Category: Tips and Tricks

How to Download Xiaomi Redmi PC Suite
Xiaomi finally released official English Mi PC suite. It has lot of functionalities which are very useful. Xiaomi PC suite is almost like a complete package. Using Redme PC suite, you can do many tasks on your phone from your PC such as firmware updates, sending sms, accessing internet, file transfer, music/video playback, Managing contacts etc. So in this post we will learn more on Xiaomi Mobile PC Suite. This Mi PC suite is compatible with Xiaomi 1/1S/2/2S/2A/3/4/4i/Note/Pad, Redmi 1/1S/Note/2 etc.

How to Download Xiaomi Mi PC Suite
1. You can directly download the official Xiaomi mobile PC suite from here. The size of this Mi PC suite is around 38MB.
2. Once downloaded, extract download file and install the PC suite on your PC.
3. Now connect your phone to PC and launch the Xiaomi PC suite.
4. You can start accessing your phone from PC using the PC suite.
Xiaomi PC suite Features

After connecting your Xiaomi phone to PC through USB cable, you can perform task like manage files, apps, photos, videos, notes, music, messages, contacts and most importantly phone backups, restore, system upgrade and ROM flashing, taking screenshot and Screencast functions. Below are the few guides on how to use different features.
1. Connecting your Xiaomi phone to your PC internet through USB: As soon as you connect your smartphone to PC through USB cable, it connects to PC’s internet. If you want to disable this, then go to notification and move the slider which is in front of “Use computer’s internet connection” to right. To enable, move it to right.
2. Accessing phone screen from PC: In Xiaomi PC suite, you will find a option called Screencast. If you click on that, phone screen will be seen on PC. Currently this feature is available only for Xiaomi Mi3 and Xiaomi Mi4.
3. Taking backup and perform system update: There are different interfaces through which you can perform this tasks. If you go to “Back up this device” option, you can perform backup or restore activities. If you go to system update option, it will show if any updates are available.
4. Other tasks: If you click on My Device on Xiaomi PC suite, you can see tabs in the left side. Using this you can perform tasks like texting sms from PC, moving files, managing apps, playing music files or video files.
Overall, if you have Xiaomi smartphone such as Redme series or Mi series, then it is nice to have Redme PC suite installed on your PC. For instance, if you want to perform firmware update and if your computer is connected to high speed broadband, then you can directly download the updates using this Redmi PC suite. If you facing any issue in downloading the Xiaomi Redmi PC suite, please share it in the comment section below.

Xiaomi PC Suite Requirements

OS: Windows XP, Windows 7, Windows 8/8.1, Windows 10.

Smartphones: Xiaomi Redmi 1s, Redmi 2, Redme 2 Prime, Redmi 2s, Redme Note, Redme Note 4G, Mi3, Mi4.

Source: en.miui.com.
October 14, 2015
Windows 10 Tips to Improve performance
Windows 10 brings lot of new features such as revamped start menu, digital assistant Cortana, action center etc. It is also brings in lot of improvement interms of performance. But, there are many annoying features too. These feature slow down and eat up bandwidth of PC. After I got Windows 10 update, my system got slow down. I did many performance steps. But actually, below mentioned tips helped to boost the performance on Windows 10. Even, i was facing issue of hard usage 100%. Now, it is fixed. Here is the some of the tips and tricks to speed up Windows 10 which helped me.

Windows 10 Tips and Tricks to speed up the PC/Laptop

1. Stops Windows sharing your bandwidth for delivering update to others:

By default Windows 10, shares your internet connection to deliver update to other users. This is done through peer-to peer fashion. This not only consumes your system resources, it also consumes your data. So if you are having limited data, then you will get effected as upload data increases. So here is the guide to disable this feature.
- Go to ‘Settings’. Under settings to ‘Update and Security’.
- Open the Windows Update tab in the left of the screen.
- In the page, you will find ‘Advanced Options’ link. Click on it.
- Click on ‘Choose how updates are delivered’ and toggle the switch under it to the off position. Or if you wish you can opt only “PCs on my local network”.
2. Limit Notification to save power

Like Android and iOS, Windows 10 too added notification center. This gives an overview of new emails, updates, plugged in devices and more. For providing these notifications, Windows 10 frequently checks all apps for new notifications. It affect performance and battery life. I personally recommend you to disable all notification which you don’t want. The minimum notification, better. For disabling notifications, follow the steps given below.

