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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How to Delete Photos from Windows PC But Not to Remove Them from Google Photos

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How to Remove Files Deleted on PC from Google Disk But Not to Remove Deleted Photos from Google Photos

There is no problem with freeing up the device folder on your Android and almost no problem with clearing internal storage on your Apple device. But many of you don’t understand how to free up space on Windows 10 PC and not to delete photos and videos from Google Photos.

And you are shaking from the mere thought that when you delete photos from a PC they will be lost from Google Photos! Let’s find out how to arrange the things the right way. 

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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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How to Prevent Windows 10 from Deleting the Image Thumbnails Cache

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Each time you open the same folder with pictures Windows 10 starts re-creating thumbnails from a scratch. It’s not actually a problem if there is five images in the folder.

But if you browse through a huge archive containing tons of pictures in good quality you will waste a lot of time waiting until the thumbnails are ready and your hard drive finally stops making noise. 

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