Author: sweethess

Android is probably the most customizable OS in the world if you just have the know how. That is an well established fact thanks to the open source nature of the platform. but being sourced does not directly result in customizability. It just allows other people to take control of the software considering that they have all the code readily available to them. Those with the knowledge, then, can make adjustments to any elements of the software, visual or non-visual.  It is because of this very reason that there are so lots of Android mods and custom-made ROMs. Today, we want to share with you a mod called KITANA that makes it much easier for you, the end user, to take complete control over your Android device.

KITANA is a command line based mod developed by XDA senior member tanu548 capable of tweaking various settings on your Android. These include performance, battery, kernel tweaks, I/O and a lot lots of other tweaks. To use KITANA, you will need a command line tool such as Termux or terminal Emulator. but before that, you will need to flash a zip file using a custom-made recovery. Obviously, a rooted Android device is also a need to in buy to use KITANA.

Requirements

A rooted Android device.

A custom-made recovery, such as TWRP recovery need to be installed on the device.

A command line tool such as Termux or terminal Emulator.

Also see: How to fix Google Play services Battery Drain

Screenshots

Features

Here’s a quick rundown of all the tweaks KITANA can do for you.

BOOST: drops cache to complimentary up RAM.

FSTRIM: Fixes the trim lag bugs.

BATTERY CALIBRATION: You must make battery calibration only if you have problems with your device’s battery life without objective reasons.

STATS RESET: Wipes your device’s battery status.

BATTERY SAVER: saves Battery without minimizing device performance.

DISABLE DEBUGGING: Disables R/W debugging resulting, theoretically, in improved battery & performance.

DISABLE KERNEL PANIC: To avoid the bothersome reboot if the kernel is buggy or unstable.

KERNEL SLEEPS : improves kernel sleeps, saves battery.

DISABLE I/O STATS: Reduces CPU use & save battery.

FLAG TUNER: good for low ram devices but you can get unstable performance.

MULTICORE POWER SAVE: Can save battery but needs kernel support.

PERFORMANCE TUNING: fine tunes the device’s performance settings. better performance results in a lot more battery drain.

FPS UNLOCKER: improves performance, reduces battery usage by enabling a new FPS algorithm.

IN-CALL DELAY: Reduces the call delay to received or end a call.

IMPROVE RENDERING QUALITY: improves the graphics, but results in a lot more battery usage.

GPU RENDERING: uses better performance at the cost of battery life.

LIQUID SMOOTH UI: Optimized touch pressure scale with a little impact on battery life.

BETTER SCROLL: improves scroll action & speed.

HEAP OPTIMIZATION: Optimizes heap sizes.

HIGH quality GRAPHICS: use when your device is in low ram flag mode for optimized visual effects

RUNTIME OPTIMIZATION: tune Android runtime for better performance.

KERNEL TUNING: The all in One Kernel Tuner for Battery, balance & Performance.

CPU OPTIMIZATION: optimize CPU for performance, might result in a lot more battery drain.

SDCARD R/W SPEED: Boosts SDcard speed.

I/O BOOST: Boosts I/O for performance & Battery.

I/O QUEUE: Boosts performance at the cost of battery life.

FAST CHARGING: enables fast Charging, needs kernel support.

CACHE ALLOCATION: Allocate the amount of ram to be used for cache allocation.

CACHE RECLAIMING: control the tendency of kernel to reclaim the memory.

WAKE CONTROL: You can enable or disable doubletap2wake and sweep2wake but this needs kernel support.

OOM KILLER: improves performance when system is out of memory.

NET SPEED+: improves Download/Upload speed at the cost of battery.

TCP TUNING: Boosts data transfer.

GOOGLE DNS: changes Public DNS to google DNS.

RIL tuning : improves mobile data transfer.

IMPROVE browser SPEED: improves browser speed by buffering. small buffer is good and stable while large buffer uses performance thus undoubtedly depleting the battery faster.

IMPROVE video STREAMING: For smooth video surfing.

IPV4 & IPV6 support : For ipv4 & ipv6 support.

FAST DORMANCY: increases network speed but if not supported by network operator it can simply result in battery drain without supplying any advantages.

