This post will focus on two methods to achieve data usage management, the bottom line being :

Understanding which apps uses the most data :

This can be done via Data Usage Settings, which gives us necessary statistics about data usage on our smartphone. Apps like Facebook, Instagram, Youtube, Vine are some of the most data demanding applications in our android ecosystems, however you cannot save data on all of them (methods detailed below) because some them already compress data before sending you.

Taking Steps to restrict unnecessary usage :

In this post you will find two methods that you can use to restrict your data usage, and yes, both are non-root. One uses Opera Max, and another uses Android’s built in data usage management dashboard to help you determine ad restrict data access.

However, I recommend using Opera Max, because it also compresses data before it reaches you so you end up saving 40-50% data, you can expect a minimum savings of 20% and when on a limited data plan 20% is a considerable amount.

Below you will find both methods:

Method 1 (Non-Root)

This method uses Opera Max (third-party Application) to save you 30-50% on your data usage on your smartphone, this uses a complex compression algorithm to compress any incoming data to smaller packets to make sure that you get the same quality content at less bandwidth expense.

1) Download Opera Max

2) Open it and Run through the Setup guide

3) Now Click on Connect to Opera Max Cloud

4) On Allow Connection Dialogue box, click OK.

5) Now Opera Max will start saving your data.

6) To block certain apps, swipe left and click on App Management.

7) Once there swipe right-to Mobile Access

8) Now Tap on Apps you want to block internet access to and they won’t be able to access the internet.

Done!

Alternate Method (Non-Root Method)

This method uses android’s built in data management utility and will tone down your internet usage and will control data access to all applications. This will only give access to the current on-screen application so you can use any app using this.

1) Go to Settings.

2) Go to Data Usage.

3) Click on Menu Button/Option Key/3 Dots, Click on “Restrict Background Usage”

4) Click on OK.

After these steps, only onscreen applications can use the Internet, other background applications like Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp cannot access the Internet unless you explicitly open the app.

How did you like this article? Were you able to save data? Tell us in the comment section below. Until next time, Keep Androtrending! 🙂

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How does this works: A little background detail

So, just a background detail on how we plan to achieve the desired task, you see, Whatsapp has imposed a 4000-character limit on messages but forgot to put a bar on emoticon usage.

So, what you basically have to do is to send a high number of emoticons, preferably 3500+, to a Whatsapp group or contact and this, in turn will force close the application anytime someone comes across that message.

Now, that we know the match, let’s do this :

1) Open WhatsApp

2) Get to the Contact/Group

3) Now start inserting in the same smiley multiple times, till it go to an insane high amount.

Do it by this :

You can easily (little work) do this by using copy paste, insert a high number of a emoticon, copy it and then paste it, then copy it again and paste it again-repeat till you feel a lag yourself.

4) Force Close Whatsapp

5) Go to Chat list, Delete the Contact conversation/ Leave Group

6) Or just wait for everyone else to leave it out of sheer frustration of getting a WhatsApp force close.

This tip and trick is intended for some fun, respect people’s privacy and don’t use this to harm someone. How did you like this article? Let us know in the comment section below. Until next time, Keep Androtrending!

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And at many times, for variety of reasons we feel the urge to get away, so this post will tell you how to temporarily disable your Instagram without loosing your posts, likes, followers and following. This will help those people who just want to quit it for a specific time before joining it again, without the worry of loosing their followers and such.

How to do it :

1. Go to Instagram.com from your PC or mobile Browser. (Cannot be done via Instagram App)
2. Login with your Instagram Credentials.
3. Click on Edit Profile.
4. Click on ‘Temporarily disable my account’ on the bottom right corner.
5. Now, fill in the fields and now you have temporarily deactivated your Instagram account.

After this you can freely log in to your account whenever you want and the account would be reactivated.

I hope you would find tis article useful and give our Facebook page a like, don’t forget to share this and let your pals know. Until next time, Keep Androtrending!

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Background:

Browsing through XDA-Applications section, I found an application called SuperTouch, which claimed to enhance touch responsiveness, decreasing delay and improve dragging inputs by adjusting and enhancing android’s native finger tracking service. 

