Latest Trending Apple Android Smartphones More Topics

Gadget Hacks Forum

iOS 18 Tips, Tricks, How-Tos, News

Forum Thread: How Do I Remove The "Custom Padlock" Logo When Rebooting My Note III.

I had rooted my Note III and started to have issues when I purchased the app XBlast to be able to customize my status bar. I started to receive an error message "system UI has stopped" so I freaked out and restored my phone to factory state, to then find out I was still rooted. I then purchased an app to be able to unroot. But now I have this word " 'custom' with a padlock logo" that I cannot get rid of and have googled but to no avail. I recently purchased my Note III and I am afraid this wi...

Forum Thread: How to Enable "Unknown Sources" on Your Nexus 7 for Access to Awesome 3rd-Party Apps

Google's Play Store is packed with some great apps, but since we're the rebellious types looking to fully utilize the capabilities of our Nexus 7s, we're going to need some 3rd-party apps—apps that can't be found in the Play Store. Don't worry, it's not some sketchy way to acquire black-market apps. This function serves conventional purposes, like getting the exclusive Nexus 5 Google Launcher on your Nexus 7. By enabling Unknown sources, we can acquire device-specific apps with ease.

Forum Thread: Samsung S3 Progre SCL21 Help

I'm trying to root my S3, but I'm having some issues. The issue being it's an S3 Progre and not just a normal S3. Living in Japan has great perks, but I can't read the forums to figure this stuff out, haha. I keep running into dead end after dead end. Hoping that someone here might be able to help me. Would greatly appreciate it! Thanks in advance for any help.

Forum Thread: Fix for Slow Charging Issue

So guys, it's pretty well known the Nexus 7 has a painfully slow charging time. If you're using an aftermarket charger like me, it takes AGES to get the battery to 100%. Has the new 4.2.2 update solved this issue? A custom kernel of any help?

Forum Thread: Trev WiFi Hotspot Not Showing Up on GS3

Through the instructions on this website on how to turn your WiFi GS3 into a free WFi hotspot through the root and Trev app, I could not get my phone to emit the WiFi. My phone gives all indications that the WiFi Hotspot is working, however when I use another device to search for the GS3 hotspot, I can not see it to connect to through WiFi. Any advice out there??

Forum Thread: How to Disable Facebook Seen Feature

hey guys what's up ? well as you can read the title that today I am going to show you how you can turn off the Facebook's chat "seen" feature. Well you may noticed that when you are typing in chat box , Facebook shows the message that user is Typing.. or sometimes you got " .... " in your chat box or you see "seen 7:28(time)" in chat box.. we will disable it to bypass that seen feature. After doing this you can read your friends messages and they will not know that you have read their messages..

Forum Thread: Man Has Always Sought to Improve the World Through Inventions

I have worked on this prototype bicycle project for 2.5 years and it is stubborn as a mule in trying to get it to work properly. This is a revolution in the biking industry. If only we could have bicycle companies like schwinn, trek, magna, etc look up this with ingenious mind. I have absolute faith that this bicycle is very nopnotch with the current concept or with some other concept in addition to the current concept such as a torque converter, flywheel, tension spring, etc. Please watch my...

Forum Thread: Trouble with the WiFi Tether TrevE Mod

What I did was everything in the instructions. It is running, however my GS3 is popping up a Security Notice saying that the TrevE was trying to access an area that is restricted to it. So the Security blocked it. This is what I can only assume is why I am not able to see my phone actually broadcasting a WiFi signal. I go into programs and my notification window and it does stat TrevE is running, but I am not seeing the WiFi singal on my laptop when trying to connect. I see other around me, j...

Forum Thread: Dear All,

I have a Note SCH-I605 while I was trying to install a custom ROM it went dead. Once after the even I was able to restore the firmware but it doesn't shows the IMEI, Base-band & SIM card is not found.

Forum Thread: How to Run Galaxy S4 Verizon on French "Orange" Network

Hello, I hope someone out there can give me some tips on how to resolve this problem. I recently moved to France and brought my S4, the Verizon rep. and global support assured me it would work over here. I switched the phone to GSM mode and have the Orange SIM card in the phone and I can send texts/make calls but cannot connect to the 4G network or any internet whatsoever.