HTC A9 Review: An Android Phone That looks like iPhone 6

HTC A9 is an Android smartphone produced by Taiwanese company HTC. It is now available on the market for few days. You might think whether to get one or not. Before you decide, please read this HTC A9 review to learn more.

First, Price.
First thing first, in US, the current price of this device is $399.99. This is a special offer for a very limited period. And it will cost you $499.99 from November 7th. If you want to buy HTC A9 for a lower price, you’d better act soon.
However, the device will cost you almost $660 in UK. Just remember, if you live in UK, it is not a good idea to get one now.
Plus, according to the official statement, the regional sales team can custom their own price depends on the market demanding.

Next, HTC A9 Specification.
1. 5.00-inch screen, which has been regarded as the proper size both for using and carrying.
2. 4-ultrapixel Front Camera and 13-megapixel Rear Camera. HTC camera is not that good at past. This HTC A9 camera has already been improved a lot compared to the former HTC device. It is OK, but still not good enough.
3. It has a resolution of 1080x1920 pixels.
4. Android 6.0 OS. It pre-installed latest Android OS 6.0 Marshmallow.
5. 2150mAh Battery capacity. The battery life of android phone are not such a delight since the day it born. HTC A9 is not an exception, too.
 6. In US, the device has 32GB of storage and 3GB of RAM In United States, While in UK, you can only get 16GB and 2GB.
7. Colors. The device is available for multiple colors. Such as, Topaz Gold, Acid Gold, Carbon Gray, Cast Iron, Deep Garnet and Opal Silver. But it seems like not all the colors are available at every region.

Third, the looking. 
Well, You can never not mention the looking from an HTC A9 Introduction. Because appearance matters. There is a great evidence showing that this HTC A9 looks very like iPhone 6. Check the picture below. It is fair enough to say that HTC A9 is the Apple of the Android phone according to the looking. The company declared that Apple copied their design. Well, that is not our concern. What matters is that if you want to get an Android phone that looks like iPhone, HTC A9 is definitely your priority.

Last, Conclusion.
Advantage:
Excellent quality.
High resolution screens.
Fair price ( In United States).
Great looking.
Disadvantage:
Battery life is not good enough.
Camera is still not the best even it makes progress.

One more tip
Backup is highly suggested in order to protect your data . You could try Jihosoft Android Manager to backup. If you unfortunately lost your data, you can also try Jihosoft Android Phone Recovery.

How to Recover Deleted Viber Messages History from Android

Viber becomes more and more popular in this digital world. It lets you freely send messages as well as make free calls to your friends, family who have viber installed on their device. With Viber for Android, you can send free messages, attachments like photos, videos, voice to other viber users, in any network and country, on any device. Sometimes, you may need to delete some unimportant viber messages to free up storage, and accidentally delete some of them which you didn't mean to. What's worse, Viber doesn't offer backup and restore service functionality.

Here comes the problem, is there any way to directly recover deleted viber messages history from android? I am pleased to tell you that the purpose of writing this post is exactly going to tell you how to do Viber messages history recovery android without needing of backup. Well, before getting started, I’d like to introduce a great tool named Jihosoft Android data recovery which performs well on restoring viber messages on android.

How to Retrieve Deleted Viber Messages on Android in Detailed Steps

Step 1. Immediately turn off 3G/Wi-Fi connection and stop using your android. You should know that any automatic update and new content could make the lost viber messages unrecoverable due to the overwriting.
Step 2. Download Jihosoft Android Data Recovery. If you are using Mac computer, simply download its Mac version: Jihosoft Android Data Recovery for Mac
Step 3. Install and start viber messages chat recovery tool on your computer. Then plug into your android device using USB cable.
Step 4. Select specified files types you want to recover. Simply select the second panel named “Database” to scan contacts, viber messages, call logs on your android.
Step 5. Set developer options and turn on USB debugging setting. If you have rooted your android device before, just hit button “Opened? Next...” or skip to the next step.
Step 6. Scan viber messages on your android. You will enter the “Ready to Scan” window, click “Start” to begin the scanning process.
Step 7. Selectively preview and restore viber messages. After scanning, check the scanning result one by one, mark the viber messages you want to restore, and then tap the “Recover” button.

More Tips and Tricks about backing up and restoring viber messages android:

To avoid the data loss, you are advised to backup viber messages on android regularly. Here is two simple way to backup viber messages.
1.Manually backup viber messages with emails. On Viber - > Select  More options -> Settings -> Calls and messages -> Email message history. Once the backup file is created, send it to yourself or any other mail.
2.Backup viber chat history using backup Apps. There are many android backup apps available to backup viber messages and viber attachment. As I known, Android  Phone Manager and Titanium are two of the best viber messages backup tools. You can also do some researches by yourself and have a try.

