Samsung Galaxy S4 has a good camera to capture photo and video. There is a simple way to improve its video quality – by increase video and audio bitrate. However, you need to know a little bit technical knowledge in order to edit these values. Luckily, there is a Galaxy S4 camera mod to help. It is developed for GT-I9500 for the moment. GT-I9505 version is coming soon (since both of them are not using the same image sensor. Yes, GT-I9500 has better one).
Samsung Galaxy S3 is going to get Android 4.3 Jelly Bean Firmware real soon. Why? There is a leaked Android 4.3 firmware for Germany (Vodafone) floating around now. So the official firmware should come near just like Galaxy Note 2. Hopefully, it can get as much stuffs from Galaxy S4. If not, you still can enjoy enhancements and features from Android 4.3 itself. As usual, only flash this leaked firmware if you know what you are doing. For the rest, just wait for OTA update. Should come in 1 or 2 months…
I don’t like latest YouTube application on Android. Why? The last few versions have serious video quality issue. You can easily spot on 1080p screen like Nexus 7 (2013). Therefore, I uninstalled all the updates and use back the stock YouTube version. However, after upgraded to Android 4.4 KitKat. The stock one was replaced with this poor quality version. So no more nice music video for me until I discover Viral. Basically, it is a YouTube app with pop-up video feature. Not perfect on Nexus 7 (2013) as it still have soft navigation bar even on full screen mode. But at least the video quality is better than stock YouTube on 720p.
Use NFC feature on your Samsung Galaxy S4 most of the time? This NFC screen locked / off mod will ease your life then. No need to turn on and unlock Galaxy S4 in order to use NFC function. Just put your smartphone near NFC device or tag will do. Working when screen if locked or off. There are several firmwares are supported on both odexed and deodexed like XXUBMF4, XXUBMF8, JUBMG3, XUBMGA, XUBMG1 and CUAMF3. More to come…
Yes, you can enable Samsung Galaxy Devices hidden features by changing CSC feature.xml (or others.xml) file. However, this is not the best method to do so because you need to edit the file manually. And you might break something if not done correctly. Therefore, Note 2 Hidden Settings application comes to rescue. It is a GUI app that help to change those hidden settings easily. So far it is working on Galaxy Note 1 & 2 (Verizon & international) and Galaxy S4. Note – root access is required.