Go to ‘Settings->System->Notification and settings. Toggle Off for the notifications which you want to disable.

3. Turn Off Windows Tips

By default Windows 10 shows tips and tricks for many features. Behind this there is service running called ‘Show me tips”. This some time causes high processor and RAM usage. So disable this, go to the page which we have mentioned above and switch off ‘Show me tips about Windows’.

4. Disable Wi-Fi Sense

Wi-Fi Sense is the features which is originally intriduced in Windows 8.1 Mobile. This feature enables you to share your Wi-Fi network access with your Facebook, Outlook.com, and Skype contacts. It works in the background. It is good feature. But if you don’t use this, then it is adviced to disable this. It will save you resource usage. For that follow the steps given below.
- Go to WiFi Settings and select Change Wi-Fi settings option.
- In the newly opened page, choose Manage Wi-Fi settings.
- Here, under “Connect to networks shared by my contacts”, you can toggle off. You can select few contacts or you can disable all as per your wish.
October 12, 2015
How to Create Windows 10 Bootable DVD or USB Disk
Windows 10 is the latest operating system. There are plenty of reasons to upgrade your windows to the latest version. It also recieved good reviews from most of the reviewers. If you are running on genuine Windows 7 or Windows 8 with eligible specification, you are going to get Windows 10 update. So once you get automatic update to Windows 10, how to create a bootable DVD or Bootable USB disc for future resinstalls if required? We will learn on this.

Microsoft provides a option to create Windows 10 bootable DVD or USB disc. It is upto you to decide which one you want create or even you can create both. Before, creating the bootable disc, you should to know few things. Here is the quick checklist.
- Know the version of your Windows: That is your currently installed Windows is a home edition or pro version. Also make sure you note down whether it is 32 bit or 64 bit. You can know this by right clicking on “this PC”. Select properties. You will get a page which desscribes your windows version.
- You should have a disc with minimum 4GB free space as process required 3GB of space. If you are usingUSB disc, then ensure you dont have any data on it. Before creating the tool, the disc will be formatted.
How to Create Windows 10 Bootable DVD or USB Disk
- First download and install the Windows 10 media creation tool. For downloading 32 bit version click here or for 64 bit version click here.
- Once the media creation tool is downloaded installed, launch the application.
- Choose the option “Create installation media for another PC”. Click Next.
- On the screen, select the preferred laungauge, Edition(Home or Pro or Home Single Language) and Architecture on which you want to create bootable media for Windows 10. Then click Next.
- This page it ask for you want to create USB disc or DVD.
- If you choose, DVD, it will download the iso file. You need burn the image to DVD later. For burn the iso to DVD, there is direct option in Windows. Insert blank DVD and right click on the iso and choose burn image. It will create the bootable media for Windows 10.
- If you choose USB, it will format USB disc and copy the necessory files to USB disc. Your USB bootable disc will be created. It takes 3GB of space in your USB disc. Also it removes all data you have stored before. So ensure you have the backup for the same.
Hope this guide on how to create Windows 10 bootable media is useful. It is always recommended to have a bootable media with you. Incase of corrupt disc or if you want to do clean install Windows 10 from scratch, it is ideal to have your own Windows 10 bootable DVD or USB disc.
October 5, 2015
How to Disable Quick Look screen on Micromax Canvas
Micromax Canvas series is one of the popular smartphones in India. It offers lot of features at affordable price. But, the major complaint with these smartphones are bloat wares. Many of the budget Micromax Canvas smartphones has limited storage. But due to lot of pre installed apps, the available space for the user gets restricted. One solution for this is by rooting the device and remove the unwanted apps. But this will void the warranty. In this Micromax Canvas Tip, I am going to show you how to disable one such app called Quick Look without rooting.

