Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Stops Charging After a Few Seconds. Incompatible Charger?

Samsung Charger with adaptive fast charging

My Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Won’t Charge!

A have a lot of chargers at home because I have a ton of devices. I don’t even remember which is which.

Since I bought Samsung Galaxy S9 I plugged in its charger to the outlet near my PC and started using it for charging all my phones and tablets — from old to new. And everything seemed to be okay until today.

But yesterday my Redmi Note 5 started alerting of low battery charge and I connected it to the charger using USB A to micro USB cable. Then, I just put on my headphones and went on listening some video on YouTube.

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Video Freezes or Plays without Sound on Android. How to Fix?

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What to do if video freezes but audio plays, the clip plays without sound or audio is not synced to video? The answer is – install the right Video Player app!

Our reader asks for a help: I’ve got an action camera Sony X3000 that records in 4K @ 30 fps. When I came back home after a vacation I decided to download videos recorded by my action cam to my Galaxy S9 and you know what? I was unpleasantly surprised. 

The clip was playing but there was no sound. Just silence!

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2 Methods to Boot Xiaomi Phone into Recovery Mode

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Here are two methods to reboot your Xiaomi Mi or Redmi phone into Recovery mode – one common and one extremely simple for inexperienced users who are afraid of pressing mysterious key combinations. Hopefully, this guide will help you fix problems with your phone.

Recovery Mode is often the last hope to recover your phone when it’s impossible to perform a factory reset from Android. For example, when your phone or tablet caught a boot loop or shows a white screen when you power it on.

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Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 Won’t Detect MIUI Update

In this post I’m gonna tell you how to force your Xiaomi phone to detect a firmware update. Simple steps will help you avoid a glitch and get a new firmware right now if it is available.

My Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 AI Dual Camera kept telling me that the latest firmware is installed and no updates available while my friend told me that he downloaded global MIUI 10 OTA.

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How to Stop Push-Notifications in Chrome on Android 12, 11, 10, 9, etc

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Chrome plagued me by showing popping-up news! The thing is the following… All you know how websites use to ask “Would you like to receive notifications?” If you don’t tap “Block” but “Allow” you will start receiving push notifications from this site.

Here is how to disable notifications in Google Chrome completely on your Android device. On top of that you will learn how you can stop a specific website from sending you news and updates without toggling them off permanently for a specific app.

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Record High-Quality Stereo Sound on Galaxy S21, S20, S10, S9 or Galaxy Note

Almost every modern phone has at least two microphones. The 2-mic setup is used for noise cancellation during calls and for recording the stereo sound while shooting video.

But you can also force a third-party or native app to use both mics for recording audio instead of default mono mode. Thus, you can capture unique material for your vlogs or even music tracks.

In this article we will explain how to record a stereo sound with a superb quality on your Samsung Galaxy S21, S20, S10, Note 9, Note 8, S9, S8 and similar Galaxy devices.

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