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Bluetooth headphones are only useful as long as they stay connected to your mobile or notebook. Otherwise, the search for a solution becomes arduous and sometimes nerve-wracking. If you are stuck with pairing or connection problems, we have summarized tips and solutions for you below.
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Are you lost in front of your Samsung smartphone, staring at it in despair because you have forgotten the unlock code? That can be a very annoying experience, but it is not the end of the world. In the best case, you can still unlock your phone without a password. In the worst case, Samsung devices can also be reset without a PIN. We will go through all the possibilities in our primer here.
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We’ve always come to the point of losing a device—may it be our phones, smartwatches, or keys. But with the advent of tracking services, recovering them has been far from looking a needle in a haystack. On Android, Google launched its upgraded Find My Device. We share a guide on how to find or locate your lost Android phone or tablet with the new app.
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Ghost image or screen burn-in are names given to permanent discoloration of your smartphone’s screen caused by irregular pixel usage. The prolonged use of static images can create a permanent shadow or ghost of that image on the screen. This problem is common and happens most often on OLED screens (although LCD displays aren’t always immune). In this article, we explore ways in which this issue can be fixed—and, more importantly, prevented from happening in the first place.
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HyperOS, Xiaomi’s new Android skin, did not introduce many new features compared to MIUI 14. However, there is one feature that I love about HyperOS (review): the ability to sort icons in your app drawer by color. I’ll show you how it works on your Xiaomi smartphone.
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One of the strong points of HyperOS, Xiaomi’s Android skin, is multitasking. You can open floating windows and split the screen of your Xiaomi smartphone in a very intuitive manner. HyperOS offers plenty of shortcuts for power users who want to do several things simultaneously. In this tutorial, I’ll show you the best HyperOS features to optimize multitasking on your Xiaomi smartphone.
See our full Xiaomi HyperOS review
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In 2017, during a visit to Rio de Janeiro, I discovered a standalone “view-master” device at a flea market. These gadgets are made to hold a small image that you can see by looking through a lens. The gadget I picked up featured an image of a person standing next to a console television—the ones that looked like pieces of furniture. Since televisions became popular in Brazil in the 1950s, and the TV in the picture looks like one that was sold between 1950 and 1970, I believe the photo in the view-master was probably taken during this time.
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Android phones popularized LED indicators, but those were phased out and replaced by always-on displays or flashlight alerts. In Android 14, Google integrated the feature back as flash notifications that utilize the camera LED and screen. This is a similar function already available on Samsung Galaxy phones. Here’s how to enable and use it on your Pixel.
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Are you looking for ways to capture scrolling screenshots on your Android smartphone? It turns out you have come to the right place! In this detailed article, we have listed several methods using which you can capture scrolling screenshots or long screenshots on your Android smartphone in just a few simple steps.
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Without fanfare, Google added a new experimental mode to the Pixel 8 smartphones: Desktop mode, similar to Samsung DeX or Motorola Ready For, the mode supports an external display, keyboard, and mouse to use the phone as a versatile desktop PC, learn how to activate the feature on the Google Pixel 8 Pro.