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All Android phones come with built-in recovery mode that is separate from the original operating system. The recovery mode is used to access different features of the phone without accessing the phone’s OS. The main function of the recovery mode is to fix the phone while staying away from the faulty OS of the phone.

If you own an Android phone, then it is very important for you to learn how to access this mode and how to utilize it. The process to access this mode depends on the manufacturer of your device and the model of your device. The options available in the Recovery mode may also vary, however, the basic concept is same for all Android phones.

In this tutorial, we are going to show you how you can access this mode on most Android phones and how you can use the available options to fix your phone.

Note: In recovery mode, the phone’s touch screen will not work, you will have to use the hardware buttons to navigate. To move between options, press Volume up and down button to move up and down respectively. You can press the Power button to select any of the options.

How To Access Android Recovery Mode

As we said, the basic concept is same, all you need to do is turn off the phone and turn it on by pressing specific keys (depending on the phone). On some phones you will enter Recovery mode directly and on others you may need to navigate through the different options to access Recovery mode.

Samsung Galaxy Series

1. Turn off the phone (hold power button and select “Power Off” from the menu)
2. Now, press and hold Power+Home+Volume Up buttons..
3. Keep holding until device logo shows up and phone restarts again, you should enter recovery mode.

If you see a menu instead, then navigate (like mentioned above ) to “Recovery mode” option and press power button to enter.

Nexus Series

1. Turn off the phone
2. Press and hold Power+Volume Up+Volume Down buttons.
3. Keep holding until you see a menu with Recovery mode option.
4. Navigate to Recovery mode option and press Power button.

LG G Series

1. Turn off the phone
2. Press and hold Power+Volume down key until you see LG logo, and the menu to enter your phone recovery mode will show up.
3. Just Navigate to Recovery mode option and press Power button.

HTC one Series

1. First disable Fastboot by going to Settings > Battery and disabling Fastboot.
2. Turn off the phone
3. Press and Hold Power+Volume down key until you see a menu where you can navigate to “Recovery mode” and enter with Power button.

Motorola Droid Series

1. Turn off the phone
2. Press and hold Power+Home buttons.
3. The phone will turn on and menu to enter recovery mode will show up.
4. Navigate to “Recovery mode” option and press Power Button.

If your phone or manufacturer is not mentioned above, then try all of the methods mentioned above and one of them should work. If nothing works, then it is better to contact your manufacturer or check out your Phone’s official support page to see if you could get the key combination.

Recovery Mode Available options

The options available in recovery mode are different from manufacturer to manufacturer, however, there are some options that are common in all phones.

reboot system now

This is a plain reboot, which will restart your phone normally.

apply update from ADB

Using Android Debug Bridge (ADB) you can connect your phone to PC and provide commands right from your PC. This feature is mostly used by developers to fix bugs in applications.

wipe data/factory reset

Factory reset is the last resort for most android issues, you can just factory reset your phone and start over. However, this will also delete all your data, so make sure your phone data is backed up. This option is available from phone settings as well, but if you are locked out or can’t access the OS, then you can also reset from “Recovery mode”.

wipe cache partition

Wipe cache partition is not same as Application cache and cannot be deleted the same way. These are temporary files used in application installation mostly, no personal data is deleted along with them. However, they can sometime make the phone not work properly, so you can wipe them from “Recovery mode”.

If there are any questions or you need help with finding the key combination for your specific device, let us know in the comments, we might be able to help.

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This is a pretty controversial subject and I am not really a controversial person. Just ask my husband. If you see things my way, I will have no problem with your opinions.

Since becoming a mother, I have learned that all I really care about is that my kids are happy. And healthy. I can only do so much in the healthy department. But, at this stage of this game called life, I pretty much control their happiness. And when I say I, I mean we.

When it comes to what my kids want to wear in the morning, I have learned that I really don’t give a rats ass what they wear. And I don’t give an even bigger rats ass what people think about what my kids wear.

This is the way my parents raised me. I wanted so desperately to be a man when I was a little girl. And my parents let me live my dream. Until I hit puberty, I thought I was a boy. It was a very rude awakening when I found out I wasn’t, but I got over it and made the transformation into a woman rather seamlessly.

I was the ultimate tomboy. I liked sports. I liked to dress as a boy. I liked to remove my shirt and play on the skins team. And for some God-forsaken reason, my parents allowed me to cut my hair like a boy. I can vividly remember getting my haircut and asking to have it look just like Nicholas Bradford from Eight is Enough. Looking at pics of him, I think he was the one trying to be a girl.

