How to enable Android device manager on your smartphones

It's been a week since Google introduced Android Device Manager for letting android users tracking Location of their Android Device have misplaced or lost it from the web , it allow the users to Wipe their phone data incase they don't want the theif to access their data, it also allow to ring the device in full volume overriding their any silent or vibrate setting incase it has been misplaced.

For this feature to function you need change the settings on your Android Device by enabling location services and opting to Android Device Manager option in the Security settings.
It is available for device running Android version 2.1 or above.
It seems to be available in settings once the play store is updated.

As far as the remote wipe feature is concerned you just need to use 'Erase Device' option and then you will be given a warning and after you confirm it your device will shut down and reboot into recovery and
preform a factory reset.

Note: You won't be able to track the device once you use this option since you will be not be signed to google services anymore.

Although the feature is promising it can be result in unwanted loss of data if someone gets control of your google account linked with your android smartphone so make sure not to share your password with others and enable the two way authentication on your google account.

Do let me know if you have enabled it in comments and feel free to ask any tech related questions.

How to hack Facebook Account of someone connected to a Public WiFi using an Android phone

FaceNiff is an Android app that allows you to sniff and intercept web session profiles over the WiFi that your mobile is connected to.

The app allows Android phones to hack out and use Facebook accounts of other users on the same open wireless network with a single tap of the finger.

It works over any private networks  Open, WEP, WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK.

It supports various website apart from FaceBook like Twitter, Youtube, Amazon,Tumblr , MySpace, blogger.

There various other application like Droidsheep which does the same thing.

Note :
This only works on Rooted Android Devices.
This application won't work if the SSL is used.

How to protect yourself when using public WiFi :

- Turn on HTTPS on every site that allows you to connect with it, and install

- Use a VPN when browsing on public, free, or other open networks

- Get a browser extension
like Disconnect , Ghostery.

*I don't have any intention of promoting hacking accounts or such activities, this post is to make people be aware of such tools and use safety while browsing.

Do let me no if you have used such tools or were a victim of them in comments, or ask any tech related question you want to know it will be answered as soon as i can.

Install a Custom ROM on Your Android Device

A custom ROM is a version of Android which third-party developers build for android device.  They are meant to replace what is known as the stock ROM, or the version of Android that the manufacturer provided on the device. 

There are many advantages of Custom ROM

- increases battery life
- removes bloatware
- increases performance
- upgrade the current OS version to the latest or the desired version 
It has few disadvantages too 
- invalidates warranty
- hardware failures such as camera, Bluetooth

If you use a Custom ROM from a trusted source these downside except the invalidated warranty should not come up. 

Where to find Custom Rom for your device

The two most trusted source of Custom ROM are CyannogenMod and XDA-developers Forum

CyannogenMod is the most popular and reputed they offer custom rom for most of the devices out there.
Their Rom mostly increases performance and battery life
and give enthusiast level performance settings.

If you don't find it here you can look up in XDA developers forum

It is used various developers who works to make best ROM out there , it has sub forum for every android device out there.
But be cautious to usr it because this roms are made by individuals and there is no guarantee for its success.

So only use those for which the developer has claimed its stablity and hardware support and others users have shared their success with it.

After you have found the Custom ROM for your device and is ready to install

The first step is to flash a different recovery called
ClockworkMod Recovery onto your device.

There are tools like heimdall and fastboot to help you for it.

The next step is to actually flash the custom ROM onto your device.

Once the .zip file for the ROM is
downloaded from the Internet and uploaded onto
your phone’s storage via USB cable, you’ll need
to turn off your phone and then turn it on to boot
into the recovery. Booting into recovery takes a
different button combination than just the Power
button, and this varies among devices as well. To
cover all devices, you’ll probably be fine if you
simply hold all the physical buttons on your
phone while pressing the Power button, such as
Power + Volume Down (and Up just to be sure) +
Home (if it’s a physical button).
Once the recovery has loaded, you’ll need to
navigate its menus to wipe the phone and then
flash the .zip file onto the device.

