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Android Hardware

Calibrate Your Android Device’s Battery For Longer Battery Life

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Here is a simple way to recalibrate your Android Device’s Battery without rooting or installing any third party apps. It takes a little while to get done but is great in giving a good boost to battery life.

  1. With your Phone/Device on and charge it for 8 hours or more.
  2. Disconnect the charger.

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  3. Turn your device off and reconnect your charger to it.  Charge it for one hour.
  4. Disconnect the charger.
  5. Turn on the device and wait 2 minutes.
  6. Turn your device off again and charge it for another hour.
  7. Disconnect the charger, turn the device on and use as normal.

Your battery life should now be a lot better 🙂

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Android Apps Solutions

Problem Loading Widget – Solved Android Error

How to Turn Off Keyboard Vibration

Problem loading Widget Error – Sometimes Widgets on the Android home page fail to load and are replaced by “Problem Loading Widget” error. The main causes of this error include:

  • Removal of the Application that gave you that widget
  • Moving of the specific (Widget) Application from Internal Memory to SD card
  • Upgrading of the Application
  • Upgrading of the core operating system (leading to reinstall of the Application)
  • Change of SD card

There is no simple way to fix this error, as it can depend on what caused the error in the first place and how the Widget was originally designed.  Here are some quick steps you can follow to recover your widget:

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Android Apps Solutions

How to disable/customize audio notificaitons for email in Android

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I receive a lot of emails and while I like to be on top of my inbox most of the time, I occasionally don’t want an audio notification for every mail I receive. So here is a simple step by step process of disabling/customizing audio notification for the Gmail app in Android.

  • Click on your Gmail icon.
  • Go to “Menu” > “More” > “Settings”
  • Select the email address you’d like to change the setting for (eg yourname@gmail.com)
  • Scroll down and Select “Lables to Notify”
  • Hit the dropdown arrow next to “Inbox”
  • Select “Ringtone” and then select “Silent”(for disabling audio notifications) or your desired ringtone
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Apps Solutions Web

In Line Dictionary for Firefox

Google Dictionary and Google Translate Extension for Firefox provides a simple solution for in-line translation/dictionary look-up of words & translation of whole pages.

Once installed all you need to do is double-click or highlight a word, and a little pop-up will show the definition of it in your language.




Click on the link below to install the plugin:
Google Dictionary and Google Translate 2.5



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Android Hardware Solutions

Galaxy Ace – Gingerbread Update – Notes

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There are many good tutorials on the web about installing Gingerbread on the Ace (like this one).

Once you have Gingerbread installed what can you expect from your new system?
Other than the already present updates to Android, here are a few notes I made:

  • The Default language at the start is not English. To change, go to Settings -> Locale and Text (recognizable by the keyboard key A as the logo) -> Select Language (Option no. 1 in the list) -> English (or any other language)
  • The battery lasts longer and is estimated more accurately. – The battery info is more detailed too.
  • The Wifi bug that caused the “black screen of death” problem is fixed. Expect more stability while using Wifi
  • The UI is faster and more responsive
  • Fonts are crispier and look great
  • The notification bar is smaller and that really helps screen real estate.
  • Internal memory usage has improved leaps and bounds, expect lesser problems in that area

All in all the upgrade to Gingerbread has been perfect so far.

Note: The version I have installed is XXKPH