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Developed by invinsible_asp and he claims it is 95% accurate to the actual Official KitKat Launcher. It actually is a modified S3 Launcher but not the one Sam-Ron modified. It is the exact launcher he extracted of a chinese device that he modified to look like KitKat.
OFFICIAL CHANGELOG
App Update v1.0
1] The App Drawer is now full screen as it is in KITKAT [4.4].
2] Wallpapers have been optimized to small screens.
3] Enabled smooth scrolling and less Ram usage.
4] Anti-aliasing now enabled.
New "Kitkat" Style icons and Few Original Icons.
App Update v1.5
1] Added Unread counts feature.
2] improved start up and scrolling.
3] Removed unused setting options.
4] Fixed broken wallpaper issue.
App Update v2 Change-log.
1] Added Kitkat Themed Unread counts .2] New and improved icons.
3] JellyBean Styled Settings Menu.
4] Added Sort Apps,Hide Apps and Uninstall Apps Feature
5] Few Behind the scenes improvement. 6] New Kitkat Styled Folders.
7] New Page indicators.
App Update v3 Change-log.
1] Added Nexus 5 wallpaper as default .
2] App renamed to Google Home .
3] Fixed Icon issue .
ScreenShots!App Update v4 Change-log.
1] Added New Nexus 5 wallpaper .
2] New JB icons for now.
3] Fade in and out menu transition .
4] Kitkat transition added.
5] Removed Touch-wiz like features completely.
6] App size reduced by 200 KB [Not that much but still.
7] Fixed some Indian languages and some not.
8] Fixed some internal app issue and bugs [only few] .
9] Added "Backup and Restore" Home Screen feature to it.
10] New Screen Shots available 11] Version 5 [PROBABLY THE FINAL VERSION IS IN PROGRESS!!!! ]
Download:
Currently the app is on v4 as of this post but the final version which is v5 will be added shortly Google_home_v4.0.apk
For the latest version and/or updates, the official thread
[App] [2.3 +] Android 4.4 Kitkat Launcher for [GB] [ICS] [JB ...
The app uses the proximity sensor that the Galaxy Y has on the front, so now you won't only use the proximity sensor for shutting off the screen while making calls, but for a lot more things. Please note that the video you will watch below does not show all of the features the app offers, explore the rest by your own.
Main features:
- Set apps to open with all the available gestures.
- Silence alarm.
- Silence incoming call.
- Switch betwen recent apps (like back and forward behaviour)
- Fast go to home screen
- QuickGlance like Galaxy S4 has!!!
- Control your music player (next/previous/pause/resume) even with screen off!!!
- Shake phone during a call to activate/deactivate speakerphone.
- Answer incoming call, just put your phone near to your ear (its like Hover Hold)
- Lock/Unlock screen with hand slides!
For rooted users:
- Slide betwen your photos in your image gallery (1 slide->next, 2 slides->previous)
- Scroll up and down in your browser (1 slide->down, 2 slides->up. Not all browser are supported).
Screenshots:
Video demonstration on the Samsung Galaxy Y:
Download Hovering Controls - v1.3.5 (xda attachment) | Play Store ($1.35)
For support and troubleshooting bugs, you can check out the developer's official xda thread: link
bbclo531 recently posted this on the xda-developers boards, without much information about where it came from, unfortunately. But by looking at the top tabs, they are in non-english letters which means that this is once again another exported app off a Chinese replica phone.
Video:
I have tested everything and it is working without any problems. The app comes with the name "Settings" and it uses the same app icon that the Galaxy S4 has. All of the settings menus are accessible and the only problem might be the tabs' names, but anyone with basic decompiling skills can translate them to their preffered language.
Get S4 Settings - Click here.
Instructions:
- Download the apk file to your sdcard
- Install it just like you install any app
- After installed, run it and enjoy
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2373529
I have tested this app on the Galaxy Y and it runs smoothly. After monitoring it for a bit I've noticed it uses around 22MB of your RAM.
In the video below I am demonstrating you the live wallpaper in action and those of you who like it may download it from the link I have provided below the video. Some more information on the GYA rom has also been included at the end of it.
Video:
Galaxy S4 Live Wallpaper is developed by Kiwi.
Get Galaxy S4 Live Wallpaper - Play Store
What I found very interesting about this apps is that it has been given the Galaxy S3 layout, which makes it even more awesome.