Looking at the post, I made my mind up that it was just another link-bait I got myself into, claiming achievements that were too good to be true, but still decided to give it a try. 

Impressions:

Installed the application, made it through the setup guide, locked points to 1520 something- as it was recommended for devices having a FHD resolution, waited 4 minutes, yes, the process took 4 long minutes, and I didn’t really experience a thing. Same, still the same. 

Somewhere between the setup guide, there was a tip to reboot device to see effects and so that was exactly what I did and then, I saw a significant jump in finger tracking, increased touch response and sliding, dragging improvements. 

Conclusion and Review:

I was surprised to see the results, though it won’t make your device lag-less, or help you multitask, you’ll see results when you swipe between home-screens, drag icons in and out of drawer, out of nowhere you’ll notice tiny-tiny improvements, totally making it worth it. App’s only 3MB something, so won’t hog up your already scare resources, but will surely make up for that negligible storage loss.

How to Set Up SuperTouch?

 To setup SuperTouch, follow the guide below :

1. Install Apk from the google play, link below. Or just search Super Touch.
2. Make through the startup guide.
3. Select Optimisation Level according to your screen (move the slider), set the level as per your device’s screen resolution- check with the startup guide.
4. Let it work it’s magic. (It can take some several minutes)
5. Reboot.
6. See the magic. 

If this doesn’t works..

Here, is the official thread for the application, where you’ll be notified about the changelogs, updates etc.

However, if you already have a high-end flagship, you won’t experience significant improvements. It’s a no brainer, this is for smartphones who struggle a bit, not for smartphones like Nexus 6, S6 Edge Plus and other flagships. If you don’t see or feel any- even a tinier change, please comment below with your Smartphone details- model, android version and we’ll notify the developer. Thanks, until next time, Keep Androtrending!

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Keeping no records or logs, the company has no method of finding who is interacting with whom, so if you are skeptical of NSA’s widespread surveillance program this is the app for you. 

Coming to why you guys are here in the first place, this article will help you to understand how telegram’s blocking mechanism works and how you can find if someone has blocked you or what they see when you have blocked them, here is all that it has :

How to find out who blocked you on Telegram:

Go to the suspect’s Chat Page.

Now, if the

Caption: Profile was blocked just after receiving the message ‘Hi’

1. Last seen says, “last seen a long time ago”
2. Profile picture is the same from a long time. 
3. Single tick when you send a message.
4. Shows an error if you add him/her in a group.

If most of the above is true, it is highly likely that you are being blocked by him/her. However, it can also be the case if the person has not used telegram from sometime. So, if you want to be sure, ask someone if they can send you a screenshot of their chat, this way you can make sure if you are being blocked or not. 

Some important pointers on this :

• Even when they’ve blocked you, they still have the privilege of seeing your profile and last seen timestamp, so out of common courtesy, block them too. 
• If you have blocked someone, you’ll see a ‘typing’ notify in the chat selection box, that will notify you when someone you have blocked is typing something, but you won’t get the message, this way you can know if a person you have blocked is trying to reach you. 

That’s all for now, and if you have any questions on anything about the post above, comment and I’ll get to you ASAP. Until next time, Keep Androtrending!

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What is Rooting? 

Rooting is a process that enables android users to gain superuser control, in other terms rooting your android device would give you permissions to do other stuff that your gadget simply can’t do at the moment. 

Rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control (known as root access) over various Android subsystems. As Android uses the Linux kernel, rooting an Android device gives similar access to administrative (superuser) permissions as on Linux or any other Unix-like operating system such as FreeBSD or OS X.

Wikipedia

Why root your device ?

There are more than a handful of reasons that would lure you into rooting your android smartphone or tablet, including but not limiting to deleting or modifying system applications, changing your operating system completely-preferably to a higher version in android hierarchy and many others. 

Don’t you want to taste the latest android update but cannot wait 6 more months for the manufacturer to release the official update? Don’t you want to overclock your android to experience superior performance? Freeing up your internal storage isn’t necessarily a tedious task when you have a rooted smartphone and so with trying to remove bloatware (unwanted applications stuffed in by the manufacturer).

