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The best part of the Apple ecosystem is how all their products work together. If you have a MacBook and an Apple Watch, you can use your Apple Watch to unlock your MacBook. However, Windows and Android are increasingly tying in better too. Now, you can easily use your Android phone’s fingerprint scanner to unlock your Windows PC.
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If you’re like me, you probably reset your phone or change ROMs fairly often. I frequently clean flash on my phone, and as you probably know, this means setting back up your Wear OS device to connect back to your phone, wiping the watch and all data on it. It’s possible, however, to keep your data and simply sync your watch to your newly set up phone.
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Android 8.0 includes a useful feature with it which shows you the information about the background apps as persistent notification. These are the apps running in the background on your device. This helps you understand which apps are using screen overlays and which apps are running tasks in the background while you are using another app. It’s incredibly helpful if you want to know what apps are causing battery drain or running for too long in the background. If you’re on Oreo and are tired of snoozing that notification about apps running in the background, you can use these apps to permanently silence them.
An issue many may run into when installing a custom ROM and restoring their apps with Titanium Backup may be broken push notifications. Why is this and how can you fix it?
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A simple search on the Play Store for battery-saving or speed-boosting apps reveals an endless list of apps with each of them getting around 10 thousand to even a whopping 500 million downloads. But are those apps actually useful?
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Media Transfer Protocol (MTP) is slow, buggy, and doesn’t even work natively on Mac or Linux. Following this simple guide, you can copy files from your device quickly, easily, and painlessly all through your device’s shell via ADB file transfer, avoiding MTP entirely.
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You’d probably think that getting free Android apps and games that you would otherwise pay for on Google Play was, without a doubt, illegal. But there is a not-very-well-known, hidden app made by Amazon called “Amazon Underground” (pun unintended) and it is completely legal.
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