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- Go to Home -> Settings -> Language & input
- Locate “Google Keyboard” and press it to open its options.
- Select Preferences
- Disable the “Vibrate on keypress” option and you are good
Category: Hardware
Sometimes on startup, Ubuntu does not recognize my USB Keyboard & Mouse. This problem is frustrating as Windows seems to recognize them.
It took me a while to recognize the root of the problem was with the USB 3.0 ports on the Motherboard. By moving the usb connections to the USB 2.0 ports on the motherboard this problem was solved.
Problem: USB Keyboard and Mouse dont work on boot up.
Solution: Move the connectors to the devices from a standard USB 3.0 port to standard USB 2.0 port(check with your motherboard manual for specifics)
SeaTools is a diagnostic tool to check your hard disk for errors and failure. Its an extremely useful tool to have around as hard disks fail all the time and recognizing a failing hard disk can save you a lot of trouble in the long run.
You can get a copy of the bootable iso from here: http://www.seagate.com/support/downloads/item/seatools-dos-master/
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So here is a guide to create a bootable SeaTools USB drive for Ubuntu:
- Install syslinux:
$ sudo apt-get install syslinux - Format the USB drive and Repartition it as FAT
Give it a name like “SEATOOLS” - Mark the newly created partition as bootable – You can use Gparted to do this.
- Copy “syslinux” master boot record to drive (The code below is assuming your drive is loacated at “sdb”):
$ sudo dd if=/usr/lib/syslinux/mbr.bin of=/dev/sdb - Install syslinux on the drive partition:
$ sudo syslinux /dev/sdb1 - Mount drive. You can do this by reinserting the drive or by using a command like:
$ sudo mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt - Copy the MEMDISK bootloader from /usr/share/syslinux/memdisk to the drive:
$ cp /usr/lib/syslinux/memdisk /media/SEATOOLS - Copy the SeaToolsDOS223ALL.ISO to the drive
- Create a file named ‘syslinux.cfg’ on the drive, with this in it (use correct .iso name):
DEFAULT SeaTools
LABEL SeaTools
LINUX memdisk
INITRD SeaToolsDOS223ALL.ISO
APPEND iso
Thats it you’re done 🙂 Try booting with it. Here’s what my usb stick looks like at the end of all of this:
$ ls -l
total 3136
-r--r--r-- 1 username username 32768 2013-12-22 17:44 ldlinux.sys
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 25244 2013-12-22 17:51 memdisk
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 3137536 2013-12-22 13:22 SeaToolsDOS223ALL.ISO
-rw-r--r-- 1 username username 97 2013-12-22 17:54 syslinux.cfg
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.
- With your Phone/Device on and charge it for 8 hours or more.
- Disconnect the charger.
- Turn your device off and reconnect your charger to it. Charge it for one hour.
- Disconnect the charger.
- Turn on the device and wait 2 minutes.
- Turn your device off again and charge it for another hour.
- Disconnect the charger, turn the device on and use as normal.
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Your battery life should now be a lot better 🙂
If your system regularly does ubuntu check disk or scan disks on boot up and if it often finds errors during the check, its highly possible that you have bad sectors on your hard disk. In such cases its highly recommended to do a disk check to detect if you have bad sectors on the disk.