Android 5.1.1 Lollipop ROM for the Galaxy Alpha

Samsung Galaxy Alpha users are still waiting for the official android 5.1.1 lollipop but folks at XDA developers have churned out un official ROM that brings lollipop to our devices.

Download Android 5.1.1 Lollipop ROM for the Galaxy Alpha

This ROM is based on many projects like AOKP, CM, PA,OMNI and original Remix firmware for the Galaxy Alpha.

Android 5.1.1 Lollipop ROM for the Galaxy Alpha: Installation instructions

Required: Stock Firmware 5.0.2 preinstalled, ROM + Gapps (download links given below) saved in Internal Storage, TWRP Recovery v2.8.1.1, Root Access
Backup: go to custom recovery and create a backup of your current ROM
Wipe /system, /data, /cache, dalvik cache
Install ROM + GApps
Restart your phone.

Android 5.1.1 Lollipop ROM for the Galaxy Alpha: Main features

Material Design – clear user interface
New Lockscreen – Notifications are now displayed directly on your device’s lock screen.
Battery-Saver Mode – … promises to squeeze 90 extra minutes of juice out of the battery in your device.
Notification Control – classification into three categories (NONE, PRIORITY, ALL)
Smart Lock – automatic deactivation of device lock
User Management – Create new user accounts, or use guest mode with friends.
Keep Apps Pinned – Pin a specific app to the home screen.
Improved Quick Settings – You can quickly adjust the brightness, an rotation lock option and a built-in flashlight, among other features.
ART Runtime – improved performance and battery life
Heads Up Notifications – Pop-Ups for incoming calls, messages etc.

Download links:

Download Galaxy S6 Edge Plus Deodexed Debloated ROM

Deodexed ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Edge Plus 928F android phone is now available for download. This ROM is based on stock Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge Plus and works fine with Xposed.

Download Galaxy S6 Edge Plus Deodexed Debloated ROM

When you flash it, only the the APP/Framework/PRIV-APP folders are changed – nothing else.

The XDA developer person who made this ROM has created two variants of it. First is simply stock ROM that is deodexed. Second variant is not only deodexed but also debloated. 

Galaxy Edge+ Contacts, Apps on Samsung Note 5

An XDA developers mod brings Samsung Galaxy Edge+ contacts and app feature to Galaxy Note 5 users. To use this Galaxy Edge+ Contacts, Apps mod, you need to be on an deodexed Note 5 ROM which was mentioned here on galaxy note news last month.

Download Galaxy Edge  Contacts, Apps on Samsung Note 5

To install this mod, download the mod from here; put it on the root directory and boot into custom recovery. For that, hold down the power and volume up button for few seconds. You will enter custom recovery. From there, browse for the edge mod.

Flash it from there and reboot to find the custom recovery.

Download Dr Ketan Note 5 ROM for Galaxy S6 Edge features and to enable call recording

Dr Ketan is a renowned developer at XDA and he has just released a ROM under his name that packs some really amazing features such as Galaxy S6 Edge’s edge feature and ability to record calls. To install it, you will Galaxy Note 5 TWRP custom recovery installed as that is the only way to get install custom firmware on device.

Download Dr Ketan Note 5 ROM for Galaxy S6 Edge features and to enable call recording

* Reboot device to Recovery
* Select Wipe option – Factory reset
* Select N920I Dr.Ketan ROM zip – download link
* This will start calculating md5, wait till it finish and match MD5 with download page of ROM. Once it match – select ‘yes’ to flash ROM.
* Now this will start AROMA wizard and you have to select stuff you requires.
* Once ROM flashing finish – DO NOT REBOOT Device but again select to Install file
* Select Kernel file you have copied (If you are already on custom kernel, this step can be skipped)
* After this, do not reboot the device. Install call audio fix and then reboot device and keep patience for 5* 6 minute to boot device.

Feature list.

* Ad Free
* Auto Call Recording * Auto call record included On/Off from Dr.Ketan utility
* Manual Call Record * ROM Control * Native call record
* Power Menu -5 Way Reboot mod with sound mode
* 22 Quick Panel Toggles (Floating Msg won’t work)
* CSC features * Separate app for CSC features
* All App Multi Window (optional in ROM Control)
* Camera Hack * Use camera with Flash at low battery + Camera shutter sound toggle
* Call/SMS block
* No Increasing ring tone. (Extra Settings* Other mods)
* Memory Clean option on expanded notification with switch (Extra setting-Memory Clean view) Also Color can be set. (Extra setting-Other Mods-color-Memory color
* Mute/Vibrate/Sound option in power menu.
* NFC hack with screen off (ROM Control)
-.Appoops (permission manager) Settings-LockScreen and security * Application permission
* No call delay mode (preactivated)
* Center clock option (separate zip available in Add On later
* Advanced Messaging features
Split view toggle
Priority sender
Delay sending option
No SMS to MMS conversion
Backup/Restore option
Scheduled message

Android 5.1.1 for Note 10.1 2014 available for download

Android 5.1.1 a k a latest version of lollipop is available for download for the Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 2014 model. This ROM is made specifically for the P605 model but the developer says it would work just fine on the P607T.

Download Android 5.1.1 for Note 10.1 2014

It is said not to work on the P600 and P601. You should have Note 10.1 2014 TWRP on board in order to flash it. Here are the flashing instructions:
Reboot into recovery (volume up + power button for few seconds). Go into wipe menu. Select "Advanced Wipe". Check Dalvik Cache, System
Cache, Data and wipe them. Don’t reboot just yet.
Go into install.
Flash aosp-2015XXXX-lt03lte.zip
Flash GAPPS.zip
Flash SuperSU.zip
Reboot
Copy SuperSu and Gapps zip to /sdcard/OpenDelta/FlashAfterUpdate so that they are automatically applied after OTA update.

