Best 10 Custom ROM's this month

10. Liquid Smooth ROMS

Liquid Smooth ROMS are available for multiple devices, and while the project started off with the Motorola Droid, Droid 2, Droid X, Droid Incredible, and HTC Thunderbolt, it's also available for the Galaxy Nexus and a few other devices, although you'll have to poke around the forums a bit to find them. The banner feature of Liquid is that it's probably one of the fastest ICS ROMs available, faster even than the stock install that comes on the Galaxy Nexus. You don't sacrifice features for the speed, but the overall size of the ROM is still nice and small, leaving more space for the apps and features you choose to use, as opposed to ones forced on you. GApps are baked right in, and the ROM offers theme support so you can customize it to your liking. All in all, if you have a supported device, it's probably the leanest, meanest ICS ROM you can download.

9.Vanilla RootBox

This is another newer ROM you may or may not have heard about. It was the first ROM in our weekly 

Custom ROM Spotlight, this one is built from source with some features from CM, AOKP, and Paranoid 

Android. Including features like Per app DPI, Per app Tablet UI, OTA updates, Navigation bar color and 

much more. You can download Rootbox for your device by hitting me.

8. Slim ICS

If you have a Galaxy Nexus, Nexus S, Samsung Galaxy S or Galaxy S II, Slim ICS may be the ROM for you. Not only will Slim ICS bring your device up to Ice Cream Sandwich, it's also a super-thin, lightweight installation that's remarkably easy to install, even though it's clearly aimed at advanced users. Slim ICS already has GApps rolled in, so you don't need to install them later. Where other ROMs try to add tons of new features and tweaking options, Slim ICS is designed to trim the fat down to the bare essentials and give you a fast and clean ICS installation. It's only available for a handful of Samsung devices and there's pretty much one developer and a few beta testers behind the scenes, so don't expect a ton of feature additions or new devices, but it is updated weekly and sports a good number of third-party mods.

7.Xylon

Xylon is another custom ROM that is built off of AOSP, which means you’re getting stock Android with 

some added features. They bring features from FNV, CM, AOKP, TeamBAKED, and Paranoid Android. 

In addition to Linaro and CodefireX. It’s a really smooth ROM, and I hear battery life is pretty great too. 

Unfortunately at this time it’s only available for Nexus.

6. MIUI

MIUI has beautiful user interface and elegant it made Android look and feel. It's not the most feature-packed or hackable ROM, but it's definitely one of the most customizable and elegant, and it's seriously fast. MIUI started life as a modded version of Android localized in China, but fans of the mod have since localized it for dozens of languages and countries. It offers strong theme support, beautiful stock apps, customizable lockscreens, support for GApps, and complete root access. You're not going to get a wealth of niche features here, but you will get a device that's much easier and more fun to use once you install MIUI. You can find a list of  supported device here.

5. Euroskank

Euroskank is basically just a kang of CyanogenMod, but they do bring in new features and newer versions of 

Android quicker than CyanogenMod, which is why they are on the list. For the most part it’s stock Android, 

with a few cherry picks from CyanogenMod 10.1. And available for a slew of devices, which all downloads 

can be found on their website.

4. Android Open Kang Project (AOKP)

The Android Open Kang Project (AOKP) is a relative newcomer compared to many of the other popular ROMs already available, but it's rapidly growing in popularity. It offers many of the features that CyanogenMod has, and at first blush you may mistake one for the other, but as soon as you start looking at the options and add-ons, you'll see the differences. AOKP has earned high marks for add-ons and tools that you can't get in CM, centralized control over ROM options, and overall more customization options than CM. At the same time, its development community is smaller and it may not have the same polish and device support that CyanogenMod has. Still, it's super-fast, it's stable, and definitely worth a look. You can find a list of supported devices here.

3. P.A.C. True All in 1 ROM

P.A.C brings the best of CyanogenMod 10.1, AOKP, and Paranoid Android all into one ROM. Hince the 

name P.A.C. As you can see there’s PIE from Paranoid Android, along with the tablet UI’s. The theme 

engine also works, along with all the other features in CyanogenMod and AOKP. For more about it features 

and downloads check this xda thread here.

2. CyanogenMod

CyanogenMod is arguably one of the (if not the) most installed Android ROM in the world, and for good reason. It offers a ton of great features, is available for more devices than most other ROMs of its type, and has the type of polish and support that makes it easy to fall in love with. There are builds of CyanogenMod for Android phones and tablets, and slowly but surely the developers behind CyanogenMod are rolling out Ice Cream Sandwich versions for devices whose manufacturers have given up on upgrading the device entirely. To boot, CyanogenMod includes features you won't find in stock Android, like support for OpenVPN, support for downloadable themes, more privacy tools, and more. You can find a list of supported devices here.

