How to Find a Stolen or Missing Phone With Android Device Manager

It is important for every android users to activate this options on their device should in case the unexpected happen. Losing your smartphone can be painful but you have lots of options on how to recover it. 

Android Device Manager is a Google’s official and easy-to-use tool to track your Android phone or tablet. The best thing about it is that you don’t need to install an app to be able to track your devices. The only requirement is that your device must be connected to your Google account; location access must be turned on and connected to the internet.

With ADM, you can do these;

>>Make the smartphone to ring for Maximum 5 minutes none stop

>>Lock the phone completely or

>>Wipe all the data and information's stored on the phone

Requirements

>>Turn on location access on your device

>>Make sure you are connected to a google account

>>Have an internet access on the device.

Go to https://www.google.com/android/devicemanager

Login with your google account and track the location of your phone. Simple and easy.

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WhatsApp 4 Major Updates You'll Love With Image Drawing

These are some of the major updates we’ve been waiting for from WhatsApp IM for a very long time which could be worrisome to Snapchat despite the facts that they declined Facebook offer of $3 billion acquisition offer in 2013. 

A lot of features have been introduced to WhatsApp which includes;

>>Front Facing Flash and One Finger Video Zoom: When taking a selfie within the IM, the screen will light up white to brighten your environment… Even though you are in the dark, you’ll be able to take a selfie within WhatsApp messenger. And when you're holding the record button to capture a video, you just need to slide your finger up and down to zoom. These are amazing features.

>>You Can Now Write Text and Draw on Images:

When you take a photo with the WhatsApp camera, you will be able to crop the image, edit the image, type text on the image, and even annotate and draw on top of it. 

>>Bigger Emoji: Single emojis in messages used to appear the same way as all emojis (see the laughing face with tears in the left screenshot below). But in 2.16.256, bigger emojis were implemented so that these single ones would appear a little larger (see the same emoji in the middle screenshot).

>> You’ll now be able to send multiple chats at once while sharing or forwarding messages. The frequent contacts will appear on top while forwarding or sharing messages.

All these features are live in the latest WhatsApp betas that you can download by joining the official Play Store program or download the app from apk mirror v2.16.263 directly.

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Opera Launched Free VPN For Android, Now Available For Download

Opera has finally released a free vpn services for android after months of launching an iOS-based VPN app. The VPN is completely free. You can choose between a number of countries including USA, Canada, Germany, Singapore, and The Netherlands (with more countries coming soon).

The application also includes a built-in ad tracking blocker, to prevent advertising networks from tracking your behavior across websites.



Though it is completely free, but you should know that free things sucks… Opera VPN is not a substitute for a paid VPN. They’ll display ads and will share your data anonymously to third party about your mobile data usage.


Where Can I Download it?

You can download it here.

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MIUI V8 Custom Rom For Infinix X551 Hot Note (MT6592)

Yes, Infinix X551 Hot Note users have not been forgotten. What makes Android device awesome is the ability to tweak it to your taste. I guess you are tired of your present rom, hence you’ll love to try something new… Something new like Xiaomi MiUi v8 Global custom rom. 

First of all, credit goes the guy who ported it Dennis Murumi.

Note: This rom is based on Kitkat… You must be on stock kitkat before you flash this rom.

Features of Miui 8 custom rom for X551

Create scrolling screenshots - an amazing way to share information
· Calculate and convert almost anything with the redesigned Calculator
· Quick ball - the ultimate one-handed control tool
· Personalize your notes with beautiful templates
· Get your photos sorted for you with all-new Gallery
· Dual Apps - create and sign into dual accounts for any app, including WhatsApp, Facebook and more.
· Second space - perfect for times when you need a clear separation in your life
· Video Editing -spice up your videos with filters, text and background music
· Caller ID - automatically identify incoming numbers or find popular numbers when dialing out (India only)
· Hindi T9 - find contacts easily with T9 dialer search (India only)
· Enhanced SMS - SMS accounts of popular businesses now display logos and company names (India only)

MIUI 8 Global Stable ROM Full Changelog

System

Optimization - Sunlight display improvements (08-05)
Messaging
New - Sound for delivered messages in the Settings (07-16)
Home screen
Optimization - Landscape mode for Task manager (07-08)
Optimization - Task Manager stability (07-13)
Optimization - UI details in Task Manager (07-22)

