Xtrestolite Custom rom for samsung galaxy s5 SM-G900H

The first thing after you have rooted your  samsung galaxy s5 is to install rooted apps and the ultimate thing you go for is to install a custom rom on samsung galaxy s5.If you take a look at  the device specifications the device comes with a exynos 5 chipset which is a octa core(2 quad cores ) and the is backed with 2gb ram.It sports a 5.1inch display with Full hd resolution and corning gorilla glass 3 protection and the device is available with 16 or 32 gigabytes storage with the base model at 16 gigabytes.The rear camera is 16mp without optical image stabilisation while the secondary camera is 2mp which is great for selfies and also the front cam can record videos upto 1080p.Samsung usually launch their flagship with different chipsets one with exynos and other with snapdragon 801.
If you are searching for roms to be flashed on galaxy s5 SM-G900H and couldnot find then you are on right place.In this post we will help you to flash or install xtrestolite custom rom on samsung galaxy s5 SM-G900H.

Why to go for custom rom on galaxy s5?

1. Laggy touchwiz:Though the device comes with a powerful chipset the heavily modded touchwiz still lags a lot.Though you can trim down trim down the software system still occupies more than 4 gigs and is quite surprising for the os to occupy a lot of internal storage even .Due to the unnecessary bloatware the device  experience lag while moving through screen.So you might consider going for a custom rom on samsung galaxy s5 SM-G900H.
2. To improve performance: This might seem odd as galaxy s5 would out run any competitor  in terms of performance but you can still improve its performance with custom roms.
3. To improve battery life: Its actually a disappointment for us that samsung actually used a non removable 2800 mah battery in galaxy s5.The battery is actually big but its not for a Full hd display.Though there are ultra saving modes on samsung galaxy s5 you may not completely depend on it to save battery instead should go for a custom rom on samsung galaxy s5 for a better life.
4. Because you are android power user:Being an android user user no matter which android flagship device you own its quite common for us too root the device and install a custom rom and play with it for some time and go for another.Since the device is quite new old android development there are lot of custom roms available for samsung galaxy s5  which include stock modified roms and also we are blessed with lot of aosp custom roms.

Install xtrestolite custom rom on samsung galaxy s5 SM-G900H:

In this tutorial we will guide you to install xtrestolite custom roms on samsung galaxy s5 SM-G900H with all the necessary precautions that has to be taken.

Prerequisites:

1. Charge you device to atleast 80% before  flashing the rom so that the process continues without any difficulties.
2. You must be on latest stock firmware before flashing.
3. You must have twrp installed on your device.
4. Backup all your data on to computer or laptop as flashing this rom will erase all the data on your device.You may not loose your images or videos or other data but you will loose apps that you have installed earlier.
5. Download  xtrestolite Rom for galaxy s5 and transfer it to sdcard or internal storage.

• Must read: How to Backup Efs on samsung devices

Xtrestolite custom rom for samsung galaxy s5:

Xtrestolite rom is based on stock lollipop firmware of SM-G900H with improved performance.He has remove all the unnecessary bloatware on the device.Rom is pre-rooted and zip aligned.Knox is completely removed from the os.Kernel has init.d scripts support so that you can add you own scripts to improve performance or battery life.The removed bloatware are available as add on flash able through recovery.

Other features of the rom:

1. Enable call button on contact list.
2. Call recording is enabled to record ongoing calls.
3. You have the option to disable shutter button.
4. Sfinder and quick connect are removed from the notification panel.
5. 3mint battery mod.
6. Extra quick toggles
7. Call or message block.
8. Exit button in stock browser.
9. Status bar mod include adding a custom carrier label,move signal bars to left etc.
10. multidpi touchwiz launcher is added and you can add 6 icons to the dock.
11.  High volume warning settings is removed.
12. Network speed indicator is added to status bar for ongoing traffic information.
13. The best part is the unlimited tethering mid.
14. Csc tweaks are also included.
15. xtrestolite rom custom settings also available and lot more to explore.

