Tuesday 30 July 2013

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Things to Do Before and After Installing a Custom ROM

Things to Do Before and After Installing a Custom ROM +
Troubleshooter 

Android being an Open Source
operating system for mobile
phones, offers limitless
possibilities of optimization
and customization as per your
requirements. Half the charm of
an Android phone lies in the
root-based apps, beautiful
mods and patches, and custom
ROMs. If you have not rooted
your phone yet, believe me you
are not getting the most out of
it. Rooting offers many
advantages indeed but, at the
same time it is also a little
risky as it breaks into the wall
of security build by the
operating system.

According to a survey, 80% of
Android phone users live happy
with an unrooted device and
the reasons for this are various-
some people think of it as a
sort of criminal activity, some
are afraid of losing warranty,
some are afraid of bricking
their phone, while most people
do not even know about the
existence of a term like
“rooting”. If you are one who
has enclosed himself in side
that great wall of security and
have doubt in mind related to
rooting, do not forget to read
the following article.

To Root, Or Not To Root,
That’s The Questions

Anyways, the procedures like
rooting and installing a custom
ROM is a bit risky and it’s true,
but if you go through it
carefully, no harm will ever
done to your Android device.
People brick their phone
because they make some
mistake. That’s the way
accidents happen! As an
Android blogger, I have to root,
flash stock and custom ROMs,
install mods and patches
almost everyday. And believe
me all my device are pretty
healthy and sound. If you
understand things, take
precautions, create backups
and do things carefully, you’ll
never be caught into an
uncomfortable situation.

Here are a few tips that that
will help you keep things under
your control and you will be
able to not only keep all your
data safe, but also restore your
device to its normal condition.

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INSTALL CWM CUSTOM RECOVERY on Your Device.

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Ensure Decent Battery LeveL
Whenever you have to install a
custom ROM or mod or mod on
your phone, try to be ready for
the worst situations. Just
imagine you are installing a
ROM and your phones turns off
in the middle of things due to
low battery! You will have to
charge the battery with an
external charger because your
device will not be able to
charge the battery because it
does not have any ROM that
makes this function work. In
such a situation, you will not
be able to restart the
procedure or even restore from
a backup Therefore, it very
important that your phone is
amply charged before you set
out on the adventure.

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Backup Your Apps, Contacts,
Messages, etc.
Whether you have rooted your
phone or not, always backup
your apps, contacts, call-log,
messages, bookmarks, calendar
entries, etc. The best way is to
schedule regular backups,
preferably to external storage of
your device and your computer.
Here are some nice free apps
that will make this task easy for
you.

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Put Your Phone in Debugging
Mode
The term “debugging” is used
in connection with
development. Putting your
Android device in debugging
mode prepares it for direct
connection with your computer
via a USB cable without
notification or read log data.
Flashing/installing anything
that does not come under
official method, might be
regarded as a development
activity. It’s another thing that
you did not developed the
ROM you are going to install,
but still it is a work of custom
development. That’s is why,
whenever you perform any such
task, it is highly recommended
that you turn on the USB
Debugging mode from
Developer Options under
Settings of your device. On
Android phones with Jelly Bean
4.2 and higher, the Developer
Options are hidden by default
and can be made to show by
tapping 7 times on “Build
Version” from Settings> About.

Further, you should also install
the appropriate USB Drivers on
your computer as you can need
them anytime.

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Backup Your Phone’s IMEI
When you install a custom ROM
on you phone, sometimes it
happens that the folder that
stores your phone’s IMEI
(International Mobile
Equipment Identity) number is
wiped. As a result, your
phone’s IMEI number is lost it
does not receive network
signal. To avoid this happen to
your phone, do not forget to
backup a folder called “efs” .
You will be able to access the
“efs ” folder only when you have
root privileges on your Android
device.