The app features:
- Changing the wallpaper
- Setting shortcuts
- Turning it on and off
- Shows battery percentage (if enabled)
- A few special functions
Screenshots:
Video preview:
Download - Click here.
Source:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2357074
This app contains 7 wallpapers that get installed. The installation is very simple, basically you just install the apk like you install any app and you are done.
Video:
Download - Click here.
Source:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2318128
Mitko (Author) 
The widget has been extracted from some duplicate Note II device (Chinese I suppose). It is not powered by AccuWeather but by YAWeather.
This widget for now has only one bug, and that is adding the city. It very likely that you will get an error message that it fails to add a city, that problem can easily be solved by following the instructions you will find below.
Download the widget - Click here.
Instructions:
- Download the APK to your sdcard
- Install it just like you install any app
- Go to your homescreen and long-press
- Go to Widgets, scroll down and you should see the YA Widget app
- Choose either 4x1 or 4x2 and it will appear
- Tap on the widget to add a city
- Uninstall the app
- Boot into Recovery mode and wipe cache
- Reboot your phone, install the widget again and try adding a city
- Enjoy
This app contains 11 different lockscreens for your Galaxy Y. So you do not need to flash a custom ROM, modify any system files and thing such as that.
There is one small problem though. When you choose a custom lockscreen on this app and lock your phone, you may notice that first you go through your default system lockscreen and then you see the custom lockscreen.
Now this problem can be solved very easy, stock users can download and install the free app called No Lock from the Google Play store. Everything you need to know on how to setup the custom lockscreen and get rid of the default lockscreen is explained in the video you will see below.
Download Multi-Locker: Click here.
Instructions:
- Download the zip to your sdcard
- Boot into Recovery mode
- Flash CWM Recovery
- Go to mounts and storage, be sure /system is mounted, mount it if it's not
- Go back, choose to install zip from sdcard, choose zip from sdcard
- Choose yes
- Reboot
Video:
Official xda thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2242349
Note : I'm the one who recommended the app ;)
Description:
One Power Guard is a unique battery enhancement tool designed to conserve your battery power an increase uptime on rooted Android smartphones/tablets. One Power Guard will decrease your charging time and increase your device performance while also increasing your uptime. One Power Guard will also protect your device from faulty applications that can: cause over-heating (decreasing your battery lifespan); run down your battery; prevent your device from deep-sleeping; and, use unneeded resources such as WiFi and Cell Data. By selecting any one of the six customized power-saving modes, you are able to match your power savings needs to your lifestyle. There is no need to purchase extra batterys or a larger battery, just use One Power Guard.Make sure that you install the latest version.
Some Users's Stories http://www.onexuan.com/battery/story.php
Features
1. Extends stand-by time and battery life; optimizes charging parameters
2. Optimizes system kernel and CPU usage to improve device performance
3. Six (6) customized power-saving modes to suit different scenarios
4. Proactively guards from power-killer apps and safely shuts down useless power-consuming programs
5. Fast ON/OFF settings for 100% system customization
6. Intelligently switches to/from WiFi/Cell data to preserve battery life
7. Professional Tips on power optimization
1. Extends stand-by time and battery life; optimizes charging parameters
2. Optimizes system kernel and CPU usage to improve device performance
3. Six (6) customized power-saving modes to suit different scenarios
4. Proactively guards from power-killer apps and safely shuts down useless power-consuming programs
5. Fast ON/OFF settings for 100% system customization
6. Intelligently switches to/from WiFi/Cell data to preserve battery life
7. Professional Tips on power optimization
First of all, what are the common complaints with android smartphone devices? Issues such as: system halted; application crashes; slow booting; and, battery life.\n\n
First of all, what are the common complaints with android smartphone devices? Issues such as: system halted; application crashes; slow booting; and, battery life.
A year ago, I purchased my first android phone and installed CM ROM. Within months, I became very
annoyed that my battery did not last the entire day. I could go to bed, with a full battery charge, and awake in the morning to find that the battery charge had dropped significantly overnight. I found this situation to be unacceptable! To solve this, I downloaded power-saving applications.
annoyed that my battery did not last the entire day. I could go to bed, with a full battery charge, and awake in the morning to find that the battery charge had dropped significantly overnight. I found this situation to be unacceptable! To solve this, I downloaded power-saving applications.
