Droid DD Custom Rom for Micromax A57 Ninja 3

If I say that Micromax A57 Ninja 3 receives Custom ROM, then I know you will laugh because you don’t think that a device like Micromax A57 Ninja 3 having 1ghz and 256MB RAM never receives any Custom ROM. But, that’s not true! Today, I have come up with awesome and fastest Custom ROM for Micromax A57 Ninja 3. You will surely love this Droid DD Custom Rom for Micromax A57 Ninja 3. Let’s look out some features of Droid DD Custom Rom for Micromax A57 Ninja 3 as below.

Features Droid DD Custom Rom for Micromax A57 Ninja 3:

• Powered with OTA update
• Increased touch responses
• Increased camera recording quality
• Improved 3G handling performances
• Improved proximity sensor
• Improved net speed
• init
• Rooted with latest Super User app
• Busy box added
• Added data/app functionality
• Added xloud and beats audio and bravia engine
• New settings mod
• Fully moded UI
• Transparent settings widget
• Link2sd and titanium backup were added
• New bootanimation and shutdown animation with sounds
• IceCreamSandwich ringtones
• Walkman as default music player
• Sales tracking removed
• Freed up internal memory
• Optimized RAM for better performance
• Increased battery performance

Now, the question is that “How to install Custom ROM on Micromax A57 Ninja 3?”. So, Today in this article we will guide you on How to install Custom ROM on Micromax A57 Ninja 3, before proceeding you have to read the disclaimer and prerequisite. Let’s start your journey.

Disclaimer: We have not developed this ROM, so if anything happens to your phone or some functionality are not working then don’t blame us!

Prerequisite:

1. Your mobile should have 70 – 80% battery

2. Make sure that you have enabled USB debugging (All apps > Settings > Manage Applications > Development > USB Debugging – check box)

3. The phone must be rooted and CWM Recover is installed.

4. Ensure you have backed up your important data.

Step by Step Guide on:

How to install Custom ROM on Micromax A57 Ninja 3

Step 1: Download Droid DD Custom Rom for Micromax A57 Ninja 3 and copy downloaded file into an external SD card.

Step 2: Switch off your phone and boot into CWM Recovery by “pressing and holding Volume Up + Power Key (long press)“. In the Recovery mode, use the Volume keys to move up/down and the Power key to select a highlighted item.

Step 3: Now, Format /system, Format /cache, Format data and then go to advanced from there Wipe Dalvik Cache.

Step 4: Now, go to the main menu choose “install zip from SD card” > Select the ROM (Which you have downloaded and placed in SD card) > Yes for confirmation. The process will take 3-5 minutes to install the ROM so wait for the whole process to complete.

Step 5: Finally, go back to the main menu and select reboot system now. The phone will take 10-15 minutes to start and initialize all the services & apps because this is the first time you are starting a phone after installing Droid DD Custom Rom. Don’t be hesitate and wait for complete process.

So, these all guide is about Droid DD Custom Rom for Micromax A57 Ninja 3. If you face any problem while installing Custom Rom for Micromax A57 Ninja 3 then put your query or problem via comments below and we will solve it ASAP!

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How to root Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 or GT-I9300T [CWM Recovery]

Got a Samsung Galaxy S3 Gt-I9300 of GT-I9300T and you want to install Custom ROMs on it. But, before you can do that, first you have to gain the root access on your phone and install CWM Recovery for an easy Custom ROMs installation. So, today in this article I will show you the easiest way to root Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 or GT-I9300T and to install CWM Recovery on Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 or GT-I9300T. If you are ready to root Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 or GT-I9300T then follow the steps below.
Note: Rooting will void your phone Warranty. This article is purely for Samsung Galaxy S3 Gt-I9300 or GT-I9300T, applying these steps on another device may produce troubles. Don’t miss any of the steps, firstly read and understand the whole tutorial then go for the actual process.

