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Android – How to remove Unwanted App Notifications

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Unwanted App Notifications are a pain. Also If you didn’t know, these notifications can also be a big battery drain.

Fortunately if you are on Android version 4.1 or higher there is a simple way to permanently remove an app’s notifications. Here is how you do that:

  1. In your notification bar, do a long press on the unwanted App Notification.
  2. You should get a pop up option “App info“
  3. Tap on App Info and you will be taken to the App Info page of the App
  4. Here Uncheck “Show Notifications” and hit OK in the confirmation box.

Now you should be free of unwanted notifications in future 🙂

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Candy Crush: How to get unlimited lives

In Candy Crush lives are at a premium and losing all your lives means, a frustrating wait for the clock to continue the game. Fortunately there is a simple hack to recover your lives so that you can continue playing unlimited hours of your favourite game.

Here is how to recover your lives in Candy Crush:

  1. Close the Candy Crush app
  2. Go to Settings on your phone/tablet
  3. Scroll down to Date & Time (On iPhone/iPad goto General -> Date And Time)
  4. Uncheck Automatic Date & Time and Automatic Time Zone (On iPhone/iPad Toggle the Set Automatic option)
  5. Press Set Time (in iPhone/iPad press the displayed time) and move the time forward by a few(atleast 3-4) of hours
  6. Now reopen Candy Crush
  7. You should have your lives back. If only a few of the lives were returned, repeat steps 1-7 adding a few more hours to the time. Make sure there is no countdown next to the lives or this hack will not work.
  8. Once the full lives have been confirmed returned. Close the app and Repeat steps 1-3
  9. Recheck Automatic Date & Time and Automatic TimeZone or manually update the time to the correct time (in iPhone/iPad toggle Set Automatic option or manually set the correct time by pressing on the displayed time)
  10. Reopen Candy Crush and you should be able to play with your new lives.
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Android: How to update Google Camera to the latest version

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If you chose not to update Google Camera when the option was first presented to you, and now want to update it but dont know how, dont sweat we are here to help 🙂

Here is how to update the app on your phone:

  1. Open the Play Store App on your phone.
  2. Press the three horizontal bars on the top left corner of the app, it will open an menu for you.
  3. In this menu Choose “My Apps“
  4. The next page has a list of all the apps installed on your phone, with the ones with updates available on top of the list.
  5. Scroll down to find “Google Camera“. Press on the logo to go to the app page
  6. Here you will get two options on the top right: Update & Uninstall. Press Update.
  7. Hit Continue in the App Permission Screen to start the download and install.

 

 

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How to Enable Manual Exposure in Google Camera App

Google just updated its Camera app to bring in new features and performance. But any prolific camera user will find that the Exposure settings are missing in the options provide on screen. Don’t worry the Exposure settings have not been removed from the app, they have just been hidden by default.

Here is how to enable the setting:

  1. Open the camera app.
  2. Swipe from left to right on the screen to bring out the mode options
  3. Tap the ‘Cog Wheel'(settings button) on the bottom right.
  4. Select “Advanced”
  5. Turn On “Manual Exposure”
  6. Hit back twice to get to the main screen
  7. Tap on options button(Screen bottom right), Now Exposure option will show up with the rest of the options.
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How to Remove Picasa Albums from Gallery (and stop Sign In requests) – Android

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Update: This solution also removes the annoying sign in request from Picasa that is seen on some android devices.

When you first start using an Android phone it will request you to sign in to a Google account. Doing so automatically triggers a process that syncs your data and photos from your phone to your Google account and vice versa. This synchronization also downloads all your old Picasa web albums to your phone.

While this is a useful feature at times, it tends to be a problem when you really don’t want those pictures on your phone or need to save the space on your phone.  Then it makes sense to disable this feature. Here is how to do it:

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