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Here at xda rooting is highly encouraged, but what if you don't want to jump ship enjoy what your s3 can do without voiding your warranty in some cases.
Here is what you can do :
1- Widget locker
This app is one of my personal favourites you can customise your lock screen as much as you like add desktop widgets toggles change the sliders etc etc you get the picture.
2- flip fonts
One of the hidden features of the s3 is the ability to change the font type to anything you want there is a thread on the apps and themes section just for that by bala_gamer
3-Custom launcher
These are great want to look like an iPhone no problem there is a launcher for that windows 8 sense they are all available just do a Google search some of them even support themes customise it to your liking
4-custom keyboards
These are amazing the number of keyboards out there is stunning and they have unlimited variations you can swipe to type tap change the colours and themes
5-live wallpapers
These will make your phone come to life from a Facebook and Twitter feeds to simple clocks that you can interact with they are all available
I hope I helped I will be updating this with more apps and links and pics soon
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Enjoy your non rooted S3, personally such phone is worthless to me, rooted phones offer so many possibilities I don't want relinquish.
smokey_bear said:
Enjoy your non rooted S3, personally such phone is worthless to me, rooted phones offer so many possibilities I don't want relinquish.
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My phone is rooted and I customise the hell out of it, this is for people who don't want to root XD
Throwing it against the wall personally, and buying a 9305 instead like I will.
Needs moar ram.
Or wait for s4
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True, but can't buy s4 for some reason s3 lte will be just fine though.
Great thread. Rooting isn't for everyone.
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Simple steps to have fun with your non-rooted galaxy siii:
1) Root it
When 4.2 comes officially to the GS3, dashclock widget will be a great one to use
blazevxi said:
When 4.2 comes officially to the GS3, dashclock widget will be a great one to use
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Comon! 4.2.1 is all Samsung are working on at the moment...
Don't forget about Carbon backup
Yay! I'm the 666th thread viewer
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Yay! I'm the 666th thread viewer
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Prove it.
why spend $500 on a phone and not take full control over it? having bloat is very annoying and running apps that require root is amazing.
sent from where i'm at.
Because some people buy a phone and just want it to work. Rooting takes a lot of time if you actually read all the instructions and precautions
No root then no XDA Developers forum exists .
Instead you have a fix my phone my phone is cooler than your phone forum with few posts .
jje
Having a Non Rooted S3 is like having Ferrari FSD (For Sunday Drivers) with speed limiter on board and half of the features disabled.... You can drive it but you'll never know what the real fun is It's good idea for people who can't drive but fancy hot ride same applies to Non Rooted S3 (or any Android device)
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What is the point to get android devices without get it rooted?
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I've replied to that question above
Hi guys had my N4 couple of weeks now loving it possible best phone I've used. Now I've done a bit of rooting over the years had some success and failures but stock JB is pretty much spot but I want to tweak the screen and only way is by rooting so I believe. If I root will I have to do full reinstall of apps and settings which I want to avoid because apart from the screen calibration its just how I want it all works and battery is on par with my galaxy nexus and my 4s so cant complain. What's best way to go?
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Huh...big dilemma, I also wouldn't know what to do!
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For apps you can backup via adb or using a toot kit, any other files backup to PC or cloud, for calls and texts you can back them up via apps from market. Settings you can always re set your phone.
You'd need to unlock the boot loader so will completely wipe your phone.
Do it, once rooted its simple to restore everything back.
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Once rooted running stock is there any know glitches?
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Not really, you gain the benefit of root. Plenty of kernels out there with changed colours.
Root your phone. The benefits of rooting and flashing a ROM from one of these great devs outweighs by far the possible glitches. You can add toggles to the quick toggle menu and resize the nav bar, or get rid of the nav bar and use pie for navigating. I could go on all day. If you do run into problems you can always flash the stock firmware, this is why I buy Nexus phones.
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Hello,
Numerous threads answer your question already please have a look here
Root or not to Root
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Alright so obviously I have the nexus 4. This really isnt a big problem for you guys I just need quick help.