Camera
Optimization - Camera's image quality (08-08)

Gallery
New - Automatic adjustments for photos when sharing (07-21)
New - Delete photos from device only when browsing offline albums (07-26)

Settings
New - Saved and available Wi-Fi networks appear first in the list (07-05)

File Explorer
Fix - Couldn't see files saved from dual apps (06-28)

Clock / Calculator
Optimization - Improved order for frequently used settings (07-01)
Fix - Quick ball disappeared in some cases (08-05

Before You Flash,

>>Make sure you Infinix X551 is rooted

>>Make sure you have Custom recovery installed on your device, e.g Philz touch

>>Back up your stock rom, before you proceed.

Where Can I Download it?

Download Miui V8 custom rom here

How to Flash The Rom?

>>Place the downloaded rom in the root of your external SD card

>>Boot to CWM Recovery Mode (Power Off your Phone and then Press Power Button + Volume Up Button until the Recovery)

>>Go to WIPE menu and select CLEAN TO INSTALL A NEW ROM, confirm when prompted

>>After the wiping is done, navigate to install menu and choose install zip from sdcard1

>>Navigate to the ROM zip and select it to flash... Wait for the flashing procedure to finish

>>Once flashing is done, REBOOT your device

You have now successfully installed MIUI 8 on your Infinix Hot Note X551. Please if you do have any question, don’t hesitate to ask.

Credit: AndroidhQ254

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2 Easiest Ways To Find Direct Download Link of Any Movie in HD Format

I don’t know if you are like me but I love watching movies, it helps me calm my brain after working my self out. It is not all the time we’ll love to go to the cinema to see a movie considering the facts that what you currently have in your hand is a device that can do almost everything.

 

I love movies, latest movies but searching online can be frustrating most atimes but I’ve got a simple tip for you all and it will help you to get any moviedirect download link in seconds without wasting too much time clicking on irrelevant ads.

No long stories, straight to the point. I’ll give you two methods, choose anyone you preferred. It is called Google Dorks method of finding any direct download link of any movie.

Method 1:

>>Open your browser either from your smartphone or PC and simply go towww.google.com

>>Copy and paste the code below in the search bar and add the name of the movie you wish to download after

Code: intitle:index.of? mkv

e.g intitle:index.of? mkv Genius

>>Carefully check from the result page the link that contain your movie, open it and you’ll seethe direct download link

>>Click download, and your download will begin in HD format. No time to waste.

Note: In the case where you have so many result on a particular link, Press CTRL+F and search for your movie. Once seen, click on download and your download will begin.

Method 2:

>>Open your web browser from your smartphone or PC

>>Go to www.google.com  and copy the below code into your search box

Movie Name -inurl:(htm|html|php|pls|txt) intitle:index.of “last modified” (mp4|wma|aac|avi)

>>replace the Movie name with the movie name you wish to download

e.g  Escape Plan -inurl:(htm|html|php|pls|txt) intitle:index.of “last modified” (mp4|wma|aac|avi)

>>here is my direct movie link

 

>>Click on the download link and it will be downloaded in HD quality for free without wasting anytime clicking irrelevant ads.

This trick is also useful for searching any .exe format document by just replacing the mkv or avi at the end.

Hope this is helpful?

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How To Share Apk Files (android app files) Via Whatsapp Messenger

Do you know that you can send apk file (android app file) to your friends and families through whatsapp messenger? A lot of people use this simple method to share apk files especially when they are using whatsapp subscription only. The concept is renaming apk to doc and doc to apk then install. Kindly follow the steps below to see how it works.

As a sender of apk file

=> Locate the apk file you want to share to a friends via whatsapp messenger in your sd card




=> Now press the apk file to select and click menu => Rename








=> Now rename apk to Doc and click Done to apply the changes then press OK to confirm







=> Now is time to send the apk file as doc file via whatsapp, long press the renamed file to select the navigate to share menu options and select whatsapp messenger






=> Now choose the person or group you want to share the file with and send it.