Every day I would install a different power saving application, charge the battery to full power before bed, and then check the battery in the morning. After a month of testing power saving applications, I
didn't find a satisfactory solution and some of the so-called power saving apps even made the battery drain faster. So, I thought I would create an app for myself, that could tweak system parameters and help save my battery. Nine months ago, I started writing a power tweaking application for myself. I studied the intracies of the android power management mechanism and within a few months I had the basis for an application that could optimize my power management. Everyday, I tweaked the power optimization parameters and tested each night. One morning, I awoke and was thrilled to discover that the battery charge had only decreased by a small amount. So, I turned my personal power saving tweaker into a user-friendly power saving application that anyone could use. I am sharing my application, One Power Guard with you.
didn't find a satisfactory solution and some of the so-called power saving apps even made the battery drain faster. So, I thought I would create an app for myself, that could tweak system parameters and help save my battery. Nine months ago, I started writing a power tweaking application for myself. I studied the intracies of the android power management mechanism and within a few months I had the basis for an application that could optimize my power management. Everyday, I tweaked the power optimization parameters and tested each night. One morning, I awoke and was thrilled to discover that the battery charge had only decreased by a small amount. So, I turned my personal power saving tweaker into a user-friendly power saving application that anyone could use. I am sharing my application, One Power Guard with you.
Why do you need One Power Guard? and Test One Power Guard for yourself.
1. Fully charge your battery before you go to bed. In the morning, check your battery status and note how much is remaining.
2. After installing One Power Guard, fully charge the battery before you go to bed. In the morning, check your battery status, you will be impressed by the power savings!
3. To compare the optimization results, you need to restart the phone so that you have a clean environment.
2. After installing One Power Guard, fully charge the battery before you go to bed. In the morning, check your battery status, you will be impressed by the power savings!
3. To compare the optimization results, you need to restart the phone so that you have a clean environment.
Downloads:
- APK File: http://www.mediafire.com/?w38i1glk91xmhn8
- Google Play Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.onexuan.battery&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5vbmV4dWFuLmJhdHRlcnkiXQ..
Configuring One Power Guard:
- AI Mode
- CPU Governor: Ondemand
- I/O Scheduler: CFQ
- Safe Clean: 30 Minutes
- Ignore the Min/Max Frequency
- Save
- CPU Governor : Powersave
- I/O Scheduler: CFQ
- Safe Clean: 30 Minutes
- Ignore the Min/Max Frequency
- Save
- CPU Governor : Performance
- I/O Scheduler : Noop
- Safe Clean: 30 Minutes
- Ignore the Min/Max Frequency
- Save
- CPU Governor: Ondemand
- I/O Scheduler: Cfq
- Safe Clean: 30 Minutes
- Ignore the Max/Min Frequency
- Save
- CPU Governor: Powersave
- I/O Scheduler: Cfq
- Safe Clean: 30 Minutes
- Ignore the Max/Min Frequency
- Save
Credits:
- Jr Mape - for the Configuration.
- Onexuan App - for the Application
As you all may know, we are not using the standard look of the Gingerbread launcher on our GB based device, but we are using the customized launcher Touchwiz by Samsung.
You may have already seen this launcher on custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod7 aswell as other devices that run Android Gingerbread 2.3
If you are sick of the TouchWiz look, sick of the custom launchers and want to have this simplistic look, then you can give this launcher a try.
This launcher also contains it's own pack of wallpapers.
Download Launcher - Click here.
To install this launcher, you simply need to download the APK file and install it just like you install any regular app. You then hit the Home button on your SGY and you choose "Launcher" and you are done. You can set it as a system app with Titanium Backup or any other root tools that are capable of doing this.
You may have already seen this launcher on custom ROMs such as CyanogenMod7 aswell as other devices that run Android Gingerbread 2.3
If you are sick of the TouchWiz look, sick of the custom launchers and want to have this simplistic look, then you can give this launcher a try.
This launcher also contains it's own pack of wallpapers.
Screenshots:
Video:
Download Launcher - Click here.
To install this launcher, you simply need to download the APK file and install it just like you install any regular app. You then hit the Home button on your SGY and you choose "Launcher" and you are done. You can set it as a system app with Titanium Backup or any other root tools that are capable of doing this.
I've taken some time to try this out on the Galaxy Y and it's not that bad. What is cool about this is that you can download and install Addons to it, save whole websites as PDF files as well as installing Apps.
I could not test the webpage loading speed though because I'm using a mobile data plan for an internet connection which is bad compared to a wireless network. If you are going to try this then please, leave a comment on how the web page loading performance is like on a faster internet connection.
