How To Factory Reset Your Tecno Android Device Using Android System Recovery When Phone Won't Power On

Do you know how to flash your Tecno android phone to its factory mode? Even after you've tried too many pattern lock attempts or other security lock methods?

Sometimes when you forgot your phone lock password; or when some apps are preventing your android phone from booting up, even you may try to boot the android device to safe mode but still, it was ineffective; the whole phone might look useless and the only option you will eventually consider is to flash or reset the phone to factory setting, you’re asking how will you forget your screen lock password? Android phones come with different security methods to secure your device, there is face lock which will only use your face shape to lock and unlock your device, also there is pattern lock and pin lock, if pin lock is easy to use, its also easy to get! someone might just look at your hand behind your back and whoops…you’re conked out!

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But I preferred the pattern lock method it’s hard to get and also hard to remember you can easily forget your pattern lock in a mysterious way. But since I will show you how to do system recovery and hard reset you shouldn’t bother yourself about spending extra cash to reset your phone. 

What is android system recovery and why would you use it? 

Android system recovery contains methods for interacting with android system to install updates, backup and restore user data and also it is also used resetting your device to factory mode.

You can rely on android system recovery when:

• Your when your android phone failed to boot.
• When you forget your screen lock password
• When your android device is slow due to cache increase consuming space
• When some apps are causing damage to your phone
• When you want your android phone to be born again.

How to do factory reset/hard reset in android system recovery 

When your phone won’t power up or when you forgot your screen lock password, let me quickly show you how to format and do hard reset on your android phone and return your device to new one.

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Caution: factory reset will erase all data, installed apps, memo, to-do lists, connected accounts (including Google account), internal storage, etc. on your device and it will refer your phone back to when you buy it and the process is irreversible!

1. Remove the battery on your android devices
2. Put back the battery
3. Press and hold the power button + volume up key
4. When the tecno logo shows on the phone screen
5. Keep pressing the volume down key until the  android system recovery logo shows up
6. Now press the home button to bring out the system recovery menu
7. Scroll down to locate “wipe data/factory reset” (use volume up and down to scroll, and use your menu key to select)
8. Select wipe data/factory reset”
9. Confirm the action selection and wait for few seconds for factory reset to complete, your phone will reboot to its factory mode when complete.

Other cool useful stuffs to do in android system recovery

1. Install update  from cache, sd card or adb
2. Backup and restore user data
3. Wipe cache partition

The above is most useful when your phone wont boot up on when you forget your screen lock like I said earlier but when your phone can power on, you can easily do factory reset from your device settings.

just go to settings>factory data reset>check erase phone storage if  you want to delete data on phone storage>select  reset phone> you will need to enter your phone lock password if you are using one>confirm your action  by click erase everything.

All the above steps can be carried out on all android devices running on version 4.x, however device is lower than 4.0 you can comment here with your device name or android version and the steps will provided for you, also if you aren’t clear with any of those steps don’t hesitate to tell me, don’t forget to share this with your friends, we love shares, likes and comments.

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How To Boot Tecno L3 & Other Android Devices To Safe Mode

There is nothing more to know how you can do lots of things on your device, today we will teach you how to Boot your Tecno L3 Phone into Safe Mode!

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Android is one of the most popular Mobile operating system today, in fact many phone manufacturers can’t wait to have Android OS on their products because it is open source with easy customization and lots of apps only words can’t express how we love it.

As much as there many apps as you want; to take care of anything you wished to do on your android device, there are still few freaking apps on Google play store or its alternatives and most of these apps might have had a bad impact on the performance and battery-life of your android device, which you may not easily find a way out of the mess.

With no doubts you will come across apps that will screw your phone up and get your phone into freeze mode that you may have no choice than to do factory reset, but wait before you do that…there is safe mode to save your ass out of those silly apps.

 

What is Safe Mode and Why Should I boot into Safe Mode

Are you using Windows? Then probably you should be familiar with save mode, it simply let you boot your device up without any installed app. No good apps no bad apps! Save Mode is most usable to drive out some messed up apps in your device especially apps that are responsible for crashing and fast battery drain or any sorts of problems created by stupid apps.

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Save Mode not only lets you check if your device problem is caused by third party apps, during save mode you need to check your phone speeds! Since there is no app installed, your device will have enough memory to run system based processes…and this time with fast speed.

How Do I Enable Safe Mode on My Tecno L3

Though many devices come with different method to boot into safe mode, but since Tecno L3 is a Jelly Been Android Devices, follow these steps to boot your device into safe mode.