To access efs data, download a
root file explorer app like Root
Browser, Root Explorer ,  etc.
You can use any other app of you
preference.
Okay, open the root file
manager app and look for a
folder called “efs” . You will
easily find it as it is found on
the root location of your
device’s internal partition (see
below).Just press and hold the
“efs “ folder and select “Copy”.
Now paste the folder on the
external SD Card storage of you
phone. It will be even better if
you copy it to your computer
too. Suppose you flash a
custom ROM and lost your
phone’s IMEI, what will you
do? Having backed up the efs
data, you can easily restore
your lost IMEI by restoring the
“efs” folder back to its place.

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Enter Recovery Mode Easily:
If you are a hard-core Android
enthusiast who likes to play
with new ROMs and mods every
now and then, be careful or you
might damage the hardware
keys of your Android phone.
Since booting into recovery
mode of a phone or tablet
requires hard-pressing of
certain combination of
hardware keys, doing it
frequently can have a negative
effect on the functioning of
these keys. I have experience it
myself when I had a Galaxy S.
Fortunately, there are several
apps that can make booting
into download, bootloader or
recovery mode very easy without
being cruel to the poor
hardware keys.

Here are some good free apps
for you that will let you do this
without touching the hard keys.
If you have installed a custom
ROM, you need not install any
such app separately as most
ROM developers integrate the
boot options in the ROM itself.
Besides, we have an vast
collection of methods of
entering Fastboot, Bootloader,
Download and Recovery modes
on most Android devices.
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How To Boot Android
Devices In Fastboot,
Download, Bootloader Or
Recovery Mode

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Backup the Complete ROM
(Important)
Being able to install a custom
ROM on your Android phone
means that you have installed
custom recovery like
ClockworkMod or TWRP on your
Android device. Well, having a
custom recovery on any phone
is a great advantage. It can
perform all tasks done by stock
recovery while adding lots of
other useful options.

One such great feature is its
ability to backup the whole
ROM, custom or stock, on your
phone’s internal or external
storage. You can back as many
ROMs as your phone’s storage
can afford. I strongly
recommend that you always
keep a backup of your
phone’s original/stock ROM .
Before you install a new custom
ROM, always create a backup of
your current ROM. Scroll down
to the “ backup and restore”
option and backup the ROM to
the internal or external storage
of you device. If you select
“backup”, the ROM will be
saved to internal storage. To
save it to external SD card,
select “backup to external
sdcard” option.

All backed up ROMs are saved
on a folder called
“clockworkmod” on your device’s
internal or external SD card,
depending on what location
you chose while creating the
backup.

It’s is always better to store
the backed up ROM on the
external storage because
sometimes the phone is caught
in a bootloop, or the screen
goes into a frozen state, or you
may experience lags, or
anything, and decide to reset/
wipe your phone to get it back
to normal. In doing so, all data
stored on the internal storage
is deleted. In certain situations
you might have the opportunity
to backup your data but in
some cases you might not be
able to do that.

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How to Restore a Previously
Backed up ROM:
As I said earlier, you should
always keep a backed up copy
of the rooted stock ROM on the
external SD card of your phone.
If the phone does not have an
external SD slot, you can save
the backup to the internal SD
card (not safe though). If you
frequently flash an AOSP, AOKP
or CM based ROM, always keep
a copy of the Google Apps
flashable zip saved on your
phone.

So if you installed a custom
ROM and you are having
problems with it or you just
want to go back to the previous
or any backed up ROM, do this:

1. Boot you phone into CWM
recovery mode
2. “wipe data/factory reset”
3. “wipe cache partition”
4. Then go to “backup and
restore> restore”, select
the location (internal or
external) of the backup.
5. Select the file and confirm
your choice by selecting
“yes”.

So, this was a detailed tutorial
to help you land safely
whenever you install a ROM.

