20 posts tagged with "Mobile"

As part of my role at work – we continuously swap the company’s mobile phone – a Nokia windows phone so being able to reset Nokia windows phone to factory settings is quite useful as we store our contacts on the SIM card so restoring the phone back to factory settings before handing them on is a useful occurrence.

Warning: This erases all personal content on your phone and restores the factory settings._

_Make sure the charger is disconnected, and switch your phone off.

1. Press and hold the volume down key, and connect the charger. The screen will show an exclamation mark (!).
2. Press the keys in the following order: volume up, volume down, power, and volume down. Your phone resets, and boots up. This may take several minutes.

1. On your Android – open the Play Store.
2. Click Menu
3. Click My Apps
4. On the left – select All
5. Select the Application you would like to remove and select – “Remove (app name) from my Apps”
6. Click Ok
7. Now on the Google Play website – under your Applications the application you removed should be removed from the list.

Note: This is usually – for the nightly builds. The stable builds seem to have Google integration.

Note: Please backup your phone beforehand – I take no responsibility if your phone fails to boot.

1. First thing is first – download Gapps (goo.im/gapps/)
2. Plug your Android phone into your computer
3. Open My Computer/Computer & navigate to the Download folder
4. Create a folder in the Downloads folder called: gapps
5. Copy the downloaded Gapps zip file (leave as is – do not uncompress) into the folder
6. Once copied turn your Android phone off.
7. Now you need to boot into the phones Recovery mode – for the Samsung Galaxy phones & Clockwork Recovery press Power & Volume Up button at the same time to boot the phone and open Recovery mode.
8. Once in Recovery mode – navigate to: -install zip
9. Select – install zip from /sdcard
10. Select the Gapps zip file
11. Select Yes – Install Gapps
12. It will go then go the copying process and uncompress the zip & install Gapps.
13. Once completed – it will say: Install from SD Card Complete.
14. Navigate back to the root menu of Recovery Mode & select Reboot System Now.
15. The android device will restart and you will see “Android is upgrading.”
16. Congratulations you have now installed GApps onto your Android device and should now have access to Google Play & Gmail.

Thankfully over the last few years – connecting securely & joining your workstations to the Tor network have become a lot easier – for both Linux & Windows clients. Now with a nifty little application called – Orbit you can easily traffic HTTP (port 80) traffic & other random Android application traffic through the Tor network. Follow the guide below to get your android device & applications running through the Tor network.

Note: This application needs root access for full functionality and is recommend.

1. Open Play Store/Google Play on your android device.
2. Search for: Orbot.
3. Select – Orbot: Proxy with Tor (from The Tor Project) & install it to your Android device.
4. Once installed – open Orbot.
5. Up the top of the application – click Settings
6. Make sure – Start Orbot on Boot is checked.
7. Scroll down to Transparent Proxying & make sure Transparent Proxying is enabled – then check Tor Everything to make sure all your application#8217;s network traffic is directed to the Tor network.
8. Now – scroll right to the bottom of the settings and make sure in the Debug area – Network Auto-Sleep is checked to reduce battery consumption.
9. Go back to the main Orbot home screen and press the large silver power button to start proxying your traffic through the Tor network.

Note: You can confirm the traffic is being proxyed by monitoring the Download & Upload traffic on the bottom half of the Orbot screen.

1. Settings
2. My Device
3. Language and Input.
4. Keyboards and input methods
5. Choose the cog next to the “Samsung keyboard” option
6.  Check the “Continuous input” option