• Hold the power button
• From Power off/Reboot options
• Long press the “Power Off”  that appear
• Click Ok to confirm your choice

Note: your phone will off and then reboot to safe mode.

Other Options to Boot ANY Android Devices into Save Mode

If you’re operating on android version lesser than 4.0, like gingerbread and others, then the following methods should let you boot your device into safe mode.

Method 1

• First off your device by holding down the power button
• Wait till your phone shut down, on it again
• Then press and old down the volume up key till your phone boot to safe mode

Method 2.

• off your device by holding down the power button
• Wait till your phone shut down, on it again
• Press and hold down the volume down button till your phone boot to safe mode

Method 3

• off your device by holding down the power button
• Wait till your phone shut down, on it again
• Press and hold down the volume up + volume down button at the same time till your device boot to safe mode.

Note: When your device is in Safe mode, you will know this by watermarked "Safe Mode" which will be displayed at the bottom of your device screen, (as shown in the picture above).

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You can keep trying any of the above methods till you find the one that will really works for you. There is no harm in trying any of the above methods since your phone will only boot to normal mode instead of safe mode, if it doesn't work!

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How To Hide Multimedia Files From Android Phone's Gallery

On android devices  by default any multimedia files such as pictures and movies saved on your phone memory or external memory will always show up in gallery automatically, I was at first pissed at this when I  started using an Android phone, because at times you may not want some movies or pictures to show up in your media gallery because you know this is the first place anyone holding your phone will go to and definitely you wouldn't want them to see some private pictures and videos on your phone.

 Though there is no way to edit what shows up in gallery because the gallery folder has set to speed-read for any types of multimedia files be it videos or pictures on your phone or external storage and display it. But don't lose hope yet I can give you some tricks to hide specific photos or videos from showing up in gallery. Wait! I know there are some Android Apps that hide files and folder on your phones, but who needed those apps when you can do it without apps? isn't that cool?

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I will try to simplify this so that everyone reading this post will understand (including my grandma :)  first i will let you know how to hide files and folder on your Android devices

How to Hide Files and Folder on your Android Devices

This is a very easy process just begin the file name with dot (.Filename) without the brackets that’s You’ve a folder or file named Bluetooth on your storage and you want to hide it

1. Just select the file
2.  Click on rename
3. Put dot At the beginning of the filename
4. Ta Da! the folder is hidden.
   
   
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Note that if “show hidden files” is enabling those hidden files will be faintly visible so that you will know which files or folder you've hidden, just like it is on window s operating system.

Now to Hide Multimedia Files from showing up in Gallery

This is also very simple process, just copy all the multimedia files (videos and pictures) you don’t want to show in gallery into one folder, rename the folder to (.nomedia) and Viola you cant see any files you put in nomedia folder on your gallery ever again.

The Process to Hide Multimedia files from Gallery on Android Device

1. Create a new folder and name it .nomedia
2. Copy any pictures or videos you don’t want to show in gallery into .nomedia folder
   
   

Note that there is dot (.) Before the filename therefore .nomedia folder will not be visible until you enable "show hidden files and folders" this will make the original folder invincible and the media contents inside the folder invisible in gallery!

Are you a webmaster? Then you should know how the  no index tag work when you don’t want Google bot to crawl your web content. then you should know where Google get the idea…who knows

Though we are still compiling the lists of  related tricks on android and when we do, you will be the first to read it here. Got any android tips to share with us? Do so using the comment box below.

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How to Minimize Internet Data Consumption on Android Devices | No Apps

Internet Data consumption is the first disease you may bump into when you first got your Android device, if you are in an area where free WiFi or internet data connectivity is always available you're less concern with this disease but if you're on limited mobile data usage (especially those of us that normally subscribe to 1GB, 2GB or 3GB internet data plan. I believe you're really pissed to see your data subscription die out at early age without doing much more with it! (trust me, I know the feelings), without beating around the bush the reason you’re here is to know how to minimize internet data consumption and save your more data on your android devices, right? Lets go straight to the points then.


Limit Background Processes


Background processes are one of the major causes of data loss on Android devices, those games, those apps that you think or that doesn't need to consume any internet data are probably consuming more than enough internet data you'll ever think of and the only way to stop this is to limit the amount of background processes. 

To do this head over to settings>developer options>scroll down under apps tab, then click on background process limit>then select your desired process limit.

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Note: If you select At most 1 process, remember when the limit is reach, other background process will be disabled! Isn’t that what you wanted?


