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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 Apps Device Open Source Solutions

Android: How to update Google Camera to the latest version

App Revenue from Google Play
App Revenue from Google Play (Photo credit: IntelFreePress)

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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Android Apps Solutions

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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Android Device Solutions

How to Hide The ‘Last Seen Time’ on Whatsapp

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WhatsApp (Photo credit: abulhussain)

Whatsapp is slowly rolling out support to hide the “Last Seen Time” infomation on Whatsapp. Below are the different ways you can do that(or atleast fake it).

IOS:

Whatsapp for IOS has already updated to a version which has the feature of hiding the “Last Seen Status”. Update to the latest version of Whatsapp and then you can activate it in the following way:

  1. Open WhatsApp and Goto ‘Settings’
  2. Goto ‘Advanced’ page
  3. Turn off the ‘Last Seen Timestamp’

Android:

This feature is available on Whatsapp for Android from the version 2.11.169 onwards. You can get the latest version of the app here: http://www.whatsapp.com/android/

Once you have the app and have installed it, here is how to activate the feature:

  1. Open Whatsapp and in the Menu Goto ‘Settings’
  2. Goto ‘Accounts’
  3. Goto ‘Privacy’
  4. Here you can disable the ‘Last Seen’ time.

 

Other Manual Hacks:

Disabling your Wifi & Data connection before opening your Whatsapp window makes sure your Last Seen time doesnt get updated.

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Android Solutions Web

How to Set Android Reminders from your Web Browser

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Google has a feature that allows you to set reminders on your android phone from the web browser. For this you will need to be logged in to the same google account as the one in the device.

Here is how to do it:

  1. Open the web browser and go to http://google.com
  2. Check if you are logged in, you can do this by checking the top right corner of the google page. If you are logged in your userpic will be there.
  3. Type “Remind me” on the google bar and hit enter
  4. Use the Create Reminder block on the top of the results to set your reminders.
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