Dual front- facing speaker on your phone will give a whole new audio experience while listening music, watching videos and playing games, but unfortunately, only a few well-made smartphone manufactures, such as HTC, Motorola and Sony are making dual speakerphones. LG Nexus 5X has dual front-facing speakers on it, but one is used for audio and other one is used as earpiece.
QuickBoot is a named feature of OnePlus One. Developed by Qualcomm and Cyanogen for OnePlue One, QuickBoot reduces the boot-up time significantly. It is by making changes in the shutdown and reboot sequences. Now you can add OnePlue One’s QuickBoot feature to any phone running Cyanogen OS 12 or 12.1 ROM.
Nexus 6’s exclusive feature Ambient Display with lift to wake function can now be replicated on Nexus 5, so you can view and interact with your notifications quickly without needing to unlock the phone. Once you enabled the Ambient Display mode, your Nexus 5 shows notification along with clock on the lockscreen when notification arrives or when you picked up the phone.
Samsung Galaxy S5, Note 4 and Note 3 has built-in call recording feature, but Samsung has not activated the feature for specific reasons. If call recording is legal in your country, you can easily enable the built-in feature by simply installing “Native Call Record” app on your Galaxy S5, Note 4 and Note 3(Lollipop), however your device must have root access.
The LED brightness of Sony Xperia Z1 is not very bright. Sony has limited the brightness may be to protect the LED from damages as well as to prevent burn out of images when taking picture with flash. However, when you using your Xperia Z1 as a torch, found that the light output is less, you can increase its LED brightness with a simple Mod.
If you are a security conscious Android smartphone user and using “Pattern” lock as a security lock to secure your handset, you may know that you will get only 5 attempts to draw the Pattern lock. If you draw a wrong pattern 5 times, you need to wait 30 seconds before attempting again. If you don’t like that ‘waiting’ behavior, you can increase the 5 attempt to 20. Here is how it is.