You see I'm getting really bored. Maybe because its a developer phone and I'm obviously not a developer. I keep trying to sell it and since my birthday was today I almost got the galaxy s4.
I just keep thinking if there was something I could. do to this phone to make it as cool as the galaxy s4 I'm just not impressed.
I have rooted
I have over clocked.
Installed custom ROM
I just need Idk features that make the phone cool. Or something that'll keep me busy so I'm not bored.
Thanks
rangerforces83 said:
Alright so obviously I have the nexus 4. This really isnt a big problem for you guys I just need quick help.
You see I'm getting really bored. Maybe because its a developer phone and I'm obviously not a developer. I keep trying to sell it and since my birthday was today I almost got the galaxy s4.
I just keep thinking if there was something I could. do to this phone to make it as cool as the galaxy s4 I'm just not impressed.
I have rooted
I have over clocked.
Installed custom ROM
I just need Idk features that make the phone cool. Or something that'll keep me busy so I'm not bored.
Thanks
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you need a feature phone, go get a sgs4. the nexus 4 isnt cool enough for you.
simms22 said:
you need a feature phone, go get a sgs4. the nexus 4 isnt cool enough for you.
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I love it considering it can do almost anything. Its not really the features its just since I'm a noon I don't know how to experiment on the phone.
I'm not like you who wonders what they do. People have to tell me about it
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rangerforces83 said:
I love it considering it can do almost anything. Its not really the features its just since I'm a noon I don't know how to experiment on the phone.
I'm not like you who wonders what they do. People have to tell me about it
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read around, maybe something will catch your interest. personally, i dont need the extra features. i look for something lean, and optimized, which usually means fast. the simplicity of android makes me happy, i dont need anything else.
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read around, maybe something will catch your interest. personally, i dont need the extra features. i look for something lean, and optimized, which usually means fast. the simplicity of android makes me happy, i dont need anything else.
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What do you have on yours?
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rangerforces83 said:
What do you have on yours?
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rasbean jelly rom with the trinity kernel. but thats what i enjoy
Its basic human nature that they get bored after using the same thing again & again for many days. After a month of usage, I was bored with my S2, then I started trying out new ROMs, I used to change ROMs once every 2 weeks.
I got my Nexus 4, 3days ago.........
Try out different ROMs, try different software tweaks, or different apps from Play Store atleast. Otherwise just find something/someone other than your Nexus 4/10 to remove your boredom......
anupampb said:
Its basic human nature that they get bored after using the same thing again & again for many days. After a month of usage, I was bored with my S2, then I started trying out new ROMs, I used to change ROMs once every 2 weeks.
I got my Nexus 4, 3days ago.........
Try out different ROMs, try different software tweaks, or different apps from Play Store atleast. Otherwise just find something/someone other than your Nexus 4/10 to remove your boredom......
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What are you running on your ROM
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rasbean jelly rom with the trinity kernel. but thats what i enjoy
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okay see because I over clocked and rooted my Nexus 4 and 10. Running pa with stock kernel. I literally took of Faux kernel does now because it was overheating my phone. I still have my Nexus 10 overclock and rooted. With same kernel. I just need something else to do with my phone. When I usually go hiking or trailing I do photosphere's and then add it to Google Plus but other than that there's nothing else to do
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okay see because I over clocked and rooted my Nexus 4 and 10. Running pa with stock kernel. I literally took of Faux kernel does now because it was overheating my phone. I still have my Nexus 10 overclock and rooted. With same kernel. I just need something else to do with my phone. When I usually go hiking or trailing I do photosphere's and then add it to Google Plus but other than that there's nothing else to do
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forget nexus and buy iphone/ samsung
pure android and google support its not for U
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okay see because I over clocked and rooted my Nexus 4 and 10. Running pa with stock kernel. I literally took of Faux kernel does now because it was overheating my phone. I still have my Nexus 10 overclock and rooted. With same kernel. I just need something else to do with my phone. When I usually go hiking or trailing I do photosphere's and then add it to Google Plus but other than that there's nothing else to do
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the most important question, what do you need it to do?
