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How to Unroot the Motorola Moto E (1st Gen)

Should you ever face a critical software issue on your Motorola Moto E (1st Gen), the first solution that you should try is to unroot the device using the stock firmware. In most cases, flashing back the stock firmware solves almost all the software relates issues since the process removes all the customizations from your device which might be causing issues and puts everything back to stock on the device. That way, your device ends […]

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Giveaway: Win a OnePlus Two!

Thanks to how many of you entered my giveaway for the OnePlus Two Invite I figured I’d do another giveaway. This time, however, instead of an invite to buy the OnePlus Two, I’m going to just give away the phone itself. Entering the giveaway is easy, just do the actions listed below and for each one you do you’ll get a set amount of entries, the more entries you have the more chances you have

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How to Get Rid of App Icon Badges that Won’t Go Away in iOS (Video)

Ok, so I know I can’t be the only one that this has happened to. You unlock your iPhone to see those familiar little red dots on your apps that let you know “hey, you missed something!”. You go through them and watch as they disappear one by one, like a mediphorical check mark on your phone’s virtual to-do list. But then, when you complete that one tasks and hit the home button expecting the

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How to Disable and/or Adjust the Sensitivity of 3D Touch on the iPhone

I’m still very confused by why Apple needed to create new hardware for the iPhone to add an ability to get additional options when a software addition of just allowing tap and hold would do the exact same thing but allow it to work on any device with the latest firmware (maybe someone can explain this to me in the comments below) but, after a friend displayed how hard it was for them to get

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How to Hide Photos on Android

Your pictures are important. So is your reputation. Sometimes the reputation you want people to see and the photos saved in your phone don’t quite go hand in hand, which is why you need to learn how to hide photos on your Android phone. Need more persuading? Humor me by imagining the following: You’re at a family birthday party. Your phone is stealthily maneuvered out of your pocket by your 3 year old niece, who,

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How to Enable Live Photos on Any iPhone (JB Tweak) (Video)

Live photos are a new feature Apple recently launched that allows you to take a photo, as you normally would, but have the phone automatically take a short video a few seconds before and after said photo. The result is when you tap and hold on a photo in your photos app, you get a neat little animation. Fun, right? Thing is, Apple, as is the norm with them, is restricting this feature to the

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How to Easily Watch Netflix with Your Friends Remotely

Watching Netflix with friends is always a good time. But what if your best bud, or boyfriend, or girlfriend, or sibling, or grandma, or whoever, is all the way across the country, or even the world? How are you supposed to binge watch “Orange is the New Black” together, while sharing ice cream and banter about how lame Piper is? Well, such a conundrum has been solved with Showgoers, a chrome extension that allows you to

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Video: How to Jailbreak iOS 9

Well, well, even after all the naysayers said it couldn’t be done, it looks like iOS 9 has been jailbroken. The team that came through with the iOS 9 jailbreak is none other than the Pangu team, the same team behind the iOS 8 jailbreak. Not only does it jailbreak your iPhone but it’ll also install Cydia, the app store for jailbreak tweaks, and that’s kind of the whole point, really. If you aren’t familiar,

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How to Get Android 6.0 on Your Nexus Device Right Now (Video)

Android 6.0 aka Marshmallow was finally announced at Google I/O last week and now, as per the usual, it’s available as a flushable image on Google’s website for all their Nexus devices. Essentially there are two ways to upgrade your phone to Android Marshmallow, you can wait for the OTA (snore) or you can flash it yourself when the factory image becomes available. For other manufacturers, the former is really the only way since they

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How to Stop Incoming Calls from Taking Up The Entire Screen on Your iPhone (Video) (JB Tweak)

Oh, people that still call other people… Don’t you know by now that no one calls anyone? Text me, email me, even ping me on Twitter, but actually dial me? Hold the phone. The only time I should ever get a phone call, is if whatever it is that needs to be said, is seriously time sensitive –as in if you don’t know right this minute, it’s going to mess something up. Maybe you’re coming up to

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How to Unroot the Motorola Moto X Style

Perhaps you’re done playing with root and custom ROMs on your Motorola Moto X Style or perhaps you need to sell the device and get it back to stock? Regardless of the reason, it’s pretty easy to unroot your device and usually involves just flashing the stock firmware from the manufacturer onto the phone to get it back to an out-of-box state. Some of the reasons for unrooting your Motorola Moto X Style are: Sending

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How to Root the Motorola Moto X Style

Rooting is the process of gaining administrative rights on your Android device. Once we root our Android device, we can then make changes to it to customize it well beyond what it normally can do. Once you root the Motorola Moto X Style, you’ll be able to: Remove apps that were preinstalled by your carrier/manufacturer from your device. Free up storage space (because of the above benefit). Increase battery life (apps that might have been

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How to Unroot the OnePlus Two (Video)

So I’ve gone over why you would want to root the OnePlus Two but there are some reasons to undo that should you need. From sending it in for warranty, to selling it and wanting to get it all back to stock for the next owner, to just wanting to maybe start over and root the thing again, unrooting the OnePlus Two can be a necessary option. If you have TWRP recovery on the OnePlus

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How to Get CyanogenMod on the OnePlus Two (Video)

The original OnePlus One was the first device to be loaded with CyanogenMod, a popular third-party developer’s ROM, directly from the manufacturer. This is as opposed to the way we used to just flash CyanogenMod ourselves on the device we had regardless of what ROM came on it from the factory. Well, it seems that OnePlus has ditched CyanogenMod in favor of their own in-house ROM for the OnePlus Two for whatever reason (cue the

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How to Root the OnePlus Two (Video)

After all the hype the OnePlus One caused and the, not particularly large, but damn-loyal fanbase they achieved, they finally just launched a successor: the OnePlus Two. Just like with the OnePlus One the idea was to put higher end specs in a device while keeping the price tag a few hundred dollars shy of the competitors (and just like the last time, what better way to create as much hype as possible than with

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