You device will reboot when factory reset is done

8. When the device boots up, open Settings>More/General. Developer options should be hidden now!

Cool Uses for Android’s Daydream Mode (2014-03-25 17:58) - Prophet Hacker

Android’s Daydream feature is an “interactive screensaver mode” that can activate automati-cally when your device is docked or charging, keeping your screen on and displaying informa-tion. Daydream mode can give your device an always-on information display.

Developers can create their own Daydream apps and Android includes a variety of built-in options. We’ll cover what you need to know about Daydream mode and how you can use it to make your Android device display useful information.

What is Daydream Mode?

When you dock your Android phone or tablet or charge it, its screen normally stays off. When you enable Daydream mode, the device’s screen will stay on and display the Daydream app you choose. You can use this to display the time, weather, quotes, photos, news, tweets, or anything else that developers write a Daydream app for.

This feature was added in Android 4.2. If you have an old Android device you’re not using lying around, you could try to install a custom ROM like Cyanogenmod on it. You can then enable Daydream mode and use it to display information.

This feature isn’t enabled by default. To enable it, open Android’s Settings screen, tap Display, and tap Daydream. Tap the When to Daydream option and select when you want to use Daydream mode.

You can then select the Daydream app you want to use. Many Daydream apps have settings you can configure — just tap the settings button to their right.

Clock

Daydream mode debuted along with Android 4.2 and the Nexus 4. To demo it, Google showed the Nexus 4 sitting on its wireless charging orb and displaying information. If you have a Nexus 4 and a wireless charger, you can enable Daydream mode, place it on the charger, and it will function as a clock. The clock uses a “night mode” setting by default to appear very dim — perfect for glancing at the time in the middle of the night if you want to replace your old clock radio with your phone.

The time slowly fades out and moves around the screen when you use this Clock app, preventing screen burn-in on some devices.

Photos

Google provides Photo Frame and Photo Table Daydream apps that function as photo slideshows. You can select albums from your Gallery and your device will flip through the photos in those albums, essentially turning your phone or tablet into a digital photo frame.

The Photo Frame app functions as a standard photo slideshow, displaying one photo at a time, while Photo Table displays multiple photos at once in a smaller, thumbnailed view.

Quotes

Flipboard

Google provides a Google Currents app, but there’s a good chance you use More Options

These aren’t the only options. You may also be interested in:

• [1]Zoum Twitter Daydream, a Twitter client for Daydream that displays new tweets.

• [2]Website Daydream, which displays any website on screen while in Daydream mode.

It’s unclear who this would be useful to, but it’s certainly flexible.

• [3]Weather Daydream Screensaver, which displays the weather. It’s a paid app that costs $3, so you may want to try configuring Dashclock to show the weather instead.

[4]Beautiful Widgets also includes a Daydream app that displays both the time and the weather.

• [5]Google Currents

Google Play Newsstand is the new home for all your favorites news, magazines, blogs, and more. Newsstand updates and replaces

Google Currents , which is ...

There’s also a hidden Daydream app built into Android jelly bean, which displays jelly beans floating around on your device’s screen. To unlock it, access the hidden jelly bean Easter egg . The hidden “BeanFlinger” option will appear in your list of Daydream apps.

Daydream mode is a fairly recent feature, so there aren’t as many third-party options as there are for things like Android’s home screen widgets . It’s also tough to design good Daydreams that display useful information in an unobtrusive fashion without overwhelming the user — what else is there to display in Daydream mode?

1. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.zoumapps.tweets

2. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=uk.co.liamnewmarch.daydream 3. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devsar.daydream&hl=en

4. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.levelup.beautifulwidgets.free 5. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.currents

10 Things You Can Do In Android’s Developer Options (2014-03-25 19:10) - Prophet Hacker

The Developer Options menu in Android is a hidden menu with a variety of advanced options.

These options are intended for developers, but many of them will be interesting to geeks.

You’ll have to perform a secret handshake to enable the Developer Options menu in the Settings screen, as it’s hidden from Android users by default.

Disable or Speed Up Animations

When you move between apps and screens in Android, you’re spending some of that time looking at animations and waiting for them to go away. You can disable these animations entirely by changing the Window animation scale, Transition animation scale, and Animator duration scale options here. If you like animations but just wish they were faster, you can speed them up.

