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Detailed Review of DianXin OS Rom

Detailed analysis of DianXin OS Rom

Lockscreen

This is what is called a 3 key lockscreen. Sliding upwards will bring you to the home screen. Sliding to the left will gives you the message. Sliding to the right will give you the dialer screen. There is another lockscreen that looks exactly like Apple lockscreen, which can be downloaded from Tapashot.

DX Widgets

In addition to the widgets from the apps, there is another set of DX Widgets. You have a Bluetooth, Brightness, GPS, LockScreen, Mobile, Mute, System Clear, Tapashot, Vibrate and Wifi (All are 1 x 1 widget), DX Battery Saver (1 X 4), Search (1 x 4), Clock (2 x 2), Weather (2 x 4) and DX-Calendar (3 x 4).

Tapashot is a library where there are apps, themes, stored online. Most are in Chinese.

The Weather widget is not bad, except that it is limited to major cities in China. Trying out Singapore does not give any city of that name. Hence, it would be good if DX team can allow the use of other cities, instead of limiting the cities in China.

The Search is NOT Google search, but it is a Baidu search bar.

The Clock is linked to the DX Alarm, which it is very highly customizable. The DX Alarm is probably one of the better ones in the market.

The Calendar Widget is not linked to the stock calendar, just a display of the calendar. It would be good if the widget is linked to the stock calendar.

The best widget I find is the DX battery widget that is not only very extensive and highly customizable, but also gives you details on each of the apps or even your hardware. Selecting the app will bring you another screen which you can have detailed statistics like how much is the cpu time, screen usage time, background power consumed. The app also gives you a rough estimate for call time, web surfing audio playback video playback or standby time. There is also a feature on smart charging, trickle charging, etc. It also tells you the hardware usage status like Screen % and CPU %. You can set your battery according to various pre-defined profiles or even you can define your own profile. Profiles such as Long, General, Sleep are included.

There is another DX Toolbox (Optimizer) available, where you can clean the memory in task manager, trash cleaner to clean the cache, boost boot speedup by eliminating unnecessary startup apps and a power saving feature. There are just too many parameters that you can play with, and such that I was unable to find out what those settings are and how the settings work.

There is an AppEx app that is similar to Play Store. However, this is in Chinese, and the website is also in Chinese.

There is another app that can encrypt your phone, apks, messages, for security purpose.

You can also use the sync program to sync with your computer, and you can use the PC to send messages.

On the Settings page, you can have the default Samsung style, or you can select the Advanced mode to activate the DX style.

The toggle page has all the toggles available at the bottom, while on the top page there is a recent used application list.

Phone, Contacts and Messages applications have been combined to give a single Apk. I managed to find a way to default my message app to GO SMS, but there is a bug because when you tap on the toggle page for the message, it will bring to the DX Message instead of GO SMS. I have also difficulty in activating notifications. If the DX message is de-activated, GO SMS will not receive any notification as well. In the end, I use GO Contacts and Dialler as well, and disable the default DX Message apk.

There are themes for you to download but they are limited, You can also customize your icons, backdrops and also the wallpaper. For the animation, there are a lot of animation that you can choose, when you go from one page to another.

Overall, this is very promising, and the more I use it, the more it grows on me. The only thing is that there wasn’t much update as compared with MIUI.