Purposefulness for Better Tomorrow

Its been more than 3 months since August security patch update. Out of curiosity I checked Oxygen Updater. To my surprise, Oxygen OS v 10 (based on Android 10) is available. Since this is a stable release, i went head and updated it. Its ended up being a buggy release. For those of you, who didnt get update over OTA, its better to wait for OOS 10.1. Here are the list of issue and the workarounds. Issue #1 :  Phone randomly restarts and then goes to boot loop Workaround : when the phone stuck in boot loop (with OnePlus logo animation), Press Power Button and Volume Down button to restart it Issue #2 : Google play wont work Work Around : Booting to recovery and clearing cache is expected to fix this. will update after testing To booting to recovery, Firstly, turn off your phone: press and hold the Power button for a while or press the Power key once and choose ‘power off’. Once the switch off process is completed start pressing and also holding down the Volume Dow...

Issue: Netgear Router R7800 (firmware version  V1.0.2.62 )   with access control by default blocking access to new devices, is blocks access to new devices but when we allow access to newly blocked device, Router wont allow access and still blocks internet access to device. Solution / Work around 1. Access "Access control" itself is a challenge as Router keeps asking for authentication. Solution is to navigate to "access control" page from Advanced --> Security --> Access Control. This wont prompt for authentication again 2. Once you connect a new device, it will be blocked by default. Currently allowing access though the "Allow" button doesn't help. 3. To connect the device follow below steps Turn off Wifi on new device. It disconnect the device from Router and moves the entry of the device to " View list of blocked devices not currently connected to the network" Copy the mac address of the new device and ...