Android TV doesn’t have a built-in Digital Wellbeing feature now, but there are apps to bring it as the ActionDash app brings it on older Android versions. The TVUsage for Android TV helps you manage and control TV usage by setting the screen time limit, apps lock, and usage graph. The TVUsage – Digital Wellbeing and App lock, lets you know your TV usage habits and provides tools to reduce the usage if you would like so....
Google Instant is certainly a useful search enhancement for all surfers to make search faster. To test Google Instant in Opera just go to Google and start searching. Note: If you previously masked your Opera as Firefox don’t forget to remove the masking. [via]
The live traffic information is currently available for six major Indian cities and their surrounding suburbs: Bengaluru, Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Pune and Hyderabad. To help you analyze the traffic on your route at a glance, the live traffic data is displayed in a simple and readable color schemes: Red for significant congestion, Yellow for minor slow-downs, and Green for free-flowing traffic. Also, your phone will announce upcoming directions to you as you move along your route....
The upcoming Android 6.0 Marshmallow will have a similar feature called ‘Doze Mode’ to save battery life. This mode will put your phone into deep sleep whenever it is left on standby, prolonging your battery life. So, the question here is does Greenify can do anything more on Android 6.0 to save battery life? For your information, Greenify is designed to kill apps when they have been idle for a certain amount of time, inevitably saving you from frequently charging your phone....
Using Focus sessions is quite simple. Just set the required time you wish to focus on a task, and Windows will set up the rest. You can also select a work from your Microsoft To-Do list if you like so. There is also an option to link to Spotify and listen to some suggested playlists or podcasts. ALSO READ: How to turn on Sleep timer in your favorite music player on Android phone Here is how to connect your Spotify account to the Focus sessions in Windows 11....
The latest versions of OxygenOS bring Google Discover feed to all OnePlus phones. And if it is annoying and intrusive to you, you can disable it. But the latest OxygenOS 12 update will not allow you to disable the Discover feed on OnePlus phones. It may be a bug, and the company may fix it in a future update. Meanwhile, here is a workaround to disable the Google Discover feed on all OnePlus phones running on the latest Oxygen OS 12....
The solution to this is to download and flash the appropriate GApps package for your device separately. Though, you can download the package from goo.in/gapps in your browser, the problem here is every version of Android needs a particular package, so it is hard to choose the correct file to download. Gapps Manager To help you easily find and download correct GApps package for your device, an XDA forum member released a simple application called Gapps Manager....
To get the VoWiFi feature on Realme X2 Pro, first, you need to update your device to software version A.09. Check for the update by going to the system update. Alternatively, download the software version RMX1931EX_11.A.09 (link, link) and flash it manually, then follow the below steps to enable VoWiFi. To install the software update manually on your device, boot it into Recovery (press Volume Down + Power button after turn off the phone)....
LG V20 Oreo update brings lot of new features, improvements and latest security patch to the handset. Besides Oreo features like Picture in picture mode, Smart text selection, extended screenshot, GIF creator, etc. users can also enjoy LG’s UX 6.0 with new app icon shapes, Sony’s LDAC audio, and much more. What is new in this update? As said above, the Oreo update is now available on South Korean variant LG V20 (F800K/ F800L/ F800S)....
Like in iOS, controlling mobile data usage is not easy in Android, but that will become an old story with the upcoming Android N. However, since Android N will not be available on all phones, you need to go for other methods to stop exceeding monthly mobile data usage. Read on to know how to get this function on your phone. In Android N, Data Saver mode prevents apps sending and receiving data in the background (you can always whitelist any app if it needs to access internet), which will help you reduce data usage....
Would like to have Galaxy S4’s dual camera mode feature on your android phone? I think there is no mods or hacks to use both camera simultaneously. Also, there is no direct alternative on the Play store for using both cameras together. However, an app called “Multi-lens Camera” offers a very simple way of combining multiple shots into a single image. Multi-lens Camera provide multiple display screens simultaneously when you are taking pictures....
Would you like to install Xperia’s Walkman music player on your Samsung Galaxy devices? So, you can enjoy best multimedia experience by Sony on your Samsung device. It should also works on other ICS or Jelly Bean powered devices. Requirements: Rooted phone, CWM/TWRP Recovery installed, ROM 4.0.3+ (ICS/JB) and at least 70MB on your ROM. Installation Procedure: Download the Walkman music app zip and transfer it your device’s SD card....
Here’s how to launch any combination of two apps simultaneously on the LG G8X ThinQ Dual Screen Phone with a tap. For example, you can launch YouTube on one screen and Chrome browser on the second screen of your phone. LG doesn’t provide such an option on its dual-screen phones, so we use the Dual Launch for LG app for creating a pair of apps and launch them with a tap....
Application Safer is useful, for example, if you want to prevent others from installing or uninstalling some apps or malware and prevent others from seeing your private info you don’t want to share. Application Safer is a light weight app, once you installed, it will prompt you to enter the passcode (password) for locking/ unlocking your Android apps. Default password would be ‘hello’. With this app you can easily lock any third party or default app just by a single tap....
NQ Mobile Vault is a free Android app that lets you keep your private text messages, photos, videos, private contacts and call logs safely hide from prying eyes. The app is very easy to setup and use. Install NQ Mobile Vault from Google Play (download link below) and run the app. It’ll ask you to enter a password. Enter a desired password and confirm it. In the next screen, choose “Photos” (if you want to hide photos) and select photos that you want to hide....
Like the classic dinosaur (Dino) offline game of Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge has an addictive game called Surf. And, now Opera has also brought an offline retro game to play when you go offline and is called Operius. The Operius is more sophisticated and feature-rich than Google’s Dino, Microsoft’s Surf and Firefox’s Unicorn Pong. ALSO READ: How to play offline games on Google Play Store Play Web Browsers’ Hidden Games on your PC Google Chrome Dino:...
Here’s how to quickly change your favourite DNS servers on your Windows 10 PC. Google Public DNS and Cloudflare 1111 DNS are the most popular free DNS servers available today. All these services support IPv4 and IPv6 protocols, but setting up the DNS server in Windows is not as easy as many think. And, frequently changing among them is a painstaking task. There is a fastest way to change the DNS server (IPv4 and IPv6) in Windows 10 with the help of QuickSetDNS app....
Whatever the case will be, if you have rooted your HTC 10 and later would like to return to stock firmware, you can do that by following the below guide. However, note that restoring stock firmware on HTC 10 is not a simple process like installing APKs and applying OTA update. Extreme care should be needed; otherwise, you will end up with non-booting device. Keep in mind that, though HTC 10 will be one of the first non-Nexus devices to get Android 7....
Users who want to jot down notes on their Android phone while taking a phone call needs to install an app called NOTEify. This little, free app enables you to take notes when a specified contact makes a call to you, which means you will never miss important details while on the phone. NOTEify Installation and Settings: NOTEify is a free download [HERE] on Play Store. When you first open the app, you will asked to sync contacts with the app (only synced contacts work with the app)....
There is good news for tech-savvy owners of Huawei P20 and Huawei P20 Pro. Even if you have not selected for the beta program, you can download and install the latest EMUI 9.0 (Android 9 Pie Beta) on your device, thanks to XDA senior member a1Pha. However, your device’s bootloader should be unlocked, FRP unlocked and rooted. In this guide, we show you how to install EMUI 9.0 (Android 9 Pie Beta) on Huawei P20 and Huawei P20 Pro unofficially....
