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How to protect an android device from being hacked

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Android is without any doubt the most popular mobile operating system in the world. However, it is also said through various surveys that android operating system is also very much prone to hacking.  But don’t be horrified. There are some simple and easy precautions and steps that w must be taking care of to protect our android devices from being hacked.

All this doesn’t require you to be an IT professional or anything else, no matter how important, confidential personal your data is, it should be with you until and unless you give access to somebody else with your interest.

  • Never ever expose your phone to websites and apps which can have a negative influence on your privacy. Be wise in choosing apps and it is always a better thing do a research before going with some app or a website.
  • Be well equipped with some essential gadgets and accessories that can make your android device hack proof.
  • Always better to secure your device with a secure password that no one knows, the password should be kept as a secret.
  • At the same time, you must be having a backup of all your passwords of your device.
  • Make use of the various security settings that your device has come inbuilt in it. Make full use of them wisely.
  • It is also better to secure your apps which might you think have the most sensible personal information of yours.
  • Avoid using Public WiFi network for banking transactions that you do.
  • Stay updated with the latest technological developments happening in the world of technology.

These steps will ensure your personal files, information is with you only and thus can help you stay protected with your device.

How to add a web page to your android’s home screen

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Smart phones have replaced the personal computers in the lives of many people these days. We have been depending on our smart phones for many of our tasks these days and they have been helping us a lot in multi-tasking as well with their increased features and technologies.

We get to visit a few websites very often on the internet. But to open a particular website or page, we are forced to go through the same process of opening the browser and then going to that particular website that we need to go. There is a simple shortcut to this whole process where we can go and visit that website right from the home screen of our android device.

  • Go to the web page that you get to visit very often, then click on the device browser’s settings.
  • Now you will be presented with some options in the drop down menu, now select Save to Bookmarks.
  • Edit the label if you want and then tap on add to and then click on the home screen.

Thus these simple steps give you easy access to the web page that you visit very often.  Every time you wish to open the web page, you just have to click the icon on your home screen and no more hassles at all. Customise your android device in a way friendly to you.

Download music for free legally on android device

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Android devices have become the mainstream devices for media consumption these days and many people carry their music playlists on the android devices. If you are also among those people who don’t have a special device like music player audio for listening purpose, but use android device playing your playlists, then here is a simple way where you can download free music legally using your android phone or tablet and without the use of any computer.

Download music files using the device’s internet browser can be very easy, you just have to search in the browser. Then you might find various results and then you just have to long press on the link and then choose from the menu save link option and it will prompt you to select the default browser if your device is not set up with the default browser. It will show you the progress of your downloading in the notification bar. After the download is complete, you can play it by manually opening it in the downloads or just refreshing the music library.

There is yet another simple way to download music files. Try the SoundCloud application, which is available in the Google Playstore for free. Once installed, just sign in to the service using any of your social networking ids or just sign up with it. Now you can easily search for your favourite songs on the application and once you play them, just clicking on the heart icon can make them offline and add them to your playlist. You can play the songs on your playlist anytime without any internet connection.

SounCloud is thus the best music downloading application that everyone must try.

These are the few ways to download music in your android device. I hope these will be useful to you.

Enabling and disabling 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 mode which helps you to get out of trouble from an application or a corrupted driver that are 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 the actually do have.

Now in this piece of 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.

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 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 rebooting the device in safe mode, then click on ok.
  • It will land you into the troubleshooting mode.

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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 troubleshooted easily.

How to manage and save your data on your android device

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Aren’t you concerned about your data plan? Why should we leave our phone to allow data plan get waste when we have all the secure data settings to save the data. But we just need to get some knowledge in order to manage the settings in our android device which help us save our data.

So if you are concerned about saving or managing your data on your android phone and thus save your money, then you need to make the following settings changes on your device.

Track your data usage:

First of all, you need to keep track of your data regularly to have an idea of your data usage. You can track this easily by going into Settings > Data Usage.

You can set cellular data limit which will automatically turn off the data access. The cellular and your carrier’s data measure will slightly differ, so it is suggested that you keep the data limit to a little lower than your actual data plan, so that you may not go off your data.

You can also easily check the data usage of various apps on your mobile here and get a rough idea about the apps on their data usage. So that you can be cautious while use them on your cellular data.

Restrict your background data:

Many apps actually use a lot of data that we don’t even get to know. That happens when they run in the background. Why not stop the background running of apps which waste a lot of data. To do this you need to go to Settings > Data Usage and there you can find a three dot icon Restrict choose background data and click on it to save the wastage of your data by apps in the background.

Instead of following the above steps, if you are not feeling satisfied with your phone data savings, then there are some apps that help you save your data which you can try.