Root What can we safely do with the kyocera hydro?

[kcerica]

I'm not really sure what is safe to do with this phone. I guess it's kinda limited having the locked bootloader and I don't want to chance anything since there's no custom recovery.

I rooted the phone so now I am wondering what can be safely removed from the system. I think it's only going to be used as a wifi device so I'm not sure if I can safely remove the phone app and I want to remove the messenger and voicemail. I was also planning on removing BoostZone, google play magazines, google plus, homescreen tips, mobile id... I'm not sure about android keyboard & dictionary (since it already has swype installed we shouldn't need 2,) & I want to remove the launcher and browser and replace it with a different launcher and browser. I don't see anything for the lockscreen so I'm not sure if it's tied in with the launcher or not.

I know with the locked bootloader I can't install custom kernels or ROMs but I would also like to underclock it a little to help save battery and change some transition animations to make it smoother. I'm not what the limitations are with cpu apps and other system modification apps that you can install from the playstore that requres root.

I'm also wondering if Xposed framework works with this phone.

I know this is a lot. I'd really appreciate it if anyone could point me in the right direction or let me know if there's anything I should absolutely avoid. (After reading through this forum I noticed it looks like Beats audio doesn't play nice with this phone but IDK if there are any other problem apps or mods.)

 

[ManWithCamera]

I bought this phone yesterday at Target for $9. I'm never going to activate the phone. I just got it because it was a dirt cheap Android device.

I love the Xposed framework, so I'll probably try it on this phone. If I do, I'll let you know. It's too bad we can't get a proper recovery on the phone. I wish they'd just ship these phones with a good recovery, even if they modified it so that all it could do was make/restore backups, it'd be great.

 

[ManWithCamera]

By the way, I installed the Xposed Framework on the Hydro and it's working so far. I installed the "Xposed Torch" and the "Advanced Power Menu". So far, both seem to be working correctly.

 

[Handsome Jack]

By the way, I installed the Xposed Framework on the Hydro and it's working so far. I installed the "Xposed Torch" and the "Advanced Power Menu". So far, both seem to be working correctly.

Does Xposed Framework take extra RAM on top of the stock ROMs? Because this Hydro only has 512 mb.

 

[C3Pdr0id]

Don't remove the phone, messaging or vm apps... I now have a GS4 so didn't need the above & removed them.... duh live n learn..
Now it constantly gets an error message. as soon as you acknowledge it it pops up again ... making it virtually unusable. I tried a factory reset & that didn't help.

 

[Theguy35]

Root apps in the google play store.

RAM booster works really well & my phone is really much faster now. Set it on low memory boost.

No-frills CPU worked pretty good, but apps would crash. There isn't really a point to it unless you want to underclock the CPU because it pretty much runs at max capacity all the time anyway. Be sure if you uninstall this app to clear the app data before you do. Otherwise you're CPU could get stuck on the frequency you left it on.

The internet booster worked good to. Internet was much faster.

Well that's about all I can confirm that works, or at least works for me. There were some other apps that worked but I didn't think to list because they have a lot of downfalls to them
Hope this helps you out.

P.S. If you set the CPU at a minimum of 124Mhz or whatever & a maximum of 700mhz whatever & set the govern to conservative you can charge you're battery really really fast. Just be careful. It seemed like my hydro wanted to crash at too low a frequency

 

[Theguy35]

New root apps I've found in the play store.

SDcard booster. Really works.

Performance booster. Really works.

Digitizer booster. Really works.

& battery saver. Really works, but if you're phone is sitting idle it will drain the battery faster. It's only for conserving battery when using apps.

These apps are all made by gejos enterprise, & you can run them all together. All of the booster apps I've listed by gejos enterprise. The RAM & Internet booster apps are made by gejos too.

Hope you all like them as much as I do. These apps have increased the speed of my device over 50%. & I'm using them on the Kyocera Hydro Android 4.0.4