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Installing a Custom ROM
Now here is  classic way of
installing a custom ROM. I
recommend it to all because it
has proved perfectly successful
and never hurled down
phones into a single bootloop
so far. Always follow these
steps in CWM Recovery:
1. “wipe data/factory reset”
2. “wipe cache partition”
3. Go to advanced and “wipe
dalvik cache” and “wipe
battery stats”
4. Go to mounts and storage
and “format system”
5. The go to “install zip from
sdcard> choose zip from
sdcard” and select the
ROM file you want to
install.
6. In case, the developer has
recommended to install
GApps too, you should
install it just after flashing
the ROM (use Step 5).
7. When it is installed, reboot
the device.

Installing a custom ROM with
these wipes has a great
advantages. Whenever you flash
a new ROM, install it as fresh
copy. Less wipes means more
chances of old and new system
files’ clash, resulting in poor
performance, lags and even a
bootloop. While some
enlightened giants might
disapprove of the idea of
wiping the battery stats of the
old ROM, I still recommend to
wipe it as it takes nothing.

However, you should also listen
to any recommendations of the
developer whose ROM you are
going to install.

SOURCE:-
Droid views

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Friday 26 July 2013

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S3 launcher V4 for Galaxy y

And here we present Galaxy S3 style
launcher for our Galaxy y (More or less
it will work on every Ginger
Bread devices) by SaM-RoN
this launcher is fully modded by him suggestions are always welcome...
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                           :NOTE:
If any one faces any issue with appbar
             ...fonts then flash this
Updated font fix with single file                        (font fix for S3 launcher)
 S3 LAUNCHER UNINSTALLER-
                      DOWNLOAD

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FINAL UPDATED TO
VERSION V 4.0
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Change Log for v 4.0 (Without Dock
Title)
..added online theme..
..widgets are a bit bigger..
..texts are more clear..
..added download apps tab..
..added different versions for mdpi &
ldpi devices..
..some other visual improvements..
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SS for V4.0

DOWNLOAD LINK -- V 4.0 LDPI
(240x320)

DOWNLOAD LINK - - V 4.0
MDPI (320x480)
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Q.How to apply it?
A. mount system and simply flash it
through CWM.that's it.
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For suggestions visit here
Official thread
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Screenshots

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Thursday 25 July 2013

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[ROM] Nemesis Two (Titanium) for Samsung Galaxy Y

ROM IS BRACED WITH A
AWESOME UI THAT IS COOLER
AND MUCH COLORFUL THAN
EVER!
IT IS NOT LIKE JELLYBEAN.......BUT
IT IS LIKE
"NEMESIS"[UNIQUENESS REDEFI
NED]
VIBRANT COLORS....UNIQUE
THEME.......SIMPLY COOL!

FEATURES:-. New awesomUI

AN AWSOME UI.
SIMPLE-ELEGANT-UNIQUE
NEMESIS2 HAS A UI THAT YOU
WILL NEVER
FORGET......SOMETHING ALL WILL
LOVE!
FIRST EVER UI TO COMBINE
MONOCHROME+VIBRANT
COLORS IN A UNIQUE COMBO!


AN AWESOME NEW LAUNCHER
WITH NEW VIBRANT ICONS!!
SMOOTH-FAST-VIBRANT!

ALL NEW NEMESIS HUB!
ALL THE NECESSARY APPS AND
TWEAKS AT ONE PLACE!
PARANOID ANDROID LIKE
DIFFERENT TITLE COLOUR!
EVERYTHING YOU WILL EVER
NEED FROM UI TWEAKS TO
SUPPORT ALL INTEGRATED IN
ONE PLACE!
JUST START THE APP AND GET IT ALL!


ALL NEW SYSTEM UI!
ALL NEW LOOKS!
MONOCHROME ICONS WITH
VIBRANT TOGGLES!
IT's NOTHING LIKE ANYTHING
(YEP,its TITANIUM )

++KERNEL FREE-SO NOW YOU
ARE FREE TO USE ANY KERNEL++
++WITHOUT COMPATIBILITY
PROBLEMS!!!++

LOW RAM USAGE-GIVES
YOUR PHONE SOME MORE
SPACE TO BREATH WITH
ALL THOSE HEAVY APPS!

