How to Root Tecno P5

This post will discuss how you can go about rooting your Tecno P5 phone. For its specifications click here. It is good to know that this is one of the simplest means through which you can root your phone as it does not require the use of a computer to achieve.

The rooting procedures are as follows:

Tecno P5 Specifications

General Information

2G Network       GSM 900 / 1800

3G Network       HSDPA 2100

4G Network       No

SIM        Dual mini SIM

Body

Dimensions        124.3 x 65.5 x 10.5mm

Keyboard            Touchscreen

Colors   White, Black, Yellow, Gray, Pink

Cover    Plastic

BBM finally released officially on Android and IOS

About a month ago (on the 21st of September to be precise), BBM was scheduled to be made available on Android operating system as well as on IOS. On that day, millions of people all over the world waited in anticipation for its release. A version of BBM was however leaked on android before the official roll out of the BBM by Blackberry Limited. This resulted in some android users making use of the instant messaging app when it had not yet been released on Google playstore. It was made available on apple store in some countries for a brief period of time before Blackberry decided against making it available on all the platforms and in all locations.

How to Root Gionee P2

This post is aimed at guiding you on how you can go ahead to root your Gionee P2. Click here to learn about its specifications.
To root your phone, you need the following:
1) PdaNet to enable you to install your phone's drivers. You can download it from here.
2) A rooting tool called motochopper which you can download from here.

Gionee Pioneer P2 Specifications

As the competition within the android market in Nigeria is becoming stiffer, companies are coming up with nice phones with good specifications available to phone users at very cheap prices. Initially, Tecno was known to provide budget phones for consumers but now, Gionee, a popular phone in India seems to be giving them a run for their money. One of the phones which Gionee is using to achieve this feat is the Gionee Pionee P2. Its specifications are listed after the break.

New Method of Using MTN BIS on Android Phones

Just a few days ago MTN stopped the usage of their blackberry plans on non-blackberry phones. This move affected a lot of individuals because it was more economical to use blackberry plans on other devices, especially android devices due to their high data consumption. Well there is a solution to that now, at least it is manageable. So how do you go about it?

Turning Your Non-Touch Screen Laptop to a Touch Sensitive Device

Some people are of the opinion that the Windows 8 operating system released by Microsoft is best enjoyed if you have a touch sensitive display screen on your laptop. If your laptop or computer lacks this capability however, you can turn your display into a touch sensitive one.

How?
With Portronics Handmate Windows 8 Pen, you can achieve just this.

Nokia releases Lumia 1020 With 41-Megapixel Camera

Nokia has just released its latest smartphone, the Lumia 1020 phone which sports a whooping 41-Megapixel camera with Xenon flash which "offers more detail than can be seen by the eye". It is believed to be capable of producing some of the sharpest ever images ever produced by a digital camera.

Gionee Elife E6 Specifications

Gionee has announced the launch of a new phone, the Gionee Elife E6 whose specifications are mind blowing.
The phone has a 5-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels, giving it a pixel density of 441ppi. Wow!!! That is amazing. It has a thickness of 6.18mm, making it easy to easily slide into your pocket, and a weight of 128 grams.

Tecno Mobile To Release Android Tablet

Chinese phone maker Tecno is really bent on taking over the African market in the production and sale of smartphones. They ventured into production of phones capable of running on android operating system, recording successes with several of their phones especially the N3 and the N7. They even recently released the Phantom A1 (or F7) which has mind-blowing specifications and still comes quite cheap, at least when compared with phones with similar specifications manufactured by other smartphone producing companies like Samsung, HTC and the likes.
Tecno has recently gone ahead to produce their very first tablet, the Phantom Pad (N9). This device has a quad-core 1.2GHz CPU and runs on android jellybean 4.2.1 operating system and has both front and rear cameras. Below are some images of it:

How to Root Tecno Phantom A1 (or F7)

Tecno recently released a new phone which is the phantom A1 or F7 as some people call it which is an android phone running on Jellybean. Most android phone users prefer to have root access to their phones to be able to "play" with their phones. This post will discuss the process required to root the phone.


To root your Tecno A1 or F7, here are the steps:

Unlock Codes for Huawei E303 Modems Previously Posted

I had been unable to provide the unlock codes for modems posted in one of the previous posts due to some unavoidable setbacks. This however has been corrected. However due to the numerous number of modem IMEI numbers requested, my previous method of providing the unlock codes could not be used as it would have been very time consuming. I have therefore grouped all the unlock codes for the requested IMEIs into this post. To locate yours, simply use the "find" option on your web browser. You can invoke this by pressing "ctrl + f". Then enter the IMEI of your modem and press enter. If your unlock code has been provided, it should lead you to its exact location. Here are the codes

Resetting Huawei Unlock Code Counter to Zero

Are you trying to unlock your modem but have used up the number of trials alloted to you to enter the unlock code of the modem before it is locked permanently? If so, you just may be in luck. I have received a lot of requests from people asking for a possible solution to this problem and this made me go into a search for it. And i may have found a solution.