I never thought about any of this until I had a daughter of my own who also wanted to be a man. A mini-he, if you will. My parents never talked to me about my love of all things manly. If anything, they encouraged me to be who I wanted to be. They were very Catholic and pretty conservative, but they loved me for who I was. It was just never a big deal.

When my daughter turned 3, we packed away all of her sister’s girl clothes and pulled out all of her brother’s boy clothes. We weren’t going to force her to wear the princess-themed wardrobe of her extremely feminine older sister. She was much more comfy in her older brother’s dark-colored, sports and cars-themed, garb. Have at it, kid.

Everywhere we went, people would comment. On how adorable she was. People love her and her badass attitude. They love her boyish look. There is never a question she is a girl, because she has the most gorgeous, lush head of blond curls ever known to man. Pun intended.

This is why we were completely shocked at the reaction we got when our youngest son wanted to wear a dress. There is quite the double standard. And you know I don’t like my standards doubled.

Beau and I will be the first to admit that it was much easier to let our little girl be a tomboy. When it came to our son being a “tomgirl,” it was a tough pill to swallow. So we had to really think about why it bothered us. As it turns out, it doesn’t bother us, but it really bothers other people. The reaction we get in public is absolutely cray.

I called my husband at work one day and told him that I was afraid we would ruin our son’s self-esteem if we didn’t let him be himself. I was really upset because I was so afraid our little guy would learn to feel bad about himself and not love himself like he should. My husband’s reaction sums up the reason I married him. He said, “Well, then order him some girl clothes.” Yes, sir.

I thought I was going to have to convince him of something. But I didn’t have to. I think I was really trying to convince myself. And that changed my attitude completely. Why was I making such a big deal about it? So what, who cares? Turns out plenty of people care. Plenty of people that we don’t care about. Damn.

I wish I could say it’s always that easy. But it’s not. Sometimes things are really complicated. Some mornings, I lay out a pretty dress for our son to wear, but then it turns out he wants to dress like his sister that day. The sister that prefers to dress like her brother. It’s hard to keep track, especially if I have had some bailey’s in my coffee.

Sometimes our younger daughter prefers to dress like her older sister who likes to dress like a girl. One day both boys were wearing boy clothes and both girls were wearing girl clothes. It was a mess. Pure chaos. I was embarrassed to leave the house like that. What would the neighbors think?

When we go to McDonald’s and get happy meals, I order two boy meals and two girl meals. See what I did there? The McDonald’s crew are none-the-wiser. It’s like I’m playing a trick on them. The truck toy is for the little girl and the pony is for the little boy. I’m sneaky like that.

We have learned to put things in perspective. Life is so freaking short. My husband and I both lost parents too young and we have a child with special needs. When our baby was being tested for all sorts of chromosomal abnormalities, all we prayed for was our baby to live. Our prayers were answered and nothing much else matters anymore.

There are children with terminal illnesses and parents who have lost a child. We are not wasting one precious moment with our kids on nonsense. When it comes to what clothes our kids are wearing, we don’t care. As long as they’re name brand and I paid full price for them. In the grand scheme of things, that’s all that really matters.

If our kids turn out to be gay, lesbian or transgender, we don’t care. We love them. And right now, they are little kids. So we’re just going to let them be little kids. And just like we have taught our kids plenty of fun new words, we have also learned a few. Gender queer, gender neutral, transgender, gender nonconforming and gender fluid. None of these words scare us. All we know for sure right now is that our kids are gender-riffic!

Eileen O’Connor is an unemployed, orphaned-wife-mother, who has decided to put into words all of the stuff that goes on in her head.

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Looking for your wedding dress–and accompanying accessories!–is one of the most exciting shopping experiences, well, ever.

But since this is, ideally, a one-time excursion, navigating how to spend your money wisely can be a bit confusing–especially when you’re on a budget. You might be wondering things like: What’s worth splurging on? Do you actually need a headpiece? And how much should you really spend on shoes?

To help guide you in the right direction, here are some tips and tricks for making the most of your budget so you can look like a million bucks on your wedding day.

Realize that you don’t need to go designer to get a great gown.
While top high-end gown designers make amazing, sometimes even one-of-a-kind wedding dresses, these frothy creations can set you back thousands of dollars. Instead of splurging, or going over budget on a designer dress, check out stores like David’s Bridal, which offer beautiful dresses from designers like Vera Wang and Zac Posen for a fraction of the price. Or, if you have to have a certain dress-maker design your dress, scope out sample sales and second-hand dress resale sites like Tradsey.com.

