Get Samsung Galaxy Edge Style Notifications On Your Android Device...

Get Edge-style notifications about incoming phone calls on any Android device

The Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge came with an innovative way of displaying notifications - illuminating the bevelled edge along the side of the screen. Now even if you don’t have an S6 Edge, you can still get a taster of this Edge display using the Edge Color Notifications app.
The drawback is that no device other than the S6 Edge has that bevelled edge, so the app compensates by illuminating the edges of your screen with animations instead. You can also assign specific colours to your important contacts, so you can see who’s calling at a glance. You can even tell the app to reserve animations for the contacts you’ve assigned a colour to, so if you see an Edge-style notification, you’ll know someone important is calling!

STEPS TO STYLE...

1. Enable settings

Download the Edge Color Notifications app from the Play store and launch the app. To set up Edge Color Notifications, open the side menu and select Home. Enable both the People Edge and Phonecall notification options. Open the side menu and select Phone Call Settings.

2. Customise Your Columns

You can customise the Edge effects for when you receive a phone call. This includes changing the width of the animated columns (so the effect is more noticeable or subtle) and changing the column’s default colour. You can also choose from a list of animations.

3. Left, Right Or Both

One of the most important changes you can make is choosing which side of the screen your animations will appear: left, right or both. If you select the Full Border animation, your columns appear around every side of the screen, regardless of what you select here.

4. Assign specific colours

By default, Edge Color Notifications will apply the same colour to every single person in your contact lists, but you’ll usually get more value out of the app by assigning specific colours to people. To do this, open the side menu and select Contacts Colors.

5. Choose a new colour

You’ll see a list of all your contacts, with the same default colour next to each contact. To assign someone their own colour, tap the block of colour that appears next to their name and choose a new colour from the pop-up that appears. Tap OK to save your changes.

6. Be Selective

Once you’ve finished assigning colours, you can restrict Edge Colour so that it only displays the Edge animations for contacts that you’ve assigned a specific colour to. If this is the case, return to Phone Call Settings and select Only show contacts with specific color set.

Enjoy your Edge notification Style device...

Restrict permissions with XPrivacy

Decide what personal info and hardware apps can access

It was recently announced that the next generation of Android, Android M, will give users granular control over app permissions. However, if you’ve got a rooted device you can already do this with the XPrivacy module. This lets you to select apps and deny them access to various information on your phone. As well as this, it will also let you fool your phone to protect your privacy. You can manually input a location, new number and a host of other details so an app believes you’re elsewhere or sends the wrong phone number to apps to keep your real details safe. Read on to find out how to install XPrivacy, block apps from mining your data and change your settings to keep your identity secret.

Steps :- 

1. Install XPrivacy

To begin, ensure your phone is rooted and you have the Xposed Framework installed. Then either go to the Xposed Module Repository (http://goo.gl/KK8yMB) or search for [Root] XPrivacy Installer in the Google Play store and download the free app.

2. See your apps list

Reboot your device. Head into the Xposed Installer app and tick the box next to XPrivacy. Reboot your phone again and this should cause XPrivacy to become active. If this is the case, open up XPrivacy and you will see your full list of apps.

3. Fool your phone 

Tap the menu in the top right and hit Settings. This is where you can trick your phone into giving out fake details. Change your location, phone number or any of the other options. When apps read this information it will take its details from here.

4. Deny specific permissions

Tap on a particular app and a screen will appear showing all the permissions you have granted it. By pressing the tick next to it, the app will believe the data in your new Settings list, such as your pretend location.

5. Restart your handset

Once you have selected the permissions you want to remove from the account, restart your phone. When it turns back on, the app should now be reading the fake data. Remember apps sometimes require genuine data to work, such as Google Maps.

6. Block all permissions

If you want to perform a blanket deny on all permissions for an app, hit the tick box next to the app name and it will automatically tick everything off for you. This is a particularly useful procedure for games because they shouldn’t need to access anything.