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HTC ONE M8 Announced: Its Official

It’s finally official, folks. The all new HTC One M8 — also known as the HTC M8 and HTC One 2014 — has been officially announced by the Taiwanese manufacturer. The surprise factor has been crushed by tons of leaks leading up to today’s happenings, but the details are finally official and this is the phone you can look forward to as early as today. It’s an all-metal, zero-gap unibody chassis with a whole lot of goodness packed inside. HTC took special care to mention that their antenna is built into the rear of the device’s body, so the metal shouldn’t interfere with day-to-day usage. Let’s hop right into what makes its gears turn!

Android 101: How to Perform a Factory reset

Performing Factory reset is one that will be necessary at some point in your smartphone usage life. Factory reset helps to fix a lot of issues easily that otherwise would have been expensive to fix. A factory reset simply means a complete wipe of your device usage history, data, logs and apps, then a restoration of the device to initial state (as it was when manufacturer shipped device out).    Some signs your Phone needs a factory Reset When your device fails to boot up due to missing system app/file: If an app like the "Home launcher" is broken, your device will not boot up (no UI); or a missing system font.

Making your notification area more useful and Beautiful

The notification area on Android is very customizable, from it you can navigate to any location in your device, you can toggle pretty much any thing toggleable (connectivity, Screen timeout, notification profile...), launch an application and so on. However, to explore more features available on the notification area, you need to install-third party apps.  Some extra things you can do with a third-party enhanced notification area include

Batch freezing: How to freeze more than one app at once

A lot of times the need arises for an application to be stopped from running both in the background and foreground. It is a matter of choice what application you use to meet a need on your smartphone, however, there are a number of apps that have unique features. You might need to freeze an app if its service(s) interfere with a task you would like to carry out per time. For example, having a task killer when you want to multi-task makes it very difficult, however, you can freeze the task killer app for the period you wish to multi-task. there several other reasons to freeze an app instead of completely uninstalling it.