Sentences with phrase «tweaking stock apps»

The company didn't even bother tweaking stock apps like calendar, clock, or camera to put a distinctive stamp on them.

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Samsung's TouchWiz interface, custom widgets, and tweaks to certain stock apps (E-mail, Notes) to make them more tablet - friendly are much appreciated.

So far, most manufacturers have stuck with the stock Android interface, opting for widgets (Acer Iconia Tab A500) to simplify access to specific apps, or making minor tweaks to the home screen buttons (as Asus did on the Eee Pad Transformer) to make them cleaner.

A developer by the name of Moblynx has taken the stock app, and tweaked it ever so slightly to add some nice extra features.

There are a few tweaks here and there like the app menu, but landing on the homepage is very much a stock Honeycomb experience.

One stock app that benefits from a major tweak is the camera app supporting the 13 - megapixel shooter on the back.

Good Lock, an app from Samsung, does just that, giving users a way to easily tweak the notification tray, quick settings panel, and recents menu — not to mention get a more stock Android - like appearance.

Best of all, this is entirely a stock Android phone, so there are no unnecessary apps or interface tweaks from the likes of Samsung, LG or HTC.

You'll also find a tweaked lock screen that offers quick access to the camera app and a new stock browser that's far better than the one found on Gingerbread (although with Android 4.0 comes compatibility with Chrome, which essentially renders the stock Android browser obsolete).

On screen and the camera app is also well stocked, with a Live Bokeh mode allowing you to adjust the level of background defocus before taking your shot, and a Pro mode allowing you to tweak a range of settings.

and here are some of its most important features: full rooted, unsecured boot.img, BusyBox installed, Optimized RAM, better virtual memory management, Speed Optimizations, Enable GPU UI rendering, removed all bloatware apps, tweaked data, cache and system partitions mount, no more software CPU rendering as your device will now be able of full Snapdragon 600 GPU rendering, stock kernel, zipaligned, deodexed, auto init.d, improved battery life, tweaked EXT4 performance, openVPN support and others more.

Most of its tweaks are innocuous enough — the quick actions on the notification shade are more numerous and functional than Google's stock version, and there's the occasional minor but useful idea like the ability to blur your wallpaper so that app icons are more readable.

The settings and notification shade are the same as stock, the only major interface tweak in this version is the fact that you swipe up from the bottom dock to open your app drawer.

Sony's Xperia UI is running on top, but aside from some minor visual tweaks with widgets and app icons, it sticks pretty close to stock.

Although there are a lot of clever elements to Sony's Android tweaks, they're not quite to the extent of Samsung or LG and the skin doesn't feel as mature to us as HTC Sense, but this very much comes down to personal preference: many would prefer stock Android to then doctor with apps themselves.

While not everyone loves stock, that's one of the reasons I am a fan (though I often run devices with OEM skinned builds too): it is clean, unbloated and I can then add the apps, customizations, launchers and other tweaks needed to make my phone uniquely mine.

Yota Devices also takes a fairly «stock» approach to Android, so if you're familiar with the platform the device will hold few surprises there, aside from the EPD - related tweaks and apps, of course.

Your standard «on top of stock Android» apps and tweaks — Both phones came with a bunch of garbage apps, games, and widgets that I couldn't uninstall (would require root access to get rid of them).

Even then, it's rare for Apple to ever tweak any aspect of its stock apps in a substantial way outside an annual iOS release.