Mr. Android 2011

The chart breaks down some pretty incredible percentages. According to the study, 18 percent of users have unusually large heads, which might confirm the geek tag the Android platform get sometimes, just guessing. Also,71 percent wears t-shirt, 62 percent wear jeans and 63 percent have a significant other. 

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TUTORIAL: Customize Galaxy Y with UOT Kitchen

Disclaimer: SGY Love will not be responsible nor liable for any damage that might happen to your device during this process though the possibility of any damage is negligible. Try this at your own risk.. The following steps involve grabbing files from your phone’s root folder and flashing your phone with a UOT update package. Needless to say, this stuff is not recommended for beginners and the faint of heart. I believe the chances of bricking your phone is present especially if you missed a step. This process has been tested and verified working on Samsung Galaxy Y

So what is UOT Kitchen? The kitchen allows you to customize the visuals of your phone by cooking up mods online. The kitchen can be accessed here.

Requirements:

• A rooted device (in this case, the Samsung Galaxy Y)
• A root explorer app installed on your device.
• A fully charged device (at least 90% charge left on its battery).

Preparation – Copy the required files to your PC.

1. Create a folder on your sdcard (this step is optional. I only included it so I could easily spot where I put the files I will be copying later, due to the clutter of my sdcard. I named my folder “here”).

2. Using root explorer, copy (that’s c-o-p-y, not m-o-v-e) the following files to your /sdcard:

• /system/framework/framework-res.apk
• /system/framework/tw-framework-res.apk
• /system/app/SystemUI.apk

3. Connect your phone to your PC and transfer the above files from your sdcard to your desktop.

A word of caution: Ensure that the root folder (/) is mounted as read only (R/O). This way, you are assured that you will not make any accidental modifications to your device while copying the above files to your SD card.

Modification
1. Visit the UOT kitchen page. Choose the mods you like (battery, icons, status bar etc.)
2. Ensure that the mods you are choosing are compatible for ldpi(240x320) screens.

Note: For some reason, status bar transparency does not work on the SGY. Same goes for boot animations. If you are going to attempt modifying boot animations, just ensure that you direct the kitchen to place them to the system/media/ folder of your phone, and your screen size is appropriately selected as well.

Uploading

3. Once you are satisfied with your mods, click File Upload.

4. Under Select flashable zip scripting, select Edify Scripting. Under update-binary, select Type Galaxy.

5. Under Flashing folders for system files, verify that the correct folders where framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk will be placed (see item no. 1 above).

6. Leave Patch9 autofix checked.

7. Under ThemeChooser preview, tick Generate preview for ThemeChooser. Under that, select mdpi (320x480) / ldpi (240x320).

8. Under Select your rom from kitchen's list, or upload your own files, select Upload system files. Upload the 3 files above mentioned.

Once your files are uploaded proceed to the Summary page. If all your mods are in green, click Submit work to kitchen. Once your files are submitted you will be given a filename of your update package in zip format. Remember your package name and proceed to the pickup page.

Wait for your package at the pickup page. Once it becomes available download and copy it to the root folder of your sdcard. You are now ready to flash your UOT mod.

Flashing


1. Reboot your phone to recovery mode (press up arrow+home+power simultaneously).
2. Wipe your cache (do not choose factory reset).
3. Apply your packaged mod as an update.
4. Reboot your phone again (you can opt to wipe your cache again, if you wish).

Important note: If you want to revert back to stock, just upload the 3 files to the kitchen without selecting any mods at all. Save it and flash it to your phone thru recovery mode. I recommend creating an unmodified UOT update first just in case something goes wrong with your mods. As always, FLASH at your own risk.

Addendum to important note: If you choose include font modifications as well and decide to revert your mods to stock by flashing your unmodified UOT package, you will find that your fonts remain modified. If you wish to revert back to the stock font as well, just create another UOT package using only “Fonts” modifications. I believe the default font is F01 Droid Sans.

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TUTORIAL: V6 Supercharger for Galaxy Y

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http://forum.xda-developers.com

Disclaimer:  SGY Love will not be responsible nor liable for any damage that might happen to your device during this process though the possibility of any damage is negligible. Try this at your own risk. This process has been tested and verified working on Samsung Galaxy Y.

