How to enable LG's Quick Remote on custom AOSP-based ROMs?

Devices like LG G2 and G3 are equipped with an IR blaster which is very useful for controlling devices such TVs, projectors, radios, set-top boxes or even air conditioners. Unfortunately, the IR blaster and the QuickRemote app itself worked on the stock ROM (and custom ROMs based on this stock version, such as CandyG3) and if you wanted to flash an AOSP-based ROM, you had to live with the fact that the QuickRemote will not work. Well, not anymore.

The "guys from the XDA", exactly sefnap, RieGo and zzeneg have ported the QuickRemote app for LG G2 and G3 and made it working on all AOSP based ROMs.

The default SELinux policy for android was changed to enforcing mode in Lollipop to increase security. This restricts the functionality of some apps, so for QuickRemote to work we have to change the SELinux policy back to permissive mode until we have a better solution.

Instructions? Classic; just flasth the ZIP. Don't forget to make a backup, or at least download the uninstall version zip (that will remove the mod once flashed).

First make sure the init.d support is enabled, you can use this app.

• Download the ZIPs on XDA

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How powerful is your charger? Test it out with Ampere!

There are many ways to charge your phone - wall charger, car charger, via USB port or power bank. But how powerful is the charger? What if your charging power doesn't even meets the values that it should have? Test your charger now with Ampere!

Ampere is an amazing and free app (with beautiful design!) that measures the charging current of the battery.



It is great for measuring and checking what charger is the best option for you. If you're using some kind of un-official charger, you may not even meet the listed values and charging your phone with this may be really really slow.

Try and see for yourself!

• Download Ampere

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Use your phone like Wii controller to play Tennis Racketeering!

Tennis Racketeering is a fun game that lets you use your Android phone as a tennis rocket and therefore control the game with. The only thing you need to install is just one app and you're ready to play!

You don't necessarily need multiple Android devices as the game can be played without a controlled but that's not really that fun.

Firstly install Tennis Racketeering app on your main device (the one with the biggest screen so all the players can see what's happening).

Then install Tennis Racketeering Racket app on your controllers. When you're done, pair your controllers with the main device. When paired, you're good to go! Choose multiplayer (or singleplayer, if you're on your own), get your rockets ready and go!

 




Be very careful when playing, though! A broken rocket is not that easy to repair, you know.

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Get LG G3's front camera gesture shot with Snapi

LG's flagship, the G3 has revealed a plenty of cool, useful and practical features that help the user interacting with the phone. For example, there's a knock code feature, that unlocks your phone even when the display is currently OFF. And then there's something known as gesture shot, which takes a front facing camera photo just by a simple gesture of your hand.


Fast, simple and comfortable and touch-free way to take selfies. The autofocus is based on face recognition, so your face will always be sharp and not blurry. So what are you waiting for, the app is free!

Download Snapi

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Chainfire's new app "Recently" makes Lollipop multitasking useful back again

There have been some changes in Android Lollipop that may actually be dragging Android down. With the Lollipop release, multitasking - the recents view have become overview and instead of showing all the running apps it shows pretty much everything you've ran in the past few days. And as you know Lollipop recents are kept even when phone reboots, so if you're not clearing the tabs by yourself, you probably have non-stop incoming tabs even when you don't really need them. "Recently" changes this.

As Chainfire describes the app, Recently aims to restore sanity, by limiting which apps are shown. In its most aggressive configuration, it will show you only apps that are actually running right now. 



As you can see on the screenshot above, you can limit the apps by age and also by maximum number of apps listed in multitasking.

In its most aggresive configuration, there will be only running apps shown in multitasking.
What Recently does, is that it hides the other tabs and just doesn't show them in the list. Recently doesn't kill the apps. The app produces no wakelocks, only runs as a BG service.
Definitely a great idea, what do you think?

Lollipop & root access needed.

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