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Ugoos UT4 RK3368 64-Bit Octa Core Android TV Box Review

Ugoos UT4 RK3368 64-Bit Octa Core Android TV Box Review Having looked at Minix products in the past, I thought It best to branch and look at other popular Android boxes. This led me to the UT4 from Ugoos, the UT4 is running a RK3368 64-Bit Octa Core processor, 2GB of DDR3 RAM, and 16GB eMMC. The UT4 offers support for Ultra High-Definition (UHD) 4K video playback right out of the box. This means y...[Read More]

[root] Servicely Android App

[root] Servicely Android App   If you’re rooted you’ll be able to select which services or apps you wanna kill automagically. The app runs a simple service every X seconds (default is 60s) and checks if those services that you’ve selected are alive. If they are – BOOM – good night. A small detail though, if that service or app is running on the foreground this ap...[Read More]

Root Checker – Android App

 Root Checker – Android App   With a material L like design, Root Check certainly is a fantastic application to look at. We’re starting to get a glimpse now of the top developers around implementing the new guide lines published by Google at I/O 2014. As a user and reviewer myself, I’m still getting to grips with all the new changes in how these should be presented on our en...[Read More]

SoftKeyZ root – Review

This application will let you change the Softkeys / Navigation Buttons fast and easily. This app comes with more than 150+ different softkeys to choose from and the growing online database provides even more user-submitted ones.     I stumbled upon SoftKeyZ in XDA. Basically an application that lets you use custom icons to tweak your navigation bar on devices. Obviously, you’ll nee...[Read More]

DataSync Review

For many years if you wanted to transfer an app (including data) between Android devices, Titanium Backup was the standard. However over the past 6 months or so some healthy competition has sprung up, with one of the most recent being DataSync. Just like Titanium this requires root access, but rather than backing up your apps and settings DataSync specializes in syncing them – for instance b...[Read More]

Floating Soft Keys – Review

Presenting Floating Soft Keys. This app makes use of pingpongboss’s StandOut libraries to make small (and resizable) soft keys that you can drag anywhere across the screen. For devices with soft keys as default navigational controls, this app is most effective when used in combination with CyanogenMod’s or ParanoidAndroid’s expanded desktop mode.   An app that sets your hardware/...[Read More]

The apps we can’t live without… – Series (Dave)

  The apps we can’t live without Ok, most of the team have posted their apps, so I guess it’s my turn. These apps are essential to me, but may vary drastically to what those of you reading this have installed or consider essential, that’s just one of the great things about Android…choice, and customizing your device to your needs. So, in no particular order…   &nb...[Read More]

Icon Themer (Root) – Review

Icon Themer (Root) – Review Icon Themer, a new app from the developer who bought us HelixLauncher and QuickDesk, aims to bring any icon pack to any custom launcher. This is pretty big thing especially for those of us who over the years have bought various icon packs and have changed launchers more times than hot dinners. Icon Themer is pretty easy to setup, though it does require Xposed Fram...[Read More]

Trickster MOD Kernel Settings

                   Trickster MOD app is a tweaking tool to change various settings included in your kernel and other mods to your phone. * Trickster MOD has abilities to do the following * – ADB over WLAN – Set I/O scheduler, read ahead buffer, CPU scaling governor, min and max CPU speed – CPU Statistics – Set Device hostname * D...[Read More]

AdFree Android. New App

THIS APP IS FOR ROOTED PHONES ONLY! AdFree removes most ads in the browser and other apps. It does this by nullifying requests to known host names in the system hosts file. If you have problems with this app, or you know of additional host names not being filtered, please comment in xda-developers.com forum so it can be fixed! From the 24th December the previous application support has stopped. Th...[Read More]

User Manager ROOT Android 4.2 Review

Allows you to share apps between multiple user accounts. When the device is used by family members then you can easily disable apps they should not be using. Special sale only for limited time! When the app has improved and more features have been added then it will be sold for regular price. Requirements and limits: – Only works on Android 4.2 devices with enabled multi user support. The ap...[Read More]

Noobs Guide… Root Nexus7

Stumbled upon this very beginners friendly video whilst looking for drivers to root my Nexus7 last night. (I’m using Windows8, don’t ask) The forum post is here and they will be more than happy to help you. DroidHorizon  disclaimer!! You know the score as well as me.. Follow the simple video and you’ll be fine. If you can’t do what the video is showing, maybe don’t at...[Read More]