Record Actions performed on your Android phone Screen


Say, you want to record the screen of your android phone i.e you want to record what actions did you perform. Its very simple.

Pre-requiste for this trick would be:
You must have an adb tool (it comes with android SDK)
You can get the tool by going through this page.

Open command prompt
Type below command and press Enter

adb shell screenrecord /sdcard/<filename>.mp4

That's all you need to do. Till this above command is running, all the actions performed over your android phone will be recorded in the path you have specified (in this case, /sdcard folder)
To stop recording stop the above command by pressing Ctrl+C.
You can play the video made with any player supporting mp4 format.

If you want to pull the file onto your system , you need to type

adb pull /sdcard/<filename>.mp4 <DestinationPathonSystem>

How to Charge mobile faster

Recently I came across with an nice android app called "Ampere".
Yes, it displays the current flowing into your mobile i.e while charging and also the amount of current being consumed by your smartphone while discharging.
With this app running on my mobile, I ran an small experiment.


Here are my observations,

Scenario	Charging or Not	Min Current	Max Current
Laptop - USB long cable	Laptop charging	770mA	840mA
Laptop - USB long cable	On battery	750mA	780mA
Laptop - USB Short Cable	On battery	1150mA	1180mA
Laptop - USB Short Cable	Laptop charging	1150mA	1180mA

The same goes when charging using the chargers.

With long USB cable the charging current was 890mA and with short USB cable it was 1460mA.

Charger rating was Input--0.6A, Output -- 6V- 2000mA

Its clearly seen,there is difference of 400mA  and that's a bummer if you use long USB cable.

It can be easily concluded from above table as well that using Short USB cable to charge will definitely decrease the  charging time i.e will charge your mobile or another device quicker.

And also, it does not  matter whether your laptop is charging or not the power being drawn from the USB port of laptop remains almost same.

You can also download the app from here Ampere Android app
and can understand how fast your mobile is charging with the cable you have or do you need to replace your usb charging cable.

How to Fake GPS Location on Android Phone

To Start with , to spoof your vicinity on Android is to become a developer. That does not mean you need to become actual developer duh!! You simply need to activate developer option inside the Android settings menu.

Goto Settings > About Android > Tap on that option 7 times until you get the affirmation activate as shown.

Fake GPS Location on Android

You'll want to go back a step to the root Settings menu and go to "Developer options". Once inside the sub-menu, find the Allow mock locations option and tick the check box right next to it.

Enable Developer Options for Fake GPS Location

Now, get some GPS spoofing Application from Google Play.
You can try using Fake GPS Location Spoofer for Free.
Once Installed , you will be requested to enable
Turn Off the WIFI if possible, coz android can look into your location using your WIFI.
Now, click on the Location Settings button in the pop-up and then go to Mode within the menu.

Once inside the Menu, select GPS only.
Next, choose a Location on the Map and "Double tap" on the screen to set it.
Once Set, all the other apps and services that looks for GPS location, will be spoofed.

GPS Spoofing

How to disable "Font Data Calculation" screen on Opera Mini.

Few days back I installed Opera Mini on my Android Mobile and just after launching the app displays an annoying screen "Font Data Calculation" 
What I know is that , this screen comes when your android phone is having some different Fonts and non-stock fonts,

Here is a simple g33ktrick for you.

1. Open Opera Mini app
2. Type "about:config"  and tap on Enter

3. Scroll down to "Use bitmap fonts for Complex scripts" and Select "Yes" option

4. Save the settings.

5. Now, close and Relaunch your Opera Mini without "font data calculation" screen.

Also, above setting can be used to Solve issues when you are not able to see some fonts at some websites.

This g33ktrick would work on Apple and Windows OS phones as well.