Owners of the Core Prime smartphone can now rejoice after we have found the way to root Samsung Galaxy Core Prime Duos handsets. The guide is a little harder than usual where we would normally just flash a rooting tool like the CF...
These are the instructions to root Samsung Galaxy Note 5 on Android 5.1.1 Lollipop. Google did not make it easy to get the system internals unchained this time for those running one of the final version of Lollipop before the Mars...
We live in a world today where it seems just about every company wants to send you a notification. Have you ever been woken up by an email from a company that you never heard of before, let alone one that you do know of? Or perhap...
If you want to advance past using your Samsung Galaxy S6 like everyone else does with accepting over the air software updates a few times a year, you should give manual updates a try. Experienced Samsung Galaxy S6 users usually ha...
These are the steps to follow if you want to take a screenshot on Samsung Galaxy S6. We all know how common taking a screenshot from a computer is for our daily tasks, the same can be said for many people when using smartphones. Y...
You might not believe it, but with the way technology has advanced over recent years, you no longer have to connect a smartphone to a computer. By taking advantage of the cloud services, you can sync almost everything without phys...
For those who might not already know, the official Android 6.0 Marshmallow is now out as a factory image for several Google Nexus devices. The Google Nexus 5X is a new device that comes pre-loaded with Android 6.0 Marshmallow out ...
Nowadays, you can take HDR photos using smartphone apps. Some smartphones even integrated this feature into their native camera apps. Now, if you’re totally clueless as to what it is all about, HDR stands for “High Dynamic Range” ...
If you spend loads of hours in front of a computer like me, your eyes might get more sensitive to the brightness of a display than what they would have had you spent less hours in front of the computer. Sometimes my eyes can get s...
DooMLoRD, a talented and popular hacker associated with XDA developers, has come out with a new rooting method for the Sony Xperia SP C5302 smartphone. The guide uses a one-click rooting method that’s easy to use; however, h...
With Android, we usually have a setting for the screen to turn off after some seconds and not minutes. The short time is necessary to reserve as much smartphone or tablet battery as we can. While that is great for most occasions i...
In Android, the bootloader is code that runs before the device boots the operating system. Within that code is the instructions on how to boot the operating system kernel. The bootloader instructs your kernel to boot normally if l...
In Windows, system tray is a term most people use to refer to the area at the bottom right corner that has the clock, system icons (volume, network, etc.), and all other background program icons. It usually looks messy because sof...
The following guide shows you how to install TWRP recovery on Huawei MediaPad X2. Once you have installed the custom recovery on your MediaPad device, you can upload zip files. Those zip files are the key to you installing a custo...
One of the hassles with owning a smartphone or tablet running Android is backing up. We always hear it’s best to backup the data routinely, but we seldom do due to the fact that it’s confusing for most. Part of the rea...
When we talk about a bootloader, we are talking about code that runs on a device before the Android operating system runs. The key to understanding the bootloader is in the name itself. It’s the code loading during the booti...
Much like with Samsung devices, the OnePlus handsets come with an EFS partition. It’s the EFS partition that stores important data for your device such as the IMEI number. Those of you who tinker with the operating system an...
These are the instructions to root Nexus 6P on Android 6.0 Marshmallow. The same guide will show you how to install a custom recovery on your device, since you must get root access using that recovery. REQUIREMENTS You need to fir...
These are the guidelines to install TWRP recovery on Google Nexus 6P. TWRP recovery is the first recovery to come out for the Nexus devices. As such, it’s developed a strong following with those who own Nexus devices. In jus...
Start Menu is one of the demanding features of Windows 10. A lot of people just dislike the Windows 8’s Start Screen. With Windows 10, Microsoft may satisfy half part of that since the new Start Menu is a combination of the...
These are the guidelines to root Google Nexus 5 on Android 6.0 MRA58K Marshmallow. That’s the model number of the build that comes with the official factory image; not a developer preview that we have known for the last few ...
These are the guidelines to install CWM recovery on Google Nexus 6 running Android 6.0 Marshmallow with the build number MRA58K. Due to the sensitive nature of the custom recovery and rooting guides for Nexus devices, we have to b...
Owners of the Google Nexus 7 2013 can update to the latest Android 6.0 Marshmallow software update by installing a factory image that’s available. The first devices to get the over the air update and to have the 6.0 Marshmal...
If you want to be able to root the Google Nexus 7 2013 running Android 6.0 Marshmallow MRA58K, first you must install a custom recovery on the tablet. Once you have the custom recovery installed, you can enter the recovery mode an...
Saving passwords on login forms is probably a standard feature in any web browser. As a browser built for modern web, Microsoft Edge can’t exclude this feature. More than that, you not only can manage your saved passwords in the b...
Losing your important data because of a corrupted hard drive can be really troublesome. What makes it worse is if you forget to create a backup. You’re left without a choice; secretly hoping for a miracle to happen. Well, lucky fo...
While many people cannot wait to update to a fresh operating system, others are reluctant to try knowing well that they are bound to come across a few problems that give the headaches along the way. The usual headaches have to do ...
These are the guidelines to root Nexus 9 on Android 6.0 Marshmallow with build number MRA58K. The MRA58K build is the final factory image build number after the official release; this is not a developer preview build any more. Onc...
These are the guidelines to install TWRP recovery on Google Nexus 9 running Android 6.0 Marshmallow. After you finish the guide on installing TWRP recovery on Google Nexus 6, you can follow the guide through on how to root the Goo...
If you’ve been online for as long as I have, you might remember the days when you noticed the occasional person with an animated GIF Twitter profile picture. Twitter then went and made the GIF against Twitter’s policy ...
These are the guidelines to root Samsung Galaxy Xcover 3. You can follow this guide to install a custom recovery on your device. Once you have that custom recovery installed, you can access it to install zip files. It’s that...
If you are away from home and find yourself around a live Ethernet connection, but without a wireless access point, you can create your own Ad Hoc WiFi hotspot and use it with a wireless device. The downside is that it won’t...
A custom recovery is a unique recovery environment that can do all the same things as the stock recovery. However, it can also do some additional tasks. With a custom recovery, you can install ROM zip files and take the device awa...
Unlocking the bootloader of the Motorola Moto X Play is the first step to take if you want to be able to get root access in the future. Without an unlocked bootloader it’s often impossible to root an Android device. These ar...
Back in the days when the Samsung Galaxy Ace 2 first came out, it was the ClockworkMod recovery and not the TWRP recovery that was the most popular custom recovery to install on devices. If you too prefer ClockworkMod, you can lea...
