In this week's poll, we are gonna ask you the following question:
Q: How many times have you dropped your Galaxy Y?
A: Answers will start from 5 to over 50.
We all know touchscreen phones aren't the best when it comes to dropping them on the ground as it could fall down on it's face and crack the screen a little or even half. It would also be fun to post your stories here on how you've dropped yours and if they have survived or cracked.
This weekly poll is inspired by my 7 year-old cousin who is a huge Galaxy Y fan that he made himself his own smartphone from cardboard and drawing.
Ace-i-Sure is a custom rom based off the Samsung Galaxy Ace's firmware (atleast that's what I am aware of) ported by tom411 from xda-developers forums. This rom is not themed to look like an advanced TouchWiz version themed rom, neither does it represent a ICS/Jelly Bean look but rather something quite unique.
Please note that this is not based off Galaxy Y's official firmware but from another phone so you may experience some problems now here and then. If so, you may post your problems here as a comment or better yet, if you have an xda-developers forums account you can notify tom411 about the issue so that it will be fixed in the future releases.
Download: Alpha 3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2342480
If you would like to see an installation video + quick review, feel free to drop a comment.
Please note that this is not based off Galaxy Y's official firmware but from another phone so you may experience some problems now here and then. If so, you may post your problems here as a comment or better yet, if you have an xda-developers forums account you can notify tom411 about the issue so that it will be fixed in the future releases.
Features:
- ROM using AROMA Installer, Highly Customizable ROM Installation...
- 6 Theme Packs, 10 Boot Animations, Default Apps can be selected..
- Rooted... Super User Added...
- With Stock Kernel you can acess SIM Contacts
- Modded Holo Launcher for better performance
- 6 lockscreens by Alucard1989pl
- New Status Bar & Notification Area
- (50% Transparency, Clock, Expanded Date, Data Bandwidth Speed...)
- Swipe to Remove Notifications
- Quick Brightness Control
- 280+ Languages Support including Arabic, Indian Languages
- (Use Opera Mini/Fennec (Firefox) for better readability)
- 63 numbers of Locale (Languages) added
- Battery Charging Animation in status bar
- New Settings layout
- DSP Audio Settings
- Clock Tweaks - Type, Color...
- UnHidden Extra Phone Info in Settings
- 100 Built-in Direct Wallpapers for Ace-i-Sure theme, 10 each in Other themes
- Ad-free
- Perfect Keyboard as default
- Updated List of Ringtones, Alarm Sounds
- Several build.prop Tweaks added
- My Files replaced by Rhythm File Manager
- Voice Recorder Replaced by Ultimate Voice Recorder
- Google Play Store v.4.0.25
- Google Maps 6.12.0
- Google YouTube 4.4.11
- Jorte Calendar 1.4.17
Screenshots:
Instructions:
- Download the zip file to your sdcard
- Boot into Recovery mode by holding the Volume up + Home + Power buttons at the same time
- Choose apply update from sdcard
- Choose the rom zip file
- You will be taken to the AROMA installer which supports touch, from there follow the instructions and you should install it succesfully.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2342480
If you would like to see an installation video + quick review, feel free to drop a comment.
This is my new theme. And it is theme with CM7
-Note: For Stock Deodexed ROMs Only.-
-Note: For Stock Deodexed ROMs Only.-
Features:
- CM7 Taste
- ADWLauncher extracted from Official CM7
- AOSP Statusbar Icons
- AOSP Gingerbread Progress Bar
- CM7 Framework Taste
- EDT Tweak Support
- Many more. Just download it and install it to feel the CM7 Taste
- Deodexed DXLF1 (Recommended)
- Rooted (Optional)
- CWM recovery
- A working brain
Instructions:
- Download CyanogenMod Theme.zip
- Put it on your SD Card
- Go to CWM recovery
- Flash the zip file
- Reboot
- Enjoy :)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2342271
NOTE:
I am the dev of this THEME :). So if you have time to help me, press thanks on my thread ;).
