Injustice iOS : Restoring Save Game after a format

You can restore your saved game if you either have iCloud enabled on your iPhone/iPad or if you have taken a backup of the game's Documents folder with iFunBox/iExplorer/a file manager of your choice.

Note: This wont work if you have upgraded to iOS 8.3. Also, games like Injustice : Gods Among Us and Mortal Kombat X will not work smoothly and have lots of issues like crashes and audio dropout. Downgrade to iOS 8.2 and do not upgrade until fixes for these issues are released.

If your call log does not show recent calls after downgrading, follow this guide - http://ash-softworld.blogspot.com/2015/04/iphone-recents-call-history-empty-and.html

The problem I faced was that I had disabled iCloud and the backup restored was too old and none of the characters/achievements I unlocked were in it. So, I tried replacing the PlayerSave.bin in the Documents folder in iPhone with the one I had backed up manually. This didn't work and when I checked the folder again, I could see another filed called PlayerSave_NiceTry.bin. Come on, I was just trying to load my own save game, NetherRealm!

What you can do:

1) Delete the Injustice Data on iCloud by going to "Manage Storage" option in your phone's iCloud Settings.

2) Use task switcher (double tap home button) and exit Injustice completely.

3) Use iFunBox or iExplorer and make a folder called "SAVE" in "Injustice/Documents". Copy the backed up PlayerSave.bin into that folder.

4) Start Injustice, click the Cloud icon on the top right and click confirm. Check if you got your coins and characters back.

5) If that didn't work, go to the Documents folder with iFunBox/iExplorer and delete PlayerSave.bin and PlayerSave_niceTry.bin and repeat steps 3 and 4.

If this guide helped you, please leave a comment. Have fun!

iPhone - Recents Call History empty and shows -1 count

This drove me mad for the entire day. I downgraded from iOS 8.3 to 8.2 so that I can still access file managers like iExplorer and play Injustice peacefully. Games based on Unreal Engine were not playing smooth after the update. After downgrading and restoring the backup, everything seemed to work fine, until a day later when I realized that the call log is missing.

I tried restarting, restoring backup again, restoring earlier backup, etc. I tried resetting the settings too. None of this worked. All I see when I open the call log, all I see is a red popup that says "-1". Basically, call_history.db is fried and we can't do anything about it, because of the closed nature of the iOS system.

Solution? Erase all contents and do not restore a backup. This is important, because if you restore a backup, the corrupt log will again be copied to the phone, unless you have an old backup. You could try experimenting by restoring from an older backup before trying the following method.

Things like contacts, whatsapp messages, games can be restored from iCloud or iTunes. But do not restore the latest backup from iCloud or iTunes. This will again corrupt the call log file. Instead, set up as a new iPhone.

Step 1: Backup all your data from your phone to iTunes/iCloud.
Step 2: Backup your messages, contacts, voice memos, etc using a software like iExplorer. Also copy saved games and other app data (eg: Whatsapp Backup).
Step 3: If you want to downgrade from 8.3 to 8.2, do it. Else go to the next step.
Step 4: Go to  Settings > General > Reset. Click Erase All Content and Settings. Warning: Point of no return.
Step 5: Set up as a new iPhone and do not restore from the backup. After the initial screens, test by calling someone. You would be able to see the call details in the "Recents" call log.
Step 6: Sign into iCloud account after the phone restarts. Restore data from iCloud and iTunes.

Please leave a comment if this helped you. Cheers

Google Web Fonts fix for Google Chrome

If you are facing trouble to get Google Web Fonts working in Google Chrome for your website, try following the simple fix in the below video.

How to Sync Wunderlist Todo Items with Sunrise Calendar

Follow these steps to sync Wunderlist to the Sunrise iOS app in your iPhone or in Macbook.

First, follow this Wunderlist help page to sync your Wunderlist tasks to your Google Calendar.
https://support.wunderlist.com/customer/portal/articles/1710196-how-to-show-wunderlist-tasks-in-google-calendar-ical-or-outlook

Once you have completed that, test it and see if you can view your Wunderlist updates in Google Calendar.

Next, sync Sunrise with your Google account by going into the app's settings. When Sunrise pulls updates next, you will find your Wunderlist items displayed in the calendar. You may have to restart the application once to notice the changes.

Leave comments if this helped or if you have more questions. Enjoy!

Save YouTube Videos Super Easily! No Plugin Needed. (pwnyoutube bookmarklet)

I've been using many sites and plugins to download YouTube videos. The easiest way to do this would be to add "pwn" in front of the YouTube URL. Then, you can click on any of the services listed to download the video. I prefer to use 9xbuddy.

