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There was a tip earlier, around 7-8 years back that allowed for enabling USB Debugging via the Clockwork Mod Recovery, which surprisingly had a high degree of success rate. However, as you all might very well be aware of, we have already bid adieu to this recovery, and TWRP is the sole standing player in this domain. Unfortunately, enabling Debugging via this custom recovery isn’t possible, as of now. There exists another method that results in somewhat success....

However, inspite of all the goodies attached, it isn’t free from its fair share of issues either. As of now, various users have voiced their concern that Firefox tends to crash whenever they open multiple tabs. Do note that by multiple, we don’t mean 100 tabs, for some users even interacting with around 10-15 tabs tends to make the browser crash [let alone 10,000 tabs!]. What is even more concerning is the fact that this issue first came to light with version 100, but has been carried forward even to version 103....

However, more often than not, issues seem to stem out from this set of commands itself. As a result, I have already documented over 15 different types of ADB Fastboot Errors and their Fixes. But over the course of time, I was seeing a strange pattern. A few sets of users weren’t able to achieve success even after executing my fixes and workarounds. After getting in touch with some of them, I found that around 90% of them were using a Ryzen based PC....

In this domain, Calculator apps are probably the most well-known entries. From the outside, it looks like just a normal calculator. But once you enter the correct passcode via the calculator’s password, it would decrypt the data and take you to your files. However, since there’s always an element of risk involved with such apps since they are from third-party developers. Unfortunately, this risk has proved to be true with one of the most famous vault apps known as Calculator+....

Use GPS navigation, play your preferred music, place calls, send and receive messages, or enable hands-free mode via voice commands, all these definitely sound good on paper. But when it comes to its implementation, it seems to be broken, at least on the latest OS build. Many have voiced their concern that as soon as they update their device to Android 12, they aren’t receiving any notifications in Android Auto....

While some users were unable to establish a successful connection with the tool, others were unable to find the modem in PDC or QPST. And all these issues popped up with OxygenOS 11 itself. In this regard, I have already documented a non-root method to rectify this issue. However, that method doesn’t have a high degree of success as compared with the rooted one. Therefore, in this guide, we will show you how to fix the PDC not working issue with your rooted OnePlus device running Android 11....

The latest entry to this list is the Windows default photo viewer and editor app. While there’s not much of a reason to justify its existence, there’s a plethora to justify why it shouldn’t. One of its most tagged complaints is that it takes ages to load a single image. With the passage of time, users started to accept its fate as it is. However, there have been a couple of others bugs in recent days that have made the matter worse....

However, what we cannot deny is the fact that it offers the best graphics experience. While this would call for a stronger PC build, with CPU, GPU, and RAM all on the higher side, but the issue is users are having a hard time playing this game even if they checkmark all the recommended requirements. Game lags, freezes, black screen while loading, memory leakage, and the FPS getting locked to a specific level are some of the noteworthy issues that users are currently getting bugged with....

Two among them are Parental Control– which gives complete control to the parents as to what type of content their children should watch and for how long and Restricted Mode- which will screen out potentially objectionable content. if you have both these features disabled and you come across NSFW content, then the Nest Hub would display either of the two warnings: But since you don’t have any restrictive measures imposed on your account, YouTube will give you the option to confirm this warning and proceed ahead to watch that content....

Well, each network adapter on your PC has been assigned a Metric, which in turn depends on a number of parameters. These include the speed of that link, the number of hops it takes to reach that specific destination, and the Delay time. Taking these three factors into consideration, each of the adapters gets assigned a Metric. The one having the lowest metric gets the highest privileges by the system....

From there, you could then select either Down motion scrolls down or Down motion scrolls up. However, it is quite surprising to note that all these settings are limited only to the touchpad. As opposed to the trackpad, there isn’t any direct and straightforward approach through which you could change the mouse scrolling direction in Windows 11. But there does exist a handy registry editor tweak through which you could get this job done....

So what else could be done? Well, we could tweak the metric of each of these connections and assign the top priority to the preferred WiFi. For the unaware, each network adapter on our PC has been assigned a numerical value by the system. These value mainly depends on three parameters, namely speed, the number of hops it takes to reach that specific destination, and the Delay time. Taking these three parameters into consideration, all your adapters are assigned a metric....

However, it is the latter one that initially lead to a slew of complaints from the gamers. Many of them have voiced their concern that many hackers have invaded the game and they have completely ruined the gameplay experience. To deal with it, there was the Easy Anti Cheat put in place by the game developers. While it does tend to stop the hackers from carrying out their malicious activities, but on the flip side, creates a few issues of its own....

However, with these leaks, there is always an element of risk involved. Due to these concerns, many users decided not to try out those leaks. Fortunately, you could now put all these doubts to rest as the first official build is now live for Windows 11. Do keep in mind that this is in an Insider Preview. So it is mostly intended for the geeks and the developers. Moreover, you might expect a few bugs or underlying issues....

In continuation of that article, I published another one that instructed on the steps to flash custom ROMs without TWRP. The basis of somewhat similar, extract the custom ROM, you will get a payload.bin file, extract it via my first guide and you could then flash those files via Fastboot. I tried and verified for a lot of custom ROMs and they indeed had had their files in payload.bin. However, some users pinged me and told me that there do exists some ROMs that have their files packed inside the system....

Apart from that, if you are planning to upgrade certain components on your PC, then again this information will come in handy. Recently, I had to purchase an SSD but was unable to get hold of the information on whether my laptop supports the newer NVMe2.0 slot or should I go ahead with the traditional SATA. But once I got hold of my laptop’s model number, I input the same in the manufacturer’s site [Crucial] and got the required information [my laptop is HP 15-DA-1074TX and it does have an NVME 2....

Then the advanced functionality usually involves unlocking/re-enabling the device’s features that have been disabled by the OEM. In this regard, recently I was trying to bring back the WiFi toggle on my Android 12 device which Google has removed from the stock OS. For that, I just needed to execute a single line of command and the task would have been complete. However, it proved to be easier said than done....

Recently, quite a few users installed the official OTA update on their Poco M3 but right in the middle the device just turned off and refused to respond. This is perhaps the most concerning issue that one could face, more so because you didn’t carry any unofficial modification but was simply installing the official update rolled out by Xiaomi. Fortunately, there do tend to exists a couple of workarounds that have been known to fix this issue....

Once rooted, you could then install Magisk Modules, Substratum Themes, Xposed Framework, or even custom kernels. But as the popular saying goes, there are two sides to a coin, and the same is the case here as well. While on one hand, they do end up adding more features to your device, but at the same time, you might be inviting risks as well. This usually happens if you miss up any crucial step or flash an incorrect binary....

At the very most, you could wipe off the data, reboot your device to Fastboot, or in some instances, perform the ADB sideload functionality. But that’s it. You cannot flash ZIP or IMG files, erase data partition, create and restore a backup of various device partitions, etc. Hence the need for a custom recovery becomes all the more important. And as of now, TWRP is the sole recovery ruling the charts....