Karo. said:
forget nexus and buy iphone/ samsung
pure android and google support its not for U
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So tell me this genius why am i always attracted to Google device is rather than Samsung or apple or anybody else
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rangerforces83 said:
So tell me this genius why am i always attracted to Google device is rather than Samsung or apple or anybody else
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the pure android experience + fastboot oem unlock :victory:
Get playstation emulator from playstore
rangerforces83 said:
So tell me this genius why am i always attracted to Google device is rather than Samsung or apple or anybody else
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I love my nexus 10. Its just I use my phone more and I need a project for it so I can work on
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I do photosphere's and then add it to Google Plus but other than that there's nothing else to do
What you need is tasker!
That should be a really interesting project for you
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...EsIm5ldC5kaW5nbGlzY2guYW5kcm9pZC50YXNrZXJtIl0.
You can do anything with this app
What you need is to change the way you interact with your device. Remove the nav bar and use pie (learn to use gestures) , nova launcher (and many roms out there) have the option to remove the notificatiom bar. Use dashclock with the extentions as a homescreen widget. Use halo for notifications. Use icon packs to change the way your UI feels, change the wallpaper more often. If you're on google+ take a look at the communities, people are doing some crazy stuff customizations, try to replicate those themes.
Buying the s4 won't solve your problems.
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rayiskon said:
What you need is to change the way you interact with your device. Remove the nav bar and use pie (learn to use gestures) , nova launcher (and many roms out there) have the option to remove the notificatiom bar. Use dashclock with the extentions as a homescreen widget. Use halo for notifications. Use icon packs to change the way your UI feels, change the wallpaper more often. If you're on google+ take a look at the communities, people are doing some crazy stuff customizations, try to replicate those themes.
Buying the s4 won't solve your problems.
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Yeah the only thing Im not doing from what you said is using halo and pie. I did that with my nexus 10. The reason why I didn't on my nexus 4 is because I put tablet ui and made it transparent and made the app drawer transparent too
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What are you running on your ROM
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I'm still using stock ROM. Missing many features of my S2, so I'll root it after a week, install a good ROM.......
Soooooooo. I downloaded the new OTA for my verizon note 3. I think the verizon cloud is kind of cool considering I've accidentally deleted my camera folder twice (oops) However, one thing I don't like is the change in color in the keyboard. It isn't white/grey anymore and it depresses me. I want the old keyboard back. Is there any way to get it back?
Find one from one of the Roms out there that still have the white keyboard and install it. You may have to move to system/app which ota??? Mj7, mi9?, something new?
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rileyy0 said:
Soooooooo. I downloaded the new OTA for my verizon note 3. I think the verizon cloud is kind of cool considering I've accidentally deleted my camera folder twice (oops) However, one thing I don't like is the change in color in the keyboard. It isn't white/grey anymore and it depresses me. I want the old keyboard back. Is there any way to get it back?
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I would assume you could pull the apk out of the stock rooted mj7 rom. just use 7zip to pull apk out. I would download a free keyboard off the playstore as a backup in case for some reason it doesn't work, but no reason it shouldn't.
XzxBATTxzX said:
Find one from one of the Roms out there that still have the white keyboard and install it. You may have to move to system/app which ota??? Mj7, mi9?, something new?
ButterBoost ROM Developer
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it was the OTA that just came out today. i used to be big into rooting, but i don't have much time for it anymore. plus now that i'm paying for my own phone and my dad isn't, i don't want to mess anything up. (; lol
Pics of new keyboard plz. Just curious
Pay for SwiftKey, last time you will want to change keyboards.
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rileyy0 said:
Soooooooo. I downloaded the new OTA for my verizon note 3. I think the verizon cloud is kind of cool considering I've accidentally deleted my camera folder twice (oops) However, one thing I don't like is the change in color in the keyboard. It isn't white/grey anymore and it depresses me. I want the old keyboard back. Is there any way to get it back?
