDCard
– Boot into Recovery
– Wipe system,data and cache
– Flash crDroid zip
– Flash GApps zip
– DO A DATA WIPE / FACTORY RESET
– Reboot

Lenovo N21 is a third generation chromebook for students after Lenovo ThinkPad X131e and Lenovo Yoga 11e. Chromebooks laptops have now established themselves as decent windows PC alternatives if you do all of your work in the web browser. The Lenovo N21 is a chromebook for students offering excellent specifications at a cheap price tag.

Lenovo N21 specifications as reported by chromium netbooks include a 11.6 inch display packing 1366 x 768 pixel resolution, Intel Celeron N2840 processor, 2 or 4 GB of RAM and 16GB of SSD storage. The screen of the Lenovo N21 has been given anti scratch and anti-fingerprint treatment as well.

The company knows that the students often mistreat their laptops and Lenovo N21 can withstand drops up to 70cm. Even the keyboard is water resistant and can withstand penetration of liquid up to a maximum of 330 ml. The touchpad is sealed to protect the underlying components.

The Lenovo Chromebook N21 makes use of haswell architecture which allowed its manufacture to make it completely fanless. This makes it virtually indestructible.

Processor: Intel Celeron Dual Core N2840, 1M cache, up to 2.58GHz
Screen: 11.6 “1366×768 pixel anti-glare
Operating system: Chrome OS
Memory: 2-4GB
Storage: 16GB SSD
Camera: 1.0MP rotatable
Audio: stereo speakers, built-in microphone in the webcam rotates along with it
Ports: 1 x full-size HDMI, 1 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0
Expansions: memory card reader 2-in-1
Networking: WiFi dual-band 7260 AC Wifi 802.11 ac / a / b / g / n 2×2 MIMO, Bluetooth 4.0
Battery: Lithium Polymer 3-cell 36Wh, range of up to 9.5 hours
Dimensions: 300 x 215 x 22.4 mm
Weight: 1,29Kg

After launching Shuttle XH97V and SH97R6 nettops, the company has introduced world first fan less computer with Intel broadwell processor which represents fifth Intel generation. The new Shuttle DS57U incorporates Intel motherboard and processor socket Broadwell BGA  which means that the processor is soldered to the motherboard. The Shuttle DS57U is launched as successor to the Shuttle DS81 and DS47 which occupied exactly 1 liter volume. Its exact dimensions are 20 x 3.95 x 16.5 cm in case someone wants to double check.

Shuttle DS57U specifications

The  Shuttle DS57U specifications include Intel Celeron 3205U dual-core processor that runs at 1.5 Ghz with two SO-DIMM sockets to install up to 16 GB of RAM DDR3L memory and a bay which is used to install an SSD / HDD 2.5 “drive with SATA3 interface. The Intel Celeron 3205U is manufactured using 14 nm manufacturing technology and consumes just 15 watts of power.

And since this Intel Broadwell Celeron 3205U CPU does not require active cooling, it runs very quite. is delivered as barebone computer. The retail price for the Shuttle barebone DS57U is about 232 euros (VAT included).