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Different55 · 2014-08-10 20:32:04

If your phone is rooted, you should get these apps

SoftKeyz
If you have a navigation bar, then this app will help you customize it. You can download a bunch of different buttons and glow effects, or make your own and use those. Look what I did with the GrafX2 app combined and SoftKeyz:
http://imgur.com/a/58CFD

Xposed Framework
This app bosses like no other app has ever bossed. If your phone has root, this app lets other apps customize pretty much every aspect of it. You can customize the quick toggles (GravityBox), move that volume indicator out of the way (StatusbarVolume), kill that annoying headphone volume warning popup (NoSafeVolumeWarning), and customize all sorts of transitions and animations (XuiMod).

Battery Saver, Internet Booster, etc
The guy who makes these apps (which are available on the play store) makes simple apps that work. They're so simple that at first I thought that they were all placebos or just adscams, but I ran some tests on the few of them that I could (namely Internet Booster) and started thinking otherwise. Here's a before and after album:
http://imgur.com/a/S6JQb
I haven't had the chance to test it on a 4G network yet.

Trickster Mod
I mainly use it for tweaking my CPU and GPU governors as well as the max clock speed, but it can be used for a few more things, although most of them require you to donate or something.

Tincore Keymapper
If you have a gamepad or other input device that you use with your android, this app rocks. I like playing games while using my PSP as a controller. (Use FuSa Gampead on the PSP and a USB OTG cable if your device supports USB OTG) With this app, I'm able to control games and apps that don't natively support android controllers. While there's a bit of a learning curve, you'll figure it out if you stick with it. What's really fun is mapping your gamepad buttons to native android buttons, which are recognizable by emulators like N64oid and My Boy!, and then can also be used to control your android. The Opera Classic internet browser also generates a movable cursor on webpages when you use the DPad, which can be used to browse the internet. Or you could just set up Tincore to use a joystick or something as a native android cursor that works with all apps. Basically, if your phone is rooted and you have a gamepad, this app is another must-have.

Root basics:

If you're just getting into rooting, these are apps that a lot of other root apps will require, or that are really good to have. If it's below, get it. No questions.

Superuser, SuperSU, etc
There are a few different choices in this section, but you need at least one of them. These apps notify you when an app tries to access root powers, and lets you grant or deny for each app, as well as granting them only for a specific amount of time. It's a nice little security measure. You don't want to just allow any old app to have total control over your phone without your knowledge and approval. That'd be like giving every program that ever runs on your computer the ability to delete C:\WINDOWS\system32\, or /boot/, or whatever directories that make your computer run. They might not all take advantage of that ability, but it only takes one. Requiredness: 10/10

Busybox
This app doesn't do much on its own, but a lot of apps use it to do stuff. Those apps are very common, but apps that don't are more common. If you want to explore everything that you can do with root, you should get this. Requiredness: 7/10

Root Checker, Root Validator, etc
All these apps do is make sure you have root. For people whose rootedness wears off after you do a full reboot of your phone, this is a very helpful app. For people whose rootedness survives a reboot, you might as well use it once to make sure you have root then uninstall it. Requiredness: 8/10 while rootedness is questionable, then 1/10 after that

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Last edited by Different55 (2014-08-10 20:35:22)

Bimps1002 · 2014-08-10 20:39:41

xposed framework might help me a lot. also jelly of that psp but i can hook my wiimote up to my phone through bluetooth and use the wii classic controller to play games GET REKT

N1KF · 2014-08-10 20:45:57

I remember back in the ol' days when phones were just for calling people...

Different55 · 2014-08-10 20:49:37

Bimps1002 wrote:

xposed framework might help me a lot. also jelly of that psp but i can hook my wiimote up to my phone through bluetooth and use the wii classic controller to play games GET REKT

:'( Neither of the phones I've had have worked with the wii remote. I would classic controller pro all day long for like 2 hours before getting bored. It broke with the 4.2 update and apparently google has no plans to allow it to work again

Last edited by Different55 (2014-08-10 20:55:18)

Bimps1002 · 2014-08-10 21:12:38

Different55 wrote:

Bimps1002 wrote:
xposed framework might help me a lot. also jelly of that psp but i can hook my wiimote up to my phone through bluetooth and use the wii classic controller to play games GET REKT
:'( Neither of the phones I've had have worked with the wii remote. I would classic controller pro all day long for like 2 hours before getting bored. It broke with the 4.2 update and apparently google has no plans to allow it to work again

#4.0.4masterrace
suck it nerd

Different55 · 2014-08-10 21:55:55

#IncomingAndroidLMasterRace

You've been abandoned. You will never get another update.

