Flash Your Android Device Wirelessly Using RemoteFlash

Many people after buying there smart phones, are satisfied by the features that the company has provided with the phone. But there are a second group of people too who want to explore their devices to the fullest by flashing custom ROM or flashing any new update or adding a modded feature of some other phone to enhance the properties of their phone. At the time of flashing or rooting you require a USB cable and a laptop, but many a times you will not find the USB cable in place or it would be not in a good condition due to frequent use. Despite of this if a person uses this faulty USB cable for flashing then its mere risk.

To minimize this risk developers have come up with a application which will allow users to flash there phones wirelessly. The application is called as 'RemoteFlash'. It allows you to flash ROMS, Mods, and Updates directly from your computer, over WiFi.  APK's can also be installed on your device  wirelessly using this application.

This application consists of two files. The first  one being a standalone Java application that will  run on your computer and  the other file is the RemoteFlash apk which will be installed in your android device. The PC and the android device should be connected to each other via same WiFi network.

Procedure-:

• Install the java application on your PC and the APK on your android device.
• Run the RemoteFlash apk.
• Reboot the device.
• As soon as your device boots back up, RemoteFlash will be running.
• Open the PC client and click "Auto-Scan".
• Check/uncheck "Wipe Data/Cache", and click "Go".
• Select the file to be flashed, and it will be flashed directly to your device.

Links -:
JAVA application for PC "RemoteFlashPC-V0.3.jar" can be downloaded from here.


APK for android device "RemoteFlashV1.1.apk" can be downloaded from here. 

Source- XDA-Developers

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Access Device's And Computer's Data On A WiFi Network By Your Android Device

Connectivity in present day devices plays a major role, major companies are running research for either new connectivity options or refining the existing options. People use WiFi to be connected to internet wirelessly in a area. If you are connected to a network you can access the data on the other devices connected to the same network by a software.

Procedure to access other devices on WiFi via Astro File Manager :-

• Open the Astro File Manager User Interface.

•  Then click on 'Scan Local Network' 

•  'Work Group' icon will be displayed as shown in the Screen shot above

•  When you click on the 'Work Group' the devices connected to the network will be displayed

• Select the device you want to access, if it asks for password then enter the username and password of the system and then you can access it.

Astro file manager is an excellent file manager for android devices, it can be used to access your phones files as well as data on other devices connected to the same WiFi network wirelessly. This software is freely available on Google Play Store so you can easily download it and use it.  

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Smart WiFi Toggler for All Android devices

By-Rustam Ali

Most of the mobile users nowadays face problem in switching between a combination of WiFi and mobile data regularly. And in this process if you leave your WiFi on after leaving a WiFi hot spot your battery will get drained sufficiently. Well developers have found a cure to it, they have devised an application that allows your phone to sense a hot spot and turn on WiFi and as soon as yo leave that hot spot it switches off your WiFi and automatically switch from WiFi to mobile data to conserve battery.

Smart WiFi Toggler is designed to control your phone's WiFi using cell tower triangulation, so you don’t need to worry about GPS-induced battery drain. Its main aim is to conserve battery and minimize data charges by switching between mobile and WiFi networks according to the preferred network present. It constantly learns where your hotspots are located to make its decisions.

Photo Credits-Google Play

Features:
- Automatically learns your WiFi hotspot locations.
- Turns WiFi off when disconnected from WiFi network.
- Automatically turns WiFi on when near a known hotspot.
- Uses your network location. No GPS battery drain.
- Provides the ability to control "auto-connect" behavior for each hotspot.
- Ability to lock WiFi to a disabled state.
- Warning notification and auto-locking WiFi when a hotspot is down.
- History and logging, in addition to a view of what is going on under the hood.

The application is a free application and can work on all devices running on Android 2.2 and higher versions.

You can download this application from here.

Via-XDA-Developers

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