If internal storage is not being shown, connect your Note 10.1 2014 to the computer and type these commands into the ADB terminal.

su
restorecon -FR /data/media/0

LG G4 Pro Benchmark reveal specs including hexa core processor

The upcoming LG G4 Pro has been spotted on GFX benchmark website and it has leaked some of the LG G4 Pro specs including 5.7 inch display, hexa core processor and 4GB RAM. This super premium smartphone will also pack quad HD display.

lg g4 pro benchmark

Quad HD resolution means it will have 2K display or 2560 x 1440 pixels. The screen should understand five finger gestures as well and right now, the LG G4 Pro was spotted running android 5.1.1 lollipop operating system.

Concrete release details are not available right now but since LG is holding an event on 10th of October, it could be launched on that day. 

Intel Xeon E3 1220 1225 1230 1235L 1240 1240L 1245 1260L 1270 1275 1280 Specifications

Specifications of Intel Xeon E3 1200v5 series server lineup is now available. This includes Intel Xeon E3 1220 1225 1230 1235L 1240 1240L 1245 1260L 1270 1275 1280 and all of these processors will be released in the four quarter of 2015.

Intel Xeon E3 1220 1225 1230 1235L 1240 1240L 1245 1260L 1270 1275 1280 Specifications

The Intel Xeon E3-1220 v5, E3-1230 v5, E3-1240 v5, E3-1270 v5 and E3-1280 v5 consist of four CPU cores, 80W TDP and turbo boost feature. The Xeon E3-1245 v5 and E3-1275 v5 are essentially E3-1240 v5 and E3-1270 v5 SKUs with enabled GT2 GPU unit.

Intel Xeon E3 1220 1225 1230 1235L 1240 1240L 1245 1260L 1270 1275 1280 Specifications

Model Cores /
Threads
Frequency /
Turbo
L3
cache
Graphics TDP
Xeon E3-1220 v5 4 / 4 3 / 3.5 GHz 8 MB None 80W
Xeon E3-1225 v5 4 / 4 3.3 / 3.7 GHz 8 MB HD P530 80W
Xeon E3-1230 v5 4 / 8 3.4 / 3.8 GHz 8 MB None 80W
Xeon E3-1235L v5 4 / 4 2 / 3 GHz 8 MB HD P530 25W
Xeon E3-1240 v5 4 / 8 3.5 / 3.9 GHz 8 MB None 80W
Xeon E3-1240L v5 4 / 8 2.1 / 3.2 GHz 8 MB None 25W
Xeon E3-1245 v5 4 / 8 3.5 / 3.9 GHz 8 MB HD P530 80W
Xeon E3-1260L v5 4 / 8 2.9 / 3.9 GHz 8 MB None 45W
Xeon E3-1270 v5 4 / 8 3.6 / 4 GHz 8 MB None 80W
Xeon E3-1275 v5 4 / 8 3.6 / 4 GHz 8 MB HD P530 80W
Xeon E3-1280 v5 4 / 8 3.7 / 4 GHz 8 MB None 80W
Xeon E3-1565L v5 4 / 8 TBD No data GT4e 35W
Xeon E3-1585 v5 4 / 8 TBD No data GT4e TBD
Xeon E3-1585L v5 4 / 8 No data No data GT4e 45W

Intel DC PC3608 SSD Benchmark and Specifications

Intel DC PC3608 is the newest solid state drive that is targeted towards business market whose function is to replace the current family of PC3600 and even surpasses the PC3700 in certain benchmark tests.

Intel DC PC3608 SSD Benchmark

To achieve such spectacular results, Intel has decided to combine two of their former PC3600 units in a same PCB and increase data interface transmission to 8 tracks. It may not be the most refined way to increase the performance of these units, but the reality is that it meets the target. However, in the Intel DC PC3608 SSD benchmark, we did see the very high increase in the consumption.

DC PC3608 specifications

Once installed on the system, the drive appears as two separate SSDs after a PLX PCIe switch, which means that to really be able to use the full capacity, one must have a motherboard that supports RAID 0 configurations. Such motherboards load balance the two controllers simultaneously.

intel DC PC3608 specs

However, this need for balancing means that the controller will never be able to double the performance of the PC3600 as you might initially think as always, a certain amount of overhead is generated.

Intel DC PC3608 price

The prices are obviously, very high. 1.6 TB unit costs $ 3,009, the 3.2 TB goes up to $ 7009 and the 4 TB costs $ 8,759. The 5-year warranty that comes standard is nothing – they should give it lifetime warranty.

G.Skill Ripjaws RGB MX780 is a gaming mouse

G.Skill Ripjaws RGB MX780 is a gaming mouse with monster specifications that easily blows most of the gaming mice out of water. G.Skill Ripjaws RGB MX780 specs include 100-8200 DPI, 125 / 250 / 500 / 1000 Hz polling rate, 8 programmable keys, 5 on board profiles, 4-zone RGB mouse backlighting profiles, 512KB on board storage, 120 grams and measures 130 x 70 x 38 mm.

G.Skill Ripjaws RGB MX780 review (3)

G.Skill offers two year limited warranty on it. The Ripjaws RGB MX780 make use of special Omron micro switches whose mouse clicks work for more than 20 million clicks.

G.Skill Ripjaws RGB MX780 review (2)

Also the Ripjaws RGB MX780 can be used comfortable with left hand too, in case you are a lefty, something that virtually no brands thinks off while designing a mouse.

G.Skill Ripjaws RGB MX780 review (1)

The height of the mouse is also adjustable. This ensures you have correct height for your palms, allowing you to use the mouse for extended period of time.