INSTALLATION
INSTRUCTIONS:
1. Download NEMESIS
TWO TITANIUM ZIP
from here: http://d-
h.st/u4v
2. Place the
downloaded zip to
your sdcard (not inside
any folder).
3. Switch off your
phone.
4. Now press volume
up, home and power
button together until
the Android recovery
shows up.
5. Select Wipe Data.
Then select wip cache.
Choose "Yes" both
times.
5. Select: Update zip
from SD Card.
6. Navigate with the
volume buttons, and
choose Nemesis
Titanium Zip with your
home button.
7. Choose "Yes" again.
Installing wil start.
8. When done, you will
be asked to reboot
your phone.
9. Go back to the main
menu and reboot.
10. Enjoy!!!

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Wednesday 24 July 2013

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[ROM] Evo-X 4 for Samsung Galaxy Y

To the fans of the Evo-X rom series by b16h22 from xda-developers forums,
version 4 is now out. With more
preferences added, improved system
apps and a few other features and
improvements.

Changelog:
1. New evo preferences
2. Change statusbar
    layout between
    normal/pseudo-
    phablet/pseudo-
    tablet view
3. Sliders control
4. Set any color and
    transparency for
    statusbar
5. Set any color and
    transparency for
    notification pulldown
    background
6. Show/Hide battery in
    pulldown
7. Three panels in
    phablet view
    including notification,
    quicksettings,slider
    controls
8. Two panel view
    (android 4.2) in
    normal and tablet
    layout
9. Aokp look-alike 6
    toggles with show/
    hide option
10. Hide/Show, color
      clocks in both
      expanded and
      statusbar
11. Show/hide day of
       week in expanded
12. Change color of
      quicksettings toggles
13. Change color of
      quicksettings text
14. Set user display
       picture and name
15. Hide/show 15 toggles
16. Show/hide slider
       controls
17. New messaging app
18. New contacts app
19. New calendar app
20. New myfiles app
21. Better phone.apk
22. Better dialer
23. New music player
24. Holo launcher
25. Better settings app
26. Better Gmail app

Download - Click here

Instructions:
1. Download the zip file to your
sdcard
2. Power off your phone and boot
into Recovery mode
3. Boot into CWM Recovery
4. Wipe data and cache
5. Go to install zip from sdcard
6. Select choose zip rom sdcard
7. Locate the zip and choose it
8. Choose Yes to confirm
9. After installation is complete, go
back, wipe cache and data again
10. Reboot

Source:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/
showthread.php?t=1757125

Screenshots:-

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Tuesday 23 July 2013

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[ROM] Hyperion 8 Project 2013 for Galaxy Y

JellyBean experience at its best
Everything you love about Hyperion
and JellyBean — the gorgeous UI , fast
and fluid performance, battery life —
is everything you’ll love about the
new Hyperion, too. And you can have
the best of both it in one ROM.
A rom worthy of all Galaxy Y

Fast performance, superb stability,
mouth watering UI, useful features —
It's something for everyone. And
Everything!
Incredible performance
Known for its fast, fluid performance,
Hyperion doesn’t disappoint. It
features 23 powerful and power-
efficient CPU governors and 4 I/O
Scheduler, which makes everything
you do feel smooth and natural.

Hyperion wouldn’t be Hyperion
without incredible battery life . Even
with so much performance packed
into such a small space, it still lasts
up to 2 days on a single charge* .
So you can read, watch, play, write,
and create whatever you want, as
long as you want. *battery life
based on moderate usage with all
radios turned on at default policy
settings.

Hyperion 8 highlights:
Total ear-gasm: ALSA ( AlsaProject)
+ Beats Audio Engine v2
We combined and tuned up two
sound engines for superb sound
quality when listening to music. This
time, sound enhancements are
activated at startup without the use
of DSP Manager. What does that
mean? No more force close when you
connect/disconnect mass storage
mode on PC.

