Dell has churned out Alienware 13 which is the smallest and lightest gaming laptop company has ever produced. Two years back, Dell used to offer Alienware M11x but axed as the company wanted to focus on thin and light laptops.
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Nokia X series devices are amazing but since they do not come preloaded with Play Store, there is no easy way to install WhatsApp.
Fortunately it is not impossible as folks at NokiaViews have laid out instructions on how to install WhatsApp on Nokia X series devices including Nokia X, XL and X+.
WhatsApp is the most popular instant messaging client and has enjoyed immense success in densely populated countries like India, China, Brazil and Indonesia. People use it because it is free for one year and without ads.
While it lacks voice calling unlike Viber, it is still regarded as must have as everyone already have it on their phone. There is no sticker support too but since it has become an indispensable application, people do not really care about what the WhatsApp lacks.
Vido has extended its range of tablets with a low cost Vido M80. It has a 8 inch display and retails at 74 dollars excluding VAT.
* Quad core MediaTek MT8127 processor with a maximum clock frequency of 1.3 GHz
* Mali-400 graphics processing unit
* 1 gigabyte of RAM
* 8 gigabytes of flash storage
* Micro SD card slot
* 8 inch display with 1280 x 800 pixel resolution
* 4000 mAh battery
* 2 megapixel rear camera
* Micro USB port, HDMI and GPS receiver
* 802.11n Wi-Fi network card
* Android 4.4 KitKat operating system
If TWRP is not your cup of tea you will have to stick with the good old clock work mod recovery for getting new ROMs on your Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 SM-G7102.
Here is how you can download and install it on your phone. Download links are given at the bottom of this post.
1) Install whatever drivers make you happy and make your device connect (i would suggest Samsung ones).
2) Reboot your device in download mode you can use ADB reboot download or the hardware key combo for your device.
3) Load up Odin and uncheck auto-reboot. Uncheck the option RE-PARTITION(important) and select AP/PDA, select the downloaded recovery.
4) Click PDA and select the CWM tar you downloaded.
5) Connect your device in download mode.
6) Click start.
7) When its finished disconnect your device, pull the battery out.
8) Reinsert the battery and use the hardware keys for your device to power directly into recovery mode (this will bypass install-recovery.sh if you are stock).
9) Enjoy having a custom recovery.
CWM for NG4 (4.4)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/dx2mm590clsynzt/CWM-6.0.5.1-mukul.zip
Odin http://shabbypenguin.com/?developer=Tools
Get the file from here and copy it to your device. Then flash it in recovery. Reboot and load up the Super SU file. Then disable KNOX and reboot into recovery. Reflash Super Su and you will be rooted.
Custom kernel from Deds allow you to control the clock frequencies of CPU and GPU and thus overclock / underclock. Here are the features of the kernel:
* CPU Governors: Performance, Powersave, Conservative, Inter active, Ondemand, Hybrid
* CPU I/O Schedulers: Noop, Deadline, CFQ, Sio, FIOPS
* GPU Governors: Simple Ondemand, Performance, Powersave, Userspace, Adreno TZ
* Frandom.Read more about it here
* O3 Optimizations
* Many performance tweaks
* Kernel version 3.4.98
This is a TWRP of Samsung Galaxy Grand 2 SM G7102 and it will allow you to flash custom firmwares onto the device. You will also be able to root the Galaxy Grand 2.
Here are the steps on how to do it.
1. Install Samsung USB drivers. Download Odin and my TWRP recovery.
2. Open Odin 3.07
3. Switch off and Go into download mode(Home+Vol down+ power).
4. Put the recovery.tar file in PDA.(leave other options as they are)
5. Start and let it flash. After pass you can boot into TWRP by Volume up + power + home.
That is it – you have successfully installed TWRP on your phone.
