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How to Flash
Step 1: Download and extract firmware on your computer.
Step 2: Download and Extract Odin v3.12 or any new version.
Step 3: Open Odin v3.12.
Step 4: Now, restart your Phone in Download Mode (by pressing Home + Power + Volume Down buttons together).
Step 5: Now, Connect your Samsung device to the computer and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin.
Step 6: Now, Add the firmware file in Odin using AP / PDA button.
Step 7: Now, Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked before starting the flashing process.
Step 8: Finally, Click on the start button, sit back and wait few minutes to get the flashing process completed.

Download Samsung Galaxy Ace GT-S5830 Firmware

How to Flash
Step 1: Download and extract firmware on your computer.
Step 2: Download and Extract Odin v3.10.7 or any new version.
Step 3: Open Odin v3.10.7.
Step 4: Now, restart your Phone in Download Mode (by pressing Home + Power + Volume Down buttons together).
Step 5: Now, Connect your Samsung device to the computer and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin.
Step 6: Now, Add the firmware file in Odin using AP / PDA button.
Step 7: Now, Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked before starting the flashing process.
Step 8: Finally, Click on the start button, sit back and wait few minutes to get the flashing process completed.

Download Samsung Galaxy A8 SM-A800F Firmware

How to Flash
Step 1: Download and extract firmware on your computer.
Step 2: Download and Extract Odin v3.10.7 or any new version.
Step 3: Open Odin v3.10.7.
Step 4: Now, restart your Phone in Download Mode (by pressing Home + Power + Volume Down buttons together).
Step 5: Now, Connect your Samsung device to the computer and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin.
Step 6: Now, Add the firmware file in Odin using AP / PDA button.
Step 7: Now, Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked before starting the flashing process.
Step 8: Finally, Click on the start button, sit back and wait few minutes to get the flashing process completed.

Samsung Galaxy A7 SM-A7000 Firmware

How to Flash
Step 1: Download and extract firmware on your computer.
Step 2: Download and Extract Odin v3.11.1 or any new version.
Step 3: Open Odin v3.11.1.
Step 4: Now, restart your Phone in Download Mode (by pressing Home + Power + Volume Down buttons together).
Step 5: Now, Connect your Samsung device to the computer and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin.
Step 6: Now, Add the firmware file in Odin using AP / PDA button.
Step 7: Now, Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked before starting the flashing process.
Step 8: Finally, Click on the start button, sit back and wait few minutes to get the flashing process completed.

Download Samsung Galaxy A7 SM-A700FD Firmware

How to Flash
Step 1: Download and extract firmware on your computer.
Step 2: Download and Extract Odin v3.10.7 or any new version.
Step 3: Open Odin v3.10.7.
Step 4: Now, restart your Phone in Download Mode (by pressing Home + Power + Volume Down buttons together).
Step 5: Now, Connect your Samsung device to the computer and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin.
Step 6: Now, Add the firmware file in Odin using AP / PDA button.
Step 7: Now, Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked before starting the flashing process.
Step 8: Finally, Click on the start button, sit back and wait few minutes to get the flashing process completed.

Download Samsung Galaxy A5 SM-A500G 4.4.4 Firmware

How to Flash
Step 1: Download and extract firmware on your computer.
Step 2: Download and Extract Odin v3.10.7 or any new version.
Step 3: Open Odin v3.10.7.
Step 4: Now, restart your Phone in Download Mode (by pressing Home + Power + Volume Down buttons together).
Step 5: Now, Connect your Samsung device to the computer and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin.
Step 6: Now, Add the firmware file in Odin using AP / PDA button.
Step 7: Now, Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked before starting the flashing process.
Step 8: Finally, Click on the start button, sit back and wait few minutes to get the flashing process completed.
See Detailed Step-by-Step Tutorial (with images)

Download Samsung Galaxy A5 SM-A510F Firmware

How to Flash
Step 1: Download and extract firmware on your computer.
Step 2: Download and Extract Odin v3.11.1 or any new version.
Step 3: Open Odin v3.11.1.
Step 4: Now, restart your Phone in Download Mode (by pressing Home + Power + Volume Down buttons together).
Step 5: Now, Connect your Samsung device to the computer and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin.
Step 6: Now, Add the firmware file in Odin using AP / PDA button.
Step 7: Now, Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked before starting the flashing process.
Step 8: Finally, Click on the start button, sit back and wait few minutes to get the flashing process completed.
See Detailed Step-by-Step Tutorial (with images)

