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Here Is How You Can View Saved Passwords In Your Android Device

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We might be using save password option quite many times and we use it for saving our various passwords. And it is normal and usual that we forget our passwords and what if we haven’t got them written or saved anywhere, don’t worry if you are stuck in such kind of a situation and for this you will have to have an Android device in which you have that password saved and you can view the saved passwords and make a note of them for logging with the password from somewhere else.

WiFi has become our main source of internet these days and wherever we go we get WiFi, but it cannot be easy to remember all those different passwords and what if we don’t have the passwords noted down somewhere, don’t worry, as today’s article will let you learn how to view the passwords that you saved on your device.

There are different procedures for rooted and unrooted android devices, so keeping in mind the most number of users who might be using unrooted devices, here we are presenting you the process of viewing the WiFi passwords that were saved on your unrooted device.

View Saved Passwords Of WiFi

  • For taking a look at the saved passwords from a rooted device, you will be needing a file manager
  • The file manager that you are using should give you access to the root folders. So choose root explorer or some other application like it
  • Now navigate to data/misc/wifi in the file explorer and look out for a file with the name wpa_supplicant.conf.
  • Then open the file with the inbuilt text or HTML viewer
  • Now here you will get to see the different networks and their respective passwords that you can take a note of for referring in future

You can try the process using other file managers like ES Explorer also, so give it a try.

How To Speed Up Your Android Device Without Rooting

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The users of the Android operating system has been increasing day by day and it has crossed about 2 billion users. The various customization options and useful features are what makes it so popular among the smartphone users. And one of the main concerns of the Android users is the slowing down of their devices after some time. So, here in the piece of the article, we are putting together some simple and easy things that you can try to speed up your Android device.

Steps To Speed Up Your Device

  • Managing the internal storage is one of the main and first things that one needs to consider if they observe a slow down in the performance of their device. Uninstall unnecessary applications and clean up the system storage and make it free from any unwanted stuff that you haven’t been using for ages
  • If you are using a device that has a RAM less than 2GB, then you should definitely take care of the bloatware in your system and try to get rid of them
  • Don’t ever install an application if someone says it is good and useful, taking other’s suggestions is good, but keep them installed on your device only if you feel them useful to you
  • Widgets are very much popular among the Android users as they give instant access to their favourite and most used applications right from the home screen, but don’t allow these widgets to steal more space in your RAM which slows down your device.
  • Many users have a misunderstanding about updating the firmware to be just a waste of system memory, but that can actually help to speed up your device, so, next time you receive a new update, don’t neglect it, just update it
  • Timely rebooting of your device will keep it fresh and it allows the users to get rid of the apps on their device

Disable auto synchronizing of various apps is another simple thing that the users can try to experience a speed Android device.

How To Automatically Scroll Down The Pages In Android

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We are so much used to Android smartphones and with the best features they have been providing us, we have almost become addicted to them, but still, there are some disadvantages with them that we just ignore. And one of them is that the Android phones scroll feature needs us to keep the finger movement continuous and without our finger scrolling, the pages don’t go up. But here is a solution from us for this problem, check this out.

Learn To Set Auto Scroll

  • To begin the process, you need to get an application from the Google Play store which is available to download for free for the users and it is the Easy Scroll
  • Like the name suggests this application makes the process of scrolling through the pages on your Android device a pretty easy one
  • You just need to download and install the application and after it got installed on your device, it will show you a widget on the screen using which you can scroll through the pages automatically.
  • Easy Scroll Android app even allows you to adjust the settings and customize as per your choice.
  • You can set up the scrolling speed, and also set the option to scroll any content that is scrollable
  • But sadly this application as access the Nougat’s accessibility settings runs only on Android device’s that run on Android Nougat and above.
  • So, it is up to you, how to customize this application, if you would like to give your fingers some rest while scrolling.

Finger up, finger down, are you not bored of this regular scrolling task, try this application which allows you to go through the pages a bit different and effortlessly go through the entire contents. Read the entire PDF page or go through the entire website until the bottom of the website with giving it a scrolling as this app allows automatic scrolling.

Learn How To Enable And Disable Safe Mode On Android Devices

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Safe mode is a well-known word and mode among all those PC users. As many of you may know it is a mode which helps you to get out of trouble from an application or a corrupted driver that is preventing you from doing any other tasks. Many of you may have been familiar with the term in PCs, but very few people know that our Android devices like tablets and mobile phones also have this mode. Yes, they actually do have.

Safe mode can help you to track down the causes of problems you may be having with your smartphone. When you boot your phone in Safe mode, it doesn’t run any third-party apps installed on your device. If your smartphone has been overheating, suffering battery drain, or otherwise not performing properly — yet it doesn’t exhibit these issues while in Safe mode — then you know that an app you installed is the culprit. So, this mode is basically like testing your device for any problems that it might be facing.

Now in this piece of the article let us go through the simple process of enabling and disabling that mode in case your phone runs into any kind of troubles from any applications or programs.

Enabling And Disabling Safe Mode

The Safe mode can be used as a troubleshooting tool, that allows you to work with minimum software and thus helping you to figure out which is the app is causing issues on your Android device.

For Android, troubleshooting follow these simple steps

  • Press the power button on your device until it shows up a menu on your screen.
  • Now long press the Power off button
  • Now it shows the option to reboot the device in safe mode, then click on ok.
  • It will land you into the troubleshooting mode.

safe mode

Reboot the device if you are done with the android troubleshooting, which will take you out of that mode.

That is it, thus android devices can be troubleshoot easily.

How To Customize The Notification Center And Status Bar In Android Device

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Android phones are the most popular devices these days among the people using smartphones. There are a lot of ways for customising the smartphones especially android phones. There are launchers, icon packs, lock screen apps which can help the most in customizing the Android device, whereas the notification center is something that can change the whole look of your phone. So, there are various applications that can help you to customize your status bar.

Some android phones like Samsung, HTC, LG and Xiaomi devices allow the users to customise the look as per their preference. Whereas stock Android users like the ones who use Moto, Pixel devices may not be able to customize the look of their device by default. Here are some things they can do to customize the look of their device.

Customizing Notification Center:

Now here I am going to take you through some applications that will help you in customizing your notification center. These apps don’t require the apps to be rooted.

Material Status bar Notific:

People who use the stock android devices know the actual desire to make their device overcome the material design and allowing them to have a fully customised device as per their preference. This app actually fulfils that by giving the users the chance to make changes in their notification center. This app lets the user choose the way they see the information on the notification bar. Users can choose colours for the icons in the notification bar.

notification center

Notification Toggle:

notification centre

How would it feel if the user will be able to access their most favourite apps like WhatsApp and Facebook right from the status bar? Sounds great right. This app the Notification Toggle lets the users create custom shortcuts for various apps and even device functions that they use regularly. Users can change the colour as they like and can add a second row for toggles.

Status:

This app can be considered as a similar app to the first app listed above the Material Status bar notific. This app as the name suggests allows only to customise it. One can change the appearance and position of the clock. It also lets the users customise each and every icon on the status ranging from colour to designs of the icons like WiFi, battery.

notification center

Thus using these applications available in the Google Play store for free one can customise their phone and thus change its entire look.