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Android 5.0 Lollipop Tips, Tricks and Hidden Features You Need to Know About

Android 5.0 Lollipop is one of the biggest updates released by Google to the Android software. The fifth version of Android has arrived with the Nexus 6 and Nexus 9, and is now rolling out to the other Android devices. Android Lollipop comes with a number of new features that provide a big usability boost. While some of these features are pretty straightforward and easily visible, but there are others that only experienced Android users could know that they exist. Here are some Android Lollipop tips, tricks and hidden features you need to know about, so you’re ready for when Lollipop lands on your device. Flappy Bird Clone Easter Egg Google has always slipped in an Easter egg with a new release of Android and Lollipop is no exception. In Android Lollipop, the Easter Egg is a Flappy Bird clone. However, the bird has been replaced with the green Android robot. To play the game , go to Settings -> About Phone and repeatedly tap ‘Android version’ till it changes ...

How to Overclock Android Devices

Mobile devices, especially those within the Android ecosystem, have reached unprecedented levels of performance with their multi-core processors and gigabytes of RAM. However, for various reasons, you may want to increase the performance of your device. Manufacturer customization, heavy multitasking, and other things can slow down the device and adversely affect day-to-day performance. If you are feeling like your device isn’t quite living up to your performance expectations, one way of remedying the problem is to overclock your device’s processor. What is overclocking? Overclocking is increasing the speed of your device’s processor. For Android devices, this requires you to have root access, something you’ll already have if you have a 3rd-party ROM installed or if you are using something like Xposed Framework. It can be dangerous for your device, so if you’re not someone who feels comfortable with terms like “bootloader” or “recovery mode” then this probably isn’t for you. ...

10 Major Reasons Why PC Crashes

10 reasons for crash of PC, U must Know Fatal error: the system has become unstable or is busy," it says. "Enter to return to Windows or press Control-Alt-Delete to restart your computer. If you do this you will lose any unsaved information in all open applications." You have just been struck by the Blue Screen of Death. Anyone who uses Mcft Windows will be familiar with this. What can you do? More importantly, how can you prevent it happening? 1. Hardware conflict The number one reason why Windows crashes is hardware conflict. Each hardware device communicates to other devices through an interrupt request channel (IRQ). These are supposed to be unique for each device. For example, a printer usually connects internally on IRQ 7. The keyboard usually uses IRQ 1 and the floppy disk drive IRQ 6. Each device will try to hog a single IRQ for itself. If there are a lot of devices, or if they are not installed properly, two of them may end up sharing the sam...