But, with great power comes great responsibility and this is why it is a daunting task, there are various reasons you might not consider messing up with your android gadget :

Demerits

If you happen to mess up during the rooting task then you can, by all means- brick your device. The term ‘Brick’ refers to the serious misconfigurations that will render your device technologically useful as a brick. 

Voiding device’s warranty : Not all device manufacturer will impose this condition but some devices will still loose warranty if you root them. Proper research will tell you if you are immune to the clause and then you may proceed. 

But, you don’t really have to worry about ‘bricking your device’ as long as you happen to be really careful with the rooting process, read every step carefully before proceeding further. 

How does rooting works?

In simpler words, the process starts by exploiting security bugs in the stock firmware of the device, ultimately making way to install a custom recovery such as CWM or TWRP (more on Custom Recovery later) and through these recoveries, ‘su‘ binaries are installed which are then executed through ‘chmod’ command. 

This is all done to bypass and denounce the digital signature check by manufacturer, imposed in order to monitor firmware updates.

Now that we have learnt all about rooting, we get to the point to actually root our smartphones. Here’s How:

One-Click Rooting Methods:

There are innumerable number of ways to do that, with that being said I am going to walk you through some universal one-click rooting methods that are available on the net, which are capable of rooting most modern android devices. 

These methods are also by far the safest ways to root your device, as they don’t require you to do the nasty research, giving a automated experience. Also these one-click systems are less time-consuming than following a lengthy tutorial fulfilling the same objective. 

Before downloading and trying these softwares on PC, you must install your device’s drivers and turn on USB DEBUGGING (Menu\Settings\Development). It’s not necessary when you trying to root your device through an android application but it’s mandatory when rooting through a windows based utility/program. 

Below you’ll find tools and applications that you can use to root your smartphone without any hassle of worrying of them extensive guides:

1. KingRoot : This is one of the best one-click root methods available on the internet, you get the choice of rooting via an android app or a software on windows. Though, I always recommend using the mobile app, but some smartphones can only be rooted via it’s windows software. 
2. Framaroot : All-rounder android app that claims to be the most versatile of them all when it comes to one-click automation, just install the app and it’ll tell you if it is compatible with your smartphone or tablet. Download the latest app from here.
   
3. KingOapp : Another well known rooting application with streamlined interface. Apk is hosted at one of the most trusted websites on the internet, CNET corp. Will also notify you if it is incompatible with your device, not harming or brick-ing it in any manner.
4. TowelRoot : Particularly for Samsung devices, the app does it work as it makes rooting your device just by clicking the button labelled as “make it rain”. Incompatibility is clearly shown with a popup, so you don’t have to worry about it spoiling your android experience.
   
5. DooMLoRD Easy Rooting Toolkit : It can single handedly root any Xperia branded smartphone without hassle, just extract it on your PC and run RUNME.bat and voila! Restart your device and you have may have root!
   

After the application notifies it was successful in rooting, now what? Now you jump to the section to verify your root access. 

SuperSU App : What does it do, is it even necessary?

After you have successfully rooted your smartphone, you might find an additional application installed as SuperSU and if you don’t find one, make sure you install one from the play-store. This App acts as a gatekeeper that ensures that only trusted applications get superuser access, and also maintains logs of access requested by apps.

Superuser Allows Other Apps Root Access. Superuser is the first app a user should install after rooting, if the rooting method didn’t do it already. “Rooting” a phone allows a user to establish total control over the device, but Superuser is the app that provides the button for that control.

LifeHacker

How to check if you have root access?

If you were able to get through the task of rooting your smartphone by the tools mentioned above, you might still have to verify the deed using an Android application called as ‘Root Checker’. 

• Search with the name “Root Checker” on Google Play and download one application, out of many that would do the task just fine. 
• Run It.
• If a pop up appears, click on grant to ensure that SuperUser App commit the necessary permissions to the app to check for root access.
• Check your root status.

Congrats if you are rooted! and try any other rooting service if you aren’t. Though these were the best one-click tools, but if you still were not able to root your device, drop a comment and we’ll write a step by step guide to help you.