Download Samsung Galaxy A3 SM-A310F Firmware

How to Flash
Step 1: Download and extract firmware on your computer.
Step 2: Download and Extract Odin v3.10.7 or any new version.
Step 3: Open Odin v3.10.7.
Step 4: Now, restart your Phone in Download Mode (by pressing Home + Power + Volume Down buttons together).
Step 5: Now, Connect your Samsung device to the computer and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin.
Step 6: Now, Add the firmware file in Odin using AP / PDA button.
Step 7: Now, Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked before starting the flashing process.
Step 8: Finally, Click on the start button, sit back and wait few minutes to get the flashing process completed.

Download Samsung Galaxy A3 SM-A300H 4.4.4 Firmware

How to Flash
Step 1: Download and extract firmware on your computer.
Step 2: Download and Extract Odin v3.10.7 or any new version.
Step 3: Open Odin v3.10.7.
Step 4: Now, restart your Phone in Download Mode (by pressing Home + Power + Volume Down buttons together).
Step 5: Now, Connect your Samsung device to the computer and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin.
Step 6: Now, Add the firmware file in Odin using AP / PDA button.
Step 7: Now, Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked before starting the flashing process.
Step 8: Finally, Click on the start button, sit back and wait few minutes to get the flashing process completed.

Samsung Galaxy A3 SM-A300F Firmware

How to Flash
Step 1: Download and extract firmware on your computer.
Step 2: Download and Extract Odin v3.12 or any new version.
Step 3: Open Odin v3.12.
Step 4: Now, restart your Phone in Download Mode (by pressing Home + Power + Volume Down buttons together).
Step 5: Now, Connect your Samsung device to the computer and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin.
Step 6: Now, Add the firmware file in Odin using AP / PDA button.
Step 7: Now, Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked before starting the flashing process.
Step 8: Finally, Click on the start button, sit back and wait few minutes to get the flashing process completed.
See Detailed Step-by-Step Tutorial (with images)

Samsung Galaxy 551 GT-N7102 Firmware

How to Flash
Step 1: Download and extract firmware on your computer.
Step 2: Download and Extract Odin v3.11.1 or any new version.
Step 3: Open Odin v3.11.1.
Step 4: Now, restart your Phone in Download Mode (by pressing Home + Power + Volume Down buttons together).
Step 5: Now, Connect your Samsung device to the computer and wait until you get a blue sign in Odin.
Step 6: Now, Add the firmware file in Odin using AP / PDA button.
Step 7: Now, Make sure re-partition is NOT ticked before starting the flashing process.
Step 8: Finally, Click on the start button, sit back and wait few minutes to get the flashing process completed.
See Detailed Step-by-Step Tutorial (with images)

Download Samsung Champ GT-C3303 Firmware

DOWNLOAD 2G TOOL

How to Flash
Step 1: Download and extract firmware on your computer.
Step 2: Download Samsung 2G Tool v3.5.0040 (z3x) and extract it on your computer.
Step 3: Open Samsung 2G Tool v3.5.0040 (z3x).
Step 4: Now, Load the firmware on Samsung 2G Tool v3.5.0040 (z3x).
Step 5: Now, Connect your Samsung device to the computer.
Step 6: Select Model, Comport, Speed.
Step 7: Finally, Click on the Firmware button, sit back and wait few minutes to get the flashing process completed.

Saturday, 19 November 2016

Swype

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Swype is to SwiftKey as GM is to Ford. Both are established, respected, feature-rich keyboards. Swype allows you to swipe out words or whole sentences, and also supports typing in two languages at once, for bilingual users. Swype offers a free trial version, but the full version is only a dollar, and themes are an additional two dollars apiece.

Swype ties into Android's Accessibility features for TalkBack and Explore By Touch, which make Swype a keyboard vision-impaired users can learn more easily on their own. Copy/Cut/Paste functions are embedded as gestures in Swype's keyboard, too. Swype all the things!

Bottom-line: Swype originally introduced the world to fluid, swipe-based typing, and is still a quality keyboard for Android.

