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How To Hide Root Access From Apps In Android Device

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The Android operating system is an open source and the users can’t brag enough about it. It allows the users to use third-party applications, modify the OS as per their desires and likes. It also allows users to root their devices which allows them to modify system files as they are given administrative rights. Rooting an Android phone doesn’t actually need any deep-rooted knowledge but can be done by anyone with minimum knowledge and one needs to be definitely cautious while rooting as it may lead to damage to your device. While root access is very much popular among the Android users, many feel it as an unsafe way and the phones are even considered as insecure.

Some Android apps don’t work with rooted phones like bank applications which we will definitely need. So, in such cases to all the users who have rooted Android devices with them and facing issues like this. They can actually hide root access from certain Android apps by following the simple steps below.

Hide Root Access From Apps

  • As a first step, you need to get Cydia Substrate  installed on your device
  • Then when you open the application and check in the Settings>About, Linux mode should be set to permissive and not enforce, if it is in enforcing, then get this  SELinuxModeChanger and change the mode to permissive
  • Now get RoatCloak Plus  app and restart your device once
  • Now open the RootCloak Plus app and it will show you the list of all the applications on your device
  • You can simply press the plus icon on the top and then add the apps that you wish to hide the root access from

You are all done with the setup and now those apps will work fine on your rooted device.

Find Out Who Is Tracking You Through Your Android Phone

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The Android operating system has become so much popular among the smartphone users just because of it’s easy to use user interface. But unlike the blackberry users, Android users should be a bit worried about their safety and privacy as Android phones don’t offer a secure system to the users. Many users are very much worried about being tracked by others. So, this is for all those people who are concerned about their security and privacy in their Android devices. Here is how you can find out who is tracking you through your device.

Know Who Is Tracking Your Android Device

Let us now go through some useful codes for Android phone users. They will help them to know about their security and also know whether they were being tracked.

  • *#21# is the code that will allow the users to know whether their messages, calls are being diverted somewhere else. Using this code the users can find the details regarding the call forwarding. This code even lets the users know whether call forwarding is enabled or disabled on their device
  • *#62# is the code that the Android users can use to know whether their calls, messages, and data are being redirected somewhere. The users can know whether their calls and messages are being redirected to their operator’s number
  • ##002# code will allow the users to deactivate call forwarding in their device. If you ever feel that your calls and messages are redirected, then you can simply make use of this code to deactivate redirects
  • *#06# code lets the users know the IMEI number of their device which is the International Mobile Equipment Identifier. The IMEI number is needed to find your device if someone has stolen it

*#*#4636#*#* code lets the users know if someone is following them or tracking them, after typing this code from the dial pad in your device, select the UTMS cell environment, then select UTMS RR info, then note down all the numbers under Cell ID, then go to the main menu and then navigate to MM info tab>Serving PLMN and note down the numbers under Local area code, then you need to visit the http://opencellid.org/ website and there you can find the basic location of your phone on the map by selecting the fourth tab to the left.

How To Fix The Gmail Annoyances That You Hate

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Gmail is undoubtedly the most popular email service in the world. However, it is quite common for an app with about a billion monthly active users to have a few glitches. But whatever the glitches might be, they will be quite annoying for the users as they will hit them bad enough and decrease their productivity. So now, here in this article, let us look at some of the worst Gmail annoyances that we face with Gmail and also proper solutions to them.

Dealing With Gmail Annoyances

Sorting emails:

If you happen to open your mail inbox after a long vacation or something like that, then who doesn’t wish to see a sorted inbox rather than looking at the inbox with a huge number of unread emails which may include spam, junk mails as well. If you wish to have a properly sorted mail inbox, then you can actually work around with this trick.

  • You can simply type from:[sender’s name] in your mail search box to find emails from a particular person.
  • You can also use another search using size:[size in bytes] and add M at the end of the number to find emails above that particular size you have searched

So, these simple search tricks make sorting mails simple in Google mail.

Email signature:

Google has actually hidden the shiny signature templates and restricted the world from using them. Google has hidden them under the three dots at the bottom of your email window.

You click on the gear icon on your email window and then click settings, then head to the general and scroll down to the signature section of the page, there you will find an option “insert this signature before the quoted text in replies and remove the “-” line that precedes it”, just check that box. You can find this option below the email signature window.

Don’t Just Bookmark The Article, Save Your Reading Progress

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Reading is a very good habit and it is always welcome to read new things. But the thing is there is a lot of stuff to read and we cannot give it continuous attention these days. Some people prefer reading articles at some intervals. There are some awesome applications like Pocket available to save/bookmark the articles offline, but until there is a way to mark our reading progress that doesn’t seem to be good.

New stuff to read is always welcome, but the problem is that there’s just too much stuff to read these days, and our attention is fighting a losing battle.

Save The Progress Of The Article That You Are Reading

There is a chrome extension which serves that purpose called Markticle. It helps the users to return to the exact same position in the article that they are previously reading.

  • Just go to the Chrome Webstore and install the chrome extension You can find the icon of the extension on the right of the screen along with the other extensions in the Google Chrome.
  • Now you have to sign up in the app using your credentials.
  • Now open the article that you would like to bookmark, then select a part of the text in that article to mark.
  • Now press the ‘M’ key on your keyboard or just right click and then select add to mark.
  • Finally, you can add some descriptive tags or notes to the article that you are saving to read later.
  • All your marks will be saved to your online account and you can easily access them by clicking on the extension’s icon in the browser.
  • You can click on the saved marks to start reading the article from where you have stopped earlier.

You can even delete them by just clicking on the ‘X’ icon on the saved mark.

Learn How To Clean Your Computer’s Right Click Menu

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The thing or the window that pops up when you right click on something in windows is known as the context menu. This menu opens when you right click on something anywhere on your desktop or even inside the windows explorer. As we keep on installing new softwares, the vendors add useless options to the menu which will make the menu very confusing and clumsy as well.

Sorting Out Your Computer’s Right-Click Menu

Who doesn’t love a shortcut? Thanks to the guy who programmed in the right-click menu, we get to take some of them while working or browsing on the computer.

Luckily, we have a few options to edit the menu with the help of some tools. There are a few popular tools available on the internet. The tools include ShellExView, Context Menu editor, FileMenu Tools of which the first tool is a bit complicated and will be difficult to use for the regular PC users,

Using these very simple menu editors, you can easily remove any of the options that you don’t like to have there. FileMenu Tools can be useful to edit the menu that you can remove the unwanted options and get them back if you feel they are needed but the other two tools don’t have this getting back option.

All you have to do is just run the downloaded tools as an administrator as they make changes to your windows registry. The choice of decking up your right-click menu depends on the kind of power you want to give it. But it’s a certainty that you will be spoilt for choice with the free software available.

So, if you also feel your right click window has a lot of useless and unwanted options, then do try these tools and sort it as you like.