Recognized Contributor dr.ketan has developed an app allowing users to quickly enable all of the 25 quick panel toggles. The app requires root and works on the Galaxy Note 5, so go on over and try out!
Welivesecurity.com details the working of the ransomware, Android/Lockerpin.A discovered by ESET. The ransomware comes in the form of a lockscreen replacement app and relies on users granting it admin privileges. Once received, the app locks down the phone with a random pin and demands money from the user.
Working for XDA, my life almost revolves around Android. A few times a day I’ll make small changes to my daily driver or a big change to one of my test devices, and these generally are based on what comes through the office via the forums or what I find based on my current requirements. So without any further ado here are my devices, accessories and SIMs:
It went into a drawer awaiting a rainy day, over the coming months 2 things occurred which brought it up again to become my daily driver. The first being Xiaomi finally got around to releasing sources and the second being that a fully functioning albeit unofficial version of TWRP and a ROM very close to AOSP were both created for the device. Taking the stance that delays do occur and even Motorola has been known to be lag behind on source releases, I was grateful that they got around to it, let the matter drop and fell in love with the device.
As for how I have it set up, I have several apps on the go designed to make getting to what I need as fast as possible. Long pressing the menu hardware button pins the currently open app to the side (below, left) meaning I can quickly switch between several apps, this is achieved through the app Pintasking. A pie menu opened by swiping in from the right bezel opens up a customizable selection of my most used apps, this can be opened anytime. Finally, I have long since discarded my app drawer in favour of App Swap, a fully customizable app drawer that includes a search function that can be configured to also show contacts. Like the pie menu this can be brought up anytime simply by dragging up from the bottom of the screen. My 2 home screens are fairly simple preferring to keep them clean, on my primary screen I have just a Timely widget, to the right I have various media controls, a Wi-Fi calls toggle and the soundhound widget.
I have heard talk recently on a subject that surfaces each time a new version of Android is inbound, that root is going to be unnecessary soon. That may be the case for users who are not major power users but instead have rooted because it’s deemed cool or they have just one app to run that requires it. For myself it is an integral part of my phone, I have numerous Xposed modules all geared towards making life just a little faster and easier. Of these the most noteworthy are:
To rectify this issue, I installed Instwogram by forum member Me-Nex S. This app is almost identical to Instagram however by changing the meta data it allows you to run 2 separate versions, in this case one for each of the XDA accounts: Kickass_home_screens and Awesome_mobile_quotes. The first which showcases the best of our Post your Phone Home Screen thread and the latter which highlights the best quotes from our features. Coupled with the ability to use ARC Welder on Chrome OS to emulate these two apps and install them as extensions, managing them becomes a lot easier.
From there on I’m sure my device is like many others, I change my wallpaper frequently between photos I have taken and images from 500px found via Quickpic. My devices are an integral part of both my day to day activities and my career and I am constantly on the lookout for opportunities to make tweaks and improvements to my UX.
Do you have any questions about my set-up? Leave a comment below!
Restarting its hype machinery back again, OnePlus has begun posting teasers of its next product. The newest image shows a leather texture with something in the background, in typical OnePlus fashion of revealing no new information. Common guesses say it will be a Leather back panel for the OnePlus Two (most likely), or a smartwatch offering (not so likely).
This Google Play Services APK features support for arm64 devices on Android Lollipop 5.0 and 5.1. The APK was extracted from the Galaxy S6, and is universal DPI in nature. So if you wish to have the latest Play Services (to support Android Pay) on your arm64 device, follow along the link!
Google’s SafetyNet API for app devs allows for checking “device compatibility”, essentially checking if the device is rooted or modified. With this Xposed module, all device compatibility checks always return “true”, i.e. device is unmodified and without root.
