Last week, my mother's Vivo smartphone suddenly became like those old poor signal television screens with vertical lines and flickering. The appearance was so horrible that I was forced to think to purchase a new smartphone and send that Vivo to the repair centre. I had to perform some research around this odd problem and finally got the thing somewhat fixed, the set is now in a usable condition. … [Read more...]

The Android USB Debugging mode is a set of software settings intended to help Android app developers. When this USB debugging mode is ON, we are having a control channel for the Android Software Development Kit (SDK). Apart from the intended use by the developers, several works can be done with your Android phone with USB debugging mode. The Android Debug Bridge Utility opens up a command-line … [Read more...]

Sudden Battery Drain Syndrome is a dreaded problem of Android smartphones. A major sign of Sudden Battery Drain Syndrome is quick battery drain without any heavy usage. It can be so bad that after a full charge, the smartphone is completely drained within 2 hours without using it. I must inform you that the price of Samsung's battery is not just huge. In India, it costs around $12 in the … [Read more...]

As technology advances, gadgets like smartphones also evolve. Even operating systems evolve and give birth to new ones just like the Android Wear or Wear OS. Smartphones have long gone from being just a mere luxury to a necessity. Unfortunately, as cell phones evolve, so do the various threats and dangers that target them and their users. Android devices, for instance, are a favourite target of … [Read more...]

Each of you probably has a large number of applications on your mobile phone, but you only use a few of them during the day. It is just like that and, don’t worry, you are no stranger compared to other smartphone users because of that. Now, in addition to the usual applications, such as social networking applications, e-mail, notes, and different types of games, you can install several … [Read more...]

The error "Missing/Bad FileProvider for Freshchat. Camera capture will fail in devices running Nougat or later versions of OS (ErrorCode: 354)" means for some of your installed third-party apps, Google Chrome needs your manual permission to use the front camera of your smartphone. You can fix the error in two ways. First, identify the app which is the root cause of the error. In my case, the cause … [Read more...]

When undesired thumbnails from various folders appear in the (Samsung) Gallery App, it irritates us and breaches our privacy. A photoset set of a naked lady beside the thumbnails of grandmother looks is not great showbiz anywhere on this earth. We are used using the Gallery app to view the images captured by a camera and some of the downloaded images. However, Android is designed to scan the whole … [Read more...]