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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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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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How to Unroot the OnePlus 3 & Get Back to Stock (Video)

Perhaps you want to sell your OnePlus 3, send it in for warranty or, you know, give it away. Regardless of the why, they how involves unrooting the OnePlus 3 and getting it back to stock. In this tutorial, I’ll walk you through installing the stock ColorOS ROM, then flashing the stock recovery, and, finally, relocking the bootloader so we can get OTAs and hide any sign that it was ever rooted in the first place. Here’s how. I. Before You Begin This will erase the device, so make sure to save things to your computer you might need. I’m

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How to Root the OnePlus 3 (Video)

The OnePlus 3 is an amazing phone. Slick metal design, 6GB of RAM (not a typo and more than a PC in my house has), and a clean version of Android that just flies. Best of all? All of this is only $399 factory unlocked from OnePlus’ site. Now, even though it’s a great phone, there is always room for improvement. One such way to improve an Android phone is to root it. If you root the OnePlus 3, you’ll get access to root-only apps in the Play Store, be able to flash a custom recovery and even flash custom

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How to Unroot the HTC 10 & Get Back to Stock (Video)

It happens to all of us. Sometimes there comes a time when you need to unroot your HTC 10. Maybe you messed it up with flashing too many custom ROMS, maybe you just want to sell it, or maybe you need to return it to HTC for warranty? Regardless of the reasoning, unrooting the HTC 10 will get it back to stock and the way it was when it first came out of the box. First up, this wasn’t the easiest video to do. Turns out that HTC has a billion versions of the HTC 10 and the tool that

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How to Unroot the Samsung Galaxy J2 (2015)

If you’ve had enough fun with root on your Samsung Galaxy J2 and you now wish to get back to the stock for whatever reason, you can use the following guide that teaches how to unroot the Samsung Galaxy J2 by flashing the stock firmware. When a stock firmware is flashed on an Android phone, it removes root-access, custom recovery, customized system files, and everything else that was added when rooting your phone. It’ll get your phone back to the stock condition that has nothing custom, same way it was out of the box. Here’s how. Before You Begin You should’ve

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How to Root the Samsung Galaxy J2 (2015)

Samsung Galaxy J2 is one of the phones that Samsung has launched in its J lineup of budget smartphones. Since it’s a budget Android smartphone, it’s not the top of the line with hardware, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a great device (it does have that Super AMOLED display that Samsung is famous for after all). If you aren’t satisfied with what you have on the phone, however, might want to root the Galaxy J2. With root access you’ll be allowed to remove the existing stock apps from your phone, add new apps that require root access, flash a

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How to Root the HTC 10 (Video)

To the best of my knowledge, the HTC 10 is the only phone that remains under warranty even if its bootloader is unlocked. That means, you can go ahead and unlock the bootloader and do whatever you want on your phone – as long as you aren’t damaging it – and it’ll still remain covered by the warranty. It’s the flagship phone of the year by the Taiwan based company that’s been releasing some really nice phones in its One series in the past few years. The phone has full metal body, is 9mm thick, and has BoomSound for your music.

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How to Fix the OnePlus 3’s Memory Management Issue

One of the biggest noticeable things about the OnePlus 3 is its RAM. The phone boasts a whopping 6GB of RAM that is much higher than all of its competitors frankly. With that much of RAM on the phone, you can definitely expect it to provide you with some really awesome gaming experience and enhanced performance. While the phone is in the news because of the RAM amount it has, it hasn’t been without some issues related to it. For some reason, the memory management on the phone hasn’t been working as expected and so it doesn’t let you utilize the full amount

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How to Root the Sony Xperia Mini Pro

The Mini Pro was one of the successful phones from the Xperia lineup of smartphones by Sony. One of the big features the phone offered back when it was released was a QWERTY keypad for those of us who still preferred to text using the actual physical buttons rather than tapping the screen. In addition to the keyboard, it had pretty decent specs when it was released and plenty of features to get you through your daily tasks. But, it can still be further improved, and even made to run on the latest versions of Android (that it will never receive from Sony themselves) by

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