Apps and more!

I have finally figured out how to stop my phone's battery from quickly draining out! How? Just turn off automatic updates in playstore, that simple.

I know it's not rocket science. But, being an ios user for a long time, turning off automatic app updates on ios is not a common thing. I just suddenly noticed the significant change with my Samsung phone's battery life one day and even wondered about it for quite sometime trying to recall what I might have done until I finally remembered that little thing I did to my phone a week ago. With my eight hour shift at work my phone's battery normally ends at 60-50%. But, since I turned off auto update it now boost up to 80%!

back to Go Launcher!

With this, I re-downloaded Go launcher which is eventually now called Go Launcher EX which is a better version I think because it's now faster compared to before with the annoying lag time. I just noticed though that most of their themes now are no longer free compared before. The nicer themes are up for purchase either via In App Purchase (IAP which you may pay with your credit card) or download free of charge via Get Jar Golds where you have to download apps to earn gold points and use for your purchase as per my previous post.

Go launcher Ex is surprisingly faster ridding off its high memory consumption and no longer adds up to my usual battery drainage caused by me switching on auto updates in Playstore.

So far so good as I am currently enjoying my favorite launcher ever. I honestly love Go Launcher because of their 3D themes hadn't for the bugs in the past which eventually left me with no choice but uninstall it and go for Dodol Launcher instead.

L-R: my Live Locker theme, theme sample, Live Locker App

Live Locker, another app I am curently raving about! I love their wide array of locker themes to choose from. Their themes were a little difficult to unlock at first because each and every theme is unlocked in different ways. Normally you just hover at the obvious unlock key on other locker apps like Dodol and Go Locker but with Live Locker you have to press and hold this little lock icon at the bottom of your phone's screen (whilst it's locked of course) and you'll find this little tutorial thing to unlock your phone.

the Android emojis
 hated by many.

I enjoy android obviously due to its customizable interface versus IOS. My sister by the way recently upgraded to IOS 8 and she wasn't happy with the Ginger themes on her iPhone's keyboard because of the occasional freeze so she uninstalled and re-installed her now multiracial emoji keyboard. It worked fine but I told her we'll see how it goes he he. I can't con her to switch to android e?

the recently updated Go Keyboard and Go Sms/Android emojis.

I am looking to upgrade to a Samsung Galaxy Note phone in the future and will definitely be an android user for good. The only thing I am unhappy about android is their emojis. They just don't have IOS' cute emojis. I am hoping that android is able to create comparable emojis if not better ones than ios.

a.i keyboard with ios emojis

As of the moment I am using a.i keyboard (default keyboard) which I bought from Google because Go Keyboard obviously no longer uses ios emojis with my Go Sms messaging app (only available on selected android os). Go Sms' own emojis are eactly the same as Go Keyboard's now weird looking emojis. Again, no matter how I love Go Keyboard because of their awesome keyboard themes I needed to switch back to a.i. because it is the only keyboard app so far that offers ios emojis. I am hoping Go Keyboard/Go Sms would fix this as well or I am not a happy camper because I am an emoji fan.

Well, to end this bloggie, go for what works for you and those quirky ones works for me though.

Aldiko - my new eBook reader, I deleted my old one because It does not have a built-in Dictionary which I despised. Let's face it, reading is a way to expand your vocabulary and how are you supposed to do so If your eBook reader app does not have one right? It should come handy with all eBook reader app anyways. One thing I miss about ios is iBook which is their built in eBook reader. It's just seamless compared to eBook reader Apps that Android has to offer. But then, never the less, I kind of like Aldiko because it kind of replicate iBook interface wise. Aldiko by the way supports ePub, pdf files.

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Androidify

Dodol theme

I am a happy android user since I discovered how customizable Samsung phones are nowadays. Back during my Samsung Star phone days we don't have the Playstore yet where we get to download almost every stuff you need for your android phone as oppose to now.

I used to be an iPhone fan and user and I thought iPhones are good for business people because you couldn't really do much to it than purchase apps from itunes store but no option to download themes for your iPhone's interface. With android, you have so many things to get stoked about like customizable themes both for your mobile interface, lock screen and my favorite themed sms box and changeable fonts for your phone! I am addicted to themes even before the now defunct nokia days. I download themes from third party webbies like Mobile 8, Zedge etcetera.

