Month: September 2015

Android | Lollipop | Annoyance with voice search

On By windows7bugsIn AndroidLeave a comment

Update(4th October 2015): Additional steps

  • Disable the google app from settings (that will uninstall the app)
  • Restart the phone
  • Enable and update to most recent
  • Make sure the google search & now settings as intact as listed below
  • Reboot the device

I hadn’t had issues with voice search popping up while the headphone plugged in once after the above method(s) applied. Once again am not guaranteeing that every smartphone will get benefited with the above hacks.

Constantly getting a fit because your google voice search pop-ups frequently whenever you plug in a headphone? Are you using Lollipop? Try the following. Try to follow the instructions given below. I don’t guarantee this workaround mentioned with few of the android tech sites going to workout for everyone and for every device running lollipop. I am using Micromax Silver 5 running a forked(?) version of Cynogenmod ROM (I believe). Yet, there is nothing wrong giving it a try, right?

  1. Long press an empty area of one of your home screen
  2. Screenshot_2015-09-27-11-46-14
  3. touch the 3 dots in pyramid formation
  4. Should bring up the following screen
  5. Screenshot_2015-09-27-11-46-20
  6. Default the Search Bar comes as ON, turn it off
  7. Go to google app settings and touch “Voice” tab
  8. Screenshot_2015-09-27-11-46-48
  9. Touch “Ok Google” Detection
  10. Make sure your settings are something like below
  11. Screenshot_2015-09-27-11-47-01

this should do the trick, or minimum it has worked for me so far. I am yet to go on a longer drive. If the voice pop-up happens, I think I will brick this phone with a brick.

Cheers guys,

for Windows7bugs

rajesh

 

Windows 10 | VPN properties cannot be changed | Build

On By windows7bugsIn Windows 10Leave a comment

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Windows 10 is not yet a fully stable OS, or not with many of the features it offer. One of the major annoyance we came across was with VPN connections. Once a VPN connection is created, not much of the properties for the connection could be changed using the GUI. This will restrict you from using your own internet gateway. Without detailing the minute details, here is the workaround. For your ease, I am describing the details below

C:\Users\yourusername\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Network\Connections\Pbk

vpcfg

If you can’t find “rasphone.pbk” file under the “Pbk” folder, please open the “_hiddenPbk” folder.

Open the rasphone.pbk file with a decent text editor (if you don’t have another one, you can use “notepad” ;)

Search for “IpPrioritizeRemote”. By default the value for the parameter would be 1, hence change the value to 0

eg: IpPrioritizeRemote=0

Save the file and close.

Dial the connection and check whether you can browse the internet while connected to VPN network.

 

Hope this helps few others out there.

Cheers guys

for Windows7bugs

rajesh

 

 

D-link routers affected by DNS hijacking

On By windows7bugsIn Networking, SecurityLeave a comment

D-link is a trusted cost effective router solution for homes and small offices, especially in the regions where cable internet is still an unreachable reality. Recently I changed my home DSL router, from a Linksys X1000 to DSL-2750U (India specific) and was pretty happy to see that the device stood robust, without a single hangup after being online for weeks. Further, the firmware of the device provided much more tweaks compared to Linksys x1000.

However, almost a month and half back, I have noticed that my internet connection (4MBPS DSL) started getting a lot slower, websites unreachable due to DNS timeouts.

To my utter surprise, I found that the DNS settings with router were changed with a DNS server from Saudi Arabia (Primary) & Google DNS server 8.8.8.8 for the secondary. I changed the DNS to static and fed in KEMS Zajil corporate DNS server entries & found, sometimes within a day or other times after couple of days, the router is once again back to the “automatically” changed DNS server entries. This made me google about DNS hijacking, specific to D-link routers & here is what I came across

I contacted D-link support, instead of replying my query they forwarded me a link to download a firmware (patched? new?) , which I thought should be one with the fix. I had no troubles for almost 3 weeks. Once again, I started experiencing no internet at all or host not found errors! this time I knew where exactly to look & I found my router with compromised DNS entries

DNS Entries

Obviously, this particular router firmware comes with TR-069, disabled. I ain’t at all sure whether, it is being exploited. Anyway, this time I didn’t bother to contact D-link and download another “firmware”, instead I quickly dusted out my old Linksys x1000 router, and configured it as a modem router, thus limiting the load on the device, which caused frequent hanging while used as Modem Router+ DHCP Server +  WIFI access point combo.

So far so good, I keep on checking the status page of the router to make sure that the DNS entries are not manipulated by the ISP for some reasons, or hijacked by…

So if you are feeling your DSL connection has gone all slow or you are constantly getting timed out DNS errors, cross check your D-link router’s DNS entries page.

Regards,

for windows7bugs

rajesh