Installation procedure:

1.  Download the rom and place it in the internal storage.
2. Now switch of the device and wait for few seconds till the device is completely off.
3. Now press volume up and home button and power key simultaneously and you will enter fastboot mode.
4. From fastboot mode boot into Twrp recovery.
5. Click on backup and do a complete nandroid backup.You have to do this if anything goes wrong you can get back to working device by restoring it.If you thing the backup is huge then don't backup data just backup system and boot and other including efs.
6. Backup process may take 5 to 10 minutes and once it is completed go to advance wipe options and wipe data,cache,dalvik cache and system too.
7. Flash the rom and aroma file manager pops up.
8. Choose your csc and all other stuff needed and wait till the flashing process is done.
9. Once done reboot the device and wait for at least 10 minutes for initial to boot.
10. Now you have successfully flashed xtrestolite custom rom on samsung galaxy s5.

Final words on xtrestolite custom rom on galaxy s5:

 This is simple tutorial on Installing xtrestolite custom rom on samsung galaxy s5.We hope you have successfully flashed the rom with out any problems.If you have soft bricked your device reboot to recovery and make a factory reset.Even after factory reset if you still experience boot loop flash the ROM again by wiping system this time.Even if the rom bootloops then its you bad luck just restore the previous backup.Finally we take no  responsibility if  you have bricked the device in this process even though there is no way you can brick the device but its mandatory for us to say .   Happy flashing

OnePlus Two joins Snapdragon 810 delay roster:-

by Sean Keach 27 January 2015 |

Adding fuel to the fire of Qualcomm’s woe-laden Snapdragon 810 overheating fiasco is news that the OnePlus Two might also be delayed thanks to the chip issues too.

That’s right – the latest entrant to the Snapdragon 810-blaming delay fray is the OnePlus One’s upcoming successor.

Forbes reports that ‘sources’ have confirmed that the OnePlus Two has been ‘forced back into the third quarter of 2015’ because of ‘manufacturing challenges with the Snapdragon 810.

It’s not the only one either – both the Samsung Galaxy S6 and LG G4 have reportedly been affected by the alleged overheating issues on Qualcomm’s flagship chipset.

Fortunately, rumours point to Samsung snubbing Snapdragon for its own custom-built Exynos series, likely to keep production of the Galaxy S6 on track.

Less fortunate however is the suggestion that Qualcomm might be less than keen to fix its chip for 2015 smartphones after reports emerged suggesting LG might file a lawsuit against the chip-manufacturing firm.

This is because it’s already announced the LG G Flex 2, Snapdragon 810 in tow. A second and, more importantly, better Snapdragon 810 landing on other smartphones would most definitely be a thorn in LG’s handset heel.

All the while, Qualcomm has been flat-out denying any suggestion of delays or overheating issues with the Snapdragon 810, despite the ever-mounting evidence pointing to the contrary.

So what’s actually wrong with the Snapdragon 810? Here’s how it goes…

The Snapdragon 810 is built with ARM’s big.LITTLE chip configuration. This means that of the eight cores, four are dedicated to less demanding tasks, and four are dedicated to more demanding tasks.

The former are Cortex A-53 processor cores, while the latter are Cortex A-57 processor cores. Therein lies the problem.

Apparently, the A-57 cores are overheating and throttling the clock rate once the frequency passes 1.2-1.4GHz, which is now proving to be a big old PR disaster for Qualcomm, if nothing else.

All eyes on the Xiaomi Mi 4 launch today: Will it be under Rs 20k?

Xiaomi Mi 4 is coming to India on 28 Jan.