What does it do?


It makes your phone FAST... super snappy with better multitasking!
It rearranges and fixes the OOM Groupings and Priorites and lowmemorykiller values.


So basically, it's a COMPLETE MEMORY MANAGEMENT FIX!


NO LAUNCHER REDRAWS, faster than ever, multitasking is better... why?
Because it works with the lowmemorykiller and letting it work the way it's meant to work.


Requirements :


1. MUST BE Rooted
2. Busybox Installer
Pick the 1.18.2 since it is the version the author recommends.
2. Script Manager
4. 3rd Party Keyboard (Incase Stock won't work as it in my case)
5. V6 Supercharger V9RC4 Script




Instructions :
1. Run Script Manager. Press MENU then MORE and Advance Options then Config. CHECK Browser as root and press back.
2. Locate where is the script in your SDcard. Press then click the SU image, if its green, you're good to go. Press RUN.
2.1 for first time user you will ask if you will use build.prop or create data/local prop Just press enter key
2.2 set the scroolling Speed into 1 /fast

2.3 You will be asked if do you want to system integrate say Yes
2.4 You will be asked if you want to disable animation "AWESOME"-> Just say Yes

3. Wait til the status check is over, when you are given a choices if Home Locked in Memory, Just say NO.
4. Press Enter Key if it states Press Return Key.
5. Now you are given choices from 1-31. Input 7 for Agressive UnLedded. It means, when you press HOME in your key, your apps are automatically put in a sleep state, or should i say, in quite mode, where it will use a little RAM only.

6. You can also choose 5 & 6 according to your preference.
7. Then After that you will need to reboot, but NOT YET. If it tells you to press Y for Superclean, Press N.

8. Then Press 31 to Exit the Script and Kill.
9. Press back on your Script Manager to go to Internal Memory. Go to data/99SuperCharger.Sh.
10. Click it, and Check SU and Boot. If Green and Blue icons are up you're good. Tap Save and go back to the Step 2.
11. Just Say No if its about Locked Homescreen. Then after your given again choices in 1-31. Press 20 for Nitro Lag Nullifier. This trick will further boost you're phone and become snappy.

12. After that, pick again and type 30 for Superclean & Restart. This is for the changes to take effect.

13. After your done restarting your phone. Again, run the script to see if the changes take effect.
14. Dont pick choices from 1-31. Scroll up, if u see text like this.

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Launcher is DIE-HARD! ie. SUPERCHARGED!
=======================================
OOM Grouping Fixes ARE in Effect!
That means the boot script ran!


Current Values MATCH Prior SuperCharge!
That means that it's working!
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Current minfrees = 6,12,75,90,95,125 mb
Prior V6 minfrees= 6,12,75,90,95,125 mb
=======================================
Nitro Lag Nullifier is Installed!
=======================================


You're good! Enjoy More Snappy Galaxy Y.




TIPS :
To further speed up your phone. I encourage you to installed the following.
1. Gemini App Manager - For moving apps to SD for more Internal Space.
2. Root Uninstaller - For uninstalling bloatware that comes from Stock ROM (Use Extreme Caution)
3.SD-Booster - Reading and Writing faster on your SD Card
(My setting is 1024 for i have only 2gb SD)

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Samsung will launch two dual-sim Galaxy Y phones

Samsung is rolling out a pair of dual-SIM blowers for everyone who wants to keep their working and private lives separate, or take advantage of constantly changing carrier deals. The Galaxy Y Duos packs a 3.14-inch QVGA (243 x 320) touchscreen, HSDPA modem, three megapixel camera, microSD storage that's expandable up to 32GB and an 832MHz processor that runs TouchWiz flavored Gingerbread. The Galaxy Y Pro Duos' only difference is its smaller 2.6-inch LQVGA TFT screen, to make space for the physical keyboard below. Both models will be available from January in Europe, Russia, Latin America, Asia, Africa and China and while there's no word on pricing, the specs suggest it won't be high. Head on past the break for the deep dish (or as some squares like to call it, "press release").

