With root access on any Android device, comes great power and even greater customisation options. Once you have root access on your Android device, you can not only enter the world of custom kernels and recoveries, but also use some very powerful and unique apps.
If you recently rooted your Android device and are looking for some awesome root apps, below is a small list to quench your thirst and make the whole trouble of rooting your device worth it.
With the size of Android flagships increasing every few months, it has become near impossible to use them with one hand, unless god has gifted you Hulk sized palms. Most custom ROMs like Paranoid Android and CyanogenMod solve this problem by offering PIE control, which offers on-screen navigation keys whenever you swipe from the edge of the screen. Thus, you can in a single gesture go back to your home screen, or to the Recents app menu etc.
If you are tired of continuously shuffling your phone to reach the navigation buttons, or are just interested in trying out PIE without flashing a new custom ROM, give LMT launcher a shot.
With Samsung and HTC launching “Google Edition” variants of their latest flagships, many expected Sony to do the same. But the Japanese company is keeping very quiet about any such plans. Thankfully, Xperia Z owners can now take matters into their own hands, thanks to an unofficial Android 4.3 Google Edition ROM.
Not everybody is a mobile phone enthusiast, and majority of the people out there can only afford to buy a new phone only once every couple of years. So, by the end of the first 12 or 18 months, the phone that was so blazing fast when you first got it, might just start crawling.
There can be thousands of reasons why an Android device slows down over a period of life, including poorly coded apps, less free RAM etc. However, majority of the times, the slowness can be fixed by following a few simple tips and tricks.
George “Geohot” Hotz, the legendary hacker who’s famous for his iPhone jailbreaks, has turned his attention to Android devices and released the first root for the Samsung Galaxy S4 Active. It’s quite possibly one of the easiest root methods you’ll ever come across, and it was developed in a matter of hours.
