Adam Swift

Adam is a real tech maniac. He likes to spend time testing phones, tablets, laptops, as well as any other technical devices, and write practical manuals on their functions. He often sleeps all day, but always works at night. Adam bought his first computer in 1999, being an absolute beginner who never held a computer mouse in his hands. He began to study Windows, constantly experimented and often crashed the operating system. But six months later, he was able to reinstall Windows 98 from a scratch on his own, fix almost any software problem on a PC, he also did hardware upgrades and realized that computers, operating systems and programs are now his biggest passion. In addition, Adam has always been a big lover of phones. With the advent of smartphones with Android OS, he began to pick at them much more than in computers. Now Adam loves to study privacy issues in instant messengers, blocking unwanted calls and other nuances related to privacy and security on the network. You can follow him on Twitter: https://twitter.com/tunecomp

Android phone freezes while recording video

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My Samsung Galaxy S5 freezes from time to time and only battery removal could bring it back to working condition. When I open the Gallery it crashes and the phone reboots by itself. When it booted up again it worked extremely slow!

I opened the gallery and saw the damaged video file with a black thumbnail. I tried to delete it but the deletion failed: the gallery app crashed and the phone rebooted again.

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How to boot into Recovery mode on Cyanogen and Android

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You can enter the Recovery mode by pressing Home, Volume and Power buttons in different combinations for different smartphones.

But you can also reboot to Recovery Mode without pressing the combination of buttons on CyanogenMod. It can be quite useful, for instance, if you have a button broken or you don’t know the combination for your particular model or if it is simply unhandy to press those three buttons simultaneously. Here is how to reboot into Recovery in CM12 / CM13. This method can also work for some versions of stock Android 5 and 6. 

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How to reset network settings in Windows 10 using the ‘Network reset’ feature

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In some cases we advise to reset network settings in Windows to solve certain issues related to Wi-Fi/Ethernet adapter or Internet access (for example, when you have WiFi connected but no Internet). Earlier you had either to reset network manually (using the command prompt) or use special utilities like this.

But since the the Anniversary Update Windows 10 got the feature allowing inexperienced users reset network settings to default in one click without using complicated methods mentioned above. Here is the guide on how to do it.

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How to Clear Windows Update Cache in Windows 10

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Why Clear the Cache?

The general answer is: when you have issues related to Windows Updates. Here are the most spread specific reasons:

  • your machine cannot find available updates for a long period of time (two or three days);
  • stuck “searching for updates” in the Settings app;
  • stuck “preparing to install updates” on the screen when you reboot or shutdown your system;
  • you encounter errors during the installation of the new OS version;
  • TiWorker.exe is using your CPU for several hours and is not going to stop its activity;
  • you would like to free some disk space by deleting some cache files.

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