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Android Nexus 5 Solutions

How to take a screenshot on your Google Nexus 5

Here is how to take a screenshot in the Google Nexus 5:

  1. Press and hold both the ‘volume down’ and ‘power’ button at the same time.
  2. After about a second or so, you will hear a beep(if your phone is not on silent mode) and see the screenshot animation. Following this you will also see a notification that will appear in the status bar at the top of your screen, telling you your screenshot has been captured.
  3. Once you have taken the screenshot it gets stored in a folder called “Screenshot“. You can access it via the Gallery or Photos app.
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Firefox Open Source Web

How to Change Proxy Setting in Firefox

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Connecting to a proxy server is a very common requirement at most business establishments. To use Firefox through a proxy it must first be configured to do so. Here is how to do it:

  • Click the “Firefox” menu. Hover over “Options”, and then select “Options” from the submenu.
  • Open the “Advanced” category. Click on the “Network” tab.
  • Click the “Settings” button. This will open the “Connection Settings” window.
  • Choose “Manual proxy configuration”. This will allow you to enter information in the fields.
  • Enter your proxy information. Enter the proxy server that you are connecting to in the “HTTP Proxy” field. If you need to enter a specific port, enter it into the “Port” field.
    If you are connecting to a different FTP proxy, enter it into the “FTP Proxy” field. If you want to use one proxy server for all of the protocols, check the box underneath the “HTTP Proxy” field.
  • Press “OK” to save your changes. You may need to restart Firefox for the changes to take effect.
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Android Device

Nexus 5 Not Booting: Possible Reasons & Solutions – Updated

UPDATE: There are multiple confirmations that the issue can be caused by using the wrong charger to charge the device. Nexus 5 comes with a different specification of the charger(particularly the cable for charging) and using alternate chargers might lead to the device not charging properly causing the issues.

Note: The solutions explained below can damage or brick your phone. Please exercise caution when implementing them. The author has tried most of these solutions but under expert supervision. If you are not sure about the solution please contact your Google Support

There seems to be a common problem in some Nexus 5 phones wherein the phone switches off and just refuses to start up. This happened to a colleague of mine too and here are my observations and possible solutions to the problem:

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Hardware Solutions Ubuntu

Ubuntu Check Disk for BadBlocks & Errors

Steps to use Ubuntu Check Disk to detect Bad Blocks and Errors.
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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.

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Linux Solutions

Kate: Not allowing to Edit Specific Files – Solution



Recently I encountered an interesting problem with Kate. When ever I opened certain files it opened them in read only mode. The files had the necessary permissions to let me write and I could open them in nano or vim and edit them successfully.

There can be multiple reasons for this happening:

  • File is in use in some program (known to cause problems with Kate)
  • File is a PHP file and being accessed somewhere
  • File has more than 1024 characters in a line. (The limit might vary but after a point the files are opened as read only)
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