Update: Tecno broke the June promise again. Its been raging since 2018. Members at T-SPOT (Tecno’s official forum) have been protesting the removal of their font-changing feature via OTA updates. Many have vowed never to buy or recommend a Tecno product again. A little history From around mid to ending of 2018, complaints about missing
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Recovering your password on Swift, Spectranet and Smile 4G isn’t a biggy. The devil is in you not knowing how to communicate which password has been forgotten. With these three 4G networks, there are 3 possible passwords you might have forgotten: 1. CPE Home or Dashboard Password This is where you manage settings like your
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Yesterday, we launched the Android IMG unsign tool v1.0 which enables you unsign signed images before unpacking them. Today, we’re happy to announce Mediatek Auto TWRP Recovery porter v1.4 . What’s new in version 1.4? Support for signed recovery images: If the tool detects that your stock recovery.img is signed, it will unsign it then
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Those of you whose firmware contain signed images (e.g boot-sign.img, recovery-sign.img, system-sign.img, vendor-sign.img etc) might have encountered errors while trying to unpack or port a custom recovery using our auto TWRP or Philz recovery porters. For such users, we’d dropped a guide on using FBWin tools to unsign such images. While FBWin is a great
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A few weeks back, one of my mentors in Tech. sent me a Bluboo S1a to be rooted. It was a Mediatek MT6757 device running on Android 7 so one-click root apps were definitely off the table. The plan was to backup the firmware using NCK Pro box then root using the boot.img + Magisk.
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It feels good to get bugfix / patch OTA updates on your Android device. Its even better when its a version update; after all, some people have to buy new devices to enjoy a higher Android version. Go figure. You must be familiar with the requirements for installing an OTA update; Internet access, charged battery
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