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Tips, tricks and tweaks for power boosting your Android phone

Tweak your Android phone​

Improve overall performance, prolong battery life

[revised]


FOR ROOTED PHONES ONLY!​





Contents:

1. build.prop
2. sysctl.conf
3. init.d
4. V6 supercharge
5. APK optimisation
6. odexing
7. stock camera high quality video rec&100% jpeg quality
8. misc.
9. FUGU tweaks
10. tweaks package


!WARNING!

BEFORE you start modifying/tweaking any system files, make a BACKUP!

In that case you're save and you have the option to restore the system if you mess something up!


1. build.prop

For editing build.prop you'll need a file explorer like Root Explorer which is a paid app, or you can use any root enabled file explorer.
Solid Explorer is a really good one!
build.prop is located in /system.

You can also use Android Commander to pull the file to your PC, edit it, then push it back to the phone.


Here's a collection of build.prop tweaks which should improve performance:

NOTE: I've commented values (#) which I'm not really sure about what they do exactly. Or I find they are optional.
Test them yourself if you want. remove # in front of line, if you want to enable it.

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# MEDIA TWEAKS-----------------

media.stagefright.enable-player=true
media.stagefright.enable-meta=true
media.stagefright.enable-scan=true
media.stagefright.enable-http=true
media.stagefright.enable-rtsp=true
media.stagefright.enable-record=true

# photo/video quality
ro.media.enc.jpeg.quality=100
ro.media.enc.hprof.vid.bps=8000000 #control video bitrate (stock cam app only)


# MISCELLANEOUS TWEAKS-----------------

wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=180
#If you don
 

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