Facebook got something innovative for You guys – a messenger dark mode. It is designed for the OLED screens (which every Galaxy S series phone have). On OLED-type screens, black tone doesn’t affect battery consumption at all. Currently, it’s hidden from the settings, but there’s a nifty trick which can enable it on your phone.

Messenger will be rolling the Dark Mode out to everyone in the settings by the end of March 2019 — without having to perform any tricks.

The dark mode setting can be unlocked by simply sending a crescent moon emoji.

Hello my lovely readers and GlamourROM fans.

I’ve run into so many questions from people regarding how to logcat. So I decided to write a guide for all of you which talks about 3 different ways and I’m sharing here only my preferences. Of course there are more methods, but at the moment I’m sticking with these.

Logcat methods:

• Catlog (Android App)
• Minimal ADB
• Android Monitor(GUI)

Choose one and lets continue.

Showing a way to the hidden network setting. Tinkering with the system files of Galaxy Samsung S9+ I found that on system partition there is an app in privileged apps folder. It is called HiddenNetworkSetting.apk. Which seems to be a Samsung only implementation, as it doesn’t exist on Vanilla version of Android Oreo. Sounds like a enhanced Mobile Networks subsetting. Like it’s name says it is hidden from the user. But not anymore. I’ve got a way to show you. A rootless way.

Start off by downloading this app named QuickShortcutMaker. Next step is to go under activities section and from there type ,,Hidden Network Setting”. After choosing it, press try. Now comes a whole list of different network modes. Starting with GSM(EDGE) to the LTE selection. There is also a tab for the Band selection mode (which is experimental).

Bypassing Android lock

This article is just about how to get rid of pin code, fingerprint and face control on Android. I’m going to show you 2 methods. Each of them will work. One is a manual way, while other is automatical.

Quite a common problem on Android smartphones and tablets is that people tend to forget passwords, pin codes, patterns. Especially when they are newly created. Many errors can come up. For example fingerprint cannot be recognized due to the faulty fingerprint sensor.  If you have one of these issues, then this article is for You.

Files description

• gatekeeper.password.key – your lockscreen password
• gatekeeper.pattern.key – your lockscreen pattern
• locksettings.db, locksettings.db-shm, locksettings.db-wal – lockscreen database file. Which is your stored lockscreen settings
• personalpattern.key – your Private Mode pattern
• /data/biometrics contains all your fingerprint sensory related stuff. Including your personal fingerprint

These are present on Galaxy S8 running on Android Nougat aka 7.0. For CM or other releases files may vary. Such as:

• gesture.key
• cm_gesture.key
• password.key

Basically getting rid of these files manually will clear your lockscreen safety lock. Without a need for a wipe. You’re happily covered if your device isn’t encrypted, but if it is you’re out of luck. Because you’ve got no access to the /data partition which stores these respective files.

Below I added a flashable zip which only requires custom recovery. It will do anything for you. Trust me.

Guide for dealing with flashable zip-s.

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Android Developer Settings

Every Android smartphone and Android tablet contains a hidden set of options called – Android Developer Options.

As the name says it’s meant for the developers originally – people who need additional built-in tools to test and debug software and apps they are writing for Android devices.

There are couple of ways that allows you to log, force GPU rendering, show activities, manage with processes or even enable debugging options (which gives you the best playground to play on).

Android Developer Options also allow you to draw debugging information on screen including layout bounds, updates on GPU views and hardware layers, and other information. It can even allow to make your phone respond faster after removing animation scaling times. Slight note: you can put your phone at risk when enabling the USB debugging, so proceed with caution.

Back in days before the 4.2 update, google had it visible by default, but with this release Google deliberately removed it since this feature is only meant for power users and developers.

This doesn’t affect OEMs as they have this feature by default disabled nonetheless.

There’s a simple method I’m going to show you. First of all there is an easy way to enable the developer settings on Android Phone.

It is still on the phone, so there’s no need to worry. Google hasn’t get rid of the development option menu. But this menu option has been removed from the plain menu view.

Let’s start

Here’s a way to get it back:

1. Go to the settings menu, and scroll down to “About phone.” Tap it.
2. Scroll down to the bottom again, where you see “Build number.” (Your build number may vary from ours here.)
3. Tap it seven (7) times. After the third tap, you’ll see a toast menu that says you’re four taps away from being a developer. (Google makes you as a developer with few clicks, eh?) Keep on tapping, and BAM, you’ve got the developer settings back.

Below I added screenshots which will make it more clear.