For uninstalling the quick look Launcher on Micromax Canvas, there might be several methods. The one which I found out which is simple to do, I am going to mention it below. Hope this helps to many follow users.

How to Disable Quick Look screen from Micromax Canvas Smartphone

As I mentioned above, Quick Look is a preinstalled launcher in many Micromax Canvas smartphones such as Micromax canvas express 2, Micromax Canvas 4 plus, Micromax canvas nitro A311 etc. So there is no direct method of uninstalling Quick Look from Micromax Canvas smartphones without rooting. This tips will help you to disable Quick Look from Micromax Canvas smartphone.
- First download and install any third party launcher from the Play Store. I personally like and recommend Google Now Launcher. Because it is clean and gives a feel of stock Android experience.
- Make Google Now Launcher as the default Launcher.
- Now go to Settings->Apps.
- Go to All Apps and search for Quick Look.
- Tap on to it. First Clear Cache.
- Then tap on to Force Stop.
- Now you will not be seeing the Quick Look screen on Micromax Canvas smartphone.
Why you need to uninstall/Disable Quick Look on Micromax Canvas?

It is optional. Some feel, it is not good. For me, Google Now cards are much better than Quick Look. Also, running apps in the background will impact on your Micromax Canvas smartphone performance to an extent. It will consume data for keeping the app/launcher up to date and consume battery as well. Disable Quick Look on Micromax Canvas will give you cleaner look to your smartphone.
October 1, 2015
Lenovo A6000 And Lenovo A6000 Plus Android Lollipop Update
Lenovo A6000 And Lenovo A6000 Plus are the two most popular budget dual sim Android smartphones in India. Lenovo A6000 Plus is a incremental upgrade over A6000. It has 2GB of ram and 16GB of internal storage whereas Lenovo A6000 has 1GB of RAM and 8GB of internal storage. Rest of the specs are identical. If you are owner of Lenovo A6000 or Lenovo A6000 Plus here is the good news. Lenovo started rolling out Android Lollipop update to these two smartphones. The Android Lollipop 5.0 update will bring Material Design, bug fixes, and performance & stability improvements.

Lenovo A6000 Review

How to take screenshot on Lenovo A6000

How to update Lenovo A6000 to Android Lollipop

You will be getting the notification for the update. If you have not recieved the notification, then go to settings->About phone-> Software updates. There is also direct option of System update. Tapping on that also checks for the update. As the size of Android Lollipop update is huge, it is highly recommended to update via WiFi.

Common issues of Lenovo A6000 And Lenovo A6000 Plus after Android Lollipop Update

Below are the few issues or errors reported by the users of Lenovo A6000 And Lenovo A6000 Plus after Android Lollipop Update. Below I have given few solution which other users said to be solved their issues. So that might be useful for you also.
1. Google Play Store error: If you are facing this issue, try to update all your installed apps. This fixes issues in many cases.
2. Issues with dialer or contact manage: There are many users reported that, after the update, contacts are not displaying in Whatsapp. The solution for this varies from user to user. The common solution which worked for many is syncing the contacts and removing the cache. First you need to sync all your contacts through your google account. If problem continues, go to Settings->App Management and clear all the data and cache. Once again sync your contacts with the account where you have already synced your contacts.
3. Other general bugs: If your phone is slow or having bugs, you can restart the device and check. If problem continues, then you can try wiping the cache memory. If even then problem continues, then only solution is factory reset. Do remember that, Performing factory reset on Lenovo A6000 and Lenovo A6000 Plus will delete all the data on your smartphone.
Have you updated your Lenovo A6000 or Lenovo A6000 Plus to Android Lollipop. How is your phone performance post update? What are the issues you are facing? You can share it in the comment section below.

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September 11, 2015