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Share your Best Apps you have installed on your Mate 8

Please Share your Best Apps you have installed on your amazing Mate 8 (excluding facebook,whatsapp and other common apps)
please share apps like music player or mods, camera apps, utilities, tools etc. Rooted or Non Rooted Devices.

Mate 8 is an amazing phone but it has its weaknesses. One weakness is its data manager which has very limited views i.e. App level usage.
So I use My Data Manager. It's free, accurate, and very user friendly.
Think for yourself. Question authority.

Xposed framework is the best i installed with minminguard, greenify, and amplifly gives you a very solid battery.
Sent from my HUAWEI NXT-L29 using XDA-Developers mobile app

pie control....

The most useful app for me is the "Mercury browser" - fast, smoot, flash. Anything you want.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ilegendsoft.mercury

Pixel launcher

Using _skypol0's [ROM][6.0.1][WIP][UNOFFICIAL] Lineage OS 13
Display settings > DPI @ 320
Nova Launcher
Easily adjust icon grid, size & text, long press on icon let's you uninstall selected app (worth the pro version)
Xperia Keyboard
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Energy Bar (Good old Windows Mobile Style colored battery bar)
Chrome DEV (URL/Navigation at bottom screen in reach of thumbs)
Enter address below into Chrome DEV to activate
Code:
chrome://flags/#enable-chrome-home
Homescreen Widget Live Weather
Xposed
Xposed APK
Flash in Custom Recovery:
xposed-xxx-sdk23-arm64.zip
xposed-uninstaller-xxx-arm64.zip
Xposed Modules:
"Network Speed Indicator" / "XuiMOD / "GravityBox [MM]" > Download Bar
"XuiMod" (Using Clock Mod)

@Regan078 those are amazing ones!
Just the usual Google apps and few chat apps!
Loads of Browsing.
Few professional apps.
Nothing as great as xposed

New features in Android 8.1 developer preview

Google has come up with another new version of Android, 8.1. The 8.1 update is only available as a developer preview, and as you would have guessed, only for handful of devices of course (Pixel and Nexus 5X/6P sets). BTW, it's called Android 8.1.0 actually, but it would suffice if you and us call it 8.1 until -- and if -- Android 8.1.1 drops by.
Even though a small increment of 0.1, the update still packs a punch. One can argue that an addition of 0.1 isn't really a small increment by any means, given that Android OS used to change its name in 4.x builds. But anyway, let's check what's new in Android 8.1 Oreo, right away.
1. Fixed search bar in Settings app
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2. Moves is now Gestures in Settings app in 8.1
3. Notification shade is a tad transparent
4. New Setup menu
5. Navigation buttons now dim out a bit automatically
Whenever you hit either of the three navigation buttons (Back, Home and Recents), the buttons would turn white/black as per background, and then would subtly dim out after few seconds on 8.1 to take away attention from the buttons and let you focus on the content above it.
Awesome!
6. Wi-Fi Always on is gone in 8.1
Google had removed this particular option called 'Keep Wi-Fi on during sleep' from the Pixel 2 already, and much like other Pixel 2 features that have been included in the Android 8.1, the decision to remove this option has been given effect into 8.1 too.
7. New Power Menu, and Recently opened apps
8. Bluetooth: 'Pair new device' option has list of Available devices
9. Ringtone selector is no more a pop-up thing, use full screen
Which one is your favorite feature in Android 8.1?
Here are some new features in Android 8.1 from developer's point of view, that Google itself has brought out for attention in their 8.1 announcement blogpost.
Android Go memory optimizations and targeting: Devs can target the devices with low-RAM (<1GB RAM) easily suing these parameters. helpful for the Android Go program.
Neural Networks API:*This is a part of Google's TensorFlow Lite, wherein they are bringing AI to Android.
Autofill enhancements:*Now you can even have custom save dialog in the Autofill settings, that was introduced with Android 8.0 for the first time.
Shared memory API:*Apps can perform much faster if they are coded to use common data by using SharedMemory feature.

