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...
