Welcome to the ultimate Samsung Good Lock 2021 Guide!
I’m going to tell you how to install and explain its useful features.
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\Alright, first of all, let me tell you what Good Lock is.
It’s a UI customization application, the best way to describe good lock is to say that
it’s a custom ROM that requires no flashing and no root.
Samsung has given a total of 15 modules in the Good Lock app.
Each module helps you customize your phone in a different way.
Every year, Samsung introduces new features in the Good Lock app, the features that gain
a positive feedback, they end up making their way to the final Samsung UI.
For example, we had nice shot back in the day, all the features of nice shot are now
natively available so the nice shot is obsolete now.
Anyways, there are two ways to install the Good Lock 2021.
The first is to get it from the Galaxy Store.
The bottleneck here is the availability.
Good Lock is available only in a few countries officially, so if you’re not living in one
of those countries, you won’t be able to install Good Lock or any of its modules, this
is also a reason for Good Lock to be not so popular.
The 2nd way is the one that I use because Good Lock isn’t available in my region either.
This is to get a Good Lock alternative, the Nice Lock app, available for free in the Play
Store, and install the Good Lock modules manually.
So, if you have Good Lock available in your region, good for you, go ahead install it
and install all of its modules, if its not available, follow my instructions.
First of all, open the Google Play Store and install the Nice Lock app.
Now fetch the names of all the modules from the Nice Lock app and download their APK files
from a credible site like APKMirror.
I have also provided the links of all modules below; you can download them from there too.
Install all the modules one by one manually on your phone, I have already installed them
all.
We are all set for the customization now.
In case you’re wondering how I got this 7x7 formation of icons on my app drawer, this
is also done through the good lock, I’ll show you this in a bit, let’s take a look
at the first module first, the Multistar.
Multistar is all about multi windows.
You can launch multi windows by pressing the recent keys, enable multi windows to all apps
that do not support it, pop-up view screen zoom option, stretch the app size to the camera
hole, and more.
Next up is the LockStar.
Lockstar is about lock screen customization, you can change how and where the clock, notifications,
and icons appear on the lock screen of your phone.
Next is the taskchanger, this does not work anymore because it has now moved to the Home
Up module, will get to that in a bit.
Clockface will let you change the clock’s look on the Always-on display or lock screen
of your phone, you can create a completely custom clock too, the clockfaces in clockface
module are quite interesting by the way.
NavStar will let you change the look and behavior of the navigation bar, first of all, you can
theme the buttons and also change their location, you can show and hide the buttons, the swipe
gestures have very good customization here, you can change the sensitivity of the gestures,
and also apply a custom color to the navigation tray at the bottom.
Next up is the Quick Star, which can modify the quick panel of the phone, first of all,
you can either apply an in-built theme to the quick panel or you can create your own
theme too with the help of theme park.
Next up, a
feature that many of you are going to love, you can manipulate the icons appear in the
status bar, show the network information, expand the panel, you can show or hide all
of these icons right here, this actually works pretty well.
From the clock settings, you can add AM/PM to the time, change the location of the clock,
if you want it on the right side, this is how you’re going to do it.
You can show prioritize notifications w.r.t the most recent activity on the phone.
The routines do not work because routines have been incorporated into the in-built Bixby,
now we have Routines+ instead with some advanced functionality.
Edge Lighting does not work, it is also obsolete now.
One Handed Operation+ is just an advanced one-handed mode.
It adds gestures to the left and right side of the phone, using these gestures you can
control the entire phone with one hand.
This is not the typical one-handed mode where it pushes down the screen to a smaller view,
it basically allows you to use the standard display of the phone with one hand, you can
change the size of the gesture area, customize the handle color, change the vibration level.
Edge Touch will let you define the areas where you want to prevent accidental touches, nothing
more than that.
Nice Catch, as its name suggests, it there to catch a fish :P
Jokes apart, this app does something really interesting.
Its more like a detective lying silently inside your phone, it can capture the activity of
apps intelligently, for example, it can tell you which app made your phone vibrate, which
phone used the ringer, which app is showing ads, which app woke the screen up and a lot
more, this is one of the most useful modules in my opinion.