YouTube TUNING: enables enjoying high-resolution videos from any devices but some devices might become unstable.

DISABLE SYSTEM LOGGING: stops logging and logcat and must result in a better battery life.

DISPLAY QUALITY: improves the display quality using a special binary.

TOUCH IMPROVEMENT: increases touch sensitivity at the cost of the battery.

DISABLE BOOT ANIMATION: Disables the boot animation for fast reboot.

REMOVE ADB ICON: Removes the adb icon from status bar when connected to adb.

LOCK home LAUNCHER IN MEMORY: keeps thenull

Well, I am not sure how many of you know about BLU or Vivo XL3 but I am sure you’ll like the wallpapers from the phone. Today, we have BLU Vivo XL3 stock wallpapers in full HD+ (1080 X 2160 PX) and 6K (3000 x 6000 px) resolution. There are 10 wallpapers in the zip attached below.

BLU is not a very well known brand outside the US. It’s not quite as known in the us either but BLU is an American company which is known (by those who know) for making budget-friendly smartphones. The company releases a number of devices each year with new internals and new stock wallpapers like many other OEMs. The BLU Vivo XL3 was the company’s first phone to run Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box. It was launched near the end of Q1 2018.

BLU Vivo XL3 Design

The BLU Vivo XL3 looks very much like any other Android smartphone did back in April 2018. It features a glass back with a single camera and LED flash, set up to look like dual cameras. There’s a fingerprint scanner on the back as well. speaking of fingerprints, a glass back means the phone will be a fingerprint magnet.

All the buttons such as the volume rockers and the power button are located on the right side. The charging port and the headphone jack are at the bottom while the single speaker is at the top. A company selling a hundred dollar device can’t really be expected to drive forward innovation though. It is definitely a good looking smartphone for the price.

BLU Vivo XL3 Specs

It features a 5.5-inch IPS LCD screen with a display resolution of 720 pixels x 1440 pixels. If you couldn’t guess, the aspect ratio os 18:9. underneath it sits the Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53 MediaTek MT6737 processor coupled with 3GB of RAM. These specs don’t really paint a very good picture. but it did arrive with Android 8.0 Oreo out of the box which wasn’t something common among budget smartphones in the us when the device launched. The built-in storage is only 32GB but it can be expanded up to 64GB via a microSD card.

The rear camera is a 13-megapixel sensor, nothing fancy, while the front camera is a 13-megapixel shooter as well. Although, the front camera doesn’t support PDAF and some other features that the rear camera does. It’s a single-SIM device, with the usual connectivity options such as Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc.

BLU Vivo XL3 stock Wallpapers

The device doesn’t seem exciting at all with those specs but the stock wallpapers on it, in fact, are. The wallpaper pack linked below contains a total of 10 wallpapers with a resolution of 1080 pixels by 2160 pixels which isn’t as bad as the device’s display resolution. So these BLU Vivo XL3 stock wallpapers should look pretty good on any smartphone with a decent display.

In addition, we have also got the stock wallpapers in 6K resolution (3000 x 6000 px) for those who’d like something more. We’ve uploaded some of the wallpapers below for you to make a judgment. Both the regular sized and 6K wallpapers can be downloaded using the download links provided below.

Download Links
BLU Vivo XL3 stock Wallpapers

BLU Vivo XL3 stock Wallpapers (6K)

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at a time when Nexus 5 users have been enjoying the new exclusive flavor of KitKat as well as other Nexus users are counting down the very hour when Android KitKat would reach their device, there is still a larger community of Android users who can only keep their fingers crossed in a hope that KitKat might come to them some day. most of non-Nexus users have not received even the lower versions of the OS like Android 4.2 as well as 4.3. Yesterday, we published a news that Samsung has pulled back the already out Android 4.3 update for the Galaxy S3 as well as postponed the OTA for note 2 to fix some serious issues.