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Fontomizer for Android [Apk]

Tutorial - 
1) Download and Install the App named 'Fonts for Galaxy SP' from market
    the link is https://market.android.com/details?i...G9taXplclNQIl0.
2) Open the App and download any font you want
3) The App will download the APK file of the font.
4) For Using the font go to, Settings --> display --> Screen Display --> Font Style
5) The font you downloaded before, would appear in the list
6) Apply the font the phone will ask for restart.
7) And after rebooting your new font is Installed.

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SD Fighter 2 for Android [Apk]

• Size: 6287 kb
• Requirements: 2.2,2.3
• The shared app has been tested on firmware: 2.2

Fast Download 

uploading.com

*If the downloaded file is in .zip format, rename its extension to .apk

Through a long period of time, such as deterioration of yujeobun SD Fighter 2 came out in support
12 characters can be selected depending on the user's preference arcade mode, you can play war mode selection of two and to practice through the menu is enough to watch practice.Anyway, please enjoy the fun.

Recent changes:
12/04/2011 pad types can be changed in Options

03.12.2011 Survival mode gameplay changes, technology, modify it to be activated

02/12/2011 added survival mode, additional ranking features

Game speed turbo mode option added 01.12.2011
2 Enter skills more easily modify the command to exercise check on the menu

29.11.2011 a lot slower part of the game was hard to modify the
Latest version: 1.7(for Android version 2.1 and higher, supports App2SD)

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How 10 Billion Android Apps Got Downloaded!

The debate on comparing iOS and Android might go on for a long time, with no real winner. But Android is truly a very one of the most popular platform for mobile phones and tablets. It is open-sourced and many developers keep creating new apps for them.

Android has reached 10 Billion downloads of their apps a few days ago. What is more amazing is that in March 2011 it that number was 3 billion app downloads.
That means Android apps were downloaded a cool 7 billion times in the past 8 months. That is phenomenal growth and here is a infographic by Android showing how it reached the 10 billion mark.

Do you own an Android phone? How many Apps have you downloaded and which one are your favorites? 

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TUTORIAL: ROOT/UNROOT your Galaxy Y S5360

Disclaimer: SGY Love will not be responsible nor liable for any damage that might happen to your device during this process though the possibility of any damage is negligible. Try this at your own risk. This process has been tested and verified working on Samsung Galaxy Y.

 

1. What does rooting means?
◘◘◘ Rooting a DROID allows us to have access to basically ALL of the system files at the O/S level. And with that access, theoretically one could make things happen that by default mobile manufacturers didn't intend to happen. Apps for certain phones could work with our DROID, for instance.

2. Does rooting void warranty?
◘◘◘ A rooted phone will not be covered on your warranty, but the awesome DEV have found a fairly easy yet "technical" process of returning to your phones stock status, leaving Service Centers blind to the fact that you were ever rooted. YOU WILL NEED to be able to understand the UNROOTING process if the phone requires warranty coverage.

3. What Does Root Give Me?
◘◘◘ Full control over your system
◘◘◘ Ability to alter system files(this is dangerous). You can replace many parts of the "Android Core" with this including:
-----> Themes
-----> Core apps (maps, calendar, clock etc)
-----> Recovery image
-----> Bootloader
-----> Toolbox (linux binary that lets you execute simple linux commands like "ls")
          can be replaced with Busybox (slightly better option)
-----> Boot images
-----> Add linux binaries

◘◘◘ Run special apps that need more control over the system
-----> SuperUser (lets you approve or deny the use of root access to any program)
-----> Tether apps

◘◘◘ Backup your system
-----> You can make a folder on your sdcard and backup all of your .apk files to your sdcard (helps if an author decides to "upgrade" you to a version that requires you to pay to use the version you just had)

◘◘◘ Relocate your (browser/maps/market) cache to your /sdcard
◘◘◘ Relocate your installed applications to your /sdcard
◘◘◘ Reboot your phone from the terminal app easily (su <enter> reboot <enter>)

