It goes without saying that you are likely to be greeted with a plethora of bugs and issues as soon as you welcome abode this update. And to be fair, Oppo had already listed out all the issues beforehand. So if you have installed this build but the performance and stability issues are proving to be quite difficult to deal with on a daily basis, then the best bet will be to downgrade to the earlier stable OS version....
The device is launched with One UI 2.0, based on Android 10 out of the box. Under the hood, you get an octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 865 with Adreno 650 as the GPU. The device comes in three different variants: 128GB 12GB RAM, 256GB 12GB RAM, 512GB 16GB RAM. There’s also a quad rear camera setup and a dual selfie camera. All these features are supported with a 5000mAh battery with a 45W fast charging capability as well....
However, all these only seem to be justified on paper. In reality, things are a tad bit different. Right after users got hold of the latest iteration of Android, their devices were bugged with a plethora of issues. And the flagships were the ones to suffer the most. To rectify these issues, the Search Engine giants rolled out a December update that asserted that it had addressed most of these bugs....
Then recently we got to know about the fastbootd. Beginning with Android 10, there is now support for resizable partitions. Since the userspace fastboot and recovery are near about similar, there stands a possibility of merging them into one partition. But what would be the benefit of the same? Well, it will lead to lowering the partition count on your device which in turn would save storage space as well....
However, there is just one area that it needs to address and those are the few issues that it occasionally gets bugged with. As of now, there has been an addition of another unfortunate entry to this list. Many users are reportedly getting the “Your Access Has Expired” error message when trying to access Google Docs. Just by the looks of it, the error seems to stem out from the fact that the duration of the permission that the owner has granted you for accessing that file has expired....
Moreover, its consequences weren’t only felt in the smartphone domain, even the smartwatch that houses the Android-based OS has to face this wrath. In this regard, the latest watch from Samsung comes with WearOS 3 which is based on Android. While it was something to cheer about for the entire tech community, unfortunately, the same cannot be said with Huawei device owners. There were high skeptics that the watch might not even get paired with the device, and the fear indeed came true....
It is measured in milliseconds (ms) and the lower it is, the less lag you are likely to face. This is because low ping will ultimately end up taking less time in fetching data from the servers and bringing it back to your device. On the other hand, in case of high ping, the time taken for a round trip will be significantly higher and hence your device will receive data packets after an extended time frame....
To carry out these tweaks, you just need to launch the Registry and make the desired changes to the DWord file, and in some instances, to the key and binary files as well. However, there could be a few negative consequences to it as well and unfortunately, I was on the receiving end recently when the Registry Editor itself got corrupted. So there was no direct method to delete the newly created registry file or undo changes to that file....
However, it is the number after that [which denotes the current version of the minor update] that keeps on changing with every minor OS update. As a result of which, it becomes an extremely challenging task in keeping a tab on the current version number. if you also echo this thought, then you could consider adding the Windows 11 build number to your desktop. This will allow you to easily get hold of the current version number in just a single glance....
Moreover, each device comes with a unique CSC depending on the region to which they belong. So why is there a need to change this CSC? Well, Samsung places geo-restriction on some of the apps and services. In other words, if you belong to a certain country, then you wouldn’t be able to access certain specific features. In the latest iteration of the Galaxy watches, these restrictions are usually placed on BP and ECG functionality....
This is because it is the partition where users usually get stuck while trying to flash the firmware via Fastboot Commands. For the unaware, the super partition contains the ODM, system, system_ext, vendor, and product partitions within itself. This is the reason why it is the largest among all the firmware files. Moroever, you should always flash these files in the FastbootD Mode, as opposed to the normal Fastboot Mode....
Apart from that, there is another addition that seems to have gone slightly under the radar. Microsoft has now added a new search bar right into the taskbar. Similar to how you used to have Cortana in the earlier iterations of Windows, this could also perform both online and local file searches. Moreover, there’s also a nice GUI touch to it as it tends to display the current day’s highlights....
The users are already aware of both these facts and hence these factors don’t have a major role to play in their purchasing decision. However the OEM, as of late, is becoming slightly sluggish in addressing various device-issue. The newer versions of the Redmi and Poco series getting bugged with a plethora of issues and bugs, and it takes nearly ages before they are fixed. However, not all issues are given the same weightage....
Microsoft then relaxed this rule and allowed users even with TPM 1.2 to install their latest OS [well they were the first ones to share the workaround of bypassing the TPM 2.0 requirement via Registry Editor]. But while the OS giants are a little bit flexible with it, the same cannot be said for various developers. Some of the most popular games, including Valorant have made it compulsory for your Windows 11 PC to support TPM 2....
However, what intrigues the tech enthusiasts the most is the ability to flash a custom kernel. The reason for the same is hardly a secret either. It gives you the option to overclock or underclock the device’s CPU/GPU or select from a plentitude of CPU governor profiles. You could mold these profiles depending on whether you give higher preference to battery life or to fluid performance. Apart from that, you could also force-enable fast charging (if supported by the chipset), tweak the memory, enable certain schedulers or even create your own custom tunables....
Among the available modifications, the ability to install a custom recovery like TWRP stands right there at the top. But why would you do so when the device already has built-in stock recovery. Well, this is because the stock recovery isn’t capable enough to carry out most of the advanced functionalities. At most, it could format your device or sideload a file, or boot to Fastboot Mode. On the other hand, if you install TWRP, then you are about to gain a plentiful of goodies....
As you all might be aware, a few years back WhatsApp introduced the ability to send Live Locations within its app. Though this is an extremely beneficial feature for some, for others (the people belonging to relationship status: it is complicated!), it is the last thing they want. So if you belong to the latter half or simply want to get acquainted with this tip, then here is how you could send fake Live Location on WhatsApp....
Along the same lines, its customized OS skin OxygenOS is also taken in high regard by many. With that said, users having these devices are no stranger to getting random notification sounds. For the unawares, around a year back or so, OnePlus 7 Pro users all around the globe started receiving a random string of characters on their devices, not one but two! — Nicole Scott (@Nicole_Scooter) July 1, 2019 Well, consider waking all of a sudden to such random notifications!...
When there is an open-source ecosystem like Android, why not make full use of the same. In this regard, the first step requires unlocking the device’s bootloader. This will, in turn, allow you to carry out a plethora of customizations on your device. To begin with, you could try your hands on various custom ROMs or replace your device stock recovery with a custom one like TWRP. This in turn will allow you to flash IMG and ZIP files, create and Restore Nandroid backup, fix recovery bootloop, install Magisk in Ramdisk and the list goes on....
What is Bootloader? According to Google “A bootloader is a vendor-proprietary image responsible for bringing up the kernel on a device. It guards the device state and is responsible for initializing the Trusted Execution Environment (TEE) and binding its root of trust”. Confused? So am I! let us leave all this aside. In simpler terms, a Bootloader is a software that runs every time your phone boots (start). It contains a set of instructions that tells the device which program to load at what instance....