Disable Automatic Update Apps


Much data consumption also happens unnecessarily when certain Apps try to update themselves automatically behind your back, when you have no much data plan to update or when you're reserving your data for another thing. 

To have total control of app updates; run over to playstore>tap the menu button>click on settings>unchecked auto-update apps>and check update over Wi-Fi only.


Restrict Background Data for Apps


Sometimes you may not even open any apps but still see your data burning off, guessed what? There are some apps that are running in the background, those apps love to check for updates or running their silly ads, they just love to eat up data, though the good purpose are there but who cares as long as they depleted those reserved data, even if you've limited the background process, there is still need to restrict some apps from running in the background, there are two way to do this.


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1.      Restrict background data for all apps and services: this will permanently restrict background data for all your apps and services unless you’re connected to a WiFi network this MEANS that all services or apps depending on background process to run will not work until you’re connected to a WiFi network, which I don’t consider as a good option here, but to do it anyway, got to settings>data usage>tab the menu button> and check “restrict background data”>press ok to confirm.

2. Restrict background data for certain apps: this will permanently restrict background data for some specific app, this means you select which apps which apps you find guilty of consuming much data and sentence them to restriction! Which I believe the better option than the first one, you look through the apps that use much background data which don’t need or use and restrict background data for such apps. 

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To do just this: head over to settings>data usage>scroll down to select the app>click on it and mark restrict background data>press ok to confirm your selection. (Assuming you are using Ice Cream Sandwich or later versions of Android).

Off Your Data When You Don’t Use It


How often do you turn off your data? Probably you always leave it on, to save much data consumption on your android device I recommend you to off your data when you are not using it. Or why do you need to turn it on always anyway? Much more data can be saved if you insensitive to turn off your data anytime you aren’t making use of it, to simply do this, drop down the notification menu>tap on “data connection” >select off> tada!

Temporarily switch off sync

 Unreasonably syncing data also consume some amount of data, prevent your android phone from unnecessarily syncing data by disabling syncing, either from the notification bar, or by going to Settings > Data Usage > Menu > uncheck "Auto-sync data."

Change Browser’s Settings to save More Data

There are some changes you can make to your browser to save much more data consumption on your android devices, reduce image quality or cancel load images, change your browsing view to “fit to screen instead of “Desktop view”.

Use your common and uncommon sense to save many more data on your android devices

Okay at last it comes to where you use your own common senses perhaps and an uncommon one too, which condemn you to use your phone to download when you’re not in Wireless or 3G area, to large junk of stream videos, to open as many tabs as you like, to be unconscious with your data cap, to always share your data recklessly to everyone and anyone, to running heavy apps that consume much data, to watch videos, make video calls when you aren’t on free Wireless net. And lastly to use your mobile data like tomorrow is the Christmas-data-bonus-offer!

All the above tips and recommendation are risk-free, you don't need to install any apps to get it done and besides in practice all these tips are working for me pretty well which I have no doubts you will also like to implement them and see how things worked-out with your data usage, if you have any questions regarding these tips, feel free to leave your comment and don’t forget to share this posts with your friends, save them from wasting their data subscription every day.

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Computer Security: How To Keep Your Computer Safe

Computer security is very essential; Computer is where personal data are stored. Business info, account details, credit card details, and many more confidential details are also kept save in the Computer, getting your computer unprotected is the last thing you should ever dream of, if you rarely connect to internet with your computer then when talking about computer security then you may stand with both feet on the ground, but if you always connect to internet with your computer and share files with other people or allow other people to use your computer, then you should protect your computer more protected than devil bedroom. If your PC is not secure enough means you deliberately allow other people to (or better computer criminals) gain access to your computer and invade your personal and “hush-hush”.  These hackers can break in to your computer directly through internet and steal your personal details or by creating malicious software to harm your computer.

Basic Computer and Internet Protection Tips

Luckily, there are simple and easy steps you can take to protect your computer and ensure Internet Security by taking some simple safety measure, How to Secure Your PC? what are these precautions?  I’ve explained more about this topic as a guest post for doncaprio.com, you might do well by reading the article about simple ways to Secure your computer.

Nevertheless, the main Tips to protect your computer are:

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Use firewall

A firewall is software that checks for information coming from the internet to your computer, one of the easiest way viruses and other malicious files creep-into your computer is due to deadly information coming from internet to your computer. The best way to prevent this is to set your firewall to block those harmful programs and information from passing through to your computer. In simple words, a firewall helps prevent hackers and malicious software from gaining access to your Computer. Windows firewall is already built into windows and this is turned on automatically, anyway there is still some software you can use as additional firewall.

