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Useful and won't drain battery apps to enhance Ecoo E04

Just want to share some useful FREE apps that I use on my Ecoo E04, apps that won't drain your battery life or make your phone laggy.

1) Apex Launcher - I use Nova launcher last time but found that it drain my battery (maybe the version I use) so I switch to Apex Launcher and really happy with it. I use the free version one and that's more than enough for a launcher, can set the size of the icons, margin, grid, change icons, edit icons text, manage number of screen, adjust widget size. You can have 5 gestures to set for different actions like Pinch in to show recent apps, Swipe up to launch your app etc.. Features are quite similar to Nova Launcher but the most important thing is no draining of battery.

2) 1Weather:Widget Forecast Radar - very good free weather app widget with clock that also won't drain your battery because you can set the auto update intervals (from 15 mins to 12 hours), I set 3 hours. Also, you can click on the widget and it will bring you to more details weather information.

The 4X1 widget looks like this:

3) Back Button - I absolutely love this app because I do not need to touch the hard buttons again, I really hate to press the home hard button. Back Button provides 4 very useful navigation buttons which you can place on side of your screen, left or right, high or low, can change the size of these buttons and also the opacity, can lock the position so they will not be accidentally moved. You can also adjust each of the button position, for example you would like the home button to be at bottom and back button to be no.2 position.

This is how they looks like:

4) Omni Swipe - Swipe out the apps that you use oftenly and recently, you can set it to hide at bottom left or right corner, or appear as a small dot that can be place anywhere on the screen. Omni swipe can read your message, whatsapp and email notification also if you allows. You can change/remove the Favorite and Toolbox apps and prevent apps from appearing on your Recent tab.

This is how it looks like:

5) Scrollable News Widget - If you like to grab the latest headline of your favorite feeds, than this Scrollable News Widget is for you, very highly customize widget. You can set the size of widget, opacity, color, top and botton panel, how many feeds you like to includes, which feed to display, how many story count to display, refresh interval 1 min - 24 hours. Lots of customization option and the best of all it looks really nice. Does not drain battery also if you set the refresh interval to 1-3 hours.

This is how it looks like:

6) Better Battery Stats (required root) - If you use Amplify (xposed module) than you must install this app because it will tells you which app package alarm or wakelock is draining your battery. Get the draining app package name go to amplify and delay the timing. It will monitor for you in background and shows you how many percent your battery drain per hour. You don't really need to do any setting for this app, just install and forget till you check the stats and it won't drain your battery also.

Example pic of Better Battery Stats:

Ok hope the apps above will enhance your Ecoo E04 usage experience, enjoy!

Here is my home screen layout and setting, I'm using Belle UI Icon Pack: