How to Speed Up a Android Smartphone

One of the disadvantages of retaining a phone after the expiration of a two-year contract -- as many of us do -- is that those older phones have accumulated a few years' worth of digital gunk.

They're clogged up like an aging sewer on the wrong side of town.

Just like on a PC, bits of app and OS code become discombobulated -- orphaned from the parent program. Onboard digital debris becomes disoriented like a drunk stumbling out of a favored hole-in-the-wall; jumbled lethargy sets in, and the device can take forever to start or become sticky in operation.

Well, just like a PC -- or a run-down apartment house, for that matter -- you can freshen up a gloopy smartphone. Here's how to go about speeding up a slowing Android smartphone.


 
Get Rid of Superfluous Apps

The purpose of this procedure is not so much to free space but to remove any apps that might be performing poorly. Apps can contain all sorts of trouble-prone, permissions-based polling, checking and syncing.

Step 1: Open the Settings area by touching the Settings cogwheel-like icon. Then scroll through to the Apps menu item. In older versions of Android, it's labeled Applications.

Step 2: Touch the Downloaded tab and scroll through the list of apps. These are the apps that you've installed over the years.

Step 3: Touch the app label for any app that you haven't used in six months and press Clear Cache, then Clear Data and then Disable or Uninstall, depending on options proffered.

Tip: Be ruthless here and purge anything you're not using -- it's a lot easier than identifying rogue behavior app-by-app.

Step 4: Test by restarting the phone and unscientifically identifying whether performance has improved. Key benchmarks are time-to-start and speed-of-scroll between home screens.

If the phone is feeling nimble again, you've identified your issue.

Make Some Space

Step 1: Open the Apps menu item again from within Settings.

Step 2: Choose Options and then Sort by size.

Step 3: Scroll through the first few apps -- the most memory-hungry -- and clear the caches by pressing the Clear Cache button within each App label. This will free memory, allowing more operating headroom. Then test.

Step 4: Check storage by opening the Settings area again. Then scroll through to the Storage menu item.

View the Internal Storage graphical bar. If it's full, with little space being indicated as available, install LeveloKment's app Storage Analyser, available free in the Google Play store, and run it.

Tip: This app will identify the largest files on your device -- files that may be phantom -- and allow you to delete or move them off the device, thus freeing space. Then test.

Reinstall the Factory Stock Software

If the previous steps haven't solved the problem, this likely will. Like rehab (or the drunk tank) for our wrong-side-of-the-tracks inhabitant, this operation may sound like a big deal and a lot of work, and unfortunately it is, because you have to reconfigure your apps.

Step 1: Open the Backup and Reset menu item from Settings and check Backup My Data along with your Google account details if prompted.

Tip: Leave the phone connected to the Internet overnight if you are newly creating a backup. This will give the Google servers time to pluck the settings data like WiFi connections and passwords, which it will restore later. You can skip this, but you'll have to re-enter a bunch more stuff manually.

Step 2: Select Factory Data Reset from the same menu and follow the prompts to perform a full wipe and OS reinstall.

Tip: Before a reset save, off-device, any internal storage-stored media files, like captured photographs. A reset wipes internal storage.

Step 3: Allow the phone to restart and follow the prompts to set up your Google account on the device anew.

Tip: If your downloaded apps don't immediately show, you can kick-start the installation from Google's Play store My Apps menu item.

Step 4: Reconfigure your apps' settings.

Tip: This is the tried-and-true method to get the phone back to stock and a just-out-of-box state. Avoid restoring from backups in this case because you may reintroduce the issue or issues.

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iPhone 7 Draws Tepid Notices

The iPhone 7 may be the best version of Apple's smartphone to date, but it's garnering lukewarm reactions from reviewers and pundits.

The practical improvements in the new iPhone are praiseworthy, wrote Andrew Cunningham in his review for Ars Technica, but he cautioned would-be buyers about the price they would have to pay for the upgrade.

"The iPhone 7 is a very good phone with the sorts of logical, useful upgrades that Apple typically delivers with new hardware," Cunningham wrote. "Waterproofing and better battery life have been common iPhone feature requests for years, and the camera and speed improvements are nothing to sneeze at, but you'll need to buy into Apple's vision of the future if you want to get them."

No Buttons or Wires

That vision includes a world without buttons or wires.

Among the new features in iPhone 7 is the replacement of a physical home button with pressure sensors and haptic vibration motors that simulate the feel of a button.

"It's clear that Apple is continuing its approach of removing any mechanical moving parts from their devices where possible," IHS Markit Senior Director Ian Fogg told TechNewsWorld.

Apple also has omitted the headphone jack in the new iPhone.

"This move was done with the clear vision of making the iPhone experience completely wireless in the future," Creative Strategies President Tim Bajarin told TechNewsWorld.

Prototype Phone?

While some reviewers saw the iPhone 7 as a harbinger of Apple things to come, they couldn't hide their disappointment in the product in their hands.

"The entire time I was using the iPhone 7, I felt like I had a prototype of next year's rumored drastic iPhone redesign disguised as an iPhone 6," Nilay Patel wrote in The Verge.

"All those bold bets on the future are legitimately exciting," he continued, "but here in the present using the iPhone 7 in a case feels a lot like using an iPhone 6s with a weirder home button and more adapters."

There's more to the new iPhone than the here and now, David Pierce, writing for Wired, also suggested.

"So, no, the iPhone 7 won't blow your mind with its design or features," he noted.

"It's still a fantastic phone. And philosophically, it feels like Apple is throwing open a door. The iPhone 7 might not be a revolution, but it might be the catalyst for lots of them," Pierce continued. "Your phone will be better in a few months, and even better a few months after that. And wouldn't that be exciting?"

Playing Catch-Up

With iPhone 7, Apple is just keeping pace with its competition, according to a number of reviewers, including Geoffrey Fowler of The Wall Street Journal.

"Last year is when Apple should have put [the iPhone 7] on sale," he wrote. "Now Apple's just playing catch-up to Samsung, which added an equivalent camera and waterproofing to its Galaxy S7 six months ago."

Apple is also behind in display technology, with competitors already moving to OLED screens, maintained David McQueen, a research director at ABI Research.

"There is also still no mention of wireless charging or quick charge to the added listed of features, which surely must become a necessity now that the headphone jack has been removed," he told TechNewsWorld.

"For a 'major' upgrade year, consumers may feel a little short-changed when balancing between what has been added and what has been taken away before thinking of upgrading," McQueen said.

Upgrade or Not?

On the burning question of whether iPhone owners should upgrade to the 7, reviewers were divided.

"If you're already carrying an iPhone 6s, there's little need to upgrade, unless you're a photography nut or desperately need better battery life," Lisa Eadicicco wrote in Time.

Gordon Kelly, writing for Forbes, offered an opposing view.

"Pick up the iPhone 7 Plus with no knowledge of what's inside and you will be disappointed," he wrote.

"Apple really should have done more to modernize the exterior of the new model after three generations (smaller bezels, better grip, etc.) but there's still a lot here to enjoy," Kelly maintained. "That said, iPhone 7 Plus owners are likely to find just enough this year to keep them happy until Apple rips up the rulebook next year.

Wait 'til Next Year...

"Wait 'til Next Year," a refrain often heard around baseball parks at this time of year, was a common refrain among reviewers.

"This is a strong handset for sure," Edward Baig wrote in USA Today. "But if you can hold out, there's already talk that the truly dramatic leap forward for iPhone comes next year when this seminal smartphone celebrates its tenth anniversary."

At this point, Apple appears content at incrementally upgrading the iPhone rather than reimagining it, said Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT.

"Replacing the industry standard headphone jack with proprietary technology demonstrates that the company is also willing to continue raising the wall around its garden of products. If you prefer wider vistas, you'll have to find them with another vendor," he told TechNewsWorld.

"There are rumors that Apple is saving up surprises for next year's tenth anniversary model," he said. "If that's the case, all but the most dedicated Apple customers or photography fanatics would do well to skip upgrading to the iPhone 7 models."

How to Root a Android Phone without any technical knowledge?

Normally Android devices are rooted to gain administrative level permission to the device. Normally carriers and hardware manufacturers put some limitations to your android device. but Rooting breaks all those limitations. Rooting will gives you authority to do tasks which are inaccessible for an ordinary user. Normally rooting is job which needs high technical skills and hardware knowledge. If i told you there are ways to root your device without any technical knowledge will you believe it? actually there are. Kingo is one of that method. Kingo offers one click rooting facility. You can root a android phone easily with Kingo.
Risk

It is my duty to explain the risk. So let’s see it. Usually hardware manufacturers doesn’t recommend  rooting. Thus rooting Voids your warranty. If anything goes wrong, you will brick your phone (the state at which the phone will become unusable). But don’t worry Kingo has a good feedback and support. Let’s hope that everything will work fine.
Is You Device Compatible?

First of all check whether your device is compatible with Kingo by visiting this link.
How to use Kingo?

If your device is compatible then follow these steps.
First of all enable USB debugging mode which is usually present in the Developer options. If you don’t know how to enable USB debugging mode, search Google. because it’s location differs with Android version and Hardware manufacturer.
1) Download Kingo by Visiting this link.
2) Connect your phone to the computer via USB cable after enabling USB debugging mode as i mentioned earlier.
3) Click Root.

That’s all. Now all you have to do is wait. (Kingo will automatically show some instructions, you have to follow them)

Please note that: We are not responsible for anything that happens to your phone while rooting. Please try this on your own risk.

Link to the home page : www.kingoapp.com

Hackers Get Up Close and Personal With WH Staffer's Email

Federal authorities last week launched a probe of a suspected cyberattack that targeted the private Gmail account of a White House staffer.

The employee's correspondence turned up on the DCleaks hacktivist site, which earlier this month posted the private emails of former Secretary of State Colin Powell.

The latest dump involves the private account of White House staffer Ian Mellul, whose personal emails were published on the DCleaks Twitter account and website, along with the claim that they represented just part of a trove of correspondence from February 2015 through June of this year.

Mellul's job entails coordination with the U.S. Secret Service and local law enforcement regarding the official travel of First Lady Michelle Obama and Vice President Joe Biden, according to DCleaks.

He reportedly also does work for the presidential campaign of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, whose operations repeatedly have been targeted in recent months.

First Lady's Passport

The posted emails include a range of mundane correspondence involving White House tours, various official trips, invoices and other discussions with the Clinton campaign and government officials.

More troubling is the site's posting of what it claims is the first lady's open passport. It is not clear why that image would be in the staffer's Gmail account.

"The Secret Service is aware of the alleged email hacking of a White House staffer," spokesperson Cathy Milhoan told TechNewsWorld. "The Secret Service is concerned any time unauthorized information that might pertain to one of the individuals we protect, or our operation, is allegedly disclosed."

However, the agency does not disclose information on investigations as a matter of policy, she added.

Powell Leak

DCleaks earlier this month published a highly publicized trove of email correspondence from Powell, including some colorful commentary about Hillary Clinton and her presidential rival Donald Trump. It also includes some of Powell's remarks about his advice to Clinton concerning email practices after she became secretary of state in 2009.

In the latest breach, the targeting of a low-level staffer is not by happenstance. It's likely a targeted move to access proprietary government information through a back door.

This shouldn't be considered a breach, but rather an attack," said Christopher Budd, global threat communications manager at Trend Micro.

"The information around this indicates that this is a single, personal email account that has been compromised," he told TechNewsWorld.

The fact that the hackers targeted the personal account of the White House staffer may be an indication that they were unable to penetrate the official government email accounts at the White House, Budd argued.

Targeting private accounts is a classic tactic used by cyberespionage groups in "island-hopping attacks," he pointed out. The tactic involves going after private emails in order to breach government accounts and systems through "well-crafted spear phishing campaigns."

Influence Peddling?

DCleaks is a Russian-based influence outlet, according to ThreatConnect.

Guccifer 2.0 used DCleaks as a vehicle to dump emails obtained from the hacked Hillary Clinton campaign staffer, according to the firm.

Further, DCLeaks hosted a group of compromised emails from the account of Billy Rinehart Jr., a former United Nations Foundation official and regional director of the DNC, whose email was compromised in a similar fashion using tactics associated with Fancy Bear, ThreatConnect said.

Cybersecurity firm Crowdstrike previously linked Fancy bear and Cozy Bear to the hacker networks that targeted the Democratic National Committee earlier this year. Russian officials repeatedly hav edenied any connection to cyberattacks on the DNC, Clinton campaign or other agencies related to the election.

logout from Viber on Android Or iPhone

Few months ago I wrote a blog post how to Logout Messenger on iPhone and now I’m gonna share a how-to guide on the topic Signout from viber on android.

