How to easily unlock your iPhone
- Category: Guides
- Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:56
- by Kunal Khullar
So in case you wanted to unlock (not jailbreak) your Apple iPhone 4S or any other iPhone, there is a simple step by step solution for you. Thanks to hacker Loktar_Sun, you can now unlock your iPhone easily without having to pay to your carriers or mobile repair shops.
Of course you need to have jailbroken iPhone for the unlocking procedure to work.
How to protect your Mobile?
- Category: Guides
- Tuesday, 10 April 2012 14:53
- by Rishabh Jain
We have always enlightened you about different ways to protect your mobile or tablet. We have talked about all kinds of cases, covers and stuff you would need to keep your phone good as new, but this time we take a deeper dive.
Well, there are a lot of different protection gears for handsets ranging from a screen protector right down to Anti-viruses; you aren’t shy of options when it comes to protection gear.
Tired of SMS Spam and calls? Here’s how you can block them
- Category: Guides
- Thursday, 29 March 2012 15:07
- by Kunal Khullar
So everyday your inbox is filled with spam messages and advertisements, or you receive unwanted calls from telemarketers all day. Well, here’s a quick guide for you that can help you to register your number and get rid of the unwanted calls and SMS.
To add your number to the DND (Do Not Call / Do Not Disturb) list send a text message “START 0” to 1909 and the unwanted calls and SMS messages should stop within the next 7 days.
How to recharge Tata DOCOMO online
- Category: Guides
- Thursday, 10 November 2011 12:14
- by Puneet Jain
Online recharges are getting very popular these days. Some of the reasons that are attributing to the popularity of online recharges are - Online recharges are hassle free and less time consuming. Despite increase in popularity of online recharges there are many mobiles users who either don't know how to recharge online or find it a mammoth task. To help such users I am creating a guide which will help our readers to recharge their mobiles online.
To begin with I will show you how you can recharge your Tata DOCOMO connection online
To begin with I will show you how you can recharge your Tata DOCOMO connection online
Step 1 - Visit tatadocomo.com
Step 2 - Click on Online recharge
Step 3 - Enter the mobile number you want to recharge and click submit button
Step 4 - Choose the type of Recharge your want - Top up, Special Recharge and 3G Recharge.
Step 5 - Select the recharge denomination you want and hit submit button.
Step 6(a) - If you have chosen Top recharge then hit Pay Now button.
Step 6(b) - If you have chosen Special recharge or 3G recharge then you can choose to pay from your existing mobile balance or by using your credit card.
Step 7 - Enter the relevant payment details. Voila! Your mobile is recharged.
If you need any further assistance, please drop a comment below.
Step 2 - Click on Online recharge
Step 3 - Enter the mobile number you want to recharge and click submit button
Step 4 - Choose the type of Recharge your want - Top up, Special Recharge and 3G Recharge.
Step 5 - Select the recharge denomination you want and hit submit button.
Step 6(a) - If you have chosen Top recharge then hit Pay Now button.
Step 6(b) - If you have chosen Special recharge or 3G recharge then you can choose to pay from your existing mobile balance or by using your credit card.
Step 7 - Enter the relevant payment details. Voila! Your mobile is recharged.
If you need any further assistance, please drop a comment below.
Travelling to USA? Save your Call, SMS and Data costs
- Category: Guides
- Friday, 09 September 2011 16:27
- by Puneet Jain
Travelling to USA? Here are a few tips by Rajesh Jain, Founder and MD of Netcore Solutions Pvt Ltd, to save your mobile call, sms and data costs.
He mentions on his blog, "The solution I used (thanks to Atanu) was the T-mobile $50 monthly plan for unlimited calling, SMSing (both within the US) and web browsing. The GSM SIM can be put in the phone and you are all set. Combine that with a Reliance calling card (virtual), and you have telecom costs completely under control and full mobility!"
So, if you are travelling to USA, do try it out.
Nokia N8 teardown
- Category: Guides
- Monday, 08 August 2011 15:00
- by MobiGyaan Team
Here’s another teardown by iFixit of Nokia’s true flagship device the N8. The handset has been selling quite well in India and the reason we referred the teardown of this handset is that it is a fully sealed uni-body handset and a lot of customers want to know how they can open the handset to remove the battery. So know you can easily access the battery, in case you need to replace one.
However, we don’t advice you to open your handsets as it might void warranty and other legal policies.