Splurge on great shoes.
High quality footwear will be more comfortable on the big day, and if you buy a pair of shoes you love, you can wear them again and again after the wedding. Look for styles that are metallic (white can look super bridal and will be hard to re-wear) and steer clear of satin, which can get dirty easily.

Save on your veil.
Unless you have a daughter or younger female family member who might wear your veil again, chances are it will never again see the light of day post-wedding. Therefore, it might be wise to skimp a little on the veil–no need to get a designer creation.

Trade a traditional headpiece for flowers.
Rather than a tiara or bedazzled hair comb, ask your florist to create a cluster of flowers you can pin in your hair or a floral crown. More often than not, this option will be far less pricey and will be just as, if not more, beautiful.

Give jewelry as gifts.
Instead of purchasing jewelry as part of your wedding outfit budget, talk with your fiancé about giving each other jewelry (earrings for her, cufflinks for him, perhaps) as wedding day gifts to each other. This way, your bling will have sentimental meaning and it won’t cut into your wedding wear fund.

A version of this post originally appeared on Robbins Brothers’ Engaged blog.

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An emoji tells a thousand words. But some of those cute little icons tell a story much bigger than our weekend plans or what we ate for lunch.

The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) is using a group of emojis for a fundraising campaign called #EndangeredEmoji to help endangered creatures and their homes. The campaign highlights 17 animal icons found on the current iOS and Android emojis keyboards that in the real world are, in fact, endangered species.

Among these are the popular three wise monkeys which, according to WWF, are actually spider monkeys — as well as the giant panda, blue whale and lemur leaf frog.

The campaign launched on Tuesday, with WWF tweeting out an image of all the 17 characters. Twitter users can take part in the initiative by simply retweeting the post. For every endangered emoji the participant then tweets, WWF will add 0.10 euros (about 11 cents) to a voluntary donation account.

At the end of each month, the participant receives a tally of all the endangered emojis they used, and can either donate that total or an amount of their choosing.

We’re using #EndangeredEmoji to save real animals from extinction. Please retweet to sign up and help. pic.twitter.com/hX1p1GEDZ9

— WWF (@WWF) May 12, 2015

WWF illustrates each of these animals on the campaign’s website, providing a short description of each species threats and why it is in trouble.

To learn more about how #EndangeredEmoji works, watch the video above.

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WASHINGTON — With the dexterity of an acrobat, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) found a way to do what his mentor and likely rival for the White House, Jeb Bush, did not: reconcile his support for the Iraq invasion with the political inconvenience of appearing to support an unpopular war.

Rubio, asked Wednesday whether, knowing what is known now about Iraq, he would have still authorized a war, said absolutely not.

“Not only would I not have been in favor of it, President [George W.] Bush would not have been in favor of it,” Rubio said following a major foreign policy speech at the Council of Foreign Relations in New York.

But Rubio gave a markedly different answer on the question of Iraq in March. Asked on the Fox News show “The Five” if it was a “mistake to go to war to Iraq,” Rubio said:

No, I don’t believe. … The world is a better place because Saddam Hussein is not in Iraq. Here’s what I think might have happened, had we not gone. You might have had an arms race to put Iraq in Iran — they both would pursue the weapons. I will be dealing with two problems, not just one. We forget that Iraq, at the time of the invasion, was in open defiance of numerous United Nations Security Council resolutions, that the United Nations refused to enforce. They refused to comply with allowing inspectors in. Repeatedly, this was a country whose leader had gassed his own people on numerous occasions. So I think, hindsight is always 20/20, but we don’t know what the world would look like if Saddam Hussein was still there. But I doubt it would look better in terms of — it will be worse — or just as bad for different reasons. I think it’s very difficult to predict, I think. A better notion is, at the end of the Iraq war, Iraq had an opportunity to have a stable, peaceful future.

During his run for Senate in 2010, Rubio similarly argued “that the world is a better and safer place because Saddam Hussein no longer is in charge of that country.”

The phrasing of questions posed to Rubio is key. On Wednesday, he was asked the same question that tripped up Jeb Bush — whether he would have given the order to invade, even if he knew that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. But in March, he was asked whether he believed the war was a mistake, full stop. That gave him some room to essentially say that, while he wouldn’t have gone to war under similar circumstances, he’s ultimately glad we did.

That gives him a leg up — if just barely — on Bush, who is still dodging questions about his murky position on Iraq.

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