Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “6 Android Mods that Change Everything.”.
All right, so the first mod which I’d say is bordering on essential for your smartphone is assistive touch now this is a third-party made application and it makes the functionality of what you see on a lot of iPhones with broken home buttons. Having said that, even if your buttons are fully functioning, what this allows you to do is truly game-changing. So not only do you have quick access to a menu back and home, you can completely customize what you see on there. Everything from adjusting to certain levels of brightness to bringing down your notification bar if it’s too much of a stretch, it gets better because you can also create actions just based on double tapping that little button or holding it down. So, for example, on a large screen phone you can map double tapping it to move back and then holding it down to go home, and then it dawns on you because as well as this other stuff, this little button also lets. You use your large screen, smartphone with one hand only. It is also completely customizable.
You can adjust the size of the pop-up. You can adjust the color as well as need transparency. So then we’ve got button mapper. The modification which I’d say is the number one go-to for anyone who wants to change what any of their buttons do. I’M not only just the buttons present on your smartphone. Not only can you add functionality to your power keys and your volume keys, even your bixby button, with a little bit of tinkering, but you can also adjust things like your headphone volume, while that’s gon na do with a double press or, for example, any external third-party Button the add to the headphone jack and the best bit is: not only can we configure what a single press all these buttons does, but also what a double press does, what a triple press does and what a long hold does and the output could be anything From taking screenshots to you, flicking to the last app to opening split screen applications, so to give you an idea of how useful it is, let me just give you an example of what I’ve done with my device, so the volume buttons when I tap volume up When I tap volume down those two continue to adjust volume. However, if I want to lower the brightness of my display by double tapping the volume down button, it’s going to go down by 10 % at a time by double tapping the volume up button. I’M gon na move to split screen multitasking instantly and by holding down this volume up button, I can instantly flick to the last task. I was on by doing the same to the volume down.
I can open my torch, so that gives you a pretty good idea. Even with just two buttons on the side of your phone, what magic you can do now, I’m sure you can see from this once you’ve mapped all of your buttons to the actions you use the most. You can vastly speed up how fast you use your Android smartphone, okay, very quickly, sidetracking! You may realize, on this channel. We are on the long long road to 1 million subscribers and to do that. We’Re gon na try and see if we can hit 700 K in one month’s time.
So if you could subscribe, that would mean so much to me. Moving on, we’ve got edge mask and this tries to turn your smartphone into the Galaxy S 8 or the Galaxy Note 8. And to do this it combines two features: the first one being rounded corners and I’ve exaggerated to the effect over here. Just to show you what it is, but essentially allows you to achieve that very subtle, rounded edge that you see on the s8 corners combine that then with edge lighting.
So when you receive a notification on the s8 or Note 8, the screen lights up all the way around the edges, which is not only insanely cool, but it’s also useful because it allows you to see when you’ve got notifications when your phone is facing down. What makes the edge lighting mode even better, though, is that it’s completely customizable. You can adjust the colors of every type of notification from every application and you can also add in mixed colors, so you could mix the yellow and a green, and the results are really really stunning. It almost takes you aback every single time. You get a notification in a good way right, so then we have precise volume and you’re – probably thinking, oh god, not another volume mod. What this does extends far beyond just being able to choose the exact percentage of your volumes, which is one thing it does so, as you might know that by default every time you press the volume up or volume down button.
It changes your volume by about seven percent, which can sometimes be either too high or too low. So, to set the exact volume, you want use an application like this, not only that, but it allows you to set presets presets based off, not only for example, what time of day it is, but also what device is plugged in. So, for example, if I have a pair of earphones that is notoriously quiet, then I’ll make it so that every time these earphones are plugged in the volume turns up, it allows you to set a headphone volume limit. So you don’t damage your ears. You can also lock whatever your favorite volume for calls is because, to be honest, that’s unlikely to change, and probably my favorite feature is for the volume keys to automatically control your media volume, because by default they control the notification volume and most the time people actually Want to keep that consonant number five is status.
This is a custom status bar which doesn’t require any route and there’s a few reasons why you might want this. First of all, it’s got a flat minimalistic material design as if, for example, by default, your launcher doesn’t support this. Then you can add this on top and not only have you got the option to change the bar color depending on what application you’re in, but you can also do the same for the text so once you’ve selected the high contrast text option, then, when you go To the YouTube app, for example, the text will turn red scrolling through a primarily blue wallpaper up.
The text will go blue and so on and so forth. Now, having a custom status bar over a stock, one gives you complete control over what everything looks like, for example, you can pick the way your battery icon looks when you have each different level of battery. You can pick how individual notifications from specific applications are going to show up how much space they take up and what color they primarily are. So there that there’s reading mode, not technically a modification.
Hence why it’s so later on in the video, but nonetheless what it can do is extremely useful and, as the name probably implies, this is for the people who do a lot of reading on their smartphones once you’ve downloaded the app scroll through the entire thing and Select all the settings that you want to be implemented for when you’re reading, so it gives you a whole bunch of really well-thought-out options. For example, a Do Not Disturb feature to silence incoming notifications, a blue light filter to make it easier on your eyes and to set the screen brightness even below your normal minimum level, if you’re reading at night, and so the idea is once you’ve configured all of These settings, once you open the reading mode app and hit that on button it turns all of them on at once. So if there are specific things that you want when you’re reading, then this app does them all together. So there we go guys. I really hope you enjoy the video and, as we said earlier, if you could subscribe, that would mean so much to me. But that being said, I missed as the boss and I’m signing out.
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