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.

Download

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Samsung Galaxy S6 Weather Widget PORTED! - Download

The next Galaxy has been annouced and that means there's a plenty of new stuff incoming! Except new wallpapers, apps and of course a new device, we got a new beloved weather widget that many TouchWiz users (and not only them) enjoy and like to use. Here's an early port of Samsung Galaxy S6 weather widget!

An XDA member -Aatif- have created this amazing theme for XWidget app.
XWidget is something like Zooper, it lets you use custom created widgets on your Android homescreen.

Currently in the version 4.0, S6 Widget features 3D clock with shadow, original S6 weather icons,
original size of icons, text and clock, and many more.



Download the S6 weather widget


To install this widget, you have to download the XWidget app first. Then put the file in Xwidget/widget directory and you're good to go.


XDA thread

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How to get apps from Google Play for free using Cracked Google Play

This walkthrough is for educational purposes only. Please do not abuse this knowledge.

To get apps directly from Google Play for free, we need a few things first:

• root access (with Busybox installed)
• Cracked Google Play
• root browser
• a credit card we'll be using to purchase apps

Cracked Google Play from ChelpuS is a modyfied version of Google Play that has a few little improvements over the stock one.

With the modded Play Store, you can : Use protected apps with Google LVL (License Verification Library) without cracking them, verify license in offline mode, disable self update, and more.

One of the features we'll be exploting is that with Cracked google Play is refunds. Refunds work like this: You buy an app and you decide that you don't wont it (let's say it's crashing on your device). What you do, is that you hit refund and bom, your money is back. Of course the app you've bought gets uninstall. Well, not with cracked version.

In the modified GPlay version, the app stays on your device even when you refunded it. This way, you've just gotten it for free. However, you'll have to buy it first.

Install cracked Google Play

First you need to install this modified version. You can't install it as a classic APK file because GPlay is a system app, not a user app. So for installing you'll have to replace it in /system directory.

1. Download root browser
2. Download cracked Google Play apk
3. Open the root browser, navigate to /system directory and find the Google Play app there. Note the directory may vary in different Android versions. In older ones it's probably somewhere in /system/app directory, if you're running newer versions it might be in /system/priv-app/Phonesky/Phonesky.apk - I'll be using this example.
4. Rename the downloaded file (cracked version of Google Play) to Phonesky.apk (i.e to the same name as the stock GPlay version) and replace it in the directory. It is recommended to backup the stock GPlay version in case the cracked one doesn't work.
5. Change the permissions of the app. Hold your finger on the APK file, hit change permissions and change it to rw-r-r-
6. Reboot.

Now you have the cracked Google Play version installed on your device. What next?

Buy an app

Simply buy the app. Everything will go as expected, your money will be sent to the developer. We're halfway done.

Refund the app

Next step? Refund. Go to Google Play, find the app and hit refund button right next to Open button. Your money will be refunded but the app you bought stays. boom!



Well, that's pretty much it. Please note that this walkthrough is for educational purposes only - support developers by giving them money. Only this way they can produce better applications for all.

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How to fix: Google Now can't be opened - Network error

Network error. Check your network connections and try again. That's what I got after opening Google Now settings. I haven't modyfied my Google account in any way, everything seemed fine. Then this. All of a sudden. Luckily I've found a fix to this!

I could not access Google Now on my account anywhere on my devices. It just didn't work. I tried to remove Google Search app data, cache, even tried to reinstall the app and whole system.



Fortunately, it's not the problem. You don't have to delete any of your data. If you're having this issue, there's an easy fix for that.

1. Open Google Settings app from your drawer.
2. Open the account history tab.
3. Turn everything OFF.
4. Wait a few minutes and then turn it back ON.
5. That's all! Your Google Now should be setup properly now.

I still don't know what caused the problem but this easily fixed it. Hope that helped you as well!

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Transparent status bar on ALL apps on Android Lollipop with Lolistat!

Transparent status bar is really an amazing step pushing forward the UI limits of Android. Firstly it was released when the Android Kitkat came out and it's been a hit for many UI Android designers as the transparent (or translucent, tinted, call it how you want) status bar looks really really nice and it lets the system blend fully with the app.

Unfortunately, not many developers have decided to implement this feature on their apps, thus it's not used as much as it should be.
However, there's a way to get this tinted status bar working on all apps. But how can this be done without modyfing the system files? Xposed Framework.


Lolistat is designed to work on Android Lollipop devices only, if you have older version of Android, please kindly check THIS video to get your tinted status bar working!


You need to have Xposed Framework installed on your device. If you don't have it or don't even what this is, please follow this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3034811

1. Download Lolistat from Xposed directory
2. Install the app.
3. Enable the Xposed module 
4. Reboot
5. woho!

Before and after. This. On all apps. Enjoy.

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