The good thing about android is that as long as you download stuff from Playstore you need not worry about catching a malware or virus to seep through your phones drive unlike with Nokia back then if you're not going to download an antivirus for your phone then goodluck.

Going back, to all you folks who happen to read this blog if you happen to be fickle minded and love to change things every now and then, then adroid is the phone for you. Well, not just Samsung per se since there are tons of android phones that spawned out there in such a short period of time and for all we know Apple users will be switching like I did. I think Apple should be a little more generous and stop keeping some apps to themselves thus the advent of jailbreaking.

Go Launcher Theme

For newbie android users here are the must haves to start customizing your mobile phones.

Theme Launchers

There are tons of awesome theme launchers for android such as Go Launcher, Apex, Nova, Dodol to name a few. Go Launcher is the raddest interface wise because of the 3D apps and sleek look. I just noticed the lag time whenever you unlock your phone to access other apps plus it sucks your phone's battery no matter how I turn off all the apps running in the background.

So, to make the long story short I went back to my original theme launcher Dodol. I know the name sounds odd but this launcher is efficient and no lag time in accessing your other apps although the themes are not as nice as Go Launcher. But, nevertheless Dodol also has a lot of customizable themes once installed it will give you the flexibility to use one themes icons, wallpapers and what not.

Sample Go Locker Theme

Locker Themes

wide array of themes 

both free/paid to choose from

To simplify it's your phones lock screen that's it. It sounds complicated at first especially if you're the person who always look at the big picture all the time that you get to overlook the simple things like this that if you only read the clue word 'lock' it should've been simple lol. Between Dodol locker and Go Locker I should say the later wins. Go Locker themes are awesome and mostly animated which even more fascinated me. Yes, these stuff are my guilty pleasures. It brings out the kid in me and my endless love for anything digital.


Go SMS

A sample of GO SMS 

theme for your text box.

this theme is not free by the

way, you can only use GetJar

coins of pay for it.

Last but not least my fave Go SMS. Thank God for themed SMS /text box! Iphone bored me hadn't for the emojis and got envious with android users when I found that they have this customizable sms boxes. I just love this app. I always thought there's a solution for boringtext messaging experience. Go SMS is of course free same goes with its relatives Go Launcher, Go Locker and any app with 'Go' on it.

GetJar

This is android's way to con people to download their other apps why? It's cuz whenever you find a really cute but not free Go SMS/Launcher theme could use the points that your gonna earn from downloading these other not so useful apps instead of spending money for it which I used to do because I just recently figured out how this whole GetJar thingy work. It so happened that I was just so squeamish to try out the darn themes geez. Piece of advise? Don't spend a dime for this hobby :D

To wrap this blog up, if IOS is boring you go Android ,cuz I was a happy camper since I switched plus there are lots of affordable yet multimedia android phones anyways right?

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Happy Sheep!

Happy Year of the Sheep/Ram/Goat! I hope 2015 would be a good year for everyone. This is my first post for 2015 btw!

I have been extremely busy after discovering GoLauncher for my Samsung. I have been using Dodol Launcher since I switched to android from ios half a year ago. Let's just say that I had all the time in the world over the holidays to twitch my phone's interface so I decided to download Go Launcher.

I was so fascinated by GO at first and the more after I paired it up with its very own lock screen app called Go Locker. I was so happy that I deleted all my Dodol Launcher files because I found Go Launcher's interface so 3D compared to Dodol UNTIL just recently that I noticed how fast my battery drains! I even downloaded this sweeper app to clear up all apps running in the background that might've been draining out my phone but to no avail it didn't help! I blamed the cute lock screen then since I read from forums that the more Go Apps installed, the more the battery drains fast.

I gave up so I decided to go back to Dodol Theme Launcher instead and to dissipate my disappointment, I decided to pair it up then with Dodol Locker. It wasn't as pretty as Go Launcher but I wouldn't sacrifice my phone's battery life for aesthetics. Beauty always has its price.

Dodol is not so bad really as it has more downloadable free themes compared to Go Launcher.

Nuff of the tech savvy me side..

What can I say? Happy New Year once again! Waz my New Year's resolutions (Yes it is plural)? Eat more healthy foods, travel more, read more, discover. I wish to turn my life around this year for the better. I am so yearning to travel and to do some more soul searching. Life oh life.

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