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ZEDGE™

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:03:45 +0000

For years ZEDGE™ has been the most trusted and popular source of free ringtones and wallpapers in the world. 50 million people get more than 300 million free downloads from Zedge every month. ZEDGE’s brand is synonymous with high quality, diversity, uniqueness and great fun.

CNET Editors’ rating: “Outstanding”
“Overall, we think Zedge is a winner. It has a huge database of high-quality wallpaper, ringtones, and notification sounds, it's updated frequently, and it's incredibly simple to navigate.”

In this app you’ll be able to seamlessly download free, high quality Ringtones, Notification Sounds, HD Wallpapers and Live Wallpapers optimized for your device. In addition, ZEDGE™ helps you find the best and noteworthy Games from Google Play.

ZEDGE™ recently added a Games channel where you’ll also find cool, relevant and excellent games that you haven’t seen before. ZEDGE™ makes sense of Google Play and suggests the games that are right for you.

FEATURES
• Set ringtones, notification sounds, wallpapers and live wallpapers directly from the app.
• Find new games recommended just for you.
• Supports default ringtone, contact ringtones, message tones, alarms, alerts and all types notifications.
• Manage and organize downloaded items in your Downloads tab.
• Setting for automatically changing wallpapers (auto change).
• Widget for switching wallpapers.
• A Game Launcher Widget that automatically collects your games into one customizable widget. No more need to look through all your apps to find a game.

Millions of people have put their trust into ZEDGE™ and we want to keep it that way. Here's the background on why we ask for certain permissions:

YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
READ CONTACT DATA and WRITE CONTACT DATA
We need these permissions in order to set contact ringtones in the app. Without this it's impossible to offer the "set as contact ringtone" feature which many of you appreciate. We DO NOT read, transfer, store or use any of your personal information or contact data. This permission has always been required - we did not add it recently.

FAQ:
Q: I’m not able to find popular music ringtones or mp3 music on Zedge. Why?
A: Zedge respects that commercial artists normally want money for their music and that they don’t want to give it away for free. We respect that. Zedge is not about music BUT about huge amounts of unique and rare stuff made and shared by people and independent artists from all parts of the world.

RINGTONE CATEGORIES
Alternative, Blues, Bollywood, Children, Christian & Gospel, Classical, Comedy, Country, Dance, Electronica, Entertainment, Games, Hip Hop, Holiday, Jazz, Latin, Message, Tones, News & Politics, Other, Pets & Animals, Pop, R&B / Soul, Reggae, Rock, Sayings, Sound Effects, World

WALLPAPER CATEGORIES
Abstract, Anime, Auto & Vehicles, Babes, Bollywood, Comedy, Designs, Drawn / Cartoons, Entertainment, Games, Holiday / Occasions, Themes, Hunks, Logos, Love, Music, Nature / Landscape, News & Politics, Other, People, Pets & Animals, Signs & Sayings, Spiritual, Sport, Technology

TAGS
wallpapers, hd wallpapers, live wallpapers, themes, games, social games, backgrounds, background images, hd, theme, ringtones, ring tones, hd, contact ringtones, message tones, notification sounds, notifications, alarm sounds, alarms, alert sounds, alerts, tone, tones, sounds.

Recent changes:
NEW IN ZEDGE v3.4 and v3.4.1
A Game Launcher Widget that automatically collects your games into one customizable widget. No more need to look through all your apps to find a game. Enjoy!

We’ve also fixed some more bugs related to certain devices.

Note: READ/WRITE CONTACTS is required to set a ringtone to a contact in your address book. This permission has always been required, and we do not read/store your contacts data. More info in the description.

Galaxy S4 Leaf Live Wallpaper

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:48:10 +0000

Download free Galaxy S4 Leaf live wallpaper with floating leaves.

Inspired by original Samsung Galaxy S4 leaf background.

Now with "Water Droplet" effect! Touch or tap the screen to add water drops on your home screen! Great for spring and summer time!

To use: Home -> Menu -> Wallpapers -> Live Wallpapers

To develop more free great live wallpapers, we have implemented some ads in settings.
Advertisement can support our develop more free great live wallpapers.

This live wallpaper has been tested on latest devices such as Samsung Galaxy S3, Nexus 7, HTC Desire S and Sony Xperia S. Please contact us if your device is not supported.