Using MTN Blackberry Plan on Your Android Phones

In the previous post, how you can go ahead to use Airtel's blackberry subscription on your android phones was discussed. In this post, achieving the same thing ie using MTN's blackberry subscription on your android phones will be discussed.
To go about it, here is what you should do.

Suitable Internet Bundles For Your Android Phones in Nigeria

It is well known among android phone users that the android operating system consumes a lot of data. Use of wifi would have been a suitable means of accessing the internet if only wifi hotspots were common in many places within the country. As a result of this, we are left to rely on our mobile telecommunication service providers for internet access.
It has been noticed that blackberry phone users enjoy the cheapest internet service in the country, with the blackberry plans providing more data for lesser costs when compared with smartphone internet plans. Some individuals have been complaining about this fact; why should such plans be available to blackberry phone users while other smartphone users pay more for less? It is known as a fact that blackberry phones offer data compression, thus consuming less data when compared to other phones.
It has however been discovered that the blackberry plans offered by some of the telecom companies in Nigeria, Airtel and MTN in particular, can be utilized on android phones as well. So how do we go about it?

Blackberry to make BBM compatible with Android and iOS mobile platforms

BlackBerry Messanger (BBM), the most popular mobile messaging service before the advent of whatsapp, and which had been previously limited to just blackberry phones, will now be made available to other mobile platforms such as android and iOS. This means that once it is implemented, you no longer need to own a blackberry phone in order to make use of the BBM chat application.

How to get Unlimited Glu Credits for your Glu Games on Android

Have you been playing glu games such as contract killer, fl commander, gun bros, samurai vs zombies and do not enjoy the game because you don't have sufficient glu credits required to buy better weapons and gadgets? You can smile now because with this tutorial, you will be able to get enough glu credits to buy all that you need. The method that will be discussed here will give you 180,000 glu credits or coins.

Here are the steps to follow:

Unlimited Internet Browsing On Your MTN SIM

Some of you may have heard about some MTN sim cards that have been configured to browse and download unlimitedly even without at active subscription. I know you are thinking: how is it possible? Well it very much. Unfortunately this information will not be posted here for obvious reasons. If you want to know how to go about yours, you will have to contact me either via phone or email.



UPDATE: The trick has stopped working!!!

Unlocking MTN Huawei E303 Modems

I am sure that most of you are aware of the new modems being sold by MTN and GLO and the fact that the unlock codes generated by the former huawei unlocker does not work on these modems. To unlock them, you are required to use recent versions of dc-unlocker which makes use of credits that are to be bought. I have decided to help with the provision of these unlock codes.

How to Root Tecno N3 Android Phone

Tecno, a chinese phone manufacturing company, wowed the Nigerian market when they went into android phone development. They started with T1 and moved on to produce T3, N3, D3 and their latest phone, N7. In order to fully enjoy the functionality of android phones, they have to be rooted. Rooting is simply the process of gaining complete control of your phones by removing the security imposed by Google on the android operating system. This blog post will discuss the steps required to be followed in order to successfully root your Tecno N3 android phone.

How To Free Up Internal Memory On Your Android Phone

A lot of android phone users are faced with a common problem: how to increase the size of the internal memory of their phones. Although some of the phones come with the feature of allowing applications to be installed directly to the sd card or allowing already installed ones to be moved to be sd card, others may require the use of extra apps such as app2sd. Even if you are able to keep your apps on the sd card, you will notice that the available space on the internal memory of the phone keeps reducing due to the data files and cache files generated by the apps while they run. When the space gets to about 20Mb, you start getting low memory warnings. I have seen people complain of this problem and i didn’t want to wait until i was faced with it too before doing something about it. So i did a little research and discovered a solution. In this solution, the apps and their data or cache files are also moved to the sd card thereby freeing up your internal memory. To achieve this, you need the following:

Browsing on Your PC Using MTN Blackberry Subscription

 

I have described in my earlier posts how to make use of both aitel and glo blackberry subscriptions to access the internet on your computers. This post will describe how to go about it using MTN blackberry subscription. Unlike airtel and glo, that of MTN is achieved with the aid of special softwares, known popularly as VPNs. VPN stands for virtual private network.
Several of such VPN exists. Some of them include pdproxy, tweakwarevpn, tunnel guru, sandwich vpn, and so on.

Browsing on Your PC Using GLO Blackberry Subscription

In my last post, i discussed the procedures to follow in order to be able to browse on your laptops or PCs using airtel's blackberry plan. In this post, i will post how to achieve the same thing using glo blackberry subscription. It is worth noting that glo's blackberry plan is cheaper than that of airtel in the sense that with glo, you get 3GB of data with N1,200 whereas airtel gives you only 1GB of data for the same amount.

Browsing On Your PC Using Airtel's Blackberry Subscription

If you are familiar with internet subscriptions, then you will know that the normal PC subscriptions offered by our network providers are not that pocket friendly. The cheapest airtel internet bundle for PC is the airtel plus plan, which gives you 3GB of data valid for 30 days at a cost of N5,000. There is also another plan for smartphone users that gives you 1GB of data also valid for 30 days at a cost of N3,000. This fee isn't affordable for some individuals. It seems however that the blackberry bundles are cheaper.