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How to Unroot the LG G5 (All Models) (Video)

If you are done messing around with rooting your LG G5 or if it’s just acting up frankly, you can unroot the LG G5 pretty easily and get it back to completely stock. We’ll be using LG’s own flashing tool and their stock firmware files, each is specific to each version of the G5. You simply flash it on to the phone using the tool, and viola, phone boots back up and is the way you got it out of the box. Here’s how to unroot the G5. Before You Begin You will need a Windows computer to do this […]

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How to Root the LG G5 (Video)

LG G5 is yet another phone in the G series phones by LG and it’s the flagship phone of the year by the company. Last year’s G4 made many news due to the rocking features it boasted and this year’s G5 is no less. The phone features a 5.3″ inch screen, Quad-core CPU, Adreno 530 GPU, and runs Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow on-board. On top of that you have the LG’s customized skin called LG Optimus UX 5.0 UI. The phone runs everything that is latest in the market and you don’t need to wait for anything to arrive for the phone as it

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Samsung Gear IconX Unboxing

Truly wireless headphones. These little earbuds are finally coming out from a variety of manufacturers and now Samsung has taken their crack at it by introducing the Gear Icon X earbuds. I’m personally quite curious to see how they sound and if they are easier to use than what I’ve been hearing from people about various other headsets like them but before we can do a review, as is protocol here on the internet, I should probably go through the specs and do an unboxing, right? And there you go a quick unboxing and specs of these cool looking

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Google’s First Ever Phone, Is It Worth It? (Pixel XL Video Review)

The first phones actually designed by Google called the Pixel and Pixel XL are finally here. Unlike the Nexus devices before, these phones aren’t just guidelines by Google that were then handed off to a manufacturing partner, but rather were completely designed by Google and just brought to fruition by HTC. Knowing this, two questions arise immediately. One, what does Google actually think a phone should be and, two, do you want what Google thinks a phone should be? Pixel vs Pixel XL So I have here the Pixel XL, the larger and more popular of the two judging by which

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Google Pixel XL, Really Blue, Unboxing (Video)

The Google Pixel XL in really blue (it is really blue, by the way) finally arrived today. I’m excited about this phone since it, and the Pixel, are the first phones that were actually designed and made by Google. HTC manufactured them, but Google told them what to build. Should be interesting to see what Google wants us to have in a phone. But, before we get to all of that (and we will in a review coming ASAP), we should probably do a Pixel XL unboxing, right? Let me know what you guys think of the Pixel XL, or the

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One of the Most Rugged Phones You Can Buy (Video)

When a company that is known for making bulldozers and things that make the Earth shake decides to make a phone, it’s no wonder it ends up being one of the most rugged phones you can buy. Seeing the Cat S60 in person, there is no doubt that this phone is about survival. From the carbon fiber looking back, chunky exterior to the metal casing surrounding the edges, it looks, well, in a way like their bulldozers even complete with the yellow accents. Read More: Watch the Unboxing video of the Cat S60. Rugged? Check. The Cat S60 can survive a drop of up

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Everything You Need to Know from the Google Event

Welp. Google wants to be the hardware manufacturer of it’s own stuff now and today they announced a small plethora of devices that they have created. In addition to the new hardware, they also showed off Google Assistant a little more, their new AI that they are saying is why they want to make hardware now in addition to software –better integration for the AI to utilize. To save you the time of looking through a bunch of articles on the web, below is a quick, bulleted list of everything you need to know that was announced at the Oct 4th

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Nextbit Robin Giveaway (Video)

Giving away my Nextbit Robin! The Robin’s most touted feature is its ability to automatically sync the data and apps on it with the cloud without you ever having to worry about optimizing storage again. On top of that, it’s a pretty unique phone with some decent specs. You can read more about the Nextbit Robin here. If you want to try and win it, it’s as easy as doing the actions below to gain entries. The more you do the better your chances of winning! One winner will be chosen at random and notified through the email they used to

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How to Use Cardboard Apps on the Gear VR

Normally, the minute you put your phone into a Gear VR, it automatically launches Oculus Home, the Gear VR’s own UI for running VR content. This is all fine and dandy if you want to exclusively use the content found in there, but what if you want to use other VR content with your Gear VR? What if you want to use Google Cardboard content, for example? Well, seems that there’s an app for that. A developer has made an app that, in a nutshell, allows you to block Oculus Home from automatically starting allowing you to use another VR

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How to Unroot the Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 Edge & Return to Stock (All Snapdragon Versions) (Video)

If you’re finally done putzing around with your phone and want to return to stock, here’s how to unroot the galaxy S7 Edge or S7 (Snapdragon version) using the stock firmware. To do this we’ll be using Odin, Samsung’s own flashing software for Windows and then downloading the stock firmware specific for the version of the S7/S7 Edge you have. Thankfully, this method makes it super easy to return to stock as we just have to select the firmware files one at a time in Odin and flash it to the phone. It’ll reboot when that’s all done and be back

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How to Remove All the Bloatware on the Samsung Galaxy S7 / S7 Edge At Once (Video)

Manufacturers, and Samsung in particular, are notorious for loading up their phones with a bunch of software that either the carrier or third parties paid them to put on the phone. The worst part about all of this bloatware as it’s called, is that you can’t simply uninstall it. It’s there. Forever. Well, maybe not forever. Thanks to a crafty developer over at XDA, you can easily remove all of the bloatware from your Samsung Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge in one fell swoop. Not only that, but it also adds some really cool optimizations to the phone as well

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How to Root the Samsung Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge (All Snapdragon Versions) (Video)

There are two chipset versions of the Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge. The Exynos and Snapdragon versions. Exynos is developed by Samsung and Snapdragon is devloped by Qualcomm. While there are a few differences the big one we need to discuss, is the fact that the Exynos version was easily rooted while the Snapdragon one wasn’t. This basically meant that anyone in the US with a Galaxy S7 or S7 Edge was out of luck (all of the US versions are Snapdragon models). That is until Chainfire released a root method for the Snapdragon models not too long ago… Now,

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How to Unroot the Nextbit Robin & Get Back to Stock (Video)

If you’ve had enough fun with your rooted Nextbit Robin and want to either sell it, send it in for warranty, or just get it back to stock for a clean slate, here’s how to unroot the Nextbit Robin to do just that. This tutorial will walk you through flashing the stock firmware directly from Nextbit’s site, including the stock recovery, and then simply relocking the bootloader so it shows no sign of every being rooted in the first place. Here’s how to get started. I. Before You Begin This will erase your phone so save anything to your computer

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How to Root the Nextbit Robin (Video)

With the ever-growing media libraries we all have, our ever-expanding downloaded app list, and higher resolution of photos we are constantly taking, one of the issues most users face is run out of memory space. You’ve also been through the times when you really wanted to save something on your device but you couldn’t do that because of no memory space available. We’ve all suffered from it. With the Nextbit Robin though, you won’t have to think of the memory space anymore. The phone integrates with the cloud storage and lets you always have memory space available for you to

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Cat S60 Unboxing & Specs: The Most Rugged Phone Ever? (Video)

Cat recently sent me their latest ultra-rugged Android phone, the S60. Since it’s new tech and the internet gods must be satiated, that means it’s time to do an unboxing. Full review coming later (when I get a chance to do something “rugged” with it), but for now, let’s see what comes with it and check out some of its the Cat S60’s listed specs. First up, we have the S60 itself – which we’ll get to in a second. Under that we have a pair of headphones, the USB charger, the MicroUSB cable, and the warranty and quick start

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