[ONE Themes and Apps] 1asbak1:
Hi there guys, :)

I am a Medical student from Amsterdam. and have finally decided to participate in this forum with the goal Sharing My personal android [Apps] and [Tips] that survived years of evolutionary pressure. And I want to do so in a way that is a little bit different than that we are used to, via a

mindmap

that is (scroll down) :good:

Get me right here I am by no means even remotely related to the neighbor of the cousin of a Developer.

I am just one of you guys, a regular general xda users that is trying to distillate everything useful out of these Forums and put it to use

This is the moment I will spit some of this love right back in thy face. :cowboy:​

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[Introduction]

Gone are the days of typing a text messages with T9 only to find yourself counting the characters to minimize it all to 1 SMS.

These are the days in which we use our phones (to) excessively for every little this and that.

I do believe that it is how we have set up our phones on a the basic level (not the Rom, kernel, ect we have installed on it) that determines most of our user experience. I know that I probably p*ss*d off several people right there.

Don't get me wrong here, these forums are full of GREAT Devs delivering GREAT work kernel-and-rom-wise. And YES I do think that for instance a different touch-screen driver can defiantly be a game changer in the way we use our phone. In addition, there are much more of these examples(charger control, screen calibration etc.) that quite enhance user experience.

In my humble opinion I know that eventually these things are not what makes my phone a great, useful or even mind extending tool. Trust me here, for quite some time I have been coping with well-known tendency to keep flashing and flashing.

trough the years I have gone all MAD- [ASOP-MIUI-CAF-CM(lots of its "distro's" included)-Sailfish-Stock'nd'Hybrid]-APE-Sh*T on my Phones :) (i9070 -> nexus5 -> Opo)

I have to admit that there are still times (*kuch*OFTEN*kuch*) my behavior relapses into the fatty livered Flashaholic I once was. :crying:

I know for a fact that there are quite some readers who are like "yup. I can relate to this". :highfive: ! so lets get serious. ;)

Generally speaking, every time you flash a (non-major android release)ROM there doesn't really change anything essential in the way you use your phone right?

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I do not want to get all to jibberish philosophical on the subject because initially I am here to bring you something hopefully useful. So you can skip this paragraph if you want:

All I know is that the PLACEBO effect does quite some magical things to the humans we are, so my best guess is that most probably "it" does also it's effect on these forums. In short:

If we expect X then we will experience at least a little bit of X. :angel:

For that, If we put effort into flashing a zip and we get an emotional stimulus accordingly (examples: "Look at me being awesomely geeky" or "Wow I hope I won't be destroying my phone with this flashable camera Hal") Chances are that what we will experience as

"THE SMOOTHEST ROM EVER" will at least partially be caused by this often seemingly paradoxical phenomena called Placebo.

Sounds familiar right. This example is simply written in about only 8 out of 10 threads you open. :silly:

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But well, lets get to what it is this seemingly cynical person has you to offer :good: (don't worry) :

Over the years, there have been several "phases" In winch we have gone knee deep into a specific topic. I think this will not sound unfamiliar since I am definitely not the only one here. Just to name a few, I know some of you can relate to.

Launchers, Equalizer, gestures, photography(editing),remote control, and so on and so forth. my most recent for instance are Raw photo shooting and Google Cardboard. I say knee deep because as I said before I am no developer so I haven't gone in neck(code)deep.

What I want to do in this thread is described the Android deliciousness that have survived this strong urge to keep jumping from one '"Phase" to another and to combine this with the tweaks and general stuff that has made it so far trough the rising android evolutionary resistances by growing competition and the constant change of the technological world we live in.

Of course, I am not going to make this a freaking blizzardous long post containing all details and way to obvious apps etc. because that would

1]. Not be of any use for you. since you probably know everything already.

2]. Everything you have to setup according to your style. There are only a few MUST HAVE things which get a special treatment. (see photo below)

3]. Thiss will take me way to much time which I don't have since I am already typing this document to avoid studying. :)

Tldr:

I am going to superficially share my personal distilled [APPS] & [TIPS] and the way I use my phone every day. Hopefully skipping most of the way to obvious aspects. (facebook,Instagram,the power on button of your phone..or the fact that you are continuously seeing your nose without you even realizing it.etc) I want to keep it readable. agreed? See below​

[IMG="Mindmap"]http://i.imgur.com/FbSg5xy.png[/IMG]

DISCLAIMER

Did you notice how I did my best to emphasize the "personal" aspect of this thread in the first Alinea? If not let me just explain one seemingly simple thing. I am just a 22 y.o. Dutch student with his own views on the world and for that on the way we use our phones. If you think I suck because of the things I write in this thread. Then I want to congratulate you! You are as human as me. we all have opinions. Sharing them in a respectful/discrete way is MEGA appreciated. see what I did there?

[ If by any means I violate forum rules please make me aware of that. ]

Foresight:

The second and third post will be used for working out the things stated above.

I have been typing and thinking for two days now and I wanted to let you guys know I was working on something. Therefor this not yet completed "paper" It already contains the essentials, though!

Since this is my first post ever let me know what you think.

please.

Have a great day, Greetings from Amsterdam!