Root Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos B5512 Easily

Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos B5512 is yet another affordable Android phone and is quite similar to Samsung GalaxyY S5360. It has a QWERTY Keypad though and is a little costlier than Samsung Galaxy Y S5360. Being an Android phone, it can be used in a way you like or it can be customized according to your wishes. But to do this, you must root your phone. An unrooted phone can be customized but not the way it is after being rooted. You can use apps like Juice Defender which saves a lot of battery or you can also take a backup of all Applications + Data in one click before you flash a custom ROM. If you are not rooted, you can backup only the application and you lose all the data contained in the application.

In this tutorial we will tell you how to root Samsung Galaxy Y Pro Duos B5512 in a simple way. Make sure you follow all the instructions properly and you have a backup of everything before you proceed though it is very unlikely that you will lose any data.

Prerequisites

• Before you root any device, it is always advisable to take a back up of your device’s data. Backing up your contacts is easy and you can back up all your contacts to your device’s SD Card.
• To back up your applications, I recommend you to use ASTRO File Manager which also allows cloud storage.
• Make sure your device’s battery life has a minimum of 60% charge.
• Enable USB Debugging. To do this, go to Settings>Applications>Development and make sure USB Debugging is checked.

Control Music on Android When Screen is Locked

I often listen to Music on my Android phone and not on the Music Player while I am travelling. The reason is I could perform all other tasks on my Android phone and listen to Music at the same time. However, if your phone’s screen is locked and you wish to change the track your phone is playing, you would perhaps unlock it and then change (as ususal). If you are on a custom ROM like CyanogenMod or MIUI, you get the music controls on Android Lockscreen. That makes it easy for you to change tracks while screen is locked. But this is not the case with stock firmwares.

To make this simple on stock firmwares, there are some handy free apps which you could try out to get Android music controls on lockscreen.

Tactile Player

    

Tactile Player lets you control your music player with your phone’s hard buttons. Here is how you can control Music on your phone:

Double Press the volume UP key for NEXT.
Double Press the volume DOWN key for PREVIOUS.
Triple Press the Power key to toggle PAUSE/PLAY. (You can change this to double press or never if you like).

Tactile Player supports most stock players (the “Music” app) along with third party media players such as:
PowerAMP, Pandora, Google Music, Google Listen, doubleTwist, PlayerPro, Amazon MP3, Mixzing, and most other popular media players.

That makes it easy if you use any other music app other than the stock app mentioned above.

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Simply Lock Screen

    

Simply Lockscreen is a lock screen replacement that’s fast, functional and beautiful. It displays time, weather, location, battery, music player, current song, calendar events and volume settings, all in a futuristic and pretty interface.

Using this, you are basically customizing your Lock Screen. So you have a few other extra options other than making the music controls appear on lockscreen.

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Winamp

    

Whether it is your desktop or your Android device, Winamp is highly reliable and one of the best music apps with 10,000,000 – 50,000,000 downloads in the Google Play Store. Winamp offers a complete music management solution featuring wireless desktop sync (Winamp Media Player required), iTunes import, & access to thousands of internet radio stations with SHOUTcast.

After you lock your screen, you would also see Winamp’s music controls on your lock screen. It is also better than the stock music app but all you need to do is spend some space on your RAM for this app to serve your music needs.

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4 Best Android Lock Screen Replacement Apps

I own an LG Optimus Me P350 and I really do not like the lock screen that comes with LG’s stock firmware and hence I used some lock screen replacement apps. Later, I rooted my phone and applied some custom ROMs which have really good lock screens. However, there are downsides of hacking your Android phone and you may not do it just to retain your device’s warranty.

But it is really necessary to add some more features to your Android lock screen as you would not prefer unlocking your phone first and then opening the dialer to make a call. You can instead swipe once to open the dialer directly from the lock screen. This makes your job simple as you need to swipe only once. You can also add some more apps which you use very often. These lock screen apps listed below are meant to simplify your job at the expense of losing some space on your RAM. Also note, these apps are completely free. Do you think it is worth paying just to customize your Android lock Screen? 