The users of both the Galaxy devices have been forced to remain with Android 4.1.2 as well as keeping in view Samsung’s software update policy for its older devices, it appears that it would take forever for Android 4.4 KitKat to come to these models. thanks to the open source nature of Android that does not let some die of eating as well as others die of hunger. Yes, this is pretty true for those who have a rooted device with a custom recovery installed on it. I see it as an irony that we have lazy as well as careless OEMs whose only goal is to dump the market with new models, as well as then we have hard-working developers who keep trying to give us the latest as well as best of Android.

Anyway, if you own a Samsung Galaxy note 2 as well as are frustrated with the jumbo delays in firmware update from Samsung as well as your carrier, it’s time to kick them to side as well as move on. You need not be jealous of Nexus users as the Android 4.4 KitKat based custom ROMs are now available for practically all the variants of Galaxy note 2.

In the present short article we’ll see some new ROMs that will let you enjoy the latest version of Android on your phablet device. before proceeding, make sure you have one of the following variants of note 2:

Samsung Galaxy note 2 GT-N7100

Samsung Galaxy note 2 LTE GT-N7105

AT&T Galaxy note 2 SGH-I317

T-Mobile Galaxy note 2 SGH-T889

Sprint Galaxy note 2 SPH-L900

Verizon Galaxy note 2 SCH-I605

You can check your phone’s model by going to Settings> About.

Disclaimer:

Please note that the procedure described below as well as considered risky as well as despite that fact that is has been tested successfully, you can get into trouble if you do not follow the steps to the word. We or the developers of the included ROMs shall not, in any type of case, be responsible for any type of mishap. Do not proceed unless you understand what you are going to do. Remember, you’ve been warned!

Requirements:

A rooted Galaxy note 2

Latest version of CWM (v6.0.4.3 or above) or TWRP (vv2.6.3.0 or above) recovery installed on the device. If you do not have the latest version of these recoveries, you’ll receive “Failed!” message while installing the ROM. The older versions do not have support for Android 4.4 KitKat. To update your recovery software, you can use the ROM manager app (for CWM) or Goo manager (for TWRP).

About the ROMs:

Please note that all the ROMs that are listed below are still in experimental stage. Therefore, do not expect bugless performance from them. I have tested the Omni ROM as well as the only issue I discovered was the camera FC bug. We hope that with new versions of the ROMs, all such bugs will be fixed.

Downloads

Android 4.4 KitKat ROM on Galaxy note 2:

Galaxy note 2 international GT-N7100:

ParanoidAndroid: pa_n7100-4.0-20131111.zip

CM 11 ROM: cm-10.2-20140209-NIGHTLY-n7100.zip

Galaxy note 2 LTE GT-N7105: cm-11-20140209-NIGHTLY-t0lte.zip

AT&T Galaxy note 2: cm-10.2-20140209-NIGHTLY-t0lteatt.zip 

T-Mobile Galaxy note 2:  cm-10.2-20140209-NIGHTLY-t0ltetmo.zip 

Sprint Galaxy note 2 SPH-L900: cm-11-20140209-NIGHTLY-l900.zip 

Verizon note 2 SCH-I605 (CM 11):  cm-11-20140209-NIGHTLY-i605.zip 

Download the latest SuperSU:

UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.69.zip

Download camera App:

After installing the Android 4.4 based ROM in case you discover that  your app is not working, please download any type of of the photosphere camera apps from below as well as install it manually.

Android 4.4 KitKat Camera

Focal camera App

Android 4.3 camera App

How to install a custom ROM on note 2:

Do not forget to backup your phone’s EFS data or IMEI before involving in any type of such activity. read this short article for detailed tutorial.

Make sure you device is charged up to 70%.

Copy the downloaded Android 4.4 ROM file in zip (do not extract) to your note 2.

Then copy the Gapps file to the device.

Now copy the “UPDATE-SuperSU-v1.69.zip” file to the device too.

Boot your Galaxy note 2 into CWM/TWRP recovery mode. To do this, hold down the Volume Up+Home+Power buttons together for 4-6 seconds till the screen turns up as well as you see the recovery screen. If you are not able to get into recovery using the key combo, use any type of of these apps.