Note: If your wallpaper resets to default after reboot, you will need put the app on phone instead of SD card.

Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/androidwasabi

Disclaimer/Trademarks
Galaxy S4 is a trademark of Samsung. This app is not affiliated with or endorsed by Samsung.

Recent changes:
- Updated Google AdMob SDK
- Cleaned some codes

Boleyn - GO Launcher Theme

Thu, 09 May 2013 03:16:27 +0000

A retro-style theme with uniform icon bases that <b>make the icons more clearly visible</b>.

Brief Introduction
Specially designed for GO Launcher EX, provides delicate app icons, wallpapers, folder and app drawer interface. Get it right now and have a completely new makeover of your Android smartphone.

Notice:
GO launcher theme is only available for phones with GO Launcher EX installed.
Search “GO Launcher EX” on Google Play Shop and install it for free.

***How to Apply the Theme
1. Directly open the theme after successful installation.
2. or back to Menu>Theme, choose a theme you like and apply it to your phone.

GoogleNowWallpaper HD

Sun, 05 May 2013 07:13:27 +0000

Get the Google Now style on your homescreen!

This application changes your current wallpaper with a google now wallpaper based on your clock time.
The wallpaper will be changed automatically in a certain time (configurable by user), selecting the right wallpaper.

NOTICE: this isn't a live wallpaper! so it doesn't drain your battery :)

----if you're having issues, please download old version http://goo.gl/2Sln9 ----

Features:
* 11 wallpaper included in 4 versions (dawn,day,dusk,night) extracted from google now
* wallpaper resolution: 2560x1098 (I can't do better because original wallpaper are relatively small)
* configurable time period
* google now card UI included
* runs at device startup
* no battery drain!!

Permissions:

SET_WALLPAPER: apply wallpaper
RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED: starts at boot
WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: to write wallpapers to external memory (in folder /sdcard/gnowwp )
BILLING: to make donations. Don't worry, there's no paid content! :) it's only useful to support the developer

Recent changes:
Version 1.0.5

-fixed a lot of crashes
-wallpapers resolution increased
-now user can crop a wallpaper (using various resolutions)
-added a donation button
-icon changed
-fixed honolulu preview
-app is now visible in wallpaper selection screen
-resized wallpapers are stored in /sdcard/gnowwp

SeaFloor GO Super Theme

Mon, 13 May 2013 12:15:33 +0000

New super theme for GO Launcher available!

Brief Introduction
Specially designed for GO Launcher EX, provides delicate app icons, wallpapers, folder and app drawer interface. Get it right now and have a completely new makeover of your Android smartphone.

Notice:
GO launcher theme is only available for phones with GO Launcher EX installed.
Search “GO Launcher EX” on Google Play Shop and install it for free.

***How to Apply the Theme
1. Directly open the theme after successful installation.
2. or back to Menu>Theme, choose a theme you like and apply it to your phone.

***How to Change Wallpaper
Click Menu>Wallpaper, and select the wallpaper you like.

***How to Change App Icons
(Some devices might not automatically apply the icons)
Long press some app icon>Replace>Theme’s icon, and then choose the icon you like.

Thank you for your continued support. Feel free to contact us if you have any problems or suggestions.

Cydia Substrate

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:12:58 +0000

*NOTE*: Substrate requires you to have "root" access on your device.

Substrate is a platform for customizing software. Due to limitations of the Google Play Store it must be installed separately, but its primary purpose is to support other products: users should not expect Substrate itself to do anything interesting. Instead, it should be thought of as enabling your device to support other things you may install.

Products that use Substrate are able to modify any other program, whether it came with your phone or was installed later, or whether it was developed by Google or by a third-party developer. These kinds of changes carry an inherent risk: changes to the underlying software being modified may break the modifications ("extensions") you install.

*IMPORTANT*: Substrate for Android is new. While I've spent a bunch of time testing it on a bunch of devices with many versions of Android, there is always the possibility that there's something unique to your setup that causes an incompatibility. If possible, I'd recommend having a backup of your device handy; I'd also recommend being setup with a recovery mode image that allows you to easily delete Substrate. For more information, see this FAQ item.

http://www.cydiasubstrate.com/id/164f33e4-ca1e-440f-9379-3ff03b11cf5a/

Users should keep in mind that Substrate includes a safety feature: by holding down the volume-up button on your device you can disable Substrate while it is attempting to load these modifications (such as while it is turning on and starting); this will give you an opportunity to use Google Play to uninstall things that might be broken.

