Enable landscape mode on Google Nexus 4 stock launcher? Do we really need that? I believe most of the people do not use Nexus 4 home screen in landscape mode. And usually use it in portrait mode. Anyway, here is a solution to enable it for those need landscape mode home screen.
Samsung firmware for its Android devices is almost the same. And Samsung is using CSC codes to control features available on Android devices and countries. So by editing the CSC feature.xml (or others.xml), you can enable some disabled features. This secret CSC is working on latest Jelly Bean firmware for Samsung devices like Samsung Galaxy S3, Galaxy Note 2… Not all CSC codes are working on your Samsung devices but no harm to try them. Note – root access is required.
Enjoy latest ClockworkMod Recovery 6.0.2.3 in PhilZ Touch 3 Full Touch Enhanced CWM for Samsung Galaxy Note II. PhilZ Touch 3 CWM has lot of features like exFAT support on external SD card, backup / restore EFS, time stamped kernel backup & flash kernel, flash modem image, adb root in recovery, Open Recovery Script (ORS) support, Aroma File Manager support… Want to try latest and greatest ClockworkMod Recovery for Samsung Galaxy Note 2? Try this…
Like all other Samsung Galaxy Devices, Samsung Galaxy Note II has PDA, PHONE and CSC too. PDA is build version of the firmware, PHONE is baseband / modem version and CSC is consumer software customization which specified to geographical region and carriers. CSC contains the software packages specific to particular region, carrier branding and also APN settings for data connection, MMS for service provider. You can change to other CSC if your firmware has multi CSC packages.
Note – By changing CSC will factory reset your Galaxy Note 2. All applications and data will be deleted. Make sure that you make backup before do so.
Err… CyanogenMod ROM damaged my 64GB exFAT SanDisk microSDXC Card again when I tried it on Samsung Galaxy S3. CyanogenMod ROM like CM9 or CM10 does not support SD card in exFAT file format. It can’t detect SD card at all. And when you restore back to Samsung firmware, micro SD card will be prompted as “Damaged SD card ~ SD card is damaged. Try reformatting it.” No worry, there is an easy way to fix this issue and recover your SD card back with all files and data intact…
