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How to Unroot the OnePlus 3 & Get Back to Stock (Video)

Perhaps you want to sell your OnePlus 3, send it in for warranty or, you know, give it away. Regardless of the why, they how involves unrooting the OnePlus 3 and getting it back to stock. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through installing the stock ColorOS ROM, then flashing the stock recovery, and, finally, relocking the bootloader so we can get OTAs and hide any sign that it was ever rooted in the first […]

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How to Root the OnePlus 3 (Video)

The OnePlus 3 is an amazing phone. Slick metal design, 6GB of RAM (not a typo and more than a PC in my house has), and a clean version of Android that just flies. Best of all? All of this is only $399 factory unlocked from OnePlus’ site. Now, even though it’s a great phone, there is always room for improvement. One such way to improve an Android phone is to root it. If you

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How to Unroot the HTC 10 & Get Back to Stock (Video)

It happens to all of us. Sometimes there comes a time when you need to unroot your HTC 10. Maybe you messed it up with flashing too many custom ROMS, maybe you just want to sell it, or maybe you need to return it to HTC for warranty? Regardless of the reasoning, unrooting the HTC 10 will get it back to stock and the way it was when it first came out of the box.

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How to Unroot the Samsung Galaxy J2 (2015)

If you’ve had enough fun with root on your Samsung Galaxy J2 and you now wish to get back to the stock for whatever reason, you can use the following guide that teaches how to unroot the Samsung Galaxy J2 by flashing the stock firmware. When a stock firmware is flashed on an Android phone, it removes root-access, custom recovery, customized system files, and everything else that was added when rooting your phone. It’ll get your

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How to Root the Samsung Galaxy J2 (2015)

Samsung Galaxy J2 is one of the phones that Samsung has launched in its J lineup of budget smartphones. Since it’s a budget Android smartphone, it’s not the top of the line with hardware, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a great device (it does have that Super AMOLED display that Samsung is famous for after all). If you aren’t satisfied with what you have on the phone, however, might want to root the Galaxy

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How to Root the HTC 10 (Video)

To the best of my knowledge, the HTC 10 is the only phone that remains under warranty even if its bootloader is unlocked. That means, you can go ahead and unlock the bootloader and do whatever you want on your phone – as long as you aren’t damaging it – and it’ll still remain covered by the warranty. It’s the flagship phone of the year by the Taiwan based company that’s been releasing some really nice

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How to Fix the OnePlus 3’s Memory Management Issue

One of the biggest noticeable things about the OnePlus 3 is its RAM. The phone boasts a whopping 6GB of RAM that is much higher than all of its competitors frankly. With that much of RAM on the phone, you can definitely expect it to provide you with some really awesome gaming experience and enhanced performance. While the phone is in the news because of the RAM amount it has, it hasn’t been without some issues related

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6 Tips You Need to Know to Be Better at Pokemon Go

While doing “research” for my previous video on explaining the Pokemon Go phenomenon (aka running around NYC trying to catch ALL the Pokemon), there were a lot of tips I learned well into playing that I wish I knew when I started. Things to help you level up faster, catch Pokemon easier, and just some basics on how the game works that Niantic failed to tell you. In this video, figured I’d show you the

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Pokemon Go: Fully Explained (Video)

Unless you’ve been living under a literal rock this last week or so, you have undoubtedly heard about the latest game to go viral: Pokemon Go. This game has acquired more active users in less than a week than Twitter has in the 10 years since its inception and has already caused some very interesting scenes in major parks. But what is Pokemon Go exactly? How do you play it? What makes it so different?

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OnePlus 3 Unboxing (Video)

My OnePlus 3 finally arrived and so, as is the protocol here on the internet, I figured I’d do a quick unboxing and tell you guys what it comes with and what it’s specs are. The phone is clad in an all metal body with curved edges that definitely lends a more premium feel to the phone over previous OnePlus devices. On the front of the device we have a 5.5″ AMOLED screen with a

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6 Best Photo Editing Apps You Have to Try Right Now

I asked on Twitter recently what video you wanted me to do next and you overwhelming chose this for me to do one on the best photo editing apps you should try right now. When I suggested it, I’ll be honest, I wasn’t quite prepared for just how many photo editing apps there are. From ones that strictly turn your photo into 8 bit video game-esque murals, to ones that just put text overlays on

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How to Root the LeTV 1S

LeTv, a name that may not ring a bell in your mind, is a company that sells budget-friendly – and quite premium-looking – Android phones. Their recent launch – the 1S – is an Android smartphone with high-end specs without the high-end price tag. If you happen to have purchased this phone, you might feel like you’ve explored every feature it has to offer, but, as with most Android phone, you can have more features added to your

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Google I/O 2016 Recap: Everything You Need to Know

Google I/O is underway currently, but the big opening keynote has come and gone and, since it’s where Google announces all the cool things they’ve been working on, I figured I’d put together a quick list of all the big announcements for your scanning pleasure so you don’t have to scour the internet for this stuff. VIDEO COMING ASAP! Android N New Features and Name Suggestion Even though we already got a good look at

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What is Kodi? (& How to Install Kodi on the Amazon Fire TV) (Video)

Kodi, formerly known as XBMC, is a free and open source media center for playing videos, music, podcasts, photos, games, etc. on any number of devices. Beyond just playing back your own media over your wifi network though, it allows you to also grab content from third-party plugins to watch TV and movies from all over the web. Now though, for those with a FireTV stick, there’s a way to load Kodi and its content

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How to Root the Samsung Galaxy Star PRO

If you don’t want to shell out thousands of dollars for an Android phone, the Samsungs Galaxy Star PRO might be a good alternative. Successor to the original Samsung Galaxy Star, the Star PRO offers enhanced features and a little larger screen. The phone runs on Android 4.1 which may seem a little obsolete considering the version of Android available now, but, with a little help from rooting the Galaxy Star PRO, you can get what

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