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Working

Before we start it is really necessary that w understand so basic concept of what we are trying to do and how to do it. Firstly we need to understand WhatsApp verification process to find the right loophole. WhatsApp does verification by OTP, we all know that but also WhatsApp does device level verification by MAC Address, which is a unique address that is assigned to a smartphone for identification purposes.

In this post, we are going to copy the victim’s MAC address and make it our own, by MAC Address spoofing, to make it look like a single device is accessing the service but in reality, there will be two devices with the same WhatsApp number so when someone sends or receives message on one of them, it will reflect on another.

Requirements

Below are some mandatory requirements for you to fulfil, to start the step-by-step guide. Make sure you start only when you have all of them at your disposal, or else

Smartphone with Root access

How can you think otherwise? Rooting is the most popular practise by people who want to learn more about android, if you haven’t already, do it now. Ofcourse my advice will follow the standard disclaimer that you can, by rooting your device- avoid any warranty that came with it. So, if you still with me, do a google search, Root “xxxxx” XDA, replace xxxx with your device model. When you successfully root it, follow next steps.

Without Root? Try these WhatsApp Tutorials

Victim’s smartphone (for MAC address and verification message)

Don’t worry, the steps in which we need the victim’s smartphones are very easy won’t raise suspicion.

Busybox Installed

Busybox are certain Unix executables stripped down to perform certain functions that are not included in the native android code. BusyBox installer is a free-to-use application in the Google Play Store.

Terminal Installed

It’s the application in which we will execute commands, you can get many terminals in the Google Play Store.

Other WhatsApp How-To’s

• Check someone’s WhatsApp Profile Picture even when you are blocked
• How to Mute a Individual WhatsApp Contact
• How to use WhatsApp without Internet
• How to monitor someone’s WhatsApp activity
• Why Indian People get to use WhatsApp for free

Step-by-Step Guide

We need all three of them to make sure you get a working WhatsApp on both the smartphones, so make sure you don’t miss one.

• On your smartphone, Download and Install BusyBox. Open it, and select SmartInstall.

• Take victim’s smartphone, Go to Settings–Status–MAC Address, it will be like xx.xx.xx.xx.xx, write it somewhere.

• Open Terminal. Perform these codes, step by step.

• Type Code in the box, and press enter [grant permission if requested]
  su
  

• Type the code below, if it says device not found, replace eth0 with wlan0, this address is your current MAC address ( address will be the same xx.xx.xx.xx.xx like)
  busybox iplink show eth0
  

• Now, we will spoof your MAC
  busybox ifconfig eth0 hw ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX (replace xx with victim’s MAC we copied in the second step)
  
• Type the code below to confirm that your MAC address is successfully spoofed, and if not try the process again.
  busybox iplink show eth0
  

• Now Open WhatsApp on your smartphone and enter victim’s number to register.

• Now Wait for 4 minutes and then choose call verification.

• Wait for call. Write the code into the box on your smartphone and done.

• Now you will receive messages on both smartphones at the same time.    

WE’RE DONE, Another How-To NEXT TIME!

Every-time I root!

PS: Proceed to the next step only if you do the complete the preceding one.

PSS: You are not able to MAC Spoof, make sure you do a Google Search on why it is not working and what should you do, and comment below how was your experience .

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1) Lighting – The best tip anyone can give you to is to make the lighting conditions favorable, try not going too dark or too bright either. Choose somewhere in between. The best way to get equilibrium of lighting is to shoot in daytime near a window with your face directly looking at the window and your camera coming in or you can try using a Table lamp instead but it will make your face glow so make sure you keep a distance.

Image is just for illustrative purposes, but if you can arrange this type of setup- go for it.

Many Dubsmash ‘Stars’ use the daylight thing to get the best lighting for their videos, the struggle is not to fill too much light but not to be dark as well.

2) Save Multiple Takes – Nobody is perfect and you can’t get the best video in the first time or maybe you did got the perfect video but you didn’t save that for something better and every other video was worse. Let’s say I was capturing a Dubsmash and I did very well for the first time but thinking that I can do better, I did not save it and moved to another take but I could not get a better and started regretting not saving the first one, yeah it happens.

