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The popular replacement for the YouTube app - Vanced - will no longer be available for download. Namely, the authors (due to "legal reasons") had to stop the development of their application and announce that the download links will be unavailable soon.

The Android system stores WiFi network configurations in the Root portion of the system that the user cannot access without Root permissions. So, if you have connected to a WiFi network, you can no longer see the password but only change it. However, there is one trick you can use to get the password you entered for the WiFi network.

MapFactor is free offline navigation for Android, iOS, and Windows / WinCE with more than 50 million users worldwide . You may not have heard of it yet but it offers a lot of options. I would put it somewhere as a balance between the existing free and paid navigation because there are a few of both types.

If you work often with a large number of stacked items (boards, pipes, boxes…) you probably count them often. When that crowd is bigger, counting can take time. The AI ​​application will come to the rescue, which will do the counting for you in a second!

Almost all popular mobile applications have night (night, dark) mode, only Facebook is not there yet. However, you can enable night mode in the Facebook application now! This "trick" actually works with all the apps you have installed on your phone, and requires Android 10 or later.

UPDATE 14.03.2022. Vanced is off! You can find more information and alternatives here . In short: Youtube Vanced is what the original Youtube app should be. So, this is a "repackaged" original application from which unnecessary things have been removed and some useful ones added. You will probably like this app for two things at most:

You can't recover deleted pictures from your phone so easily because your phone doesn't have a trash can ( but you can install it ). When you delete something you can't take a step back or take it out of the bin, Android just isn't made to do that.

You travel and have no idea where you have free WiFi. Instead of searching all over the city for suspicious unlocked WiFi access points, you can connect to locked ones. How ?! In this article, I will write instructions on how to find out the password for almost every locked WiFi . It may sound impossible, or even a scam, but it is not. There really is an easy way to connect to almost any locked WiFi, anywhere in the world !

More and more Chinese phones cost less and less, and according to the specifications they match some Flagship phones - how is that possible? Some even have better specifications and cost several hundred euros less. In this article, I will write and explain several methods they use.

It used to be just Android, and today we have several versions. Each of these versions was created with the idea of ​​being as compatible as possible with a group of devices. And so now we have Stock Android, Android One, and Android Go. Many are worried about which version is for which devices and what is the difference between them, so here is an explanation in brief.

Earlier this year, I wrote an article on how to install iGO navigation with maps on an Android phone, and in that article, you could download maps for Serbia, BiH, Croatia, and Montenegro. But, new maps have come out, so I'll leave a link here and explain how to update in iGO navigation.

I wrote an article on how to save internet traffic on an Android device and I suggested the Onavo Extend and Opera Max apps because they were the most popular back then. Meanwhile, Opera Max has been discontinued and Onavo has been completely redesigned and is now a VPN application with the option to save internet traffic. Their compression technology is probably now used by Facebook in its application because they bought Onavo - link . Google has decided to seize the opportunity and "push" with a new application called " Datally ".

If you have an Android TV Box and want to watch home channels, there are several options, and I will now show you the two best ways. If you do not have an Android TV Box, I suggest you read my instructions for buying someone up to 30 euros from China - link or look at the review of the one I bought - link . You need: Android TV Box Internet connection on the Box Some free memory in the Box

Want to get rid of Bloatware apps on your new Android phone ? Most Android phones come with a set of Bloatware applications, they are unnecessary and take up a lot of space in your phone. For example, companies, or mobile operators, often insert them for promotion. Together, they significantly complicate and slow down the work on the phone, advertisements appear, work in the background, etc. It would be good to get rid of these applications if you do not use them. In this article, you can read ways you can uninstall or disable Bloatware applications.

I have already written an article about buying an Android TV Box for up to 30 euros, and now I am writing about one such device - the X96 Mini TV Box . There is not much to say about this device, its price is around 25 euros, it is an Android TV Box like any other, which means that it is powered by an Android system. Since I wrote about it in the previous article, I will not repeat myself. These cheaper TV Box devices differ mainly only in the chip, amount of RAM, and ROM memory. In the previous article, I wrote about what to pay attention to when choosing, and I chose this device that way.

It happens to all of us that we forget where we left our phone, and when we try to call it, we remember that the sound remains muted. What then? Don't worry, if you have Android then no problem. There are two methods to solve this problem: Offline option (requires phone preparation) Online option (requires internet connection)

UPDATE : Covenant has also been shut down and the alternative is the "FANTASTIC" add-on! I wrote a detailed installation guide with pictures - INSTRUCTIONS . Old text: In one of the previous texts, I wrote about the Koda add-on for movies and series called "Exodus", but many have problems with installing it. Exodus has problems in general, he changed Repo, so I decided to make instructions for his replacement - Covenant .

What is Android TV Box? This is a great solution if you want to add a " Smart " function to an existing TV . With this device, you can watch live TV online for free (later on), play games, upload all kinds of files, watch movies (from USB, over the internet, phone…), listen to songs, surf the internet, use social networks… or everything you can on your Android phone. It is usually a cube-shaped device (but it doesn't have to be) and has various inputs and outputs. It connects to the TV via an HDMI cable , but some also have an AV output over 3.5mm that goes to the familiar 3 cinches, so you can also connect to an older TV (even to SCART if you have an adapter). It is also standard for these devices to have WiFi , LAN port (RJ45), IR Remote , at least 2 USB ports , support for high definition video formats (these cheap ones often have 4K support), and usually come with a remote .

Maybe you've heard from someone, or maybe just on this blog, about the word "Flagship" (in Serbian: flagship) phone, and you don't quite understand what that means. I searched 1200+ posts on this blog and realized that I did not write an article about what Flagship phones are, and I mention them in the texts .

If you often go to bed at night with the phone, would you like to read an article from the Do You Know Tech Blog for the last time that day, I suggest you apply the advice from this text. Just like computer monitors, phone screens emit artificial blue light that bothers our eyes, especially at night when that screen is the only source of light.