How to Recover SMS, Contacts, Photos, Videos from Samsung Galaxy Note 5

At August 13, 2015 , Samsung held a new conference in the United States 2015 Lincoln Center , two flagship products have been released that day- Samsung Galaxy Note 5 and Galaxy S6 edge +. As the main products of Samsung , the eye-catching Samsung Galaxy Note 5 improves in many factors, for instant, it is ablaze with slim, shiny, large-screened luster, retooled stylus, removable battery and better expandable storage slot etc. The 5.7 inch Samsung Galaxy Note 5 is on sale now, if you need to switch to a new Samsung phone, galaxy note 5 indeed a good choice. But before doing this, don’t forget to backup your old data on Samsung.

Though, the new note 5 has great functions, it is good to take card of the files on Samsung galaxy note 5 while experiencing its amazing features. If by any chance that you accidentally delete some important files that you didn’t mean to, or lost files during rooting/updating/transferring, don’t get too tensed though. The following guide tells a detailed way to recover deleted/lost files from Samsung galaxy note 5 even without needing of backup files. Check it out.

About Samsung Galaxy Note 5 Data Recovery

Before doing the galaxy note 5 data recovery, a crucial tool I'd like to mention: Jihosoft Android Data Recovery. This is software empowers to recover data from any android device including galaxy note 5, note 4, note 3, galaxy s6, s6 edge, s6 edge + etc. With it, it is easy to retrieve deleted text messages, contacts, call history, WhatsApp messages/attachments, videos, photos, audio files from galaxy note 5’s internal memory and external SD card.

Attention:
You are advised stop using the galaxy note 5 once you noticed the data lost, as the lost files could be overwritten by new content, which make the files unrecoverable.

Steps to Recover Data from Galaxy Note 5

A, Download, install and run the galaxy note 5 data recovery tool on your computer.(for mac users, download android data recovery for mac)
B, Plug USB into Samsung galaxy note 5, then to computer. Then select specified content to scan. For example, if you just need to recover photos from galaxy note 5, simple choose “Multimedia” to save the scan time. Or tap “All” to continue.
C, After the note 5 is detected by computer, it will automatically pop up a message to guide you enable USB debugging. Follow its wizard to do this, so that the program can access to the lost files on your galaxy note 5.
D, When this program identify your device, you will go to a new window, simple tap “Start” button to scan data. It may take a while for the scanning.
E, After the scan finishes, you can check the recoverable files one by one. Mark the wanted files to recover and save them to computer. That's it.

 

A step by step video guide about how to recover data from galaxy note series you shouldn't miss:

                               

Just download and take this reliable note 5 data recovery tool in this high time. Actually recovering files from galaxy note 5 is just a fraction of the full capabilities of the software. Want to know more about Samsung data recovery? Feel free to make a comment below.

How to Recover Contacts, Photos, Videos, SMS from Broken Screen Android Phone/Tablet

Sometimes, the android users may have encountered hardware or software issues like phone screen broken, the touch screen not working, and you cannot access the valuable data. If you’ve cracked your android phone and the screen was broken, and you are urgent to recover the data from the broken screen android phone, then, this article should help you somewhat.

Recover Existing/Deleted Files from Android with Broken Screen

Files like contacts, SMS, call logs, whatsapp messages/attachments, viber messages etc. are hard to manually copied/recovered from an android phone, not to mention the android phone with broken screen. The following method offers a feasible solution to recover contacts etc. from broken screen android phone with ease.

What you'll need:
-Android Debug Bridge. You may need to unlock your android phone with dead screen firstly. The Android Debug Bridge is a good tool to do this. (You can also refer to this article to unlock your android: http://joyofandroid.com/unlock-android-device-with-dead-screen/)
- USB cable and USB Mouse. Though, on some of android phones, mass storage mode is automatically activated, if not, an USB mouse is needed to make the phone connected to computer.
- Jihosoft Android Phone Recovery Program. This tool is used to copy/transfer/recover deleted/lost data including contacts, messages, call history, whatsapp, photos, videos, music etc. from android phone internal memory on computer.

Detailed steps:
- Unlock android and connect android phone to computer with USB cable and USB mouse.
- Launch Jihosoft Android Phone Recovery and select wanted files to scan.
- Using USB mouse to enable USB debugging on android. After the device is detected, click “Start” to continue.
- Wait for a while for the scanning process. When the scan completes, you are allowed to preview both existing and lost files. Tap “Recover” to save them to your computer.

Recover Multimedia Files Like Pictures, Videos, Music from Broken Android Phone
If you just want to recover multimedia files(pictures, videos, audio files), then you can recover data from android without android phone recovery tool. After you unlocked the screen and connect the android device to computer with USB mouse and cable. Simply navigate to the Autoplay popup -> click “Open folder to view files” option. Your phone's internal memory should now be accessible, then copy and save the files from the internal storage to your PC. That's it.
  

Notes & Tips:
If you just want to copy and backup the existing files stored on your phone, you can use Jihosoft Android Phone Manger instead of android phone recovery program do this job.It is wise to regularly backing up your android phone to avoid any unnecessary data loss.

How to Recover Deleted Photos, Videos, from Google/Galaxy Nexus

This is a guide about how to recover deleted/lost pictures, videos from nexus phones/tablets, including Samsung Galaxy nexus, Google Nexus, Nexus 10, Nexus 7, Nexus 5, Nexus 4. If you are a Nexus user who accidentally lost files on your nexus device, then this post is what you are looking for.

