Customise in two steps - Give hardware little care and tweak software.
Theme:
It's too mainstream to use a mobile stock. A device needs protection and style that meets our personality.
Apply a skin for a new style. This is a challenge, and I took advantage of dbrand's pricing and product policies and purchased 3 sets to refresh the look after a few days. Here's set for my 3T
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This can get funkier.
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Skins protects the original body from little scratches and dust residue. May use a themed back case instead of a skin, but that won't stop dust from sticking to the device.
Protection:
Using a skin doesn't mean the device is safe. So I'll let it wear a transparent case with thick sides and dust plugs.
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Make it mine:
Looks are to spot it but the way I theme and tweak OS is what makes the mobile unique. Placement of the icons, status bar items, icon packs, overlays changes and so my emphasis is on this.
Root and debloat the device in step one.
Magisk is really magic to beautify the performance.
Xposed used to be of higher preference until I needed to pass the safetynet for banking apps.
I prefer to use
Josefin Sans as a system-wide font.
TypeFace does the job for me.
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Nova Prime, FunKong combo suits my needs and has been my go-to choice for a long time. Place highly used apps on the home screen, dock and hide the junk / least ones from the app drawer. All icons are not the best provided by default, so change them to taste.
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Keep the base dark, tried a few of my favourite themes being
star wars theme with red accents to be inline with the red dragon,
Razer theme with all greens for the carbon green back or a golden yellow
pirate treasure for the gold metallic.
Substratum is a gift for a complete makeover.
Ozone comes handy to theme basic components of OOS and
pitch black and swift black for gapps along with a few other apps,
Rounded UI,
Transparent for transparent notification bar. I prefer rounded recents, having eight QS.
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Match wallpaper and accent with outer shell to keep them in sync.
Standard
display size is a little large for me so move ahead and set dpi to 520 under developer settings.
The desktop & lock screen needs to be super clean except for the
KWGT customised widgets for the clock, weather, and calendar. For the status bar, centre clock, signal bar on the left, and notifications on the right is my choice.
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Gesture support makes it easier to access functions. Double tap home to sleep, back for camera, recents for split screen. Toggle the default off-screen gestures for music, flashlight, camera, double tap screen to wake, three finger swipe for screenshot.
Same way goes to custom ROMs however most of the job gets done in the baked in kitchen. Not to mention the Security settings as I consider them Setting up device rather than customising it.
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