You must be facing with the App Vault app on Xiaomi smartphones, but not all users know what it is and what it is for. Since in any unfamiliar program many people tend to see spyware or other malicious software, people are interested in what is App Vault on Xiaomi smartphones? We are in a hurry to calm down all those who were alarmed by this unfamiliar program. This is the “home” application of the producer, present on all devices with MIUI firmware – just a personal assistant. It is created for convenience of the user, and to call the personal assistant on smart phone Xiaomi it is possible to pile from left to right on the main desktop.

Company Xiaomi has initially bet on producing high-quality, functional and best-looking at the same time cheap smartphones. That is what has helped company to win huge popularity not only in the house market in China, but also worldwide. As it is known, there are always the unfair producers ready to cling to another\’s success and to grab the piece of a pie. They produce fakes, masking them on the original products, and earn a lot of money. It also affects Xiaomi devices: in the market there were not original smartphones, tablets and other equipment which could appear in your hands if you don\’t buy from official distributors. Nevertheless, many people want to know what they use: the original or fake. And today we will tell you how to verify if your Xiaomi smartphone is original.

If you are Xiaomi smartphone owner, it is likely you often face the message “Don’t cover the earphone area” or “Don’t cover the orange area … Read more

Some special settings on Xiaomi can be changed if one enables engineering mode. For example, the mode is used for sound control up to maximum loudness level, for both conversational and general. There is no need to have professional experience. On the other hand one has to be careful. Clumsy use might be a cause of a serious damage for the system. Remember this when you try to change parameters. Now we observe three ways of how to enable engineering mode on Xiaomi.

Some Xiaomi device owners have noticed that after updating their smartphones, a mysterious file called “miui-blockota.zip” appears in the download folder. On the official MIUI forum, there are many guesses about the origin of this file, including the assumption that it is a virus. At the same time, its size often varies from a few megabytes to one or two gigabytes. In this article we will try to figure out what function “blockota” performs and whether it can be safely removed.

Watermark is an image or drawing. In the case of some Xiaomi smartphones, the watermark can be seen when shooting a portrait – it is located in the bottom corner of the picture you captured. It is not clear why the developers decided to add such a function, since not everyone wants to see such text in their photos. Therefore, in our today\’s instruction, we will find a switch that is responsible for the deactivation of this watermark. Fortunately, this possibility is provided by the manufacturer.

Recently Android smartphones users have complained a lot about dramatically loss the quality of the videos which users upload for their Instagram accounts in sharing their stories. Owners of iOS devices do not face the issue. Most complains came from former iPhone users who have recently switched to Android. They want to blame new OS. Our researchers found out that the “green robot” was unlikely a cause of the problem but an innocent sufferer.

Recently there have been a lot of questions on Xiaomi forums referred to “MIUI Daemon“. Usually users ask about the app, its functions, usefulness. Other … Read more

WhatsApp is one of the most popular apps. It makes communications pretty easy. Just adding several contacts and one creates his own circle. Nevertheless sometimes making easy steps is annoying. After all to sent a message you have to add the contact to your address book. And yet you often want just to get a brief contact, like, to ask or clarify something. Moreover your addressee can be a complete stranger. A couple of messages, that is all you need.

If you received a new push notification through any chat app, such as WhatsApp, Viber or Telegram, then the “Contents hidden” message may appear on your Galaxy’s lock screen. You may ask: why do you need to unlock the smartphone to view the preview of the received message? The answer lies in the company’s desire to protect the user\’s personal data. However, the manufacture left the option to disable this feature and today we will tell you how to get rid of “Contents hidden” on Samsung Galaxy devices.

In a competitive environment, smartphone manufacturers strive to provide the most comfortable conditions for operating their devices. To this end, the developers have set “Touch-disable … Read more

The owners of the new Xiaomi devices faced an unpleasant problem when trying to install a custom firmware: the bootloader was locked. A reasonable question arises: why does Xiaomi, whose products are in great demand not only in those countries where they are delivered officially, impede the full use of their devices? It turns out the reason is related to ensuring security against theft. Thieves can flash the smartphone and get access to personal information stored on it. However, if the bootloader is locked, they won\’t be able to do it, because each Xiaomi device is tied to a personal Mi Account.

Recently many owners of Android and iOS devices began to complain that when trying to enter their own Instagram accounts the smartphone reports the message “Suspicious login attempt: we detected an unusual login attempt. We\’ll send you a security code to verify your identity”. Today we decided to understand the probable causes of this issue and offer you several ways to fix it.