[Android General] Lord AJ:
Hi guys, today I'm posting some great tips tweaks and tricks for ROOTED Android phone which I've tested on Karbonn A1 plus. These should work in almost any phone as they are mostly not device specific. And I've tried them all on my device which means there are next to no chances of damaging your device.

This guide includes the following :-

1.Change the look and feel of your device (Includes CWM method and the new Lucky Patcher method)

2.Run temple run and such games on Karbonn A1+ (and other low-end Chinese phones) and increase overall performance by increasing the RAM.

3.Change the boot animation of your device.

4.Change the fonts of your device.

5.Supercharge the phone with some great tweaks (credits =zeppelinrox=)

6.Some handy tweaks using xposed modules to further customise your phone and improve performance suit your needs.

BEFORE I POST THE TRICKS I'LL HAVE TO WARN YOU, AS A FORMALITY THAT ANY DAMAGE CAUSED TO YOUR DEVICE IN ANY WAY DIRECT OR INDIRECT DUE TO THIS POST SHALL BE SOLELY YOUR RESPONSIBILITY.

READ ANY FURTHER ONLY IF YOU AGREE TO THIS.

Okay, so let's start !!!

1.Changing the status bar of your phone Go here

2. Improve performance

Use Roehsoft Ram Expander (download from attachments) to create a swapfile and use it to increase your phone's RAM.This will provide you with some extra RAM and you will be able to run games like

Temple Run Oz,Temple Run Brave,Temple Run 2,NFS Shift and several others.

I have tested and found all these games running on my phone although sometimes there was a bit of a lag in temple run , but I guess that's acceptable ;)

You'll see 2 empty fields after u launch the app and select the language. The Size field determines the size of the file that Ram Expander will create to provide you with extra RAM. Simply put this means

that the number u type in here will be the no. of extra MBs of RAM you'll get. Remember though that I won't recommend a value bigger than 1024 as almost all apps will do fine with this much RAM.

Also the better your SD Card is the better your performance will be. A class 4 Sd card is the bare minimum and class 6 or higher is highly recommended.

Experiment with ur own values in the swap file size and Swappiness fields.

However these are a few settings that work best for me.

Swap file size = 820 (which gives a total of 204 820 = 1024 MB RAM)

Swappiness = 85

Auto run enabled.

I'd also recommend that you used the CPU control option in rom toolbox pro to underclock the processor to save battery.

Another recommended app is Titanium backup which helps you efficiently and automatically backup the data and the apk of your apps along with allowing you to uninstall bloatware.

3.Changing the boot animation of your phone.

First understand what a boot animation is - It is the animation which is displayed after the company logo in our case after the Karbonn smart logo.

To change it first download ROM Toolbox Pro from the play store. I would recommend that you bought the app as the developer well deserves it.

Now go to the interface tab and click on boot animations . Press the menu key and click install location.

Change it to /system/etc/oem/ and put the filename as bootanimation.zip.

Now download any of the several boot animations from within rom toolbox pro.After download they'll be saved to /mnt/sdcard/romtoolbox/bootanimations/here.

To install one of them just go to the local tab in boot animations, browse to the above folder touch the desired boot animation and click install.

On the next reboot you'll see that boot animation after the karbonn smart logo.

4. Changing the fonts

Bored with the default fonts huh ???

Give this a spin ...

Launch rom toolbox pro and go to the fonts installer option in the interface tab. Click on this option and after a while you'll see a list of fonts which u can preview and install at choice.

You can also search and download different fonts from the internet and browse to them in the local tab and select the install option.

After you do this you'll be asked to reboot and voila !! you have changed your device's fonts.

5.Supercharge your phone and squeeze every bit of performance out of it

I want to make it clear that this is not my creation and all the credit goes to =zeppelinrox=.

Download SManager from the attachments.

Go to this thread : v6 supercharger and download the Supercharger Starter kit (you'll need it) also download the latest v6 Supercharger BlackDog update (NOT V8 supercharger).

Extract the Supercharger Starter kit zip and run Startmeup.sh with SU permissions (touch the script file click on the second (pirate like) icon and click run).

This will install all the necessary components needed to run the V6 supercharger. This will also install zipalign and sqlite binaries which are great help too.

Follow the instructions given on the forum and you'll do just fine.

You can also try this 3G turbocharger script again by =zeppelinrox= although I didn't notice much of a difference but the results may vary from place to place and from carrier to carrier so give it a try too.

6.Some handy tweaks using xposed modules

1.Download the xposed framework installer for Gingerbread from the attachments.

2.Go to the Framework section and click Install/Update.The phone will reboot.

3.After reboot go to the Downloads section and download the modules you want (decide by reading the give description). Install the modules and then go to the Modules section and check mark all the modules.Reboot.

4.Now u can launch these modules from the app drawer and tweak the way they behave and work by changing the settings.

Here I'm posting some links to pages with great kernel tweaks and a page which contains a really nice booster engine. Enjoy .....

Info on kernel and the CPU (includes tweaks as well)

Spl engine (to boost performance)

Congratulations !!!! you've just tweaked your phone to give you all the performance and beauty the hardware below that screen can afford to.

If you have a problem, post it here and I'll come back to you as soon as I can.

Also if you want to post the information in this thread anywhere else you are free to do it. Just make sure that you give me due credit and provide a link directing to this thread.

Downloads :-

Rom Toolbox Pro :

Download link

Titanium Backup Pro :

Download link

DON'T FORGET TO HIT THANKS.