LineageOS is available for the Samsung Galaxy Mega 6.3 and 5.8 and this gives you latest Android 7 Nougat for the three old phone. LineageOS is based on AOSP project. Everything is working except for the second SIM card slot. Also, screenshot feature is not working and recent app thumbnails are coming out to be blank.
Everything is working including Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, RIL (Calls, SMS, Mobile Data), Sensors (Accelerometer, Compass, Light, Proximity, etc.), Camera, Video (playback & recording), Audio (playback & recording) and GPS.
Installation instructions:
* Install a custom recovery with SELinux support or latest CWM Galaxy Mega recovery. * Download the latest build. * Wipe data/factory reset if coming from stock or another ROM (You may get a “staus 7” error if you fail to wipe.) * Flash the ROM and then GApps and reboot your phone
It is an amazing firmware for those who are looking for bloatware free experince on their android phone. It also has support for f2fs and to enable that, you just have to download the modified TWRP recovery from here and flash it. Make sure not to flash a kernel that does not support F2FS. In case, you want to go back to ext4 format, you will have to format the data and cache with Galaxy Mega’s TWRP recovery to ext4 format.
Cosmic OS for the Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Neo has been released. This custom ROM is made on android open source project whose short form is AOSP. Its developer claims that he has further tweaked it for best performance battery life enhancements.
Keep in mind that the first boot will take some time and it is completely normal for your device to loop a few times. Developer does mention that there is no guarantee that it will work normally if you use a custom kernel.
Here are the list of features added:
Statusbar customizations Brightness Slider Enable/Disable Show Notification Count SuperUser Indicator Switch Double Tap To sleep Statusbar Carrier Label Carrier Label Switch Clock Customizations Time & date Day & date Toogle Center/Right/Left Clock Choice Date Format Battery % Text Network Traffic Indicator Network Traffic Arrows Switch Incoming/OutGoing Traffic Statusbar Cosmic Logo Cosmic logo Color Cosmic logo Position StatusBar Ticker Ticker Text color Ticker Icon Color Animations Gestures Recents Panel Full Screen Recents Recents Styles Clock Widget CLock And Alarm Customizations Weather Panel Customizations Calender Events Navbar Tuner LockScreen Customizations Lockscreen Bottom Shortcuts Lockscreen General Shorcuts 100+ Icons for Shortcuts Lockscreen Media Art/Enable Disable Quick PIN/Pattern Unlock LockScreen Wallpaper Lockscreen Weather Widget Lockscreen Icons Color Quick Settings Draggable Tiles Customizable Tiles Dyanamic Tiles Adjustment Number of columns/rows Notification Drawer LongPress Toogles to Enter Settings Disable Immersive Mode Messages Force Expand Notification Quick PullDown Smart Pulldown Buttons Customisations Advanced Reboot Menu Power Menu Customizations Power Off Reboot(Recovery, Bootloader, Soft Reboot) ScreenShot Power Menu End Calls Switch Restart SystemUI Airplane Mode ScreenRecord On the Go Mode Sound Panel Long Press Actions Double Tap Actions Menu Button(For devices with HW keys Only) Volume Buttons Wake Up Device Playback Control Ringtone Volume Control Swap Buttons on Landscape mode Volume Key Answer Miscellaneous Clock Shortcut Camera Shutter Sound Enable/Disable SystemUI Tuner Icon Settings Enabled By default Removed Demo mode and Tweaked SystemUI Tuner StatusBar Icons Custmizations Quick Settings Customizations Other Features Perfomance Profiles LCD Density Expanded Desktop Mode Heads Up Switch and customizations Configurable 0,90,180,270 Degree Rotation Lock Screen Autorotate Switch Battery Light Customizations Notification Light Customizations Font Size Performance Tweaks (Kernel Aduitor Inbuilt) SuperSU Inbuilt Pixel Launcher Blur Personalisation Snap Camera Working screen-off Gestures Substratum Overall Smoothness Improvements
Flashing instructions:
* Download ROM and GApps http://opengapps.org/ * Copy ROM and GApps to internal storage. * Wipe /data, /system and /cache. * Flash ROM and GApps.
