G33K-TRICKS: Mobiles
Showing posts with label Mobiles. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mobiles. Show all posts

Monday, September 26, 2016

Google's own Tips and G33k-Tricks section for Android phones



There was a post which I had posted recently about "Ok Google" where all the list of quick tricks were mentioned about how to use your smartphone smartly :)

But, Imagine Google itself giving a set of tips and tricks to make your android phone work efficiently and seamlessly, it has happened.
 I was going through android.com and landed up on a page which actually tells about the tips.
There are all sort of tips presented for Camera, Battery , Customization, Security with the simple to follow steps.

You can refer all of them at
https://www.android.com/phones/tips/

Sunday, August 14, 2016

Trick to Play Pokemon GO on computer


Requirement

Enable USB debugging on your smartphone .
(For that developer option should be enabled)

2nd thing you need is, adb drivers install on you pc.
Incase you dont have, google is the answer ;)


Now here the tricks starts.
You need to install Vysor on your Chrome Browser.
Download it from here 

Then install Vysor app from Google play on you phone.

Once all installations are done, you are ready to go.
Connect your smartphone to Computer to proceed for playing PokemonGO.

The moment you connect the phone, Vysor app will get installed on you phone too(in case you did not install)

The screen of your phone will appear on your computer .
You can then open the Pokémon GO app on the phone.
You will see it played in a window on your monitor.

Now you can wait for Pokemon to come to you and you can easily catch them using mouse instead of dragging your fingers on your mobile screen
And its easy for you to do multi tasking, you can use your computer and can play in between.

If your mobile screen goes off, and you have a new Pokemon near you,  the phone will vibrate and letting you know that , its time to Catch'em all.


Friday, June 24, 2016

How to Record Android Screen [without using any app]


Record Actions performed on your Android phone Screen


Record Android ScreenaSay, you want to record the screen of your android phone i.e you want to record what actions did you perform. Its very simple.

Pre-requiste for this trick would be:
You must have an adb tool (it comes with android SDK)
You can get the tool by going through this page.

Open command prompt
Type below command and press Enter

adb shell screenrecord /sdcard/<filename>.mp4

That's all you need to do. Till this above command is running, all the actions performed over your android phone will be recorded in the path you have specified (in this case, /sdcard folder)
To stop recording stop the above command by pressing Ctrl+C.
You can play the video made with any player supporting mp4 format.

If you want to pull the file onto your system , you need to type

adb pull /sdcard/<filename>.mp4 <DestinationPathonSystem>