Some Tips for Nexus Devices and others running Android 4.4

Enable Battery Percent (Without Root) in Android 4.4

To enable battery percentage in the battery icon on the status bar, install the app below from PlayStore. Open it and select "Enable Battery Percent". Then reboot your phone. You should see the battery percentage when your device reboots.

Note: Keep in mind that you can only see the battery percent if the battery is empty enough beacuse the percentage text is white on the white battery background. And no, you cannot change the percentage colour.

This should work on any device running Android 4.4

Play Link :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.kroegerama.android4batpercent

Round Your Screen Corners

Roundr is an app that rounds the corners of your screen. You can use various settings to adjust the radius of the corners and which corners to modify. This app can be very useful to try out a new homescreen design. Bring out the designer in yourself by using this app with various homescreen designs to suit it.

You can blacklist certain apps to disable rounded corners while using them.

Play Link :
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=mohammad.adib.roundr&hl=en_GB

Customize LED notifications

LED Blinker

LED Blinker lets LED on your phone show your missed calls, SMS, Facebook messages, Viber messages in different colours. Unlike other similar apps it is very battery friendly.

If your phone doesn't have LED hardware then it will use your phone's screen to show notifications.
Warning: If you use a Samsung S3 (Mini) you have to disable Samsung TTS (text-to-speech) under settings -> apps manager -> all (on the right) and Google TTS (text-to-speech).

Play Link ;
(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ledblinker)

Light Flow

A good alternative to LED Blinker is Light Flow. It lets you to take control over your notification LED if available on your phone. It doesnot have the feature to show notifications on the phone's screen like LED Blinker.

(https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rageconsulting.android.lightflowlite)

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