=> Then tell the receiver of the file to download it and locate in his/her sd card inside whatsapp forlder under whatsapp documents and rename the file from doc to apk then install it











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check out what google knows about you

Those of us using Android phones for a very long time might not be aware that google keeps records of your activities. In order words, they monitor you openly. 

Google quietly records many of the conversations you make on google voice or around its products.

The feature works as a way of letting people search with their voice, and storing those recordings presumably lets Google improve its language recognition tools as well as the results that it gives to people.

But you can listen to and delete all of the information that it collects.

To do that, go to Google history page and see all the recordings you’ve made so far.

It also have a long list of all your searches on the internet since the very first day someone introduce you to the internet. 

Go to google history search page to see all what you’ve searched so far on the internet.

Google monitors your activities and keep records of you.

The easiest way to stop Google recording everything is to turn off the virtual assistant and never to use voice search.

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TECNO Camon C8 HiOS OTA Upgrade Guide - Beta Version

Tecno Camon C8A HiOS Beta Version to make your TECNO phone be unique smarter and fun. This Beta size is around 40M. Official version will be released in around 7-10 days.

Requirements
>>Ensure your Device is fully charged or at least about 90% charged.
>>Back up your data, files and every before you proceed.
>>Make sure you are not rooted(not compulsory) to be on a more safer side.

Where Can I Download it?
>>OTA Upgrade version for Build number: C8-H352-A2-L-20160118 only (download here)

>>TCard update version for other built number (download here)
>>HiFlash tool, download here

STEPS
>>Download and unzip the OTA differential package you downloaded from the above link
2. Place update.zip into SD Card root.

3. Insert SD card into mobile T-card slot.
4. With mobile powered off, hold power and volume-up buttons at the same time until startup animation appears.
5. Android and warning label appears.

6. Hold power button alone for 2 seconds then press volume-up without releasing the power button key to enter the following interface.

7. Press volume-down key to select “apply update from SD card”.

8. Press power button to enter the following interface, then press volume-down key to select “Tcard_update.zip”.

9. Press power button to confirm selection for the following interface.

10. Interface automatically changes after process is complete; default selection is set to “reboot system now”, as show in the picture.

11. Press power button to restart and initiate OS.
12. Select “Settings” and then “About Phone”. A change in version number indicates the upgrade was successfully completed.
If you encounter any problems, kindly comment and you'll be proffered with solution.

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How To Opt Out Of Unwanted MTN Advert

Finally it is here, As you know the MTN advert can be sometimes annoying, you may be expecting a message from loved ones or bank alert, then an unwanted advert like Isaiah 43:1 just pop in to your phone. 

Now the solution is here now. 

Finally, MTN listened after so much had been FINED on them by NCC. 

HOW TO OPT OUT

=>> To opt out of all MTN useless adverts, 

=>> dial *123*5*4# and follow the instructions. 

No more 32043, 33070, 5010, 4100, etc. Especially Isa49v........ Only Bank Credit Alerts. 

Save a life today by sharing. It is real because i just opted out of MTN mobile advertising. 

It's very true.

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WhatsApp Latest Version 2.12.493: Allows to Send/recieve Documents Like PDF,PPT

WhatsApp is getting interesting by the day even though they plan to sideline some devices by year ends. This is one of the major reason a businessman will always want to use this app because of its simplicity and promising features. It’s now more than a chatting application… The latest version of WhatsApp now allow you to send documents like PDF from the attachment option.


This is kind of cool, but you need to update to the latest version before you can see this option. 

How Can I update? 
>>Update your whatsapp to the latest version 2.12.493 from Google Play or Download the beta version update here 
>>Once updated, just tap the attachment icon in any chat and choose the new blue document icon, click on the PDF document you want to send and you are good to go.

Things You Should Know About This Latest Update

1. Make sure the person who you are sending the document to also has the latest version.

2. If you are trying to share the document to a group, currently, all members of that group need to have the latest version.

3. In your chat with the person, click on the clip (money clip) that is in the top right-hand corner of the app.

4. Select ‘Document’. The app will then show you all the PDF documents that you are able to share.

5. Attach the document that you want to send. The file limit of 16MB still applies. So if the document is bigger than 16MB you will not be able to send it through WhatsApp. 
6. To receive a PDF document there is nothing that you need to do, save for having the latest version and an internet connection with data to download the file.

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