I have made it even easier for you! Just drag this YouTube Download link to the bookmark area of your browser. That's it!

Now, whenever you watch a YouTube video and want to download it, click this bookmark and you will be taken to the deturl or pwnyoutube YouTube video download page. Then, you can click the service of your choice to download the video.

Have fun!

Fixed : "2 Items Selected" error and Yellow Exclamation Icon while trying to submit Taleo Online Job Application

Sometimes, when you try to submit an online job application powered by Taleo, you will see this weird error that just says "2 Items selected". The number might be different in your case. This error drove me crazy with frustration and I thought all the details I entered would be gone forever.

The problem is that, it is not sufficient to enter the employer country, but you should click the "Search" link next to it and choose from the options given. In my case, there were 2 locations with similar names and hence the error "2 Items selected"!! Also, since I had many such text boxes filled in, I couldn't even click the Search link as it wouldn't let me leave the page because of the errors in the other text boxes.

So, if the country you specified is not clear to the application, it would not let you continue or even SAVE the form. It would not even let you correct the errors one by one!! Not a brilliant job by the Quality Assurance team!

So, how to fix this mess? Delete the entries one by one. Remove all those job experiences you filled in carefully and start from Job 1, making sure to click the Search button after filling in the country name. You could also try deleting just the contents of the field Country. Didn't work for me though.

If this helped you, please leave a comment.
Cheers :)

Solved!: Someone liked my facebook page but I can't see him/her in the "likes" list

Problem: Someone liked my facebook page but I can't see him/her in the "likes" list. What is happening?

This happened to me many times and I went crazy. I even thought a friend was lying to me when she kept saying she "liked" my page, but I couldn't see her on the list when I clicked "See all likes".
She : "I unliked and liked again. Check now."
Me (after checking the likes list and not finding her there) : "Nice try! :/ I'm not forcing you to. If you dont like my page, dont "like" it. Simple. "
Then she sent me a screenshot that clearly showed that she had indeed liked my fb page.

If you are facing the same problem, here is what's happening. If the person who liked your page has not made his/her page likes public in their privacy settings, you won't be able to see him/her on your page "likes" list. i.e, If they have set their privacy level high for their page likes visibility, they will not show up on your list of people who have liked your facebook page.

This is rather stupid because, people might misunderstand each other, business page admins cannot send discounts to all their page followers, people can easily join a page and secretly monitor the activities without being noticed, etc etc.

What's your take on this problem? Leave a comment below.
Oh, and if my post helped you, please like my page ;)
www.facebook.com/aswinmusic
I'm a singer/song-writer and you can listen to/download/share my songs for free by liking my page. Thanks :)

Hadoop Error - WordCount : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0

Check out the error below. If you are getting a similar error while running a Java jar file on hadoop sandbox, the probable cause is that you compiled your code with a version of Java that's newer than the one running in the hadoop machine. So, recompile your code with a compatible jdk version and try again.

Comment below if this fixed your problem. Also let me know if it didn't or if you found a different solution. Thanks.

Failing Oozie Launcher, Main class [WordCount], exception invoking main(), WordCount : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: WordCount : Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(ClassLoader.java:631)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:615)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:141)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(URLClassLoader.java:283)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(URLClassLoader.java:58)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:197)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)
at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:247)
at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getClassByNameOrNull(Configuration.java:1659)
at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getClassByName(Configuration.java:1624)
at org.apache.hadoop.conf.Configuration.getClass(Configuration.java:1718)
at org.apache.oozie.action.hadoop.LauncherMapper.map(LauncherMapper.java:224)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapRunner.run(MapRunner.java:54)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.runOldMapper(MapTask.java:429)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.MapTask.run(MapTask.java:341)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild$2.run(YarnChild.java:162)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at javax.security.auth.Subject.doAs(Subject.java:396)
at org.apache.hadoop.security.UserGroupInformation.doAs(UserGroupInformation.java:1491)
at org.apache.hadoop.mapred.YarnChild.main(YarnChild.java:157)

Oozie Launcher failed, finishing Hadoop job gracefully

Sync Failed: Change the Evernote (Desktop) Password

So, you have changed your password for Evernote after the security issue. Now you are unable to sync the desktop Evernote application with the cloud servers. The error message displayed would be "Sync Failed". Here's how to start syncing again.

1. Open Evernote desktop application (tested in Windows only, but Mac version should be similar). 
2. Goto Tools>Account Info. In the dialog box, your current username will be highlighted in blue.
3. Click the blue username (which is a link), and type in your new password in the dialog box that pops in.
4. Click the Sync button to start syncing again.