Mouth watering pixel goodness
Like JellyBean looks but sluggish like
old granny? Worry no more! Hyperion
8 combines JellyBean UI and
transparency into a piece of art. We
don't simply take frameworks,
systemUI and put it in a blender. We
make sure we put "what belongs
together"

Project butter Hyperion style
We combined all the best tweaks out
there for a superb super smooth UI.
Others would say "No! That's not
real! Project butter is JB only", yes
that is correct if you can't read
between the lines.
More juice more fun!
We hate running out of juice as much
as you do, so we made sure you can
get the most of your battery. We put
23 CPU governors and 5 IO schedulers
to tame that nasty CPU! And with
deep sleep? Your phone will get more
sleep than you do! -well at least for
me this is a true statement.

Features:
Basic - all custom roms must
have:
1. De-Odexed
2. Zipaligned
3. Recompressed APKS
4. Optimized APK Images
5. Rooted
6. BusyBox and BusyBox run-parts
support
7. Apps2SDenabled
Common - though not working in
other roms:
1. 15 Toggle Notification Drawer
2. 6 Lockscreens from Gingerbread
AOSP/CM with custom app
starter and gesture unlock
3. Status bar Tweaks + TEAM
battery bar
4. 4-way Reboot Options
5. Expanded Power Menu (because
themers and mods crash
systemUI most of the time, we
need other ways of rebooting)

Unique - not all custom roms
have:
1. No SMS Bug
2. No false Android version
3. No useless features
4. Least branding (Like creed parts
or cod parts or whatever. We
don't like that. It's your phone,
not ours)

Advanced:
1. EXT4 File System Support
2. CIFS
3. Swap Support
4. BaCeM Tweak
5. UnderVolt Support
6. Firewall Support (DroidWall Open-
Source Project)
7. Ad-blocking host file

Plus - only Hyperion:
1. Supercharged Hyperion Core v2
with Adrenaline Engine v4.4
2. Transparent JellyBean user
interface
3. Ear-gasmic sound quality
4. Integrated Autostart manager,
Firewall and Network Unlocker
5. Modular system structure
6. System Replacer

Experimental:
1. Force GPU Rendering - Force
use of GPU for 2D rendering
2. Disable HW overlays - Always
use GPU for screen compositing
3. Allow purging of assets -
Purging of bitmap memory assets
allows freeing of more RAM when
needed (you can now get as low
as 85-90mb used RAM)
4. 32bit transparency - Better
graphics performance and full
transparency support

Download ROM - Click
here.

Installation:
1.Boot into CWM recovery - Don't
have it? Click here to
download.
2. Go to mounts and storage
3. Mount /system
4. Mount /data
5. Mount /sdcard
6. Select wipe dalvik-cache from
advance and debugging
7. Select wipe battery stats from
advance and debugging
8. Select wipe data/factory reset
9. Select wipe cache partition
10. Finally, choose install zip from
sdcard
11. Then choose select zip from
sdcard
12. Locate the rom zip file in your sd
card and choose it, then choose
Yes
13. After it's done, press the back
button once and choose reboot
system now (it should be first
option)

Credits:
Hyperion Project 2013
In cooperation with:
iDUMMY
pollube31
OZAWA LAB - mariozawa
Carl's Android Kitchen -
CarlDeanCatabay

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Sunday 14 July 2013

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Third blade for galaxy y and other qvga phones

Third Blade

Most Have Game!!
An RPG game packed with
adrenaline pumping game
concept!! One of the best RPG
games available for your android
phone! Exciting characters, cool
graphics and sound!
Quest to kill all horrific monsters
that lurks on the way! Build
combos and and speed up your
skills to optimize your character's
full potentials. Experience Real life
RPG game!<p>Adrenaline RUSH! Third Blade!
★★★ This game supports English,
français, Deutsch, 한글 and 日本語.
★★★
3 types of blades—dual wield, one-
handed blade, and two-handed
sword—can be used to defeat all
kinds of vicious monsters as you play
along! The ultimate action game
filled with endless battles against
monsters that keep you immersed in
thrill and excitement—Third Blade!
Have a taste of full action by totally
wiping out horrific monsters
surrounding your path! Action
boosts up with exhilarating speed!
Use Combo gauges that enhance
your weapons into 3 stages and be
part of this Exquisite Action Drama!
This is what you can call REAL
ACTION!