Charged for VAS (Caller Tunes etc.) without your permission? Get your money back
- Category: Guides
- Thursday, 04 August 2011 12:21
- by Puneet Jain
Did your telecom operator activate Value added services like Hello Tunes etc. without your permission and charged for it? If it happened to you then let me tell you that you are not alone, there are many other like you who had to pay for such Value Added services they never asked for. Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) received 672 from consumers relating to value added services between 1st April 2010 to 31st March 2011. This is just the number of complaints TRAI received, but I guess the number of consumers who had to pay for VAS which they did not want is much more than this.To address concerns of consumers in this regard and also to prevent accidental activation of value added services, TRAI has issued directions to service providers, from time to time, mandating them to ensure that no value added service is activated without the explicit consent of the consumers and also prescribing therein the procedure for obtaining the explicit consent of the consumers.
TRAI has recently issued a direction on to all service providers that in all cases of activation of value added service, the service provider has to obtain a confirmation from consumers within 24 hours of activation of value added services through SMS or e-mail or fax or in writing, failing which the value added service shall be de-activated without any cost to the consumer.
So now you know how to get your money back when VAS is activated without your permission. For more information read this.
Get Internet services and more through SMS thanks to txtWeb
- Category: Guides
- Saturday, 23 July 2011 13:25
- by Kunal Khullar
Tired of high priced internet plans on your mobile? Need services, content and information on the go? Well txtWeb is the solution for you. It is a platform where anyone with a mobile phone can discover and consume content/services by texting specific keywords to 9243342000.The information can include Wikipedia content, local market prices, news, sports updates, government programs, financial literacy tips etc. There are loads of apps as well that can help you get specific content of your choice.
The service is pretty simple. Just type in the keyword, for example if you want news, then SMS @news and send it to 9243342000. You will receive an SMS with the latest news updates. To download an app, for example the facebook app, just SMS @face and send it to 9243342000 to receive your facebook app.
webTXT is also great for publishers and developers as it can help you make your content and services available to billions. You can create txtSites and developing and deploying an SMS-based app on txtWeb usually takes about 5 hours.
Do check out the video below.
For more, click here.
webTXT is also great for publishers and developers as it can help you make your content and services available to billions. You can create txtSites and developing and deploying an SMS-based app on txtWeb usually takes about 5 hours.
Do check out the video below.
For more, click here.
Guide : Secure your Google Account with 2-Step Verification
- Category: Guides
- Friday, 15 July 2011 14:17
- by Amarendra Bandla
If you are using Android, you do understand the importance of your Google account. From contacts to email to application data, everything is stored in there. This makes it lot more precious than it used to be few years ago, when Gmail was the only product to which most of us used Google Account to log in to. Few weeks ago, I was scared that my Google Account might get hacked and I searched for ways to make it more secure. First thought was to go for a premium account by paying yearly fees of 50$ approx (Google Apps account) but then most of the features were not necessary for me. Then, I stumbled across a relatively unknown feature in Google Account. “2-step verification”. It is a bit painful to setup this feature but it worth the effort as, in the end, your account is priceless.
2-step verification adds an extra layer of authentication where a log in to browser based client will ask for verification codes that can either be generated by ‘Google Authenticator’ mobile app or SMSed/VMed to your primary phone. Any non-browser based tools and any devices need to have password generated (one-time) for that app/device. So, if you lose your phone, you can immediately log in to your Gmail using backup codes (that are provided during setup process) and revoke access to apps/devices. Like I said earlier, the only pain here is the initial setup. Without wasting any further time, let’s setup 2-step verification process.
Setup:
Before starting the setup, do make a list of apps/devices that need access to your gmail account as you need to setup application/device specific password for these devices/apps. The process in brief is:
- Setup the primary phone
- Add backup options
- Turn on 2-step notification
- Generate application specific passwords
- Using Google Authenticator application (iOS, Android, Blackberry)
- Google SMSes the code to your primary phone
SMS based authentication:
- Login to your Google account and open this page or sign-in to your Google account, then go to settings -> using 2-step verification.
- Click on ‘start setup’
Enter the phone number that you want to use and click on ‘send code’ to test the setup. The code is a six digit number. Enter this code in the text box and click on ‘verify’.
If the right code is entered, you will see a note saying “Your phone is Configured”, click Next.
Make a note of backup codes that you see in the next page(there are total of 10), select ‘I have a copy of my backup codes” and head to setup the backup device. Do NOT take a print out of these codes as it is very common to lose the print out. Intead, keep these codes at a safe location online (I have used note taking application).
Next, you will be asked to setup backup phone. In case you lose your primary phone, you will received the codes to the backup phone either by SMS or by automated voice message (useful for landlines). you can opt to test the device to make sure that it is able to received the codes and the procedure is similar to the way it is done for primary phone.