Prerequisite:

1. Your mobile should have 70 – 80% battery

2. Make sure that you have enabled USB debugging (All apps > Settings > Manage Applications > Development > USB Debugging – check box)

3. Ensure you have backed up your important data.

4. Install USB drivers on your PC from here.

Step by Step Guide on:

How to root Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 or GT-I9300T

Step 1: Download Odin and CF Root files and extract both of them to a specific folder.

Step 2: Now, switch off your phone to boot it into Odin/Download mode by pressing and holding Volume down + Home + Power Key (long Press), till you see the Android Logo on screen. And then press the Volume Up key to enter download mode.

Step 3: Open the “Odin.exe” and then connect your phone to computer via USB cable. As soon as you connect, ID:COM box in Odin turns light green.

Step 4: Now, click on PDA button and select PDA file (CF-Root-SGS3-v6.3.tar) from the CF Root extracted folder.

Step 5: Make sure that only F. Reset Time and Auto Reboot boxes are checked on Odin. Don’t check any other boxes.

Step 6: Click on Start button on Odin to start installation process. It will take upto 5 – 8 minutes, so please wait for the installation finish.

Step 7: Finally, you will get PASS! notification on the ID:COM box and then your device will reboot automatically in CWM Recovery and rooting procedure will continue.

Step 8: Wait for all the process to complete and again your phone will reboot automatically and this time it will start in Normal Mode. Hurray! You have successfully root Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 or GT-I9300T and also CWM Recovery installed on your Smartphone.

In case, your phone doesn’t boot into CWM Recovery, it may possible that the rooting process failed. So, start rooting process again from Step 2.

Above whole step by step guide is on “How to root Samsung Galaxy S3 GT-I9300 or GT-I9300T″, if you face any problem while rooting the phone then put your query or problem via comments below and we will solve it ASAP! Happy Rooting 

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Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos vs Micromax A116 Canvas HD in depth comparison

The Indian smartphone market has recently been seeing an influx of a lot of devices which are big on the screen and specs, while at the same time small on the budget, catering to the exact demand of the market since the introduction of the Samsung Galaxy Note. The phablet, as the term goes, means a device is bigger than a phone but smaller than the tablet, fitting right in the middle. This is purely a notion marketed by Samsung with the Galaxy Note, and it has caught up like wildfire among the various entrants in the Indian Smartphone market.

And two of the devices that are a by product of this phablet movement are the Micromax A116 Canvas HDand Samsung’s own Galaxy Grand Duos. We are going for an in depth comparison between these two to see which ones comes out as the better buy, objectively. Here is the in-depth comparison video first -

Wait, have you read our reviews of the Micromax A116 Canvas HD and the Samsung Galaxy Grand Duosyet? 

The Micromax A116 Canvas HD is, in every word, the Indian company’s flagship device, but retailing at nothing like a flagship price. This is a mid range device that is aimed at providing the best bang for your buck, and that’s what Micromax has achieved with this device.

The Galaxy Grand Duos on the other hand, we feel, is to give consumers an option of a cheaper Galaxy Note. With a similarly huge screen, Samsung can create the halo effect on this device with similar design, and tempt reluctant Note buyers to go for this instead, and that seems to be working in their way as far as we know.

Before we jump to the in-depth comparison, lets take a look at the general similarities in both the phones -

Both are Dual SIM phones

Both the phones have a 5 inch display

Both the phones run Android 4.1 Jellybean

Both have a 8 megapixel rear facing camera

Both have a 2MP front facing camera with VGA recording

Both have 1 GB of RAM

And now for the comparison. The design of both these phones are freakishly similar. Both have rounded corners and feel similar on the front except for the colour. The A116 is dual coloured with a black front and a white back. Speaking of the back, both phones are different looking here. While the Galaxy grand duos looks like the Note, with its flat sides, the A116 looks more like the Galaxy S3 with side curved inward towards the front.

