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Immersive Mode on Unrooted Devices with GMD Full Screen Immersive Mode

Get immersive mode without the need of a rooted device. Works for Kitkat and up.

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Everyone likes screen real estate--no question about that. The sole idea of having more space available for your clutter of icons, widgets, and so on is what has fueled phone manufacturers to come up with screens so large that they barely fit in our pockets anymore. We do, however, always look for more, and one sure thing that many people could (and do) away with are the soft buttons (for devices with no hardware buttons) and the status bar.

Gathering usage data for various internal components in Android has never been easy. Sure, some information is available in performance settings on certain ROMs. But in some stock UIs, it's either cumbersome or impossible to track your usage. Naturally, this information is quite useful when your phone suffers from unexpected battery drain thanks to high CPU respource consumption.

If you are a music maniac, you're more than likely annoyed when you receive pointless notifications like "Your troops are ready for battle” or “eagleeyetom mentioned you at XDA-Developers." This can be especially annoying while you are listening to the music. XDA offers thousands of applications that can enable or disable some features, so those pesky notifications aren't anything special.