Check the configuration properly and confirm your settings
In the next page, double check everything and when you are sure that what you entered is accurate, click on “Turn on 2-step verification”.
Once you turn on 2-step verification, you will be redirected to account log in page. From this point, every time you try to log in to web based clients, you will be asked to provide verification codes that you get via SMS. If you use the web applications from one device, you can opt to let the browser remember your log in for the next 30 days and not ask for verification codes every time you log in.
Google Authenticator based verification:
- Log in to your Google account and open this page or sign-in to your Google account, then go to settings -> using 2-step verification. click on ‘Start setup’
- Select the OS on which your Google Authenticator runs on (Android/iOS/Blackberry OS) and click on next.
You should now see a bar-code. Open Google Authenticator application on your phone and select Menu -> Scan a bar code to scan the bar-code displayed on the web page. When the application reads the bar-code, it will generate a six digit verification code that need to be entered in the web page (after clicking on next).
In case your phone doesn’t have a camera or if the scan does not work, click on ‘cant scan QR code’ and you will see a 16 digit code. Now, go to the Google Authenticator application in your phone and select Menu -> Manually add an account. Account name will be the user-id and the key will be the 16 digit code that you just got. Select ‘Time based’ type of key and click on Save. The application should now generate a six digit verification code to be used in the web page.
Once you enter the right code, you will be asked to double check the settings and to turn on 2-step verification
When you need to log in to web-based clients, all you have to do is provide user-id and password, open Google Authenticator app and provide the verification code that it generates.
Application specific passwords:
At this point of time, all the applications that use your normal Google Account password will stop working as you need passwords generated for these applications. And this is how you do that:
- Go to 2-step verification settings page
- Use a tag for application and click on “Generate Password”. For example, if I use pidgin on Ubuntu to log in to Gtalk, I use the tag ‘Ubuntu pidgin’. This is only to remember what apps you have assigned the passwords to so that you can later revoke access without getting confused.
Once you click on ‘Generate Password’, a 16-digit password is generated, which will be the password for my log in id on pidgin
as you can see in the above image, I have setup password for pidgin in ubuntu and another for my android device.
When you decide that the application will not be used any more of in case you lose the device running the application, you simply need to click on ‘revoke’ next to that particular app/device to remove that app/device from accessing your account.
Turn off 2-step verification:
Turning off 2-step verification is simple. Click on ‘turn off 2-step verification’ in the settings page and you will be asked for confirmation ans also you will be asked to enter your account password for verification
Once the 2-step verification is turned off, you will see the status as OFF at the top of the page.
At this point of time, you need to change the application specific password that you entered for your device/apps to the google account’s password and you are set.
How to : Keep your Mobile safe
- Category: Guides
- Saturday, 09 April 2011 13:50
- by MobiGyaan Team
Everybody is carrying a mobile or maybe two, and it has become a necessity. However the increase in the number of mobile users is also leading to a large number of mobile thefts and other malpractices. Hundreds of mobiles are misplaced or get stolen daily and leave users frustrated and depressed. Not only that people are worried about losing their personal data like contacts and messages, but also worried about getting personal as well as confidential data in the wrong hands.So here are a few tips that you should follow that might help you to be a little less tensed if you happen to misplace your mobile.
Save the IMEI: The International Mobile Equipment Identity is a unique number (usually 15-17 digits) used to identify GSM, WCDMA, and iDEN mobile phones, as well as some satellite phones. It is usually found printed inside the battery compartment of the phone. It can also be displayed on the screen of the phone by entering *#06# into the keypad on most phone. This number can be used to track down your mobile if it is being used by someone else, and in some cases the mobile can be shut down remotely.
Keep Passwords: Most mobiles have the ability to set passwords and PIN codes to lock the mobiles or it can be done using third party softwares and apps. Using these can be helpful as it helps in maintaining secrecy and confidentiality. However this method is not very useful as removing these passwords and PIN codes is easy through various methods.
Backup all data: This is the most important thing that a mobile user should follow. Almost all new and upcoming mobiles have the ability to back up your data on your PC. You should backup every month or twice a month to ensure safety of your data. In case your mobile does not support backup, copy all the relevant yourself and keep it safe.
Don’t install un-trusted software: There are various softwares and apps for mobiles that are malicious and do more harm than provide you with any service. Be sure of what you install or keep in your mobile as it can be a malicious program sending information about your mobile to hackers.
So in case you are not following any of the above measures, make it a point you do so for your mobile’s security.