If you are using CWM, use the volume keys to scroll up/down as wnull

When it pertains to promoting a new or upcoming product, nobody does it rather like Samsung, as well as in the past couple of weeks, we’ve seen rather a bit of the Galaxy S6 as well as its curvaceous cousin, the S6 Edge. While it’s frequently rather tough for people to validate buying a new smartphone every year, the makers are going above as well as beyond to persuade you that their next huge thing is worth parting with huge sums for, as well as while the Galaxy S5 stays a solid smartphone, Sammy’s head-to-head comparison of old versus new may just sway you closer to the current model.

We have seen it across the mobile market in recent years – vendors are hitting something of a plateau in terms of what else they can do to enhance things. considering that Samsung has held back on premium style up until now, the company’s decision to opt for a higher-end profile indicates it’s a substantial departure on the preceding S5, although for the purists, it’s all about the technical specs.

Samsung has put the S5 as well as the S6 together with one one more as well as compared a few of the crucial hardware aspects. While there’s no question that the S6 wins in terms of raw power, the Korean business has been rather selective about which bits of information to include, as well as as such, has neglected to mention the truth that the S6 does away with lots of perceived “freedoms” like removable battery, waterproofing as well as microSD slot.

Still, there’s no concern that the Galaxy S6 packs a indicate punch, as well as as you can see by means of the infographic, the Quad-HD screen bests the S5’s 1080p panel which, only a year ago, was lauded as the very best in the business. people were likewise tripping over one one more to heap praise on the Galaxy S5’s rear-facing camera, which has been improved upon with the S6, as well as with a stronger processor as well as three gigs of DDR4 RAM, the Lollipop software application must – one would hope – run without concept of lag.

The Galaxy S6 as well as S6 edge will have styles on contending with the iphone 6 / 6 plus in addition to whatever Apple makes a decision to throw out later on this year, however will likewise go head-to-head with the likes of HTC’s One M9. The Taiwanese company’s most current effort is most likely the clearest example of exactly how business are normally stumped for new ideas, bringing extremely bit to the table when compared (visually as well as technically) with the One M8, however together with the rumored LG G4, still poses a threat.

Do you believe the Galaxy S6 is worth upgrading an S5 for? inspect the infographic below as well as do let us understand what you believe in the comments.

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Vs Galaxy note 4: specs / features comparison [Chart]

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It wasn’t that long ago when we brought you the news that Apple had set up a devoted charitable providing page utilizing their iTunes repayment facilities to gather donations from the public in behalf of the American Red Cross. The system was put in location to allow Apple account holders to make a monetary donation to the charity to assist with the continuous relief efforts as an aftermath of Hurricane Sandy without the requirement to produce any type of additional login or provide repayment data to outside parties. In an interior email sent to Apple employees, Tim cook has outlined his company’s commitment to the cause with a $2.5 million donation of their own.

Hurricane Sandy is one of the most powerful hurricanes that has been caught on record as well as has been triggering havoc on the east coastline of the united states over the last week or so. Apple has already taken preliminary steps to provide a platform as well as a gateway to gather monetary contributions from the public, 100% of which have been contributed to the American Red Cross. Tim cook outlines in an email that the general public as well as different Apple workers have already contributed a considerable amount to the cause from their own pockets, however that he feels the business as a whole can “always do more”.

Apple may be on something of a product release marathon, with the iPad mini as well as fourth-generation iPad hitting shelves recently, in addition to the new iMac to autumn in the coming weeks, however everything pales into insignificance when you think about the devastation that has been left behind by Sandy. Lives have been lost, neighborhoods have been destroyed as well as countless households are still left without any type of type of power in the worst hit areas. The human loss doesn’t take into account the billions of dollars worth of facilities damage that has also been produced by the hurricane.

As part of their bit to do more as a company, Apple will donate $2.5 million to the relief efforts that are being handled as well as orchestrated by the wonderful American Red cross charity. The email outlines Tim Cook’s hope that the contributed money will assist “families, businesses, as well as neighborhoods recuperate as well as rebuild”. The rebuilding process will take far more than the amount of money increased as well as contributed by Apple, however in a world where business have historically utilized catastrophes such as this to attempt to gain self promotion, it’s excellent to see Apple doing nothing more than injecting money into the relief fund.

(via 9to5Mac)

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