That's it! Enjoy!
If this helped you, please leave comments or tips for others with the same problem.

Unable to move the cursor in Microsoft Excel? Here's the Fix!

Is the whole spreadsheet moving when you try to move the cursor in Microsoft Excel?
Here's how to fix it!



Leave a comment if this helped! :)

Music Software Review : Vir2 Acoustic Legends vs Chris Hein Guitars vs Vienna Concert Guitar vs MusicLab RealGuitar

This is gonna be a short post (more like taking notes than an in-depth review!). Let's compare a few guitar VSTis!

First of all, Vienna Concert Guitar sounds bad and I think it's an old product as well. So, let's take that off the list.

Vir 2 Acoustic Legends HD
Pros:
Amazing Sound. Great attack and clarity. Good body to the tone.
Nice fret noise while playing.
Very realistic.
Cons:
Have to create different channels for different articulations (no mode switching with keys)
Chords - Mediocre

Chris Hein Guitars
Pros:
On the fly articulation switching with keys - muting, harmonics, hammer ons, etc.
Cons:
Relatively smudged sound
Tinny tone, lacks body. (Almost as if it was run through an EQ or amp)
Terrible chords

I compared both the instruments and their variations (nylon, steel, harmonics, banjo,...) side by side. These observations were consistent all over.

MusicLab's RealGuitar
Chord strumming is one area where both of the heavy weights abover are lacking. MusicLab's RealGuitar has high playability and shines in playing chords and strumming. Not as good as an actual guitar, but can get very close results through clever programming. Sound quality is good as well.

Final Thoughts:
For solos, I would use Acoustic Legends and for playing chords, RealGuitar.

Thanks for reading. Please leave your comments.

Update :
Ample Guitar blows everything else out of the competition. Check this out. It sounds crisp and has a high playability too. Sounds very realistic. They have produced libraries for other guitar models too, including electric guitars. Check them out. Great job, Ample Guitar!

How to check the CID of your HTC One X?

You probably want to check your CID or Customer ID to know whether you can get Android Jelly Bean on your HTC One X phone. Follow this method to quickly find out your CID.
You should have adb and other sdk files, which you can download from the android site or get the lean zip file of only the essential files from xda developers forum. After extracting the files, follow these steps.

1) Set fastboot on your phone.
2) Connect your phone to the PC. You don't have to switch it off. Just connect it through USB in Charging mode.
3) Open the command prompt.
4) Go to the folder containing adb.exe.
5) Type adb shell setprop ro.cid and press enter key.


Your CID (for example, HTC_038) will be displayed on the screen.

If this helped you or if you faced any problems following these steps, please let me know by leaving a comment. Thanks!

HTC One X: Wont Switch On? Flashing/Blinking Red Light/LED? Bricked?

This happened to me today morning and drove me insane. Luckily, it sorted out itself when I gave up!

I woke up and found my HTC One X lying there dead. It wont power up, it didnt show any sign of life when connected to USB/charger. After a couple of minutes, the LED began blinking, flashing red light on and off slowly (unlike the fast blinking when battery gets below 10%).

For some time I ran around connecting it to three different chargers, but it wouldn't boot up. I thought I bricked the phone. Finally I gave up and sat down. I connected it to the charger, switched on my laptop and started searching on online forums on how to fix it. After reading a few threads (about half hour), I glanced at the phone and voila! The red light became stable. Tapped the power button and it switched on, booted up, started showing the beautiful photo album lock screen animation, connected to the internet, started syncing, popped notifications of new messages from facebook, whatsapp, kik... Aaaaahh... Peace!

So in short, here's the fix :
1) Connect the One X to a charger.
2) Make yourself a cup of coffee, watch the videos on my youtube channel www.youtube.com/8eenplus
3) The LED will go from off to flashing red to stable red.
4) When it's red, turn the phone on.

So, there is no fix. All you need is some patience. And a belief that it is going to be alright.

Leave a comment if this post helped you. Thanks! :)

Facebook: Disappearing Posts From Timeline/Wall

Problem : Disappearing posts from Facebook Timeline/Wall

Description : Things you post on your timeline or wall disappears without any notification, along with the likes, comments and notifications. Noone can see it. Like it wasnt there at all.

Solution : You can wait for sometime and see if it comes back. To speed things up, goto the below link and check if others are facing the same problem. If you see such a post, open it and add your problem as a comment under it. If you are experiencing this alone, click "New Post" button at the top and submit your problem. It will get fixed in a short while. (For me, they brought back the lost post in under 2 minutes!)

https://www.facebook.com/help/community/?id=777

Let me know if this fixed your problem. Leave your comments below. Thanks.

