Blog

The Size & Quality of Videos are increasing at a rapid rate as compared to the Phone Storage. Thus, Videos now take up a good size of disk space on our Android phones . This imbalance in increase of Video quality doesn’t match the speed of increase of Storage on Android which leads to lesser phone memory available for apps, and internal phone memory becoming full. So, In this tutorial we will cover How you can Compress Videos without losing quality on your Android Phones to free-up more storage.

Tutorial to Compress Videos on Android without losing Quality –

• 

  First of all download & install the Video Compressor App from the link below –
  Click here to Download Video Compressor App from Google Play.

• Launch the Video Compressor App from Menu, Not to be confused by its User Interface, the light user-interface elements of the app actually make it function faster as compared to other Video compressing Android apps.
• Once you launch the app, In the label named as “Input Video” tap on “Select” as shown in the alongside image.
• After you Tap on Select you will be asked to enter the source of the video from where you want to select the video file (We will be using “Gallery” as shown below –

  

   

• Browse through the gallery and select the video you want to compress, Once you select a video a “Play” icon will appear on the video as shown below –

  

  Now, click on the Play icon to select the Video.

•  Once you have selected the Video, you will be redirected to the App with the File location as shown below –

  

  Now simply tap the “Compress” button.

• That’s it! your video will start Compressing to the size you specified 🙂 , depending upon your phone hardware this step may take some time.
• Now, Once your compression is finished, Please delete the original Video to free-up more space.
• You can easily compress Videos from 10mb to 2mb & thus gain extra 8mb each time you delete the original video file!
• Click here to Download Video Compressor App from Google Play.
• For More such tips to increase and free-up Phone Storage – Click here for 7 Best tips to free up internal Phone Storage.

Cellular operators nowadays, have started providing app-specific data packs, or as as add-on to existing Internet packs. Many times, we exhaust our normal Internet data and are left with only add-on app data, for example WhatsApp , Facebook or YouTube data. Thus, whenever we try to use the app data benefits other background apps automatically connect in background and their ping & notifications result in deduction of our main balance. Here’s a simple tutorial to allow internet access only to specific selected apps on Android while restricting internet data to other apps using Android firewall .

Method to Allow internet access to specific apps & restrict internet to other apps on Android –

• First Step would be to install a Firewall app to intercept our network traffic, though most apps require root the NoRoot Firewall app below works even on non-rooted Phones –

Click here to Download NoRoot Firewall app for Android from Google Play Store.

• Now, once you have installed the firewall app tap on “Start”.
• The firewall app will now ask you for one time permission to start a VPN connection, don’t worry this is just a dummy VPN connection with your own IP address , created just to intercept and block unwanted traffic. The VPN service dialog box would look as shown below –

  

  Here “tick or checkmark – I trust this application” option and tap on “OK”.

• Now, Simply connect to your internet connection, the data access will be blocked to all apps by default. To allow Internet access to a particular app, Open the app for example WhatsApp and then return to the NoRoot Firewall App.
• Navigate to the “Pending Access” tab as shown below , This section will list out all the apps trying to access the internet –

  

  Tap on  “Allow” to enable internet to that particular app, and keep other blocking access to internet for other apps.

• You can also Stop your Firewall anytime to restore access to internet like before.

This method thus, is highly efficient and useful to prevent access to internet to other apps, thus saving money as well as data.

Recently, One of my Android Phone’s hard key buttons stopped working – The hardware keys of Menu, Home & Back below the screen were not operating . This left me looking for some alternatives and I found this easy method to Get back or Enable Home, Menu & Back soft keys on Android phone’s screen. Thus, saving me the costs required to replace the damaged hardware key’s , Here’s how you too can do the same on your Android Phone –

Method to bring Soft Menu & Back Soft keys using Back buttton App for Android (No – Root Required)

• 

  First of all you need to download the Back Button App for Android from the below link (Its a Free App) –
  Click here to Download Back Button App for Android from Google Play.

• Once you have Installed the back button app, when you launch the app it will display you a dialog box asking you to enable Back Button from Settings – > Accessibility – > Back button . Enabling the back button option in Accessibility is compulsory to activate the app, Here’s how you can do it –
  Go to Settings – > scroll down and tap on Accessibility , there you will see an option for Back Button as shown below –

  

  Now , tap on the Back Button Option and turn it “On” as shown below by sliding the off switch to right side to make it display On –

  

   

• Once you have enabled the back button in accessibility , return to the Back Button app . Now here activate the buttons by sliding the Active toggle to right hand side as shown below –

  

  Now, once you have Activated the App, The Soft Key buttons will instantaneously appear on your screen as shown below –

  

  Now, you can customize these buttons as much as you want, you can drag & move them around, or you can lock them upto a particular location.

• You can even change their size, their icons, their transparency and play around. Thus, no longer requiring to change the hardware keys. If the app doesn’t work or if you face any issues feel free to comment.