Patchee · 2014-08-12 15:40:29

I've pretty much done everything and everything I can do with my GS4, and rooting is so boring to me now. I guess that's just cause of the lack of custom ROMS.
Now all I use in terms of "rooting" is Lucky Patcher so apps will stop bugging me to actually buy things...
#piracyislife

N1KF · 2014-08-12 15:45:11

Ew, these forums are full of pirates. Just buy your own stuff, gosh darnit.

Patchee · 2014-08-12 15:51:23

is this like your way of telling me that you actually buy music and support the artists
because i do not have any tolerance for that kinda of behaviour.

N1KF · 2014-08-12 16:04:07

I do not buy or pirate music.

Starvr344 · 2014-08-12 16:07:28

Phones that only call people are better.

N1KF · 2014-08-12 16:10:23

I agree. PC (along with Mac and all that junk) should be the only type of computer.

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Different55 · 2014-08-12 17:04:43

*sometimes brings a keyboard and mouse along with him on trips and runs linux off of his android phone*

*slowly backs away*

Bimps1002 · 2014-08-12 17:20:17

Different55 wrote:

*sometimes brings a keyboard and mouse along with him on trips and runs linux off of his android phone*
*slowly backs away*

tfw no usb to mini-usb dongle

N1KF · 2014-08-12 17:59:28

Different55 wrote:

*sometimes brings a keyboard and mouse along with him on trips and runs linux off of his android phone*
*slowly backs away*

As long as Linux is not a phone-computer hybrid, that is fine.

Bimps1002 · 2014-08-12 18:05:40

N1KF wrote:

Different55 wrote:
*sometimes brings a keyboard and mouse along with him on trips and runs linux off of his android phone*
*slowly backs away*
As long as Linux is not a phone-computer hybrid, that is fine.

what

Different55 · 2014-08-12 19:04:35

N1KF wrote:

Different55 wrote:
*sometimes brings a keyboard and mouse along with him on trips and runs linux off of his android phone*
*slowly backs away*
As long as Linux is not a phone-computer hybrid, that is fine.

Having debian and usb devices on my phone makes my phone a phone-computer hybrid.

N1KF · 2014-08-12 19:20:40

Different55 wrote:

N1KF wrote:
Different55 wrote:
*sometimes brings a keyboard and mouse along with him on trips and runs linux off of his android phone*
*slowly backs away*
As long as Linux is not a phone-computer hybrid, that is fine.
Having debian and usb devices on my phone makes my phone a phone-computer hybrid.

KILL IT

KILL IT WITH FIRE

Bimps1002 · 2014-08-12 19:22:23

N1KF wrote:

Different55 wrote:
N1KF wrote:
Different55 wrote:
*sometimes brings a keyboard and mouse along with him on trips and runs linux off of his android phone*
*slowly backs away*
As long as Linux is not a phone-computer hybrid, that is fine.
Having debian and usb devices on my phone makes my phone a phone-computer hybrid.
KILL IT
KILL IT WITH FIRE

why would you do that

N1KF · 2014-08-12 19:25:46

Bimps1002 wrote:

N1KF wrote:
Different55 wrote:
N1KF wrote:
Different55 wrote:
*sometimes brings a keyboard and mouse along with him on trips and runs linux off of his android phone*
*slowly backs away*
As long as Linux is not a phone-computer hybrid, that is fine.
Having debian and usb devices on my phone makes my phone a phone-computer hybrid.
KILL IT
KILL IT WITH FIRE
why would you do that

BECAUSE I CAN

colon · 2014-08-29 18:31:17

Different is your phone a sony xperia i have that

Fradeshan · 2014-08-29 19:01:38

N1KF wrote:

Bimps1002 wrote:
N1KF wrote:
Different55 wrote:
N1KF wrote:
Different55 wrote:
*sometimes brings a keyboard and mouse along with him on trips and runs linux off of his android phone*
*slowly backs away*
As long as Linux is not a phone-computer hybrid, that is fine.
Having debian and usb devices on my phone makes my phone a phone-computer hybrid.
KILL IT
KILL IT WITH FIRE
why would you do that
BECAUSE I CAN

because not nerd enuf

Different55 · 2014-08-29 19:13:27

colon wrote:

Different is your phone a sony xperia i have that

No it's a Moto X.

colon · 2014-09-02 01:12:55

Different55 wrote:

colon wrote:
Different is your phone a sony xperia i have that
No it's a Moto X.

similar interface ish

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