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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.

How To Remove Bloatware From Your Android Devices

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Smartphones these days come up with so many pre-installed applications from the device manufacturer. Such applications are most commonly known as bloatware. So, here we go, we are presenting you the process of removing bloatware from your non-rooted Android devices. It is a must know procedure as it lets you and helps you in making your device capable of sufficient storage.

Steps To Remove Bloatware

  • As a first thing, you need to enable developer options in your device. This can be done by heading to Settings -> About Phone -> Build Number (Tap on build number 7-10 times and your developer options will get activated).
  • Now you will see developer option in your settings and tap on it. Then scroll down and enable the USB Debugging option.
  • Now you need to download and install Debloater tool in your Windows PC. It will allow you to remove system apps from your device that you don’t wish to have.
  • After installing the above-mentioned software, just connect your Android device with USB cable to your PC. Now you need to wait for the tool to detect your device.
  • After the device is detected, you will need to scan the apps that are being currently installed on your device, and that includes your system apps. Simply mark the apps that you want to remove.
  • Then, you just need to click on the apply button, and this action will block all those apps from your device. They will no longer be there on your device to consume your memory.

IF you want, you can also undo this process by un-ticking them to access them again. That’s it! You are done, now all those apps will be removed from your device. Your device storage will be free from them.

Go ahead and remove all the unnecessary applications from your Android device.

Theme Your Android Device With LibreSubstratum

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The popularity of the Android devices has reached this much also because of the number of the customizations they have been offering the users. And the customizations are the attracting feature of these devices that you can get your device customized just as you like. So, now let us learn about customizing our devices using LibreSubstratum. So, here we go

One thing to note before heading towards the process is that this process only works with devices that run on Android Nougat that supports Overlay Manager Service.

  • And to begin the process, first of all, you need to get this LibreSubstratum app installed on your device, you can get it from the Google Play store
  • And you will also be needing the Substratum Theme Engine Root
  • Then head to your device Settings>Developer options and scroll down to the debugging section, and enable the option Force to authorize every theme app
  • Then install any of the Substratum theme that you like and wish to have on your device from the Google Play store
  • After installing the theme, then head to the LibreSubstratum app. Now tap on the theme that you wish to set for your device and select the overlay you liked from the list
  • Then tap on the plus icon in the bottom right corner of the screen. Then choose the option compile, select and activate
  • That is it you are done setting up and the overlays will be installed on your device

We hope this process of theming up your Android device will help you in turning up your devices with a new look. And thus help you in making them look great again. Theme up your device as you like with this simple and clumsy less process. All it takes is a few simple steps and a little bit of your time.

Learn How To Mirror Windows Screen To Your Android Device

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Mirroring your PC’s screen to any other device can be very much helpful. It can be used in case of troubleshooting someone’s PC when they are in need. You can also use this screen mirroring for accessing the data from anywhere and use your PC remotely. There are quite a lot of uses of this screen sharing and you can do this very simply. Don’t worry, here I am going to show you the process to mirror Windows screen to an Android device.

Screen mirroring is such a task that is considered tough but is, in fact, a very pretty basic thing that you can do using some really simple steps

Mirror Windows Screen With Screen Sharing Using VNC Connect:

  • First, you have to download the VNC Connect application on your Windows PC. Click here to Download
  • In the next step, you need to sign in with a VNC account for which you need to sign up Here
  • And in the same way, you should also download the VNC viewer app on the android device that you wish to screen your PC. Click Here to download
  • Then launch the VNC viewer app and sign in with your VNC account that used on your PC. Then you will be able to find the name of your PC.
  • Just double click on it and it will show you a pop-up screen saying that VNC server has identified the device and just click on continue.
  • Now your PC’s screen will show up on your device.

Thus, using a very simple and easy process you can mirror Windows screen on your Android device. Using these VNC Connect and VNC viewer applications makes the screen mirroring of your PC to Android, iOS, and Mac devices pretty easily.

Have a happy screen sharing  without any hassles.

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.