By tech2 News Staff /  28 Jan 2015 , 12:10 Xiaomi’s Mi 4 will launch in India today at an event in Delhi, confirming earlier reports which had hinted at a similar launch date. As far as pricing is concerned, it could cost Rs 20,000 according to an Indian Express report, as Xiaomi’s India head Manu Jain had hinted the same in an interaction with the newspaper.
Interestingly, the press invite for the Xiaomi phone says Mi hits a 4 and 6, a cricket reference. Also the image in the invite seen below shows three Mi 4’s arranged in what looks like stumps.
While it’s unlikely that Xiaomi Note (which has 5.7-inch screen) and was launched this month will hit the Indian market, the cricketing reference could indicate a special-tie up to the sport by the Chinese smartphone maker.
The Mi 4 was launched last year and has a 5-inch (1920 x 1080 pixels) IPS display with 441 ppi resolution. It uses Corning Gorilla Glass 3 for protection. It is powered by a 2.5 GHz quad-core Snapdragon 801 processor and has 3GB RAM.
The handset has a 13MP rear camera with LED Flash, Sony IMX214 BSI sensor and 4K video recording. It also has a whooping 8MP front-facing camera with Sony Exmor R sensor. The device will have either 16GB or 64GB internal storage space. The Mi 4 comes with Android 4.4.3 KitKat pre-installed, with a layer of the MIUI OS skin.
In terms of connectivity, the phone has 4G LTE, 3G, WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n (2.4/5 GHz), WiFi Direct, Bluetooth and GPS. It has a 3,080 mAh battery. The device measures 139.2 x 68.5 x 8.9mm and weighs 149 grams.
The Mi 4 is expected to launch exclusively on Flipkart, just as most of its phones launched in India. It’s remains to be seen whether this phone will also have the flash sale model like other Xiaomi devices.
But most importantly the question for fans will be if Xiaomi impresses them on the price front? We will find out today, now won’t we.