HTC One X stuck during update? Here's why!

If your phone is stuck on the update screen and is seeming to do nothing, chances are that it's connected to a power source and is charging. All you have to do is detach  the power cable and the phone will restart and update the applications!



Not sure whether this is the case with all ICS (Icecream Sandwich, Android 4) devices. If your phone gets stuck, try unplugging it from the power source.



If this post saved you from a bad headache, leave a comment!

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Adobe Photoshop/Indesign CS 5: Error 16 : Additional Unlicensed Language Packs...

When you try to start Adobe Creative Suite programs, if you are prompted with a message box that says "Please Uninstall and Reinstall the Product. Error : 16" and "Additional unlicensed language packs found in the application folder. Please restart the application.", follow the below steps to fix the problem.

1. Choose Start > Computer > Organize > Folder And Search Options, and then click the View tab.

2. In the Advanced Settings section, deselect the Use Sharing Wizard (Recommended) option and click OK.

3. Navigate to \Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\.

4. Right-click the Adobe PCD folder and choose Properties.

5. In the Attributes section, deselect Read-Only, click Apply, and then click OK.

6. In the Security tab, make sure that Administrators and System are listed and permissions for security are set to Full Control. If not, do the following: 1. Click Edit. 2. If the User Account Control (UAC) elevation prompt appears, then follow the instructions to accept it. 3. Make the necessary changes.

7. Click Advanced.

8. In the Owner tab, click Edit and accept the UAC elevation prompt if it appears.

9. In the Change Owners Section, click Administrators.

10. Select the Replace Owner On Subcontainers and Objects option and then click Apply.

11. In the Permissions tab, click Edit and accept the UAC elevation prompt if it appears.

12. Select Replace Permission Entries On All Child Objects With Entries Shown Here That Apply To Child Objects.

13. Click OK and Yes until you have closed the FLEXnet Properties dialog box.

14. Launch your Adobe application.

That's it! Leave a comment if this helped :)

System hanging while booting - "Loading Boot Sector......... Booting........."

Here's something that drove me mad for a few hours.

I have a 500 GB HDD, and I was trying to clone the primary partition to another with the help of a bootable CD. Well I couldnt, because the boot process kept hanging after reaching the line "loading boot sector......... booting......."

When I searched online forums, I found out that people run into this problem sometimes while booting 911 CD, Ultimate Boot CD (UBCD), BartPE, etc.

There are two reasons why this happens. Well, maybe a lot more, but two that I am aware of! The first one (which I got from forums) is that something is wrong with the way you burned your boot CD. You can check this by trying to boot another system with the same CD. I tried. Mine worked on the second system. I couldnt find any help elsewhere, so I just sat there and kept thinking lol. And I found out that my problem was that I had connected a couple of USB drives to the system. Yep. I dunno why that should be a problem, but if you get stuck while trying to boot at the line "loading boot sector..... booting.....", check if you have connected any removable drives to your system. If you have, unplug them and reboot. It should work fine.

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6600 Menu key not working

This problem bugged me for a long time. The trouble is that sometimes, the Menu key doesnt work, requiring me to restart the mobile. Like, when I had this long SMS typed and the phone went into Lock mode. When I unlocked, Menu key aint working and I couldnt send the message. And I got really pissed off.

If you are unlucky enough to have this prob too, dont worry. You are lucky that you found this page. :)

Enough babbling. On with the solution.

Step 1. Press the Power button at the top once to open the options menu.
Step 2. Select 'Lock Phone' option.
Step 3. Unlock with your lock code. (Default is 12345)
Step 4. Press the 'Menu' key.
Step 5. Smile :)

That was really simple, huh?

How to copy orkut profile pics

If you try rightclicking and saving the profile pic in orkut, you would get a 'b.gif' file. And to your surprise, it would be blank. Try saving the page and then search in the '_files' folder and still the profile pic wouldnt be there!

So two ways to get the pic.

1 - Take a screenshot!
2 - If you are using firefox, go to Tools>Page Info. Click Media tab.
Click the item in the list that starts with 'http://img1.orkut.com/images/medium/'.
Click 'Save as..', give a name and there U go!

K this isnt much of a 'How to' guide. Ofcourse taking a screenshot and clipping away the area around the pic is the easiest method. But it didnt hurt to learn about how to use 'Page Info' to download stuff that you normally cant, right? U can use it to download flash files and youtube videos too. Check out my post here for more info. :)

K you never know how you get screwed in your life, so here we go.
Disclaimer:
This information was provided for educational purpose. I'm not liable for anything you do with this info.