Best Android Lock Screen Replacement Apps

1. LockMenu

    This is perhaps the best one and hence I place it on the top. You can add various applications to your Android lock screen on both the sides of your screen and just swipe left or right to launch those apps. Lock Menu is a replacement lock screen that gives you the ability to launch applications and shortcuts directly from your lock screen. Lock Menu gives you the ability to customize 7 individual sliders so you can build a lock screen that fits your needs.

Rating on Google Play Store: 4/5

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2. 3D Koi Pond Live Screensaver

    This one makes your lock screen look like an iPhone locker but it has some live wallpapers which can be used as a background for the lock screen. Perhaps, it might occupy more memory space. But if you have removed bloatware by rooting your phone or have a lot of memory space, you can use this lock screen. It looks attractive with live fishes in the lock screen background 

The fish are smart and alive. Touch them and they will flee; double-click screen, and food is dropped in. If you long press somewhere, the fish will gather together around your finger.

Rating on Google Play Store: 3.8/5

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3. LockBot

    LockBot helps you get the lock screens resent in iPhone or HTC Devices. It also has themes which make your lock screen similar to Ice Cream Sandwich Lock Screen or the one which appears in CyanogenMod ROMs. Here are a few lock screen themes available with this app

•  iPhone
•  Hero
•  Eclair
•  Froyo (Pro Only)
•  X10 (Pro Only)
•  Galaxy (Pro Only)
•  Honeycomb (Pro Only)
•  Ice Cream Sandwich (Pro Only)

As you can see some of the lock screens are available only for the pro version. Make a wise choice 

Rating on Google Play Store: 3.3/5

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4. myLock Utilities

    This app is for those who do not like to make any gestures on the screen to unlock their Android phone. Usually, you would press the Power button and then move your finger over the screen to unlock but this apps bypasses those gestures  and unlocks your phone as soon as the screen wakes up.

Use the myLock to enable quick unlock, incoming call options, and in-call touchscreen lock. Quick unlock is what I have mentioned above.  If you experience face dialing/muting/hangup because your touchscreen wakes up during phone calls, enable the in-call touchscreen lock. Avoid the incoming call sliders by enabling onscreen or button based call accept & reject. However this does not work on the newly released android 2.3 gingerbread.

Rating on Google Play Store: 4.2/5

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Best Train Ticket Booking Reservation Sites

Indian Railways is the largest industry and so many of peoples booking train tickets in a day. Generally all of they using IRCTC (Indian railways website) to book the reservation tickets. Sometimes this website loading slowly due to lot of peoples accessing this site at same time. There is also some problems like server problems, service unavailable make us very hard to book the tickets. If you are in urge and want to cancel the tickets, it is frustrating thing to you. So you think about any other alternative sites to accomplish this procedures. There are some best sites to booking /cancelling the train tickets in India, that are ease to use and loading faster than IRCTC site. 

1.ClearTrip

ClearTrip is next favorable site to book the train tickets with three clicks. You can gettickets in email form and Sms alert feature also available in this site. You need to register an account to use this site. The service fee mostly low amount will be collected from you. This is the best and simple and easy to use site to booking train tickets.

2.Yatra.Com/Trains

3.MakeMyTrip.Com/Railways

4.http://www.railticketonline.com/SearchTrains.aspx

5.http://www.ezeego1.co.in/rails/index.php

6.Thomas Cook.Co.In/IndianRail

ERail.in

This site is not for booking train tickets, but you can use this site for getting information about trains within seconds. You can check PNR Status, Train timings, distance, fares, travelling stations and Seat availability. This is the fast and simple site to check about trains.