Micromax's Yu Yureka Review: It's Mi Against Yu

by Jamshed Avari, January 02, 2015

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Micromax is India's top domestic smartphone vendor and has plenty of popular products on offer. Even so, it has a bit of a reputation for selling low-quality products and it knows that there are people who would simply never consider a Micromax phone over, say, a Samsung or a Sony. There are also dozens of other companies with very similar products, and any of them could easily become as successful. The company now wants products that will stand out and have strong individual identities - and that means making some bold moves. The result is Yu Televentures, an all-new subsidiary company which will develop and sell smartphones aimed at the youth market. Yu will target tech-savvy but budget-conscious buyers, and is banking on catchy names and slogans with "attitude". Interestingly, these phones will only be available online. The company also talks up an "ecosystem of connected devices" and a "differentiated user experience".
Yu's primary means of achieving this is an exclusive tieup with Cyanogen Inc. to preload Cyanogen 11, a popular Android fork, onto its devices. Few Indian companies have bothered really tweaking the software experience on the phones they sell (Xolo being a notable exception with its Hive UI) and Micromax itself has been known to load devices with useless bloat. Cyanogen is polished and powerful, and will help these devices stand out.
Yu's first product, the Yureka, is a pretty important phone. Cheesy name aside, Yu seems to be gunning for the slot formerly occupied by the 3G Xiaomi Redmi Note. The Yureka's size, appearance and specifications are pretty evenly matched with those of Xiaomi's big-screen offering, which means they're impressive considering both devices' low price tags.
Look and feel
There's no sign of Micromax anywhere on the product or its packaging despite that brand's popularity, which means Yu really doesn't want to be associated with its parent company. The box is very plain; just brown cardboard with Yu and Cyanogen logos printed on all sides. It's almost as minimalist as Xiaomi's boxes, but nowhere near as slick.
The Yu Yureka itself is not especially slim or light but it does appear better constructed than most Micromax phones we've seen before. The front is smooth and free of markings other than an outline of the Home button printed beneath the screen. The Back and Menu buttons don't have printed icons but all three light up when the screen is active. There isn't much room around the screen, and the edges are slightly raised to help prevent scratching.
The "moonstone grey" rear has an interesting texture - at first glance, it looks exactly like the rough sandpapery finish of the OnePlus One's rear, though in this case it's smooth and pleasant to hold. For some reason, Yu decided to go with a light blue printed logo which looks very odd and cheapens the entire device. The camera and flash are tucked away in one corner and the only other thing to be seen is a small speaker grille running across the bottom.
The power and volume buttons are easily reachable on the sides, and the Micro-USB and headset sockets are on the bottom and top respectively. Beneath the rear shell you'll find the removable battery, two Micro-SIM card slots and a microSD slot. One of the SIMs is hot swappable, but the other two slots can only be used if you pop the battery out.
Specifications and software
There's a lot to like about the Yu Yureka. For starters, there's the brand new Qualcomm Snapdragon 615, an octa-core SoC with 64-bit support. Lower cost octa-core processors from MediaTek have been around for quite a while, but this is a first for Qualcomm. Cyanogen 11 just happens to be 64-bit capable, which makes that feature worthwhile too. There's 2GB of RAM, which is good for a phone in this price bracket. There's 16GB of internal storage space and up to 32GB can be added using a microSD card.
We're also happy with the screen's 720x1280-pixel resolution. At 5.5 inches, it's just a little grainy - but again we're reminded that we could be doing a lot worse when it comes to sub-Rs. 10,000 smartphones. The standard wireless protocols are covered: Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi b/g/n. LTE is supported on the 2300MHz TDD band currently used by Indian service providers as well as the less common 1800MHz FDD band.
The Yureka isn't the first device in India to come running Cyanogen OS - that distinction goes to the OnePlus One. For now, it looks as though OnePlus won't be able to sell devices running Cyanogen anymore, thanks to a rather contentious  legal dispute between all three companies.
Cyanogen OS looks good, and one of its strengths is that you can customise many aspects of its appearance. We weren't too happy with Yu's rather vanilla lockscreen, but it can be disabled in the settings and the default lockscreen with shortcuts and widgets replaced it. There is a row of settings shortcuts in the notifications shade, but there's also a button that takes you to another panel with more shortcuts (including some duplicates).
There are loads of settings for lots of tiny little things, such as the appearance of the power level indicator in the status bar, how long the capacitive button backlight should stay on, and what each of the device's buttons should do. You can disable the capacitive buttons altogether and display soft buttons on screen, if you would like to for any reason. There are also lots of shortcuts, such as double-tapping the status bar to lock the phone, or sliding a finger along it to adjust brightness. One of our favourite features is sound profiles - just like on old Nokia phones, you can set profiles such as Home, Work, Night and Silent.
The look and feel of the UI is highly customisable. Just like we saw on the OnePlus One, you can mix and match elements from different themes. We eventually settled on a custom mix of elements from the Android Holo theme and Yu's own defaults. Creating a Cyanogen account gives you access to more downloadable themes - we could see only five in the app, but presumably there will be more in due course.
Yu has kept the bloatware to a minimum. In addition to all the common Google apps, there's a browser called Yuniverse (which is nothing more than Opera with a skin and custom icon), an audio equaliser and effects app called AudioFX, a souped-up calculator, and something called Baton that claims to "cloudify" any app of your choosing, which means they'll be able to sync content across devices even if they don't have that capability on their own. The Baton app didn't work at all for us - it forced us to download an update from the Play store, which threw up an error stating no such app exists.
Performance
We were eager to see how Qualcomm's new CPU performs, and the results were quite positive. The Yureka seems to be able to match the Xiaomi Redmi Note in most situations - 3DMark gave the Redmi Note a slight advantage in the 720p Ice Storm test, but the Yureka stole the lead in the high-resolution Ice Storm Extreme test. Quadrant favoured the Yureka, with a score of 17,586 overall compared to the Redmi Note's 16,083. The Yureka scored 31,014 in AnTuTu 5.5, while the Redmi Note scored 31,969 in AnTuTu 5.0. Keep in mind that these scores apply to the original 3G-only version of the Redmi Note, which uses an octa-core MediaTek MT6592 processor and is not available anymore.
Day-to-day usage was perfectly fine. The Yureka is highly polished, and honestly, it felt a lot better to hold and use than most Micromax phones that have come our way in the past year or even more. The screen was fairly legible in sunlight and though it isn't perfectly crisp, it's one of the better ones we've seen on such a low-priced phone.
Our 1080p 40Mbps MKV sample clip just did not play, but other file formats seemed fine. The phone's built-in speaker was reasonably loud but we found it to be above par in terms of sound quality. On the other hand, the bundled headset isn't very comfortable and is no good for music though it should do for making and receiving calls.
Call quality is decent, and we had no complaints. The battery lasted 7 hours, 26 minutes in our video loop test, which is a little underwhelming by today's standards.
What really stood out for us was the camera. We were really impressed with the quality of images taken by the Yureka. Close-ups were quite brilliant, and in daylight, images were perfectly sharp at the focus point even at 100 percent zoom on a desktop monitor. The phone did take an unusually long time to autofocus and it was often simpler to tap the screen and force it. This also meant that subjects in motion were challenging to capture. On the other hand, we were able to create some surprisingly good depth-of-field effects with zero effort.
Low-light situations definitely challenged the Yureka, and a lot depended on the amount of ambient light the sensor was able to pick up in each shot. For that reason, wider frames worked better than tight close-ups. The flash worked quite well too. Videos came out pretty shaky but otherwise just as good as photos.
Verdict
Micromax appears to have made a smart move. Indian buyers seem to be comfortable enough with online-only sales now, and if this device is available in sufficient quantities without the rigmarole of weekly registrations and flash sales, it will be a very solid alternative to the Xiaomi Redmi Note. The fact that the 4G version of the Redmi Note costs Rs. 1,000 more than the Yureka will also help Micromax win points over its Chinese cousin.
The Yu Yureka has a lot going for it, and even its minor flaws can be overlooked considering the amazingly low price. Yu has identified its target audience well and has delivered a very, very attractive product.
Cyanogen OS is a huge plus - we're just a tiny bit miffed with Micromax for throwing a wrench into the OnePlus One launch, but if the Yureka is anything to go by, we can probably expect a range of Yu devices that live up to the same promise.
In 2014, we were repeatedly forced to recalibrate our expectations of phones in all price categories thanks to disruptive new launches nearly every month. Buyers will be most happy to know that there seems to be no sign of this trend slowing down - 2015 is off to a cracking start indeed.
source:- GadgetNDTV