Save every video you make, for example do it like this –

Let’s say the Dubsmash was Titanic Dialogue, save the videos like this Titanic Dialogue Take 1, Titanic Dialogue Take 2 and so that you can track and post the best video in them.

3) Posture and Camera frame – It might sound you like a personality development class but if you want to be a Dubsmash Blockbuster then you must adjust your body posture and camera frame accordingly. Like when you are dubsmashing alone you can try getting in the center of the frame, or you can just gradually come from the sides to create an effect. You can either sit straight or you can lean on to something.

If you are dubsmashing with someone, you can either fit both of you inside the frame or you can wait for the person’s dialogue and then put them in the frame.

4) Expressions: This is the key and the most important aspect of successful Dubsmash videos. Nobody would like your videos of you can’t express them, justify their key emotions. It’s not just sitting in front of the camera and saying the lines, right?

Make it count, every dialogue- every scene has a soul understand and act accordingly. For example you can’t smile when posting a serious-aggressive dialogue, or you cannot raise your brow while doing a completely different kind of video.

5) Follow The Best Dubsmashers : Go on Instagram, search for Dubsmash *space* *your country name* to get the best dubsmashing video compilations and then you can go on and learn from the best people on how to act.

After this post we will also do the best Dubsmashers in India post, in which we will get you the Instagram profiles of the best Dubsmashers In India and their best posts as well.

What do you think of this post? Do you want us to feature your Dubsmashes in our coming post? Tell us in the comment section below, or Tag us in your favorite dubsmashes on social media and we will feature your video on our website. Until next time, Keep Androtrending!

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The Key is Consistency!

How to be consistent? is a tough question. Monitoring yourself is hard at times, you slip track of the things now and then, don’t worry REWIRE APP will help you in the case.

Did you know that doing a task for 21 days makes it a Habit?

This app will keep you notifying, reminding that you need to get the task done for 21 days and when it completes- you’ll more or less feel that the task is already in your veins and if that’s not the case then you can still continue to use the app to make sure you stay on track.

Download the app through Google Play Store.

Click on the “+” sign add a Habit.

Fill in other details.

Now You Are Good To Go. Just track your progress and never miss a day to make sure you learn the Habit in 21 days.

When you complete a day’s habit make the dot of that day-Green and keep doing it until you surpass 21 days. If you miss a day, the mark will turn Red and you’ll have to start from zero again so, work hard and never miss a day.

Also if and only if you mistakenly forget to do the task, then head out and make the red dot Blue which will give you the ability to retain the days stats. Don’t take this feature for granted, it will reduce overall app’s productivity.

The App Lets you assess your progress in great thoughtful and statistical way. Below are Some Example Screenshots that will give you more clear idea about how the graphic representation works.

What do you think about the post? Can a App help you learn some good habits? Let us know in the comment box below. Until Next Time, Keep Androtrending!

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Let us come to why are we here, we are here for the 8 Ball Pool hack and here it will go.

The game is all about hitting the desired ball into the desired pocket. What can help you is the path to which the ball will go straight into the pocket and nothing else. If you are searching for something that will magically increase your coins and cash- sorry but the reason to play a game is to play it and win it. Use this to win it, earn your coins yourself.

So now the question is, what this hack is and how it works?

Go to play store.

Download 8 Ball Pool Hack.

1. Run the app.
2. Click on Define.
3. Let it run on the Screen.
4. Go to Home and run 8 Ball Pool.
5. Start a Game.
6. Now Arrange the Setup. The Blocks would go right on the Pool Table Lower Right Pocket and Upper Left pocket.
7. Now click on the Right mark in the center and you will get a Yellow mark on the screen.
8. Yureka!
9. Now drag that mark to all ball and you’ll get directions to all the pockets. Just make sure you stay on the marks and you’ll never lose.

Ok so now you are done, this thing will help you to win many games and will also turn you into a pro in no less time. Do you guys like this? Tell us in the comment section below. Until next time, keep Androtrending!

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