Important Facts: 

• All the above websites are partnership with IRCTC site. All the transactions likebooking, cancelling are stored also in IRCTC site.
• All the above sites are running with IRCTC Database. So you don’t afraid of reliability of the train informations.
• You will be charged 10-50 rupees as a commission depends upon your train class, train type and Tatkal service 

How to Install Crystal Reports 9 in Windows 7

Crystal Reports is the best reporting application forprogrammers to design the reports from severaldata sources. Microsoft visual studio has this package with built in option from their versions 2003 to 2008. Now Visual studio 2010 supports crystal reports via add-on only. Visual basic 6 Programmers compatible with crystal reports 9 or 9.x versions and it working fine on Windows XP machines. But Windows 7 supports crystal reports versions above 11 only. If you want to setup an application in windows 7, which is designed with visual basic 6 and Crystal Reports 9.2. So You must install Crystal reports run time files on windows 7. Generally you can't install the Crystal Reports 9 in windows 7 but we can do that with some tricks. 

Disable UAC in windows 7

User Account Control (UAC) limits any application installation which is not authorized by an Administrator account. You have to disable the UAC before crystal reports 9 otherwise you cant install it. Let's see how to disable UAC in windows 7.

*Go to Start->Run and type regedit to open Registry editor.
*Navigate to following registry keys
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Policies/System*Search the Value "EnableLUA" and modify that value to 0 (zero).
*Exit from Registry Editor and Restart your system.

Installing Crystal Reports 9.x in Windows 7

1.Open the Crystal Reports 9 setup folder and right click on the file "Setup.exe" and select Run as Administrator.
2. Click Next and the installer will install all components of Crystal Reports 9 Package.
3. After the finishing setup you have to change the compatibility settings for Crystal Reports application. Go to your installation path which is like as below.

C:\Program Files\Crystal Decisions\Crystal Reports 9

4.Right Click on Crw32.exe file and Select Properties. Go to Compatibility tab, tick the checkbox on "Run this program in compatibility mode for:". Then select the OS Windows XP Service pack 2 in the list.That's all. Now you can design the reports and view crystal reports in windows 7.

How To Install CyanogenMod9 On Sony Xperia X10 Mini

The Sony Xperia X10 Mini is a very popular device in demand. Xperia X10 Mini comes with a 600 MHz ARM 11 CPU, 240 x 320 pixels capacitive TFT screen, 5 MP autofocus camera and other goodies. While the Xperia X8 received it’s Ice Cream Sandwich ROM a few days back, XDA Senior Member paul-xxx has announced the availability of CM9 port for the Sony Xperia X10 Mini too. The ROM is pretty stable and there are very less non-working features. This tutorial explains how you can swiftly install CyanogenMod9 on your Xperia X10 Mini without any bummers. Make sure you follow the steps very prudently and have a proper backup of all the important data you need. If you find yourself stuck in a conundrum, feel free to comment below.

What’s working

• Phone
• Data
• Browser
• Audio
• and more

What’s not working

• Camera
• DHCP in WiFi (Info : How to use WiFi without DHCP)
• Hardware/Software video decoder
• FM Radio (No app for radio)

Screen Capture of CyanogenMod9 on Sony Xperia X10 Mini

Prerequisites

• Before you install any ROM on your phone, it is always advisable to take a back up of your phone’s data. Backing up your contacts is easy and you can back up all your contacts to your phone’s SD Card.
• To back up your applications, I recommend you to use ASTRO File Manager which also allows cloud storage.
• Make sure you have enough battery on your device to support the installation. If the device powers off due to lack of battery power, it may brick the device
• Your phone needs to be rooted first

Steps To Install Ice Cream Sandwich on Sony Xperia X10 Mini

1. Download the ROM package from here
2. Connect your device to computer using USB in Mass storage mode and simply copy-paste the file into the SD card.
3. Boot into ClockworkMod Recovery. If you don’t know how to do so, just open ROM Manager and press “Reboot to Recovery”.
4. Once you’re in, select wipe data/factory reset. Then, in advanced, select wipe Dalvik cache as well as wipe cache.
5. After that, Navigate to install zip from sdcard > choose zip from sdcard > Select the ZIP file and wait for it to install (When installing the zip, the bar will stop, don’t freak out. Just wait a few minutes)
6. After installation is complete, Go back to the main menu and select reboot system now
7. That’s it. You now have CyanogenMod9 on your Sony Xperia X10 Mini!

If you face any issues, feel free to comment below and we’ll try our best to help you resolve your problem