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Hi. This night I went to sleep, left my Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 charging, and when woke up the phone was off, with the white light on. When tried to turn on, it stays in the Mi.com logo. So I think its a soft brick. For adittional info: Lately the phone was slow, with storage at high. Looking for...

We have not seen any defects to speak of when it comes to the Note 8. This is exactly what Samsung needed after the Note 7 fiasco. That being said we may unfortunately have our very first major Note 8 defect. Some users are reporting that their devices have bricked after fully discharging the...

Google is finally beginning to realize that there are ways to get around their Factory Reset Protection. No matter what changes they make to try and keep a would be thief from being able to use a stolen phone methods are always found to get past their security measures. With factory reset if a...

You have officially been warned! There is a fatal bug in TWRP 3.0.2-1 that will brick your device. If you back up or restore EFS in TWRP your device will brick. Fortunately it isn't permanent as long as you can boot TWRP after the brick. There is a series of commands to run to unbrick the your...

Google has finally done it! They have added the feature that we have all been waiting for into Android. Now you can easily brick your device thanks to some helpful code added by Google to Android. Why might you want to brick your phone you ask. Well that is a good question. Google has been...

Whats yours is yours and what's yours is mine, atleast this is what Tim Enwall thinks. In weird news today "Revolv" now known as "Nest" a subsidiary of Google's parent company Alphabet has decided it is ok to shut down your Revolv device for good. If you can remember all the way back to 2014...

Last week a story made the rounds about a common error iPhone users were experiencing after allowing a third party to replace components on their phone. The error "Error 53" was showing up after accepting an update. The phone would check all components to make sure there were no third party...

Hi all, I am a complete noob, so please bear with me! I have a rooted htc one m7 that is the unlocked gsm varient. I tried restoring my device by using the wipe function on TWRP recovery, but wiped the system file.Now my phone wont turn on, its stuck on the HTC logo! Please help i am literally...

When I read the headline "Nexus 6P has hardware fuse which blows when bootloader is unlocked", I asked myself if it was April Fools day already. If you have been around long enough then you know that some devices actually did have a fuse back in the day. The Motorola Droid X was the first...

If you study up on the current root method for the Note 5 it is said to work with all variants of the Note 5 minus the AT&T and Verizon versions. On the main root thread there is a sub link to "test methods". If you follow the link you will find many test kernels which are said to root many...