Download here
Third blade

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Saturday 13 July 2013

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RAM manager pro V4.5.0 (root) for Android

What's in this version:

Removed option Hard gaming (Less aggressive)

Improved option Hard gaming

Improved option More mutitasking

Improved option More free memory

Added option Kill all apps

Fixed some mistakes in translations

Version: 4.5.0

Size: 147 KB

Required: Android 2.1 and up

Download here Ram manager

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Thursday 11 July 2013

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SD Booster (root) for galaxy y

SD-Booster speeds up your external and internal SD-Card(s) and SD- Memory up to 40 times! Enjoy a new feeling of speed on your Android smartphone anytime and everywhere you are. Starting apps, listing to your favorite music or just swapping data with your PC ? Whatever you do, the SD-Booster improve your phone speed! SD-Booster needs root permission to run, otherwise SD-Booster can't do anything! SD-Booster is the only app which supports each card separately!


Features:MMC detection framework to support any SD- Card and SD- Memory


Speedup every external and internal SD-Memory


Configure each SD-Card/SD-Memory separately (New!)


Set on system start (boot) feature Device monitoring (New!)


Notification system (New!)


Color based suggestion terms of current cache size


Multi-Language support (New!)



Need Android-2.2 and up


Version-2.0.3 Need root




Download link
Sd booster2

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Zenonia 4 modded apk for galaxy y

Download and play Zenonia 4 by>
GameEvil.inc. Update new version
1.0.2 with mod unlimited zen

ZENONIA® 4: Return of the Legend,
Extreme Action RPG
The definitive action RPG has
returned, now in glorious HD!
When an ancient evil threatens to
erupt onto the world, heroes of the
ages must assemble once again to
change the course of destiny.
Join Regret, Chael, Ecne, Lu and
more to embark on the greatest
ZENONIA adventure yet!
─────────────────────
THE BEST-LOOKING ZENONIA® EVER
Explore the overworld in vivid HD,
now with spectacular visuals and
top-notch animations optimized for
high quality displays.
DYNAMIC AND VISCERAL COMBAT
Become a force to be reckoned with
-- unleash powerful combo hits and
devastating skills with explosive
graphical and aural flair.
GEAR UP AND CUSTOMIZE FOR EPIC
ADVENTURE
Choose the best strategy and equip
your Slayer, Blader, Ranger or Druid
class hero with countless armor
options, weapons and items.
DEFINITIVE ACTION RPG EXPERIENCE
Level up through Normal, Hard and
Hell mode. Master the Fairy sync
system and annihilate hundreds of
normal and legendary monsters

Download link
Zenonia 4 v1.0.2

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[HOW TO]Tutorial Converting ARMv7 Games to ARMv6(Full Guide)

Today i want to share a very useful tutorial "how to convert arm7 games to arm6
(This is not made by me. I just share it)

Original post is here

Note: this is for android games

Thanks to andropalace.net for this awesome tutorials

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Introduction

Hi i am Taran.I am 17
year old
student,currently living in
Punjab,India.I am a proud owner
of Samsung Galaxy Young and is
addicted towards gaming,blogging.
I love soccor
And i am a die hard
Barcelona fan,loves
playing games and is a expert in pc games  related
problems. I am also a photoshop editor. I love editing .At present i am studying in +2 standerd and
preparing for IIT-JEE. I hope you all love my blog and thanks for visiting.

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