One more thing: Swype is great for sports fans, offering offers themes, including Major League Soccer themes.

Swiftkey

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For years, SwiftKey soared above Google's included keyboard, and it did — and still does — come pre-installed on many a phone and tablet. SwiftKey's prediction methods, called the "fluency engine," has made it the keyboard that many users and editors alike keep coming back to. SwiftKey has been pre-loaded on millions of devices over the years, including on Samsung's flagship phones.

While SwiftKey used to be a paid app, the keyboard itself went free in 2014, instead having its users pay for themes. SwiftKey has led the keyboard pack for a while, and was our readers' top response when we asked which keyboard they used. And it's still a great option in 2016.

Bottom-line: SwiftKey is a great option for those looking for an alternative to the stock Google keyboard.

One more thing: On the topic of themes, there are over 80 of them to choose from in all sorts of colors and styles to fit your personality.

Google Keyboard

Free

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Years ago, Google's built-in Android keyboard was considered a bit of a slouch. Oh, how times have changed. The Google Keyboard is completely free, supports gesture typing for both individual words and entire sentences, a bounty of languages, and a modest choice of themes.

The Google Keyboard employs Google's own speech-to-text engine for voice dictation, and while it might not be the best at predictive text, it does learn from your typed data across Google's apps and services. If your phone didn't ship with the Google Keyboard, you can download it from the Google Play Store.

Bottom-line: Google Keyboard has pretty much every feature you'd want from a touch keyboard. It's fast, reliable, and minimalist, with theme options to tweak in the settings.

One more thing: Google has included one-handed mode for those who prefer to type with one thumb.

Action Launcher 3

Action Launcher brings a ton of thoughtful features plus tons of additional tweaks that you expect from a custom launcher. Replace the traditional app drawer with a slide-in Quickdrawer, maximize on-screen real estate with Shutters and tweak the home screen search bar with the customizable Quickbar. Beyond that, Action Launcher also offers theming options, suggestions for app icon replacements and a beta feature to normalize icon sizes.

At the same time, Action Launcher regularly incorporates the latest design and features from Google's own launcher, meaning you don't have to loose that Google feel when you get all of these extra features. For example those using Action Launcher on Android 7.1 today can already access to new app shortcut features from the home screen.

The best features of Action Launcher 3 require a paid upgrade to the Plus version, but it's worth every penny.

Bottom line: If you're feeling bored with your phone's launcher and want a feature-packed replacement, Action Launcher has you covered.

One more thing: You don't have to pay for Action Launcher's Plus features, but you really should if you plan to use it full-time.

Nova Launcher

Nova is a massively popular launcher that offers a whole bunch of animation options, folder views and home screen behaviors. One particularly cool addition is swipe actions, which allow app icons to act as a folder with a swipe, or a standard app launch with a tap, similar to Action Launcher's feature.

Theming Nova with custom icons and custom wallpapers is easy, especially with the Google Drive integration. You can back up your Nova layouts and themes directly to the cloud service of your choice, and restore backups directly from the cloud, too, which can make setting up a new phone a great deal easier than putting everything back how you like it manually.

Nova is a highly functional launcher that can be as subtle or as loud as you like, making it completely unique if you spend the time tweaking it.

Bottom line: If you're willing to tweak things a bit, and are going for an exact look, Nova Launcher could be the one for you.

One more thing: Consider the $4.99 in-app purchase to unlock its more advanced features with the "Prime" upgrade.

Google Now Launcher

If you want the clean, simple home screen experience just as Google intended, you'll want to use the Google Now Launcher. This is the launcher that's pre-installed on Nexus phones, and it's all about giving you a basic but extremely quick experience with access to your apps and widgets — and of course Google Now is just a single swipe away.

You don't get advanced options for extra gestures or themes, but some people prefer a simple layout and Google Now Launcher absolutely delivers in that respect. It's updated regularly by Google as well, though the future is uncertain with the Pixel phones now shipping with their own different launcher.

Bottom line: Use the Google Now launcher if you're looking for high stability and a consistent Android experience. Pair it with the Google Keyboard for the full experience.

One more thing: Things are a bit in flux right now in terms of the launcher on Nexuses versus Pixels — this launcher may soon take on a new look in the future.

Action Launcher 3

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