Video:
The APK size of this is approximately 24MB and you can download it from their official website: http://nightly.mozilla.org/
Direct download link:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/mobile/nightly/latest-mozilla-central-android-armv6/fennec-22.0a1.multi.android-arm-armv6.apk
It takes only 2 taps on your phone screen to get the job done. You simply start up the app, either select the tasks which you want to kill or just go ahead and tap on KILL selected tasks. The task killer automatically chooses which tasks are useless for killing, commonly mistaken is the custom launcher and widget apps running in the background, it auto-selects them so you better unselect those apps. If it's just a launcher you can just directly press the home button to start it up, if you've made it a system app it should come back by itself.
Another thing I really like about this is that even it doesn't run in the background as it appears on the list and is selected by default. So not only do you kill the useless apps but you kill this app aswell.
This was a very handy tool for me when I was with CyanogenMod7 as it didn't have a task killer other than to go to Applications -> Running Services. It's very needed on CM7 because once you gather up alot of tasks it becomes very sluggish.
A screenshot of the Task Killer on Galaxy Y:
Task Killer is only 103kb in size and it's free in the Play Store. If you like it alot you can support the developer and purchase the PRO version.
Download Task Killer free version from Google Play: Click here.
or
Download APK: Click here.
Developer: ReChild
When browsing the internet on my Samsung Galaxy Y, I always try to save up and stay away from reaching the 300MB cap so I do stuff such as disable image displaying on my stock browser to just download the text only, etc.
Thanks to Opera Mini 7 browser for Android, I now save up a lot of mobile data with it's unique compression technology. The developers claim that it saves up to 90%.
The app compresses the web data before it is delivered to your phone thus saving you mobile data.
To check the statistics for amount of data used and amount of data saved, you tap on the red "O" button on the bottom right corner, then go to "Help", then "Data Usage"
The app compresses the web data before it is delivered to your phone thus saving you mobile data.
To check the statistics for amount of data used and amount of data saved, you tap on the red "O" button on the bottom right corner, then go to "Help", then "Data Usage"
Overall, the Opera Mini is a very neat Android browser with neat features, very user-friendly UI and it loads websites very fast so not only do I recommend it because of the compression technology, but because it's a good browser for daily use.
Screenshots:
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| Screenshot of the home screen. |
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| Screenshot of browsing GalaxyYArchive blog in mobile version. |
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| Screenshot of Settings menu. |
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| Sample screenshot of Data Usage screen. |
Opera Mini 7 is free for download in the Google Play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opera.mini.android
Yesterday we got a post made on our Facebook fanpage by Ameya Gokhale taking us to a post on his blog (Click here) explaining how he tried out the app. The app we are talking about is called Vtok, which can be downloaded for free from the Google Play Store. It only support Gtalk. So you need to sign in with your Gmail account in order to use it. If you are afraid it might be a phisher app then don't worry, take a look at it's installation counter- 1,000,000 - 5,000,000
It has been installed from 1 million to 5 million people.
I've also taken the time to test it on the Galaxy Young aswell and as usual we have problems. Don't know if it is just me and my crappy 3G low-speed internet connection, but I constantly get errors such as me being busy and cannot answer or I answer but sound comes with a delay and other problems such as that. But one time I managed to get my camera to show in the conversation, that gives us hope that this does infact work.
You can try it out for yourself:
Play Store - Click here to download.
I would recommend trying it out on a highspeed Wi-Fi connection.
+++ROOT/SU Access REQUIRED +++
This app will install Beats Audio driver to your system. You will hear a big difference on high end phones but even low end devices will profit from this drivers. DSP Manager will likely not work on many devices.
Screenshots:
Note: After you restart the phone there will be some improvements, the phone's sound will be louder, clearer and crispier!!! You also notice a bass enhancement!!! I hope you like that guys! :)
Installation Tutorial Video by GYA:
Password: visit2galaxyyarchive.info
Download from Google play: Click here
or Download APK(Installer): Click here (Latest Current Version 2.3.1)
Developer: motioncoding and XDA-Thread
Here is the awesome "Next launcher" for Galaxy Y.
It is a perfect 3D launcher with amazing effects.
Some screenshots on my SGY:
For status bar: Stock status bar (Flash it only on stock rom)
For Soft button: Soft buttons
For Next Launcher: Next launcher
It is a perfect 3D launcher with amazing effects.
Some screenshots on my SGY:
For Soft button: Soft buttons
For Next Launcher: Next launcher