thanks for this copy / paste ...
thread closed

Best Gcam 8.0 Advanced Settings - HOW TO MAKE GCAM 8.0 WORK FOR YOUR DEVICE

The Gcam Advanced Settings Masterclass is back! Welcome to Gcam 8.0 Advanced Settings where a little tweak can make all the difference...
That Gcam doesn't work perfectly after install doesn't mean that it won't work well as you will see in this Video.
I was disappointed after installing the latest Gcam 8.0 Mod from BSG as the whole thing looked worse that the previous update.
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As you can see in the image above both the color was off (completely lacking magenta) and the camera preview freezed the only good thing was that the video was working properly with sharp and accurate colors.
So with the video aspect working fine, I decided to do a step by step guide of how I fixed my camera issues so that it can help some one out their get it right.
First step:
#1 TURN OFF MOTION PICTURE - While motion picture is a great feature for Gcam, it depends more on Google photos and can cause some problems if the Gcam settings is not set to use Google photos, or Google Photos app not being installed or out dated so, the first step is to turn.
That didn't do us any good in this case so I moved on to next.
#2 TURN ON SHOW HDR CONTROL FROM ADVANCED SETTINGS -
This one seems to work the 1st magic. Always Turn on the show HDR control from the settings or in most cases, from the Advanced Settings. This is because if other settings are not right, turning on HDR will make things worse. And immediately we turned it off, the camera preview unfreezed but the color didn't improve.
#3 DEVICE INPUT SETTINGS
If you install a Gcam and some things are not working properly, changing the device input option can be of a great help. By default it was set to Pixel II but from my experience, Pixel IX (Coral) is most compatible for my device Realme X2.
I also tweaker a few things on the preview settings you can see it all HERE

@Bolumstar THREAD CLOSED as a subject matter related thread already exists, in which you also posted: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/gcam-8-0-whats-new-how-to-install-on-any-android-phone.4187195/
Please review the XDA Forum Rules with special focus on rule no. 5 and in future only post in an existing thread before creating a new one.

[GUIDE] Enable Pixel only features e.g. Background blur, Portrait light, Black and white portrait in all phones using Magisk

Hi there,
If you love the portrait light feature Google introduced with their Pixel 5 and 4a phones and want to install it on your device then you are in luck.
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You need to be rooted with magisk to do that. All you have to do is fake your device model and you will get this feature almost immediately!
Steps -
1) Install Pixel props magisk module for your phone. If you are using Android 11 download it from here
2) Get portrait light magisk module from here
3) Download NgaResources app from here
4) After downloading the three from above, go to magisk, flash Pixel props magisk and Portrait light module.
5) Then install NgaResources app.
Reboot your phone and install Google Photos afterwards.
6) Open Google photos. After google photos loads up all your pictures. Select one of your selfies and try editing it from there. You will see a notification "updating photos editor". Keep your internet on, it might download some stuff.
7) Get out of Google photos or keep it minimized.
2 or 3 minutes later you will see portrait, portrait light and black and white feature on Google photos.
Note :
1) If it doesn't work. Reboot your phone.
2) If you have Google Photos installed already then clear it's data and follow from step 6
This method will also enable other Pixel features e.g. background blur in old pictures.
Have a nice day!

Does this also enable using the Pixel launcher on e.g. a Samsung device?

harisyks said:
Does this also enable using the Pixel launcher on e.g. a Samsung device?
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No. Only for the features included in Google Photos. You can get pixel launcher from the internet, install it separately or go to magisk and search for Pixelify magisk module.
It will install other pixel features on your phone.

I'd love to install this but none of the files are available?

links down :c can you reupload please

Links updated @ryanfraser38 @krissrmx

Google photo FC if you want to go to profile settings.
Device - OnePlus NORD
Google photo - v 5.52
Some features from Pixel works BTW

[7.0+] Besloudness Settings - Enable/Disable Besloudness on MediaTek Devices on Custom ROMS (LineageOS, Pixel Experience...)

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Hello Guys
if you have a mediatek phone , sure you will know this feature called besloudness (it is in settings/sound) it is an audio post-processing feature that crank up you device volume, but when you install a custom rom(LineageOS...) you will not find this option cause it related to stockrom and sound can be sometimes disorted
this application is created to fix this problem by give you a choice to enable and disable this feature
Tested Devices :
UMIDIGI F1 Play (Mediatek Helio P60) Using LineageOS 17.1 Over Android 9.0 Vendor (Pie)
Downloads :
Play Store (just Uploaded, need time for the link to be working)
APK
Changelog :
v1.0 : Initial Version
v1.1 : Fix landscape screen by ignoring landscape orientation
If you Like the App , Consider Donations and if you have suggestions and bugs dont hesitate to PM​

Hi there,
I'm so glad I came across your post. I've been trying to figure out how this feature works in my unrooted Lenovo M10 HD 2ndGen tablet. I see it in Settings/Sound/Sound Enhancement with only one solitary setting and when enabled, nothing changes. Sound is what it has always been, the same, then and now. I've had my tablet for a year now. My question is how does this feature work ? What does BesLoudness require in order to work ? I have disabled certain features of my tablet for security and privacy reasons, for the same reason, some apps are disabled like Maps, Social Media apps. I have also disallowed certain permissions for certain apps that I felt no need to allow since I never used the feature the permission was required for. Somewhere along the way I might have disabled certain settings, or disallowed permissions that unknowingly rendered BesLoudness not to work.
This BesLoudness Volume Booster for Speakers has stumped me for a year now. Thank you for reading this.
Marco