Coming to the build quality of these phones, they both are made of plastic, but we found the Galaxy Grand Duos to be better. With a textured pattern on the glossy back, it looks and feels better than the cheap glossy back on the canvas HD. Not only that the Canvas HD’s screen is a finger print magnet, thereby decreasing the appeal of the device in terms of build. But then, the ergonomics matter too right?

With 10.7mm of thickness and 156g of weight, the Micromax A116 is slightly easier to hold than the 9.6mm 162g Galaxy Grand mainly due to the curved sides of the phone. Makes for easier holding in the hand, and feels less heavy too. While the Galaxy Grand is not too heavy or too unwieldy in the hands, it’s definitely not easier than the A116 in comparison, and can be noticed only when you hold both devices and try them. Not a problem otherwise.

Now lets talk about the display. The Canvas HD has a 16:9 1280×720 IPS screen at 5 inches while the Galaxy Grand has a similar 5 inches SLCD screen but at WVGA 15:10 800×480 resolution. So, when you compare the pixel density between the two devices, it comes at 294 PPI on the Canvas vs 186 PPI on the Grand. Appalling, really. When you take a decently close look at the Grand Duos’ screen, you can easily see the individual pixels. Even thought it is of the RGB type, the display still loses out.

The viewing angles, colour reproduction, and overall performance we find, is better on the Canvas HD than the Galaxy Grand Duos. However, we still felt that the colours are more saturated on the Grand Duos which might be a good or a bad thing. But we will definitely give it to the Canvas HD in this department, the display is way better in all aspects.

The internals of both these devices are vastly different. The Micromax A116 has a MediaTek quad core SoC, the MT6589, with PowerVR SGX544MP2 being the GPU. The processor is based on the ARM Cortex A7 architecture with four cores running at 1.2 GHz. The Galaxy Grand Duos on the other hand has the Broadcom BCM28155 SoC with a ARM Cortex A9 based 1.2 GHz dual core processor and Videocore 4 GPU. Based on our benchmarks results, it’s evident that the raw performance of the A116 is better but when it comes to gaming we found that the Grand Duos is slightly better, in some games. Not really a worry to be honest, but we did find some games laggy on the A116, while all performed great on the Grand, might be due to the less demanding resolution.

Both the phones have 1GB of RAM, so there’s nothing to worry in that department. The internal storage of A116 is rated at 4GB while the Grand is supposed to have 8GB of internal storage, but in actual real life terms, you get 1.77 GB on A116 and 3.94GB on Grand, which is preposterous. 1.77 GB is measly amounts of storage if you are planning to install more than two huge games like GTA or ShadowGun which run perfectly fine on the A116. There are countless Gameloft games that are bigger than 1GB, and the inability to install them on the SD card leaves much to be desired. While this is slightly better on Grand, we still felt cramped in internal storage.

Dual SIM is one feature that these phones do well these days, and the A116 and the Grand Duos are no exception. However, it is important to note that the Grand Duos comes with Samsung’s own Smart Dual SIM feature which lets you take calls from the SIM2 while on the SIM1, thanks to call forwarding techniques. The dialer and SMS apps on both support quick switching and using two SIMs at the same time.

Coming to the cameras, both sport 8MP rear facing cameras and 2MP front facing cameras. In our tests, we found the Galaxy Grand having much better overall performance than the canvas HD, which just has a poorer camera no doubt. Both can record full HD 1080p videos, however we found the audio on the Grand to be a bit distorted on our unit, but the video quality is definitely better on the Grand. The front facing cameras are capable of VGA videos on both, and they are not good quality either, just passable. Here are some camera samples from the Canvas HD(the first row) and the Galaxy Grand(second row) in full resolution.

Finally, we come to Software. Running on Android 4.1.2 Jellybean, both these devices sport the smoothness of Project Butter and the Google Now awesomeness, but there is a stark difference in the UI because the Grand is completely skinned with TouchWiz. The A116 is almost stock with only the core apps messed with, in favour of Dual SIM support and a few other tweaks. Touchwiz on the other hand is almost the same as the one on the Galaxy S3 and Note 2, bringing feature parity to the Grand.

