Android has several special boot modes with a popular one being called Recovery Mode. It has been given that name because most people use it to recover their smartphone from some sort of issue (such as a bootloop). If you run into this case then follow these steps to boot the OnePlus 7 and OnePlus 7 Pro into …
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TWRP and Magisk add a lot of features to a smartphone but it also disables the ability to install official OTA updates. For the Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 and Redmi Note 7 Pro, this means you can’t install these over the air updates using the built-in updater. To bypass this, you will need to manually download and install …
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Xiaomi’s Redmi series always packs a ton of value for its price point but the Xiaomi Redmi 7 may or may not be worth upgrading to. To figure this out, you can look at benchmark scores of the smartphone and compare them to your current phone. You can even use these scores and compare them to other potential …
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Tinkering with Android software can sometimes cause a smartphone to bootloop. There are some who may want to experiment with Magisk and TWRP but only temporarily. Thankfully, there’s a fix for both of these situations. You will want to follow this tutorial to unbrick the Xiaomi Redmi 7, or if you want to return it to stock MIUI …
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This month Google released the next beta version of their mobile operating system, Android Q Beta 3. This was revealed at Google I/O and the company confirmed that Dark Mode was finally making its way into the OS. While this doesn’t change anything that has to do with apps, we can force this using a hidden developer options …
An advantage that smartphones have is the use of native applications. These apps can become even more powerful when they are allowed to perform tasks in the background. At a certain point, an app may want to alert you of various things. This is called a notification and it will sit in Android’s Notification Shade until it’s dismissed. …
The release of Pie, we saw a new navigation system added to the core AOSP version of Android. Google is trying something different with Android Q beta 3 by adding a new, gesture navigation option. However, this feature changes how to activate Google Assistant. So let me show you how to trigger it with the new navigation gestures …
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Over the last 10 years, people have grown tired of running out of battery, being glued to a wall outlet, and missing out on important events in their life. Some OEMs are restricting and disabling unused apps and I want to show you how to stop this from happening on the Samsung Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, and Galaxy …
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Some people are wary about fast charging technology with a smartphone that can cost over $1,000. With most smartphones, this means they are forced to buy a 3rd-party charger that is slower than their stock one. This isn’t the case for the Samsung Galaxy S10, Galaxy S10+, and Galaxy S10e as we can disable the feature via the …
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There are a number of ways to interact with UI elements on an Android device. The most common ones are tapping, swiping and long pressing but some smartphones have more. Apple made this feature popular on iOS and called it Force Touch (or 3D Touch) but Deep Press is the official name of the feature on Android. Apple …