Substrate has been tested fairly extensively. It is designed to work on Android versions 2.3 or above, but will work on any "equivalent" versions (systems like CyanogenMod or the Kindle Fire use their own versioning schemes). It is supported on devices that use either ARM or Intel CPUs and works on "strange" devices (including Google Glass).

While Substrate support for Android is very new, Substrate was first released in 2008 for Apple's iPhone and is now being used by tens of millions of devices worldwide. Many people know it as "MobileSubstrate", how it is usually distributed for the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch via Cydia, the alternative to the App Store for "jailbroken" devices.

If you are a developer, you can learn more about how to work with Substrate at http://www.cydiasubstrate.com/. There, you will be able to find documentation, tools, and examples. Substrate for Android also shares many development concepts and APIs with Substrate for other platforms, so tutorials from third-party websites may help.

(Users of Substrate on iOS may remember that there is a more general "Safe Mode" feature that will catch crashes, allowing for a more intuitive response to failures. This will be implemented in an upcoming version of Substrate for Android, but please remember: you can always use the "volume up to disable" feature to skip bad extensions.)

(Substrate requires the ACCESS_SUPERUSER permission, and during its installation it will add a few files to your device. No files will be modified or overwritten: only a few new files--all symbolic links, taking up virtually no space--are added. Substrate only requires root during installation and to help it restart your device to use new extensions.)

Nova Launcher

Mon, 06 Aug 2012 01:28:16 +0000

Highly customizable, performance driven, home screen replacement for Android 4.0+

Accept no substitutes! Nova Launcher is the original and most polished customizable launcher for Android 4.

Features include:
Color Themes
Change the accent color of the launcher, full color picker support

Icon Themes
Apply ADW or Go launcher icon themes to all app icons

Scrollable Dock (for Tablets and Phones)
Keep all your favorite apps on the dock, with up to 7 icons per page and up to 3 pages.

Customizable App Drawer:
Transparency
Scrolling style, choose between horizontal paginated or vertical continuous

Scroll Effects
Enjoy eye candy when scrolling your desktop and drawer. Effects include Cube and Cardstack and more for Prime users.

Infinite Scroll
Never be far from your favorite page, loop through your desktop continuously.

Folder Icons
You can chose a background, preview style or even replace the whole icon.

Backup/Restore
Export your settings and layout before a wipe to quickly get back up and running.

Widgets in dock
Add any 1x1 widget to the dock

Widget Overlapping
Overlap on resize or placement, long-press to send to back or bring to front

Bulk Add
Add multiple apps to the desktop or a folder at once

Activities shortcut
Select hidden activities from your favorite apps

*Nova Launcher Prime Features (Paid version)*

Nova Launcher Prime unlocks the following features in Nova Launcher:

Drawer Groups:
Folders in App Drawer
Unlimited custom tabs
Organize apps into tabs and folders in the app drawer

Gestures
Quickly start Nova Actions or Apps from gestures on the desktop, such as pinching, swiping or two-finger swiping.

Hide Apps
Keep a clutter free drawer by hidding never used apps.

Dock Swipes
Get more use out of your dock apps by setting swipe-actions

Unread Counts
Never miss an email. Unread count badges for SMS, Missed calls, Gmail, Email, Google Voice and more. Counts show in the dock, desktop, drawer and folders.

More Scroll Effects

Permissions:
Access Widget Data: This is in order to display the widget and widget's data to you. This dialog/permission is new in Jellybean. The data is not used for anything aside from displaying it.
Internet/Network State/Wifi State: Optional & Anonymous error/usage reporting
Directly call phone numbers: Only used if you place a direct-dial shortcut on the homescreen.
Wallpaper/Vibrate/Status Bar/Choose Widgets: Standard Launcher functions
USB (SD) Storage: Backup/restore
Retrieve Running Apps: Used by Aggressive Desktop setting and to warn in settings when multiple launchers are running in history.