NOW the moment your waiting for.. Here's the procedure for rooting our Galaxy Y.
1. Download needed file (update.zip attached below)
2. Copy ZIP file to the root of your SD-card
3. Turn off your phone
4. Switch ON your device in the recovery Mode
(hold power, volume up, home button together).
5. Select update from SD Card option. (yung volume keys gamitin pang select)
6. You will see that the list of files will come from which you will have to select the file which is named as Update.zip
7. Wait for a few seconds.
8. Congratulations! Your Galaxy Y S5360 should now be rooted


NOTE: The quickest way to test if your already rooted is to simply open up your Apps folder and see if a new app called ‘Superuser Permissions’ shows up. It has a picture of a ninja. If you see this, you’re rooted! Congratulations!

to UNROOT your phone;
Follow the same steps above but instead of using update.zip use update-unroot.zip
Kung recently ng-update kayo ng SUPERUSER app... remove the updates first para mabura talaga sya    

source:MrGambit




root:   
update.zip  

unroot: 
update-unroot.zip

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Samsung Galaxy Y Netphone Review

Samsung officially launched their most affordable Android handset today, the Galaxy Y, “Y” meaning “Young”. This phone retails for Php5,990 and is already available since last week. The price pushes the previous Samsung Galaxy Mini out of the market since you can get a better-specced phone at a cheaper price with this Galaxy Y.

Consequently, Smart also has its own Galaxy Y Netphone Edition which you can also get for Php5,990 but you will also get the free social networking benefits thanks to the SmartNet platform. Some specs may not be better than the Smart Netphone 701 but you can’t argue with the price on this one since you will also be getting a Samsung-branded phone running on Android Gingerbread.

The phone comes with the basic accessories: a pair of earphones, manual, Samsung Kies installer, charger, USB cable and a 2GB microSD card with an SD adapter.

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Pure Grid calendar widget for Android [Apk]

Description:

Google calendar informations in widget
- Synced with Google calendars
- Support Google, TouchDown, Moto Corp calendars
- Timelines with MONTH and WEEK view
- Can add bi-weekly / bi-monthly events (or more complex)
- Skinnable to make a fancy widget
- Scrollable widgets with most alternative launchers like ADW, Zeam Launcher, Go Launcher or LauncherPro

NEW fully new skin management
NEW compatible with Ultimate ToDo List Tab
NEW application picker
FIX ICS blurry font

Requirements: Android OS 1.5 and up

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System Tuner Pro for Android [Apk]

Description:

Monitor and record your phone’s logs, app/process activities, CPU, memory (RAM, internal storage, internal & external SD).
By far the lowest consumption monitoring app!

App checked with Privacy Inspector! If you don’t want WIFI, BT, PHONE and GPS permissions, please check app ‘Limited System Tuner Pro’.

Use logcat to debug or help debug your favorites apps 

Use terminal emulator for direct linux commands
Highly configurable! Check web-site for app consumption!

The app can:
- Show data (cpu, memory) in the status bar
- Sort processes by cpu time, total cpu time, start time, cpu consumption, memory used or simply by name
- Filter system processes or user-defined excluded list
- Shows cpu load/frequency, memory/internal/sd usage
- Record (optionally at boot) activities in the background
- Allows analyzing previous recordings
- Display log(cat) for all/one process
- Display memory details (RAM & internal)
- Display SD details (internal & external)
- Run command using terminal emulator
- Kill non manually excluded apps automatically

The app can also do the following on rooted phones:
- Tweak SD cache size to boost performance (not all phones supported, please report)
- Tweak Android auto-kill memory settings
- Tweak CPU governor + frequencies

The widget can:
- Use different backgrounds (HTC or Google-like) half or fully transparent
- Show cpu load, free/used memory (flash/internal/sd) available, process count, using text or 2 side levels.
- Starts 2 different actions by clicking on the icon or label, including:
. Start/stop recording process activity
. Kill all non-excluded processes
. Refresh
. Start task manager
. Open analyzer
. Open settings

All system apps are excluded by default!
Kernel processes cannot be killed

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Go! Chat for Facebook Pro for Android [Apk]

Description:

Go!Chat for Facebook lets you talk with your friends via Facebook chat

Rated by users as the best Facebook chat experience for Android.