If you own a Samsung Galaxy Note 5, you can flash this hack. This will show you the incoming messages as floating window. It does not look like a typical android message and it has options like reply, mark as read and delete. You can also dismiss the message by tapping on the cross icon.
To enable floating messages, download this file on your Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and install it using TWRP custom recovery. Then open “floating messages” and enable it for “messaging”.
You can also set the transparency level here. As you can see, I’ve set it to 48 and it looks absolutely stunning.
Keep in mind that since it makes use of TWRP, you will be voiding your phone’s warranty since it tinkers with internal files. You will also receive no more official updates. On the brighter side, you will be able to install just about any ROM or mods out there.
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Scosche has churned out USB-C type adapter for the Macbook Pro line. It promises to give a simple solution to let you use old peripherals. It has three ports that gives you the traditional USB-A port that is compatible with most of the flash storage drives and other Mac-accessories. It has also has an HDMI port to let you connect external monitors or projectors and an additional USB-port which can be used to power source to even charge the Macbook when you are still using the other ports.
Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2017 model is here and it is better than ever. New model brings improved specifications such as introduction of new Intel kaby lake processor that are more efficient than outgoing skylake generation. The new Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon 2017 is 0.62 inch thin and weighs mere 2.51 pounds. This means the new 2017 model is smaller by eight percent.
Interop tools is available for download for the windows 10 mobile users and it lets you tweak your Nokia or Microsoft phone without the need to interop unlock it. It is still in beta and therefore, there might be some rough edges here and there. Here are the features of this app.
Apple iPhone is a big industry for the phone case manufactures. There are several different companies out there that make different types of amazing and not-so-amazing iPhone cases. Their latest and flagship phone is iPhone 7 Plus and people are buying all sorts of cases to protect their investment.
The main reason behind this is the fact the iPhone 7 Plus has large form factor. If are a person who does not like baby-caring their handsets, then getting a nice heavy duty iPhone 7 Plus case makes sense. A good rugged case will protect the iPhone 7 Plus from getting scratched and scuffed. It will also prevent from getting physically damaged.
In case you like to add some style and class to your iPhone 7 Plus, then getting a folio case is a better choice, especially if you get a leather folio case. There are rugged, heavy duty folio cases which is what we recommend to frequent travelers.
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An XDA user has churned out a basic, deknoxed and debloated ROM for the Samsung Galaxy Alpha. It is designed to give you smooth, stock feel for bloated Korean variants of the android phone. It will work on the G850S, G850K and G850L.
The ROM is designed to be flashed using CWM and it will change the system files. The developer suggests you to be on stock Android lollipop firmware for best results.
Features of the ROM:
Based on G850FXXU2CPB2
Rooted (SuperSU 2.65)
Deknoxed
Stable & Fast
No Korean bloatware
No SMS Limits
Call recording
Multi-Languages
Clean Dialpad
Network Mode Menu
Installation Steps
* Download and copy the ROM to device storage
* Flash TWRP recovery via Odin – Download
* Reboot into recovery mode
* Wipe System/Data/Cache & Dalvik Cache
* Install ROM
* Reboot.
Android Marshmallow for Samsung Galaxy Grand Alpha may never be released but folks at XDA have churned out a firmware via its cyanogen mod channels. This brings CM13 aka cyanogenmod 13 to the Galaxy Alpha android phone which is Android 6 Marshmallow. Its developer says a lot of hours were put into this project to iron out the bugs but some may still be there. So be careful.
To install this Cyanogen Mod 13 Galaxy Alpha firmware, you will need to have Galaxy Alpha custom recovery onboard to let you install custom third party firwmares on it.
To install the ROM, you will need to install sboot which is a custom bootloader. Alternatively, you can install LL ROM via Samsung update option. Suggested modem version is: G850FXXU2COK6 or newer.
After that, download the ROM and copy it to a USB drive and use a USB OTG cable to flash the ROM. Keep in mind that this ROM does not come with Gapps but you can easily install them otherwise from opengapps.org.
