Description How to optimize your network for a faster internet, a faster home network & a faster Wi-Fi. A “top 10” list of actionable items you can take to improve your home networking experience 1:15 Wires are GREATER THAN Air 3:34 Balance your load 4:59 Strategic Router Placement 5:25 Scan your neighbors! & Choose Dead […]
A detailed walk-through of an Original Xbox trace corrosion repair. This is a rev 1.4 Xbox as determined from he graphics chip and serial number. The Xbox is torn down, motherboard cleaned and analyzed, clock capacitor removed, and traces jumped with Kynar wire. This is an original Xbox that a long lost friend gifted me.
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An easy softmod process is performed on an original XBox. The box is softmodded using a hotswap technique but without having to create a bootable disk using the xboxhdm. Because the original XBox is an IDE drive, an IDE DVD ROM drive would normally be required to boot to, in order to be able to
How to unpair Bluetooth devices from Android phones. Android 7 and Android 9 are shown.
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How to fix the problem when you get “No App Found To Open URL” on your Android device. The solution is Android version -dependent, so multiple approaches are shown for Android 9 (Pie) and Android 8 & below.
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2 steps to fixing your Android Pandora In-Car Bluetooth Connectivity Problems: Side-loading a better version of Pandora & Macrodroid tweaks. You might get an error on your stereo like “no data”. The version of Pandora I use is a no-ad patched 8.6, but many other versions are available. No-Ad Pandora (patched 8.6): https://mega.nz/#!fdJ0lALD!LTZirY-HnjzXyyGhyDItXnx7ZS8SwX1o9IgD6XZHQnU
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Find and use the built-in call-block functionality of the Android Phone App. No additional app is needed & its free I show 2 methods of blocking and also how to manage your block list. Shown on a Samsung Galaxy S6 on Android 6.
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Android apps can morph from one that you like to one that annoys you (“app creep”). I show how to prevent that morphage. I use ES File Explorer as an example. I used to love that app until it suddenly changed on me by auto-updating itself. I also show a nice alternative to ES File
Basic setup and introduction of the ADB: Android Debug Bridge with examples of commands: top (busiest processes) and pull (file transfer) where I pull images and videos from my phone to my desktop. Most Debian -based Linux distros (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and many others. ) can install with: sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb Most Fedora /
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How to deflate some Samsung bloatware and adware. The “Briefing” Flipboard app that shows up when you swipe right (often inadvertently) can be disabled and if you ever get the “Galaxy Essentials” ad banners, I show how to handle that too. A Samsung Galaxy S6 is used to show the process.