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What To Do When The Power Button Of Your Android Phone Is Broken?

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A damaged power button seems to be the end of the line for your device. But don’t worry, there are plenty of alternatives to keep your device in a working state even with a damaged power button. Not every method works for all devices. In this article, we have compiled a number of ways to deal with a broken power button and you can choose the one that works for you. If you feel that your power button is acting up, the most important things you need to do in order to ensure that you don’t lose access to your device is to turn ON  USB debugging  and  Scheduled Power ON . How To Turn ON USB  debugging on Android? Open your  Settings  app. Tap on  Developer Options . If you don’t see  Developer Options  in  Settings , you can turn it ON by going to  About phone  and then tap on  Build number  a few times till you see a pop-up message that reads “You are now a developer”. Toggle  Developer option...

Upgrading To Ubuntu 17.10? — Keep These 3 Important Things In Mind

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L ast week, Canonical pushed the final, stable release of Ubuntu 17.10 Linux distribution. Even though it isn’t an LTS release, 17.10 doesn’t hesitate from bringing a whole set of big changes to the table. In case you are a Linux user, you might be knowing that this release is ditching Unity as a default desktop environment and  making a switch to GNOME. This brings us to the update of older versions of Ubuntu. In case you’re running Ubuntu 17.04, the last stable version, you can simply use Software Updater to get the upgrade. Chances are that you might have already seen the upgrade popup. Alternatively, you can open the command line and force the upgrade by running following command:  sudo do-release-upgrade Important things to keep in mind while upgrading to Artful Aardvark 1. In case of a fresh installation A new Ubuntu installation will have two sessions available, with base name Ubuntu. As you can see in the pictu...

Windows 10 “TruePlay”: Microsoft Adds New Anti-Cheat Protection For Gamers

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I n case you’re a gamer, there are chances that you might be running Windows on your machine. In the recent years,  Linux distros for gaming  have made their presence felt, but they still have a lot of ground to cover. For game developers who wish to stop the cheaters from showing off their tricks during the gameplay, Microsoft has added a new system-level API with  Windows 10 Fall Creators Update .Named  TruePlay , this new feature will help the developers take better control of games and tag it as a protected process. This will let the game detect and stop outside attacks, including programs that alter game’s memory. In case the background mechanism finds any mischief, the payer will be alerted. The related data can also be sent to the game developer–this data sharing only takes place in case a cheating effort is detected. In case, you’re too skeptical about your data, you have an option to disable the feature as well. This feature was first t...

Pixel 2 Has Screen Burn-In Problem, Google Says They’re “Actively Investigating” The Report

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A ndroid Central  has reported that their  Pixel 2 XL review unit is having screen burn-in issues. That’s a bad thing for the latest made-by-Google flagship which was  announced earlier on October 4 , ditching  the headphone jack . Alex Dobie posted a view of the Pixel 2 screen burn-in on Twitter. The website points out that the screen burn-in is visible when a grey image is viewed, forming a ghost image of the home, back, and the recent apps button. The Verge also  confirmed a similar thing  with their 2nd-gen Google Pixel review unit. View image on Twitter  Follow Alex Dobie   ✔ @alexdobie That's some pretty wild OLED burn-in on the Pixel 2 XL after maybe 7 days of full-time use 4:53 PM - Oct 22, 2017   225 225 Replies     604 604 Retweets     1,107 1,107 likes Twitter Ads info and privacy Screen burn-in is a display problem occurring mostly in ...