Samsung Galaxy S5 Starts Receiving Android 5.0 Lollipop Update

by Robin Sinha, December 04, 2014

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After a range of Nexus devices, Google's Android 5.0 Lollipop is reportedly being seeded to Samsung Galaxy S5 handset in European region, starting with Poland.
The Samsung Galaxy S5 model that is reported to have started receiving the Android version upgrade is SM-G900F (Indian octa-core model is SM-G900H), which is a commonly available unlocked variant. The new version number of Android 5.0 Lollipop for Samsung Galaxy S5 is G900FXXU1BNL2 with a Android LRX21P build.
Based on the number of video previews of the OS on Galaxy S5 and the screenshots posted by Sammobile, the handset is seen with better touch response (because of Android Run Time). However, no major ground-breaking difference is seen in the user interface as the handset runs its own TouchWiz UI over the new OS.
The users might also see new Android 5.0 Lollipop-styled toggle buttons, calendar, dialler app, new interactive notification tray and more. A number of apps in the Galaxy S5 will be featuring the new Material Design introduced in the OS. However, there might be some minor changes in the final build as the ones shown by Sammobile were running previous build versions.
Users of other Samsung Galaxy S5 models would still have to wait for the OS as it may take some time for the Korean smartphone maker to roll out Android 5.0 Lollipop to all the users worldwide.
Interestingly, Samsung rolled out Android 5.0 Lollipop to its Galaxy S5 before its phablet flagship, the Galaxy Note 4. The firm in October teased the upgrade by tweeting an image of Galaxy Note 4 accompanied by a number of lollipops stating, "Anyway you look at it, the #GALAXYNote4 Quad HD Super AMOLED display is pretty sweet. #NoteTheDifference."
As for the previous Galaxy S4 smartphone, Samsung has not yet confirmed any specific dates for the Android 5.0 Lollipop roll out for the handset. Users can nonetheless see the preview video of the handset running the latest OS.
Recently, HTC and Sony had also confirmed which of their devices will receive the Android 5.0 Lollipop update. While four of HTC's smartphones will be receiving an update to Android 5.0 Lollipop officially, Sony announced that the entire Xperia Z lineup will be updated to the new OS version.