Use antivirus

Viruses, Trojans, works are malicious programs built by hackers to infect vulnerable computers,  virus can be share from one computer to another by the means of removable devices like USB, Memory Cards, Disk, etc. but there are some good antivirus that prevent such malicious program from harming your computer both from internet and removable devices infections.

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These antivirus programs scan and delete any suspected dangerous files or programs on your computer, they also warn against coming worms or infection and suggest best actions to take.

Secure Browsing

To keep yourself safe from prying eyes over the internet, you should know how to cover your tracks while surfing the internet, do you want to know how to browse securely and anonymously? Then you must read “5 ways to browse securely and anonymously”.

Use a standard user account

You can control ways each user control your computer by using user account, when you log on to Windows, it grants you a certain level of operation depending on kin of user account you have, there are generally three types of user account, standard, administrator and guest. Administrator account have complete control over a computer, by using  a standard account can prevent your computer from hackers to gain access to your computer while you are logged on, thereby secure your computer.  They can’t compromise your security settings or modify user account settings, always use password to protect your user account. Especially administrator account.


Want more of the tips: then you must read this too “5 Simple steps to secure your personal computer”

Use Common Sense

Computer Security threats are very wide and the line of attack change from time to time, the most effective way to keep yourself safe from computer security infiltration is to use your common sense by:

• Don’t reply to attachment that ask for your login details.
• Don’t open unknown format files.
• Keep your antivirus updated.
• Keep your windows updated.
• Always use window backup.
• Make use of cloud storage.

I think I’ve come to the end of discussion about Information on computer Security and precautions to take, but definitely this is not the last articles on our computer security tips, there are many more to share in the near future, you can get this first hand in your mail by just subscribe to our updates for free, As always I will like readers to suggest more ways to keep one computer save and secure by using the comment box below.

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Top Best Personal Free Online PDF Editor Tools

PDF files are common files format for sharing classified documents that’s easy to read and hard to create and modify, there are some circumstances where you’ll want to make some modifications to PDF documents and this will require you to edit the file. Unlike other text formats which are easily editable; PDF files are kinda hard to edit unless you are using some expensive adobe software or other paid applications. All those paid online PDFeditors are also useful in one way or the other, but if you just want to edit a single file and you need to get it done online, then the following online free PDF Editor tools will be of a great help.

PDFEscape

PDFEscape is a cloud-based pdf editor tool that enable you to edit any PDF documents, Wow you can even delete texts and images by clicking on the whiteout tool, click on the text tool in the left side to start writing texts, you can even delete or add pages, there is freehand tool on the left side to draw images and patterns. It’s amazing because it let you insert images and links. You can’t upload more than 100 pages to PDFEscape and uploading process is fast depending on the size of file you’re uploading.  When you finished editing click on "save and download" to get you newly created PDF files.

PDFfiller

You will find PDFfiller more useful than just editing PDF files. If you just receive a job application form, travel visas, invoices or any other forms that require you to fill out, PDFfiller allow you to do the job online, you don’t have to worry about signature PDFfiller has a signature maker that you can use to draw your signature. Besides you can keep your PDF files/forms online and you can access, fill, write, and edit it from any computer and anywhere, but you must sign up to enjoy this feature. PDFfiller offer Zero installation – all you need to do is upload your file and editor fill them. You can preview you files, change fonts, upload pictures.

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PDFzen

PDFzen work just like PDFfiller it lets you fill and edit PDF files online, what makes it unique is that as you can view and edit your PDFs on your PC, you can as well do the same on your phone, or your tablet. There is even DeskPDF Reader to scan your documents into PDf format, fill out forms and you can easily share them with PDFzen integration. PDFzen supports file format like pdf. Doc.docx, xls, xlx odt, rtf.

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Other PDF Editing Tools

Some of the following PDF editing tools are not free, most of them are use for Business purpose.

CutePDF
Inkscape
PDFTools
PDFHammer
PDFedit
ILovePDF
PDFfill

All up-listed tools are Best Free online PDF Editor and I don’t think you should find it difficult editing any kind of PDF files with them even removing the file security. In case any of the links above stopped working pls notify me in the comment box below. I must tell you that you must only edit files that you’re the copyright owner as am not legally responsible for any issues you face while editing files you’re not the rightful owner.

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