1. Paranoid Android

 Paranoid Android introduced itself over past few weeks, it had to be number one on our list this month. 

It’s built from Android 4.2.2 source, and includes a ton of added features like Pie, per app colors, per app 

dpi, tablet/phablet/phone UI, and much more. You can find a list of supported devices here.

Posted by Admin on 03:41 in app, custom rom

HTC Releases Butterfly S Phablet Into the Wild

HTC's latest handset has emerged from the proverbial cocoon, but it's no tiny newborn. Rather, the Android-powered Butterfly S has "phablet" proportions, meaning it's larger than the traditional smartphone but smaller than a tablet.

Packed with a quad-core 1.9GHz Snapdragon 600 processor, a 3,200mAh battery, 2GB of RAM and 16GB of built-in storage, the nascent device sports the 5-inch HD screen common to the emerging phablet class of devices.
Announced on Wednesday in Taipei, the device -- which is actually an updated version of the original HTC Butterfly launched last fall -- will be available in select Asia Pacific markets starting in July.

The Specs
It addition to its oversized 1080p display, the Butterfly S features front-facing Boom Sound stereo speakers and runs Android 4.2.2 "Jelly Bean." Also included are a quad-band HSPA/WCDMA radio and an HTC UltraPixel Camera with HTC Zoe and Video Highlights, which provides 300 percent more light than traditional smartphone camera sensors while also offering advanced editing capabilities directly from the device, HTC says.
The handset also offers a 2.1-megapixel wide-angle camera on the front. Its battery is apparently the highest capacity battery in any HTC smartphone.
Pricing is expected to be about US$766.
'Bigger is Better'
Coming hard on the heels of reports that Apple may be considering launching a line of phablets as well, HTC's latest addition suggests continuing momentum for the category.
"Like with so many things, bigger is better, and that is particularly true with screen size," Roger Entner, principal analyst at Recon analytics, told TechNewsWorld. "You are trying to go as big as possible while still fitting into pockets."
The target market for such devices is primarily video enthusiasts, Entner added: "Bigger screens are particularly valuable for video viewing," he explained.

Posted by Admin on 09:00 in news, phablet, tech news

Best Android Apps of the Week Part II

1.NoLED
                NoLED is a handy tool for Android tablets and smartphones that lack notification LEDs (it was created specifically for the Samsung Galaxy S). Whenever you receive a new notification – such as a new email or text message – NoLED places a small colour-coded dot (or, optionally, an icon) on your device’s standby display, so you can see at a glance if you have any pending messages or appointments. Battery consumption will vary depending on your device, but with a non-backlit AMOLED screen it shouldn’t be a big drain. (Free)

2.Crime Map

Yes, the police have an app. To be honest, there’s nothing particularly new here – it’s the same fascinating crime-mapping system that’s been available in browsers for some time – but using GPS on a smartphone makes it easier than ever to see the recent crime levels wherever you may be house hunting. And we’re just pleased to see our public services embracing technology. (Free)

 

3.HeyTell
Who doesn’t love using a walkie-talkie, given a chance? Over. That’s right: no-one. Over. And HeyTell brings the walkie-talkie concept to your phone: push the on-screen button and record your message. On release, it gets sent to your chosen HeyTell user, who can send back an instant reply. With its launch on Windows Phone as well in 2012, it’s a great addition to any phone. Over and out. (Free)

 

4. IDisplay

Turn your Android tablet or phone into additional display for your Mac or Windows computer. Increase your personal productivity by extending your computer screen! Perfect tool for multitaskers, iDisplay lets you use your Android as interactive wireless display to give you more screen real estate."That's: brilliant. I mean, I can think of about a billion uses for this." -MobileCrunch

 

5. Amazing Broken Display
"Amazing Broken Display for Android is an easy to use casual app, allowing you to make fun of your friends. This app is a great amusement for people of all ages, I play tricks with my friends all day and won't get boring. - AppEggs.com"
Make fun out of your friends with this amazing cracked screen application. Just run it, select the image you wish to appear, the delay after which the prank will start and the type of trigger and give someone your phone and then wait for a response. Do not forget to increase the sound volume. With this broken screen application you can easily fool other people that you have a broken phone, or that they broke your phone.
Amazing broken display can also work in the 'live' mode which means that after cracking the screen you phone will continue to work as normal. You can browse the photos, play games and do anything you want and the crack will remain on the screen. To remove it you have to run the app once again. Until then the cracked screen image will be displayed over the actual application.

Posted by Admin on 19:12 in apk, app, apps