For ClockworkMod Recovery, the correct options are
wipe data/factory reset and install zip from
sdcard.
Once this has completed, reboot the device normally and it should load your custom
ROM.

Let me know in the comment if you have installed a CustomROM in your device, and how is your experience with it.

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Zoom in more than Maximum Limit on Google Maps

Google Maps is used by millions of people around the world and most of us wants to get a more closer view of the object we are viewing but Google has some preset limit upto only which we can view the imagery, but using a simple trick we can get a much closer look of it in some places on the map.

First open a particular place you want to get a closer view, then Zoom in as much as it will let you
by clicking on the "+" sign.

When you have zoomed as much as you
can but not to street view (if the
location you're looking at even
has street view), look over at
the white space just to the top
left of the map....where the little
printer and chain link buttons
are.

Click on the chain "link" button.
That will show open a box with a
long URL to the map you are
looking at and another box with
some HTML code to embed.
Leave the HTML code.
Copy the long URL and paste it
into your browser's address bar,
but don't hit enter to go to that
URL yet. Instead, click to edit it
and scroll all the way to the
right. It should end with
something like "&z=22". Change
the 22 to 23 ("&z=23") and hit
enter.

If Google Maps has
imagery at that higher zoom
level it show up.
It doesn't work for all locations,
however.

We can view some high-res images from them
not available to us by default.

App of the Week : Floating Stickies

Floating Stickies is app which is very similar to Sticky Notes of Windows.
It's a really useful and productive app

Floating Sticky notes stay on top of all other apps, making it easier to take notes while using any app,
if you are surfing internet and wanted to take note of something this is the app for you

Here is what the developer has to say about it :

Easily dock them to the left side to keep your screen
real-estate at full potential. Useful for quick note taking.

Closing a note will delete its text.
All stickies are auto-saved!

Features:
- On top of all other apps (access
from anywhere)
- Dock to the side & resize
- Copy/Paste/Share
- Smooth fun animations & colors
- Save the state of the stickies
- Simple & Clean look

Check out "Floating Stickies"

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App of the week : LoaderDroid (free)

App of the week for me is
LoaderDroid a download manager for android.

It supports all common type of downloading file : videos, images, music,
applications.

It is an ad-supported application
One can also grab the ad free version for few bucks including extra features.

USP:

* Resumable downloads (continue loading
from the same place it was interrupted)
* Auto pause when connection lost
* Auto resume when connection reappear
* Intercepts links from Browser and other
applications
* You can define what connection is allowed
for each link (WI-FI, 3G, etc)
* Faster loading by splitting loading into
parts
* Scheduling
* Stable, fast and easy to use

It has auto resume feature which let's you resume download in case one need to switch off phone, it has a built in browser.

It is probably the best android download manager out there on google play store , the UI is also nice and easy.

We can manually add link or can add by built-in android sharing feature ,it also intercept link from browsers excluding opera mobile.

So go ahead and download it here

How to Boot a Android device in Safe Mode

If you’re experiencing frequent crashing,
freezing, or battery life issues, on your android device you can
boot into safe mode and see if the
issues still happen there.

In safe mode, Android won’t load
any third-party applications.
This allows you to troubleshoot your device.
From safe
mode, you can uninstall misbehaving
third-party apps.

How to Boot in Safe Mode:
To reboot into safe mode in Android 4.1
or later, long-press the power button
until the power options menu appears.
Long-press the Power Off option and
you’ll be asked if you want to reboot
your Android device into safe mode.
Tap the OK button.

On older versions of Android, long-press
the power button and then tap Power Off
to turn off the device.
Turn on the
phone or tablet by long-pressing the
power button again. Release the power
button and, when you see a logo appear
during boot-up, hold down both the
Volume Up and Volume Down buttons.
Continue holding the two buttons until
the device boots up with a Safe mode
indicator at the bottom-left corner of its
screen.

In safe mode all the apps you have manually installed will not load so you can find the application which is causing you the trouble, try uninstalling the recently installed app and see if problem persists.
You can exit the safe mode by simply turning off your device normally and restarting.

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