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Screen shot of new keyboard??????
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Here ya go. To me it's easier on the eyes and the auto correct feels smoother.
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Here ya go. To me it's easier on the eyes and the auto correct feels smoother.
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I do think the auto correct was improved. The last version I disabled it was so bad.
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I don't understand anyone not using the SwiftKey keyboard.
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I personally don't like it. And until today, I've been using the Google keyboard.
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I like the new (old old) dark theme but i use Swiftkey anyway. I don't like that the Samsung Keyboard doesn't allow to modify the press and hold delay.
I love that Swiftkey allows a quick right or left drag on the period key to get exclamation or question mark without having to wait for press and hold.
the newest pure nexus update removed the DPI setting because changing it breaks android pay. I don't care for android pay but people like useless things, just my opinion but that's the way everything moving haha.
anyway now I change the DPI directly in the build.prop. I tried going lower than 480 but it does not change. even setting to something like 300 doesn't make a difference.
the steps are simple to it as far as can tell:
open build.prop
select LCD density
set to desire DPI
save
restart phone
and walhalla! (at least it should be) except its not changing.
so if someone could help me out with this because I'm not getting what im missing.
thanks in advance! :sly:
do you have root?
yessir root to boot and running the newest pure nexus update
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bumpity boomp bump. anyone got any ideas for me? I like me smaller icon. easier to handle [emoji83]. my whole idea on it is with a bigger screen I'd like everything to be smaller. not bigger that theres no point to having the bigger screen.
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Texdroider from play and you need gel settings from xposed for icon imo. I just use nova to get smaller icons..
I can try that but im curious to what's changed, that LCD density changed everything before and now I'm not getting the same results? or was there more incorporated into the setting that I'm not aware of?
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I had to modify my build.prop, save into a different folder, boot into TWRP, copy the new version of build.prop to /system and then chmod to 644 for the changes to stick at reboot.
update
I ended up flashing cm13 and it does everything I had before. I like cm a lot more because of the customability. I just couldn't stand a bigger screen with bigger everything. eliminates even having a larger screen for me.
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I take mine down to 400 lol
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fireburnppl said:
the newest pure nexus update removed the DPI setting because changing it breaks android pay. I don't care for android pay but people like useless things, just my opinion but that's the way everything moving haha.
anyway now I change the DPI directly in the build.prop. I tried going lower than 480 but it does not change. even setting to something like 300 doesn't make a difference.
the steps are simple to it as far as can tell:
open build.prop
select LCD density
set to desire DPI
save
restart phone
and walhalla! (at least it should be) except its not changing.
so if someone could help me out with this because I'm not getting what im missing.
thanks in advance! :sly:
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I just use an app call textdroid.
Works well and can be deleted once used.
Or use Rom toolbox
I edit my build prop with no issues on newest stock image. What root are you using. Systemless or traditional.
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Lol the perfect answer and no thanks. Xda today. Horrid people with the manners of a bunch of goat's
dladz said:
Lol the perfect answer and no thanks. Xda today. Horrid people with the manners of a bunch of goat's
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I forgot about this post. my life is a very busy place. **** off man. there's better ways of mentioning that thanks should be given. don't need to be a douchenozzle about it.
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also I mentioned that I switched to cyanogenmod so I could do everything like before on pure nexus. read the whole post dip****
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toknitup420 said:
I edit my build prop with no issues on newest stock image. What root are you using. Systemless or traditional.
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its traditional root. I haven't really read into the benefits of systemless.
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I forgot about this post. my life is a very busy place. **** off man. there's better ways of mentioning that thanks should be given. don't need to be a douchenozzle about it.
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6 people have helped you here, all with busy lives. You've thanked no one.
Just to let people know... changing DPI will break some apps from the GPlay from showing up...
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Just to let people know... changing DPI will break some apps from the GPlay from showing up...
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400 works really well.
I'm using textdroider for that. Does what needs to be done, nothing more, nothing less. Ended up with 480 and I like it.
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