We definitely like TouchWiz more than stock, ugliness aside. Mainly due to the dearth of useful features it offers, like Multiscreen, Pop up play, useful shortcuts and behaviour on the notifications drawer, and other gimmicky features that some of you might use, like Smart Stay, Motion etc. So, yeah Touchwiz is well seasoned and is feature rich, but it is still ugly, especially the messaging and some other core apps, in our opinion.

Concluding, the pros of the Canvas HD are the price, display, performance per rupee and overall decent package. Cons are internal storage, sometimes laggy gaming performance and build quality. Pros of the Galaxy Grand over the A116 – build quality, internal storage, overall performance and touchwiz features, and cons being the price, display and again, price. We feel the price finally decides the better of the two, and your preferences of course

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How to Choose the Best Mobile Handset for Listening Music

The best Dial-a-phone phone handset for listening to music needs a number of features, and the following are essential.

Firstly, the quality of the music output will be determined by the phone’s hardware, and while many phones just use the standard chipset, others are optimised for sound. For instance, Samsung has worked with the audio specialist Bang & Olufsen to create music-optimised phones such as the now very dated Serenata with a huge price tag and the 2011 concept phone the BoPhone M, which integrates Bang & Olufsen speakers with a Samsung Galaxy S2 phone. Had it ever made it into production, in terms of audio quality, there would be nothing else on the market to compete with it.

Ideally the perfect music phone will recognise a number of music file formats in addition to the more popular MP3. AAC,
WMA, OGG and FLAC are all alternative ones that are associated with more efficient storage as well as better music  uality. Unfortunately the otherwise excellent iPhone from an audio point of view is restricted to MP3, WAV and AAC and will not play WMA files. Files can always be converted into alternative formats, but this degrades quality.

The phone must have a 3.5mm headphone socket so that you can use quality headphones with it. Some phone manufacturers use a proprietary socket which restricts the types of headphones you can use, so always check it out.

Also, forget the headphones that come with the phone; they are almost certainly inferior. You might have to spend a reasonable amount of money for quality ones, but this is never something you should scrimp on. Also make sure that the phone will stream A2DP Bluetooth so that you can listen to your music wirelessly on Bluetooth stereo headphones.

The audio controls must be easy to use and versatile. You should also ensure that the phone has adequate storage and preferably a microSD memory card socket.

So which phone is it going to be? The Samsung Galaxy S3 of course.

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Quick Organic Traffic for New Blogs Instantly

Our regular reader might be knowing this blog is just a month old. I have been working on writing articles and then getting them indexed fast and it is taking a lot of time in getting them indexed. I have also been working on optimization but I’ve kept it on a passive rate due to the fact that recent Google search algorithm updates in the form of Panda and Penguin have kept a very less space for SEO. I have seen blogs and sites losing traffic due to intensive Seo in the form of link-building and some other facts. Also there has been a recent buzz that social optimization has been given high credits in Google optimization. this is directly related to the sharing of your articles and  posts on Google Plus. If you want to get your pages indexed in less time, then get +1 share on it. As and when the number of +1 goes par 10, you will see that organic traffic will appear at a very high pace. I have even seen +1 share data and reports in Google Webmaster which also indicates that its worth trying.

This is too different from the time when I started blogging (2008). At that time, it was too easy to get your pages indexed in Google by simply pinging hem using some automated tool or even manual ping. However, some of the SEO practices such as using meta tags for description are yet too useful for doing SEO in Google’s way.

So my request to all the newbies in blogging is that don’t lose hope if your pages are not getting indexed on Google. Just wait for the right time and then you will see a lot of organic traffic coming from Google search. Also try to go for getting quality back links (specially back-links from sites with high PR which are of niche as yours).

I would also advice you to post comments on other’s blog of same niche (like 3 comments after every article you publish).
You must also have a XML sitemap on your site which can help you in getting indexed fast. And remember that if you are working hard on the right track by writing high-quality content, then you will surely succeed.

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