Pro exclusive features:
- NO ADS!
- Exclusive and improved landscape layout for chat window
- Ignore/mute contacts

Features
- Easy & Secure Facebook chat login
- Smileys
- Facebook groups
- Favorites notifications
- Friend alias
- Share photos & location
- Send video & voice notes over Facebook chat
- Swap conversations with gestures
- Homescreen widget
- Access your contacts’ profile from Facebook website or Facebook official app
- Keep sending messages even if the contact gets offline

Recent changes:
Go!Chat 5 is here!
What’s new in 5.0:
Lots of user interface improvements:
- New landscape layout for friend list window
- Open chats bubble in friend list
- New look for friend list title bar, plus some new graphics
- Open chats bubbles now also display last messages
- New look for the conversation window
- Smooth transitions when new messages are added to a chat

More text size options
Optimizations
More exciting improvements on the way!

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Samsung Galaxy Y: Plain or Netphone Edition?

The Samsung Galaxy Y is Samsung’s latest most affordable Android phone (Php5,990) which is suitable for those who want to switch to a smartphone and get more features out of their phone.

For the unitiated, the Y on Galaxy Y means “Young” and the younger generation will have a blast when they change their feature phones in favor of this Android smartphone. Games and apps are aplenty, social networking is a given, e-mail and web browsing is easy, 3G, WiFi and even WiFi internet sharing is possible.

However, there are two versions of the Samsung Galaxy Y, the plain one and the Netphone Edition which is exclusive to Smart subscribers. And now you’re wondering, should you get an unlocked unit or try Smart’s Netphone service?

Here are three reasons why you would want to go with the Netphone Edition of the Samsung Galaxy Y:

1. Free Facebook and Twitter updates. Don’t ask me why Smart is doing this but with only a peso balance, you can check and update your Facebook and Twitter status all the time for free as long as you’re connected to Smart’s SmartNet platform. Don’t worry, when you first turn on your phone you will be asked to create a SmartNet account which is also free.

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Samsung Galaxy Y

The design of the Galaxy Y is simple and very similar to the Galaxy Ace in a smaller size. Galaxy Y has dimensions of 104 x 58 x 11.5 mm. The entire body is made of plastic smartphones, but with the chrome wrapped around the body giving the impression of elegance, so it does not look cheap. The back is patterned so as not to leave finger spot. On the front of the screen surrounded by black frames. Unfortunately, microSD memory slot not hot-swappable, so you have to open the back cover to access the memory card.

On the upper face are the earpiece and proximity sensor to turn off the screen. The bottom are three buttons, the middle button / home is a physical button while the two other buttons (menu, back) is a capacitive button. At the top there is a 3.5 mm headset port and a micro USB port. On the left there is a hole for the strap and the volume buttons. The bottom of the hole filled only mic. On the right there are only a power button / lock. On the back there is a speaker and camera.

Galaxy Y is already embedded the latest version 2.3.5 Android Gingerbread with TouchWiz 3.0 like other Samsung phones output. Display TouchWiz become one of the mandatory standard on every smartphone Samsung.

Samsung's successor to Galaxy Mini is equipped with a camera resolution 2 MP fixed focus, without flash. Yes, as already written above, the Galaxy Y decreased resolution of the camera than the Galaxy Mini. Features that are pinned the shooting mode, scene modes, brightness, timer, resolution, white balance, effects, metering, quality, guidelines, review, GPS, shutter sound, reset. You must insert a memory card to be able to use the camera feature.

Strong performance combine in style, compact design in a processor Samsung GALAXY Y. With a more powerful processor, 7.2 Mbps download speeds make this phone a winner. Equipped with an attractive compact body and a screen 3 "that makes you feel comfortable when viewing videos and playing games. With the Android operating system the most up-to-date provide a smooth user experience and comes with Google Mobile services are amazing web-based application interfaces with a variety of choices in entertainment, leisure and lifestyle choices. 

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