Changelog:
- New evo preferences
- Change statusbar layout between normal/pseudo-phablet/pseudo-tablet view
- Set any color and transparency for statusbar
- Set any color and transparency for notification pulldown background
- Show/Hide battery in pulldown
- Three panels in phablet view including notification,quicksettings,slider controls
- Two panel view (android 4.2) in normal and tablet layout
- Aokp look-alike 6 toggles with show/hide option
- Hide/Show, color clocks in both expanded and statusbar
- Show/hide day of week in expanded
- Change color of quicksettings toggles
- Change color of quicksettings text
- Set user display picture and name
- Hide/show 15 toggles
- Show/hide slider controls
- New messaging app
- New contacts app
- New calendar app
- New myfiles app
- Better phone.apk
- Better dialer
- New music player
- Holo launcher
- Better settings app
- Better Gmail app
Screenshots:
Download - Click here.
Instructions:
- Download the zip file to your sdcard
- Power off your phone and boot into Recovery mode
- Boot into CWM Recovery
- Wipe data and cache
- Go to install zip from sdcard
- Select choose zip rom sdcard
- Locate the zip and choose it
- Choose Yes to confirm
- After installation is complete, go back, wipe cache and data again
- Reboot
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1757125
A week ago, percy_g2 started a thread at xda-developers forums with an unofficial build of Cyanogenmod9.
Note: Please don't expect to see fully working features on this one as it doesn't have the progress the Cyanogenmod7 build has. By installing this you should be aware of the bugs you will experience and various functions not working, please keep the hateful comments away.
The build we will have a look at in this post will be Build #2 with the changes:
"Overlay fixed for ldpi (no more fc in phone app and overlapping)"
Download CM9 Nightly Build #2- Click here.
Instructions:
- Flash white kernel 1.3.3 using Odin (hopefully you should know how to do that if you're planning on testing a rom like CM9) - Download kernel
- Boot into CWM Recovery
- Go to mounts and storage and mount /system /data and /cache
- Go back, choose to install zip from sdcard
- Locate and choose the CM9 zip file
- Choose Yes when asked to confirm
- After it is done installing, go back, wipe data
- Reboot
Not working:
No camera
No audio
No wifi
No bluetooth
Issues worked on:
Overlay for ldpi (fixed)
Audio
Bluetooth
Wifi
Source:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2328004
From the looks of it, the rom has received a major overhaul in transparency on pretty much any system app and settings menus, there might be more core stuff that have been changed though.
Screenshots:
Tabbed Apps:
New Apps:
Redesigned QuickPanel widgets:
Misc:
Download ROM - Click here.
Instructions:
- Boot into Recovery mode
- Flash CWM Recovery
- Once in CWM Recovery, go to mounts and storage and mount everything you can
- Go back, go to advanced, then from there select wipe dalvik cache then wipe battery stats
- Go back, select wipe data, then wipe cache
- Select install zip from sdcard
- Then choose zip from sdcard
- Locate the BASE.B-02.5.zip and choose it
- Choose Yes to confirm
- After installation is complete, reboot the phone
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2330297
san122 from xda-developers has themed the Galaxy Young's dialer in 4 different colors. For those of you who are sick of the same old stock dialer you could check these out.
Method #1:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2319222
Mitko (Author)
Gold:
Download - Click here.
Crystal Blue:
Download - Click here.
Dark Blue:
Download - Click here.
Green:
Download - Click here.
Black:
Download - Click here.
Stock re-arranged:
- Download the apk to your sdcard
- Use System Apps Installer and install the apk, it should replace your default dialer.
- Download the apk file to your computer
- Rename the apk (doesn't matter which color) to DialerTabActivity.apk
- Push with a root browsing app or adb
- Don't forget to set permissions - rw-r--r-- if done with root browsing app
- chmod 644 if done through adb shell
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2319222
Mitko (Author) 
