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How To Enable The Floating Bubble Of The Google Dialer

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If you are aware of the new Floating Bubble feature that Google has recently rolled out exclusively for its very own Pixel and Nexus series, you might want it on your device too. But if you are not, don’t mind I will let you know what it is and how to get it on your Android device. The Google Dialer in Pixel and Nexus devices has got a new update called the Floating bubble which basically allows the users to make the different call actions without being on the call screen. A Facebook Messenger kind of a chat head will be seen as soon as the users exit the call screen which can be moved all over the borders of the screen. Users can tap it to find three options which are speaker mode, mute the call, end the call.

Enabling Google Dialer Floating Bubble

Let us now look at the process of getting this feature in our Android devices

Note: Your device needs to be rooted for this process

  • Download and install the Google Phone APK
  • In the next step, you have to set this Google Phone app as your default phone app. You can do that by going to Settings>Apps. Then tap on the gear icon which you can find on the top right corner of your device’s screen. A new app configuration screen will appear, select option Phone App and then tap on the app that you just installed. It will have a navy blue icon
  • Now head to /data/data/com.google.android.dialer/shared_prefs using any root file explorer of your choice and then tap dialer_phenotype_flags.xml to edit
  • Once the file is opened, search for the string G_enable_return_to_call_bubble, change the value set from false to true, save the file and exit
  • Now head back to Settings>Apps>Phone App> then tap on Force Stop
  • Then open the app to reload it in the system memory

That is it, you are done with the process, you can experience the floating bubble feature in the Google Dialer the next time you make a call or receive a call.

How to contact WhatsApp support in India?

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How to contact WhatsApp support in India?

Sometimes you may come across certain situations such as your WhatsApp account is banned or other issues with your WhatsApp account. At a time only WhatsApp support team can help you to restore your service.

If there is any issue with your WhatsApp account, you can approach WhatsApp support team in two ways. The most easiest method is already available in your WhatsApp application. To access the support feature in your WhatsApp mobile app, open WhatsApp on your phone.

Click the menu button, select settings from the popup menu. At the next window select “Help” from the available options. Here you can find “Contact Us” option. Once you tap the option, it asks for the brief details of your problem. You can get the problem screenshot along with description. Click the next button. Whatsapp automatically shows the frequently asked questions.

If you could find solution for your problem in the FAQ’s, you no need to send the support information to WhatsApp team. If there is no solution available there for your issue, you can select “This doesn’t answer my question” button from the bottom of the screen. Finally WhatsApp opens your default email client, by filling the WhatsApp customer support ID in the “To” field. Most of the times it also adds the system logs to evaluate the exact reason for the problem. WhatsApp sends a canned response in return to your mail.

The second method to approach WhatsApp support team is, by using their official website. You can open Contact Whatsapp webpage link in your browser. The page provides different contact details for individual and business users. You have to select the appropriate contact. Then you can submit the details about the issue with your Whatsapp account. You should remember one thing that Whatsapp doesn’t respond to every support mail. it only prioritise important mails.

How To Stop Google From Tracking Your Voice

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Google, the search engine giant tracks everything that you do in t. If you think it may forget, then you are wrong. It keeps track of everything that you do with it. The information that it keeps track of may include your Google searches, watched YouTube videos and browses. But don’t worry it even allows you to control the information that you have in your account. Voice search using Ok Google is very much popular and it is very easy to use and one doesn’t have to type to search for something on the internet and it makes it convenient for the users to search like this.

But have you ever thought that Google will have a track of everything you search using your voice? Yes, it does have a record of everything that you browse using voice search.

Ok Google has been the most prominent features of the Android smartphones since the last few years and this feature has made people’s lives easier. But using a simple step, you can stop Google having a record of your voice searches. Here are steps you need to follow.

  • You need to go to the My Activity page and then sign in to your account.
  • Then you can find Activity Controls option on the left side. Click on it
  • There you can find the option Voice and Audio activity. Under that option click on Manage Activity, if you want to have a look at all the audio searches that you did using your Gmail account.

Or else you can just toggle the switch and it will open a dialogue box where you need to click on turn off. That is it. You are done with settings. This simple setup will thus allow you from stopping Google from tracking the voices you search using the Google voice search after the Ok Google command.

How To Hide Certain Images In Android Without Any Android App

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The population of Android users has been increasing day by day from time to time and everyone must agree with this thing. Now in this post, we are going to learn the process to hide certain images in Android as we may find the feature useful and needy at times. Check it out here.

How To Hide Certain Images In Android

Every android device comes with a built-in file explorer and if doesn’t have an inbuilt one, we will definitely look up and Es File Explorer is one such a really popular Android file explorer.

You need this file explorer for this process of hiding images on your device.

Now if you had it, just open the file explorer and browse through the DCIM folder in it.

Then inside of it, you will notice a certain type of folders like Facebook, Camera etc. Now if you wish to hide images from your camera, then you need to long press on the camera folder in the file explorer and then rename the folder name by adding a “.” in front of the folder name and then save it.

The same way if you wish to hide the images from any certain another folder like WhatsApp or Facebook, then all you need to do is just browse through the folders inside the Es File Explorer and then just rename the folder name by adding a simple “.” symbol in the starting of the folder name and then save it.

That is it these are the few simple steps that you need to do and you are done. It will help you to hide certain images in your device and make them disappear in the gallery of your device. You can thus hide WhatsApp images, Facebook Images, or any other folder you wish.

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How To Disable Annoying Ads While Playing Mobile Games

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Ads might be the most annoying things for us, but they are the major part of the businesses, various website, and other services as they help them to earn money. But we may not that much interested in watching the ads , especially while in a mood to play a game for some fun time. If you think you cannot do anything about it, then give that thinking an end and here is a simple way to get rid of those annoying advertisements.

Mobile phone users are more certainly to find these Ads as they are found in every free app and game. All the advertisements found in the apps and games are not necessarily malicious but they are a great disturbance in our way for sure.

Disabling Mobile Ads

Have you ever thought of playing the mobile games without any of the advertisements and disturbances, you think it is not possible. I will now show a simple trick to do that.

Here is how you can play your most favorite offline games without the advertisements disturbing you or distracting you from the game.

Since the advertisements basic need is an internet connection, you can simply turn the airplane mode on in your phone, and this trick works only with the games that can be played in the offline. Some popular games may require the internet connection to start, but later you can turn the airplane mode on and stop Ads from disturbing you while you are indulged in playing.

This works best in most of the puzzle and platformer games.

This also helps in saving your battery from draining quickly. Ads make use a lot of battery to load and internet connection also drains the battery. So, using this trick you can stop advertisements from disturbing you while playing mobile games.