On a fast phone or tablet, this can make switching between apps nearly instant. If you thought your Android phone was speedy before, just try disabling animations and you’ll be surprised how much faster it can seem

Force-Enable FXAA For OpenGL Games

If you have a high-end phone or tablet with great graphics performance and you play 3D games on it, there’s a way to make those games look even better. Just go to the Developer Options screen and enable the Force 4x MSAA option.

This will force Android to use 4x multisample anti-aliasing in OpenGL ES 2.0 games and other apps. This requires more graphics power and will probably drain your battery a bit faster, but it will improve image quality in some games. This is a bit like force-enabling antialiasing using the NVIDIA Control Panel on a Windows gaming PC.

See How Bad Task Killers Are

We’ve written before about how task killers are worse than useless on Android. If you use a task killer, you’re just slowing down your system by throwing out cached data and forcing Android to load apps from system storage whenever you open them again.

Don’t believe us? Enable the Don’t keep activities option on the Developer options screen and Android will force-close every app you use as soon as you exit it. Enable this app and use your phone normally for a few minutes — you’ll see just how harmful throwing out all that cached data is and how much it will slow down your phone.

Don’t actually use this option unless you want to see how bad it is! It will make your phone perform much more slowly — there’s a reason Google has hidden these options away from average users who might accidentally change them.

Fake Your GPS Location

The Allow mock locations option allows you to set fake GPS locations, tricking Android into thinking you’re at a location where you actually aren’t. Use this option along with an app like

Stay Awake While Charging

You can use

Show Always-On-Top CPU Usage

You can view CPU usage data by toggling the Show CPU usage option to On. This information will appear on top of whatever app you’re using. If you’re a Linux user, the three numbers on top probably look familiar — they represent the system load average. From left to right, the numbers represent your system load over the last one, five, and fifteen minutes.

This isn’t the kind of thing you’d want enabled most of the time, but it can save you from having to install third-party floating CPU apps if you want to see CPU usage information for some reason.

Most of the other options here will only be useful to developers debugging their Android apps.

You shouldn’t start changing options you don’t understand.

If you want to undo any of these changes, you can quickly erase all your custom options by sliding the switch at the top of the screen to Off.

Set a Desktop Backup Password

If you use the above ADB trick to create local backups of your Android device over USB, you can protect them with a password with the Set a desktop backup password option here. This password encrypts your backups to secure them, so you won’t be able to access them if you forget the password.

Pointer Location

This is a fully developer mode option ,in these option you can see where you touch screen and he show the exact location of your touch.

Show Touches

This is very cool option you can see where you touch the screen and he shows the white dot.

How to Enable Developer Options on Android 4.x.x (2014-03-25 19:10) - Prophet Hacker

The one thing that makes Android distinct as an operating system for mobile smartphones and tablets is its being an Open Source platform that encourages developers to engage in various types of development activities. And the one feature without which the custom development would not have been so easier is the availability of the “Developer Options” that is found under Settings of all Android devices by default.

These developer options contain advanced features that help any person with a developer’s bent of mind build, test, debug, and package Android apps and mods. In simple terms, developer options allow quick access to and Android device from a computer via ADB (Android Debug Bridge) commands.

Features of Developer Options

The “Developer Options” feature is indispensable to Android Developers hackers and enthusiasts as a means to quickly access and control

their device from the PC. Even if you are an average user and wish to root, install a ROM or mod on your Android device, you must turn on USB Debugging mode on your phone or tablet. And you’ll not be able to do it unless you enable Developer Options on your device first.

Among the most useful features that are found under Developer Options are as follows:

• Enable debugging over USB.

• Quickly capture bug reports onto the device.

• Show CPU usage on screen.

• Draw debugging information on screen such as layout bounds, updates on GPU views and hardware layers, and other information.

• Many other options to simulate app stresses or enable debugging options.

The “Developer Options” has always been visible by default in all previous versions of Android.

On

Developer Options on Gingerbread

(Android 2.3):

If you have recently upgraded your device to Android 4.2 Jelly Bean or have bought a new device with 4.2 or higher pre-installed, do not be surprised if you find the ”Developer Options”

missing. I came across this thing on my Galaxy S3 with leaked 4.2.1 firmware and then on Galaxy S4 GT-I9500 on Android 4.2.2.

Enable Developer Options on Android Android 4.2/ 4.3/ 4.4

In fact, the developer options lie at the core of Android development and so they cannot be removed as long as Android is an open source environment. The only change Android 4.2 brings in connection to these useful options is that now they are hidden by default and you will have to make it available by doing some finger exercise.