Viber, a well known social media app that help it’s users to stay connect with their friends, family and their loved ones. But most of us don’t know how to logout viber temporarily on android smart phone. So in this guide you will learn how temporarily sign-out from Viber on your Android smartphone.


logout from viber on android

Logout Viber on Android:-

1. Open Viber
2. Tap on the Menu key (3 horizontal bars).
3. Tap on Exit.

Hope you will enjoy this post. If you have any doubts regarding this do let me know in the comments.

How to change SLT wifi password??????????

It’s very easy to change the wifi password of SLT connection by following the below steps.

Steps to change the wifi password of the SLT broadband connection

Step 1:- Open your browser and type 192.168.1.1 and hit the enter.

Step 2:- Then a popup will open and ask for your login credentials. Type username as admin and password as admin and hit the login button. ( It’s the default username and password for SLT router configuration page, you can change it anytime after login into the router configuration page)

Step 3:- The router configuration page will open and hit the menu INTERFACE SETUP and then select WIFI (Refer the image below)

Step 5:-After type your password scroll your page to the end hit the save button.

That’s it. You have successfully changed the password.

Earn Money by Shorten Links

Ouo.io is a new site and it becomes popular day by day. As a result of its popularity  I also create a  account on ouo.io and I loved it’s UI(user interface). In this post I’m gonna write out a review on Ouo.io – where you get paid to share your links over the internet. And also share some tips on ‘How to Make Money using Ouo.io?’ Let’s begin.

Ouo.io Review

What is Ouo.io?

Ouo.io is a URL shortener website and you  will get a money every time when someone clicks on your shortened Ouo.io links. Like other URL Shorteners it also a completely free program from where you canencourage your wallet with some extra money.

When compare to other competitors Ouo.io not just provide simple UI but it also have some awesome services like low minimum payout, high payout rates,fast payments, and non intrusive ads.

They offers 1.5$ per 1000 views for any countries so, Ouo.io is the better choice for you if other shorten URL websites are not offering good rates for your country.

Sign Up And Approval:

Ouo.io doesn’t have any specific users requirement to signup. It is easy to join and anybody can join it to use its services. They have speedy signup process, you can simply signup by fill tp and submit your application within a minute. After submitting your application you can able to start using their services. Approval is not required.

Advertisement Types:

Like other CPM based URL shorteners Ouo.io also offers interstitial ads. Interstitial ads are full-page ads that appears before the actual webpage. These ads are shown to visitors who are click the shortened links for five seconds before they will be redirected to the actual destination page.

You may also like :- Shorte.st Review Best URL Shortner

Tools Offered:

Ouo.io offers three tools good tools that are quite useful that you can use to encourage your earnings on ouo.io. Let’s discuss them.The following tools are offered by Ouo.io :-

Mass Shrinker
Quick Link
Full Page Script
Mass Shrinker-

Mass shrinker is a tool that allows you to shrink up multiple URLs at a time. This is a good tool if you wanna share multiple URLs to post.

Warning: Only shrink URLs through ‘Mass Shrinker’ that you’ll actually use. If you’ve abuse the tool, it may be disable for your account.

Quick Link-

This tool allows you to make any link paid link without login into your account. This tool will be helpful for you if you have to frequently shorten links and to make money from them.

Full Page Script:

Full page script is a script for website admins that they can put on to their websites to automatically convert all their outgoing links into shorten links.

Payout Rates-

Ouo.io has low payout rates compared to Shorte.st. Payout Rates range from $2.5 to $ 1.5 highest being of UK. But if we compare it with other shorteners ouo.io offers high payout rates for visits from Asian countries(i.e India, Srilanka). Check ouo.io country wise payout rates.

Payment Frequency-

Your earnings will be automatically paid on 1st day and 15th day of each month.

Referral Program:

Like other URL shorteners Ouo.io also offers a very competitive referral program where you can earn 20% of your referral earnings just by referring new publishers to Ouo.io.

Final Verdicts-

In this ouo.io review I’ve discussed almost all the pros and cons of ouo.io. And here is my last month earnings from ouo.io 🙂
ouo.io payment proofPersonally I recommend you to share you shortened links in places where it will be present for a long term. It’s time to hear from you. Did this ouo.io review help you? Do you have any questions? Or you wanna share some experience with ouo.io Then share your experience in the comments. I’m eagerly waiting to hear from you. 🙂

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