What reasons cause to data loss, the photos can be recovered?

There are many reasons could cause the data loss, such as, you mistakenly click the “Deletion” button and important files like photos lost in seconds; you may factory reset/format your nexus device which you didn’t mean to, everything just gone; your phone/tablet is attacked by unknown virus someday, the important files lost; the phone stuck/freeze when you are rooting/updating/transferring; or you just cannot find your files and they lost even without realizing it.
If you lost data due to the reasons mentioned above, I’m glad to tell you it is possible to get back the lost photos, videos from nexus with a reliable nexus photo recovery tool as long as the files haven’t been overwritten. One of prerequisites for the recovery is that your device must be connected/identified by computer at least. In other words, if your device is physical damaged/water damaged, or disconnected, it cannot restored by this way. It is good to send your device to be repaired.

About Nexus Photo Recovery Tool:

Well, to start with, a Nexus photo recovery tool I’d like to mention is named Jihosoft Android Data Recovery (Jihosoft Android Data Recovery for Mac). It is a great software to recover photos, videos, sms, contacts, call logs, viber messages, whatsapp messages/attachments, music and more from any android devices like Google nexus, Samsung Galaxy nexus, as well as Huawei, HTC, LG, Motorola etc.

You can download it from:
Windows:  http://download.cnet.com/Jihosoft-Android-Phone-Recovery/3000-2094_4-76171747.html 
Mac:  http://download.cnet.com/Jihosoft-Android-Data-Recovery-for-Mac/3000-2242_4-76331726.html

Easy Steps to Recover Photos, Videos from Nexus Devices

Step 1. Don’t use your nexus device once you noticed the photo, videos lost. This could avoid the lost files be overwritten by new content and the overwriting data is unrecoverable by any powerful nexus data recovery tools. In the meantime, you’d better turn off the 3G/4G/Wi-Fi connection to avoid this.
Step 2. Connect nexus device to PC/Mac and make the device accessible. An usable USB cable is needed. To let the program access your nexus, please enable developer options(enable USB debugging)
Step 3. Run the software and select files to scan. You can simply choose the middle panel “Multimedia” to continue, then you will see the window which guides you select the specified photo/video/audio format to scan. Select what you want to continue. After the program identify, click “Start”.
Step 4. Scan, preview and recover photos on nexus. In this progress, you may need to wait for a while for the scanning. When it is done, you can preview the found photos/videos to check its quality. If you are satisfied with the result, select the wanted files and tap “Recover” to save them on your computer.

That's it.

HTC One NFC problem | unable to send or receive pictures and files

While HTC's premium hardware has been a main attraction for buyers, many of the new features came from HTC sense 5. Along with other features, NFC sharing  has been improved a lot. Lot of users are actually upgrading to HTC one m7 to learn new ways to experiment  NFC. While they found NFC is a great medium to share files like pictures and videos, some of them are not pleased with NFC's limitations.

Unable to receive pictures from other devices

sharing files between 2 HTC devices is really smooth and quck. Just enable NFC, select the picture and share via NFC. You can easily send as well as receive pictures with another HTC device. The problem starts when you try to interacting with other manufacturers such as samsung and sony.

We tried finding out how NFC sharing works with other devices. We shared a picture with Samsung Galaxy S4 via NFC. S4 easily recognized the file shared and saved it to its memory. Then we tried sending a picture from Galaxy S4 to HTC one.

HTC one recognized incoming  file is about to be shared through NFC. after a few seconds, the alert dialogue just disappeared and  it was redirected to play store which was followed by an alert message saying "item not found, retry".  that was weird. 

Solution to NFC problem

Superbeam- a cool Google play store applications which is capable of sharing files between two devices using NFC. Though one of the main attraction for the app is sharing files over Wi-Fi but it is even capable of sharing the files between two devices using NFC. Few HTC users have already tried this app and it seems to be working fine. this application is totally free and allows you to share files between andoid smart phones and tablets.

have you ever experienced issues with your NFC?

HTC One M7 gets Android 4.2.2 Jellybean Update

HTC One M7 gets it's first major update - Android 4.2.2 jellybean. The HTC russia head has recently tweeted about the 4.2.2 update for HTC One and some users from europe have already updated their handsets to 4.2.2. The update mainly includes UI customization and there are few more new  tweaks for the navigation.

HTC One jellybean 4.2.2 Update

Check out highlights of the update

• Acess android menu by long home key press
• Can stick app icons to the App Drawer even after adding them to the App Dock of HTC One
• Includes an option to empty the App Dock entirely
• Android Daydream function
• Some other UI tweaks

Final features of the jellybean 4.2.2 update include lot of tweaks to increase battery life, improve cpu performance, reduce number of crashes and improve compatibility with bluetooth accessories. New update even includes the option to view the battery level percentage in the status bar which is at the top of the display screen.

Also read - Solution for the HTC One heating problem

The HTC One Android 4.2.2 update is available for SIM-free and unlocked handsets. There is no official news when carrier-locked HTC One will be receiving the update. AT&T, Sprint & T-Mobile are yet to receive this update.