Recent changes:
v2.1

New icon and wallpaper picker. Swipe between pages of themes
Ability to change icons & titles of apps in drawer, independent of applied icon themes. Drag app from the drawer to the Edit icon
(Prime) Improved grouping of apps. Drag app from drawer to Edit icon
(Prime) Ability to drag a drawer folder to the desktop. Stays linked with drawer folder.
Settings > New Apps for adding newly installed app shortcuts to the desktop. More advanced than the Play Store setting.
Optimizations and fixes

WhatsApp Wallpaper

Fri, 15 Apr 2011 18:44:13 +0000

Wallpaper package to support WhatsApp Messenger

To use our wallpapers:
1) install and launch WhatsApp Messenger
2) start a conversation with a friend
3) choose Menu > WallPaper > WhatsApp

Recent changes:
add more wallpaper.

Photosphere Live Wallpaper

Sun, 07 Apr 2013 13:13:52 +0000

Take advantage of Android's unique Photosphere feature by viewing one right on your home screen! Photosphere Live Wallpaper properly displays a Photosphere image on any Android device, with appropriate camera controls when swiping between home screens and tilting your device!

Includes one example image (Beach!), and the ability to select your own Photosphere images.

TO USE: Home Screen -> Long Press -> Live Wallpapers

If you enjoy this, please help support us by checking out our other products!

Recent changes:
v1.01:
- Fixed occasional crash on Galaxy S3
- Fixed default image name
- Fixed scaling on built-in images

PicSpeed HD Wallpapers 500,000

Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:45:01 +0000

The BIGGEST collection of TOP QUALITY background images for any taste. Every picture is FREE and AMAZING!
Fastest wallpaper app with over 500,000+ images. All backgrounds are high quality, high definition images.

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Description
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Picspeed HD Wallpapers is the most reliable and well-known android backgrounds application, with a large collection of unique, high quality images. We maintain quality and user interest by adding 100 cool,fresh pictures every day; all you have to do is open the "today's wallpapers" section and see for yourself. You can also use the app to crop, rotate and scale backgrounds or let the app cycle through your favorite images. Download backgrounds from our app with the push of a button. Images are grouped in 400 categories, so you cand find anything you can think of, including popular choises like cars backgrounds or 3d images.

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Features
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- Everything is free, all the pictures
- 500,000+ hd wallpapers
- Save and download hd pictures
- Automatic image changer
- Wallpaper editor
- Share backgrounds
- Favorite pictures
- Search for backgrounds
- List or Grid picture viewing
- Feedback / Report a problem interface
- Fast, intuitive interface
- Category / Subcategory easy to use
- Find wallpapers
- Compatible with Go Launcher, Apex, Nova and many other

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Special sections
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- Today's wallpapers : 100 new backgrounds every day, with more than 500 days to browse in the past
- Colors : 50k pictures grouped in 100+ specially picked colors; very usefull when using color themes in some android launchers
- Favorites : Images picked by you, the ones that you like the most. Also used by the automatic background changer
- All categories: HUGE picture groups ordered alphabetically for easy wallpapers find. These range from anime backgrounds to nature and more.

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Top web reviews
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"This app is a huge collection of HD wallpapers for your Android phone or tablet. All you need is an internet connection to start browsing thousands of high-quality images. Once you have found the background you like, you can save it to your device, or share it via social networks such as Facebook and Twitter." - softpedia.com

"There is absolutely no way you won’t find a few different wallpapers that you just can’t live with out." - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuy-yhPpiro - androidspin.com

"an app like Picspeed HD Wallpapers should be one of the first things that you download." - t3.com

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User reviews
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"Gladly giving 5 stars. All wallpapers HD quality and variety is impressing. Good, good work... Thank you." - Oleg

"What a dream selection of high quality FREE downloadable images. This app is state of the art and runs smoothly and quickly on my Atrix HD device. A far cry from the wallpaper "hunt" and limited option to download that was the norm a year or two ago. No need to get caught up with apps that don't deliver the goods. Love PicSpeed." - Stevie

"Excellent. Very good quality pictures and a lot to choose from. Best app of its kind out there."

"I have tried all of the apps in search for the best wallpapers. Picspeed has the best HD defined pics that look amazing on your phone." - Krista

Spanish user review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RwLH5BHusQ

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Thank you
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Thank you for installing and supporting this free product. Let us know what you think!

Recent changes:
Fixed "Change storage path" in Preferences
Better on Galaxy S3, Nexus, Tablets
Save now works with max resolution images
Adding images every day
Save images to SD
Share feature
Automatic Wallpaper changer
Crop, rotate, zoom

Please use "Report problem" from app menu if wallpaper is not set properly. Thank you!