Sound Assistant is up next, it enhances the functionality of the sound panel on the phone,
you can add new features to the volume panel including the Bluetooth control, the equalizer,
and live captions, the location of this volume panel can be manipulated too.
This is how the custom volume panel from the sound assistant looks like.
Furthermore, the volume of Individual apps can be controlled using this app, in short,
you can take complete control over the sound output of your phone.
Notistar is a notification management app, it allows you to manage and search the notifications,
but this app right now doesn’t work, I’m not sure about the reason, however, it’s
a pretty easy app to use as I remember when I used it back in the day.
The NiceShot, well, as I said, all features of Nice Shot are now incorporated as a standard
in the One UI, so this app is obsolete as well.
Next up is a really interesting app, the Theme Park.
Theme Park allows creating custom themes on your phone.
In Theme Park, you can create your own keyboard, you can design your own quick panel and the
volume panel.
When you click on create new, it will give you some pre-built layouts matching the colors
of your current wallpaper, you can choose the colors from the bottom of the screen,
at the top you have the dark mode control.
Theme Park is no joke at all, it’s a huge app and it needs a lot of practice and aesthetic
sense to use properly.
After Theme Park, another UI customization module is the Home Up.
It customizes the home screen and application drawer of the phone.
First of all, you can change the home and app screen grid up to 7x7, the phone originally
has a formation of 5 x 6, so this is a pretty neat option and that’s how I have this formation
on the home and app screen of my phone.
You can loop the pages on both the home and app drawer, and also hide the app labels.
Next up you can change how the folder opens, you can change the folder to pop-up, remove
the folder title suggestion and also change the folder grid.
Backup and restore will take a backup of your created layout, the share manager will let
you chose the apps that appear when you click on the share button in your phone.
You can also remove the share apps that you don’t like and also change the entire layout
of the share panel from here.
And lastly, we have the Task Changer here.
This is what many have been looking for but because the original task changer is obsolete,
most people assume that it no longer works, however, the task changer is now a part of
the home up and it still works.
These are all layout options, my favorite here is the vertical list and this is how
it looks, the vertical list with circular type looks really cool, you can add a search
bar in the task manager, use gestures to control the apps, launch multi-window screen or add/remove
the recommended apps.
Really cool, isn’t it?
Pentastic, I don’t know what the hell is this, it doesn’t work either, I think it
might be compatible with the Samsung Note devices.
Keys Cafe will let you create your own customized keyboard, you can do this in the theme park
too and if you just need a custom keyboard alone, the Keys Cafe is the way to go.
Routines+ now replaces the Routines, with Routines+ you can schedule the tasks using
Bixby, Routines+ is more of an automation application to automate almost every single
task on your phone.
It’s got location-based quick access so that if you’re at a certain location and
you want a button to perform a specific task only at that location, the routines+ will
let you do so.
You can also perform context-based tasks using the original Bixby Routines in your phone.
The originally Bixby Routines are actually more powerful than the Routines+.
File Guardian is a file manager that can restore your permanently deleted files and a lot more.
The File Guardian doesn’t work on my Galaxy A72, but it is quite a neat application.
Battery Tracker is a very advanced battery tracking app that gives you the battery consumption
of all apps in detail.
Battery Guardian gives you extended control over the application behavior of your phone
to save battery.
App Booster automatically optimizes the app on the phone for better performance.
As you can see that it tells me that it can improve the phone’s performance by about
15% and it’s going to take about 15 mins to run this.
The Thermal Guardian keeps an eye on the CPU temperature of your phone.
It automatically slows down the phone if the temperature hits a defined threshold.
You can lower down or increase this threshold depending on your personal choice.
Lastly, we have the Memory Guardian.
This keeps an eye on the RAM usage of the phone.
As you can see that it’s telling how much memory it can clean right now and it's also
showing the RAM consumption of all the apps underneath.
You can give a quick boost to the performance of your phone by clearing the memory.
And that’s all with the modules of the Samsung Good Lock 2021.
I am planning a UI customization video and also a performance enhancement video using
Good Lock 2021.
Let me know if you guys have any specific requests or you want me to cover one of these
modules in detail.
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