How to Reset a Samsung Galaxy S3

Resetting your Samsung Galaxy S3 can be helpful in the event your device is experiencing problems or you just want to restore your phone back to its default factory settings. Performing a reset will also wipe all your personal data and settings. Follow one of the three methods below to reset your Samsung Galaxy S3.

Method 1 of 3: Reset from the Settings Menu

01). Tap "Menu" from the home screen.

02). Tap on "settings"

03). Select "Back up & reset."

                   By default, your device will automatically backup & restore all your data. If you do not want your personal data backed up & restored folloeing the reset, tap on each corresponding option to clear the check box.

04). Tap on "Factory data reset."

                        If you have the screen lock feature enabled on your device, you will be prompted to enter your password or PIN code before you can continue.

05). Tap on "Reset device."

                   If you have the screen lock feature enabled on your device, you will be prompted to enter your password or PIN code before you can continue.

06). Select "Delete all."

                  Your phone will then reset by wiping all data and rebooting.

Method 2 of 3: Reset when powered off:

01). Turn off your Samsung Galaxy S3.

02). Press & hold down the "power" button, "Home" button, & the "volume Up" button.

03). Wait for your to vibrate, then release only the "Power" button.

04). Wait for the Android System Recovery screen to appear, then release the "Home" & "Volume Up" keys.

05). Press the "Volume Down" button until the "Wipe data / factory reset" option is highlighted.

06). Press the "Power" key to select the option.

07). Press the "Volume Down" button until "Delete all user data" is highlighted.

08). Press the "Power" button once again to select the option. Your phone will then perform the reset process & display "Reboot system now" when complete.

09). Press the "Power" key to select the reboot option & complete the master reset.

Method 3 of 3: Dial Pad

01). Open the dial pad on your Samsung Galaxy S3, which is normally represented by an icon of a green phone receiver.

02). Enter *2767*3855#. Your device will then reset itself & erase all your personal information & settings.

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Indian security establishment alive to ISIS threat

Home minister Rajnath Singh held a meeting with the policy division of the ministry and asked for revision & strengthening of security at vital installations.

 NEW DELHI: In the backdrop of Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) declaring war on various countries including India, the internal security establishment has already begun preparing for a threat that is as yet being seen as "not immediate" but hardly very "distant".

While intelligence agencies are closely tracking developments in the middle-east along with mounting surveillance on Indians reported to be fighting alongside ISIS in Iraq and Syria, the major concern for Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) is a spillover of the sectarian strife in the region to India.

"The issue has been discussed within the ministry and apprehensions about a conflict between Shias and Sunnis erupting in the immediate future or later in the country is not being ruled out. An advisory in this regard has already been sent to various states but more preparations are on," said a senior home ministry official.

In a Ramzan speech, ISIS commander Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is learnt to have called on believers to take up arms and terrify the enemies of Allah in various countries including India. TOI had on June 19 reported that India was in ISIS crosshairs as one of the world dominion maps of the outfit had shown parts of North-West India as part of Islamic State of Khorasan.

A combo of two handout pictures released by the US Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Security (left) and by Iraqi Ministry of Interior allegedly shows photographs of ISIS chief Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, also known as Abu Du'a. (AFP Photo)

Meanwhile, Home Minister Rajnath Singh on Wednesday held a meeting with the policy division of the ministry and asked for revision and strengthening of security at vital installations. He also asked for strengthening of VIP security.

Sources said the minister was given a low down on the security arrangement for VIPs in the meeting. The minister "desired that these security arrangements may be reviewed and suitably strengthened, wherever required. He further directed that the security audit of vital installations, wherever due, may be carried out and additional forces deployed, if found necessary, so as to ensure that adequate security arrangements are in place for such installations," said a home ministry spokesperson.

For this, the ministry is also reviewing budget provisions earmarked for making security arrangements and is likely to enhance the same.

Members loyal to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) wave ISIS flags as they drive around Raqqa on June 29, 2014. (Reuters Photo)

Rajnath Singh also stressed on exploring avenues for strengthening bilateral security relations with the neighbouring countries. This would include execution of Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) in criminal matters with as many countries as possible, and specifically with the neighboring countries. India already has MLAT agreements with 36 countries and another 15 are in the pipeline. India has been pushing for MLAT with Pakistan as well but it has not yet come on board. Sources said the matter would be pushed again with the western neighbour.

Singh is learnt to have also asked bureaucrats to come up with new ideas for the forthcoming SAARC Conference of Home Ministers for deliberations during the Conference. The meeting was attended among others by Minister of State for Home Kiren Rijiju and Union Home Secretary Anil Goswami.

Indian IT companies may lose high-value projects

BANGALORE:  For Indian software companies, which are recovering from the global economic slowdown, the next big worry could be customers eating the best portion of their lunch. Increasingly, multinational clients are saying they are okay to outsource bread-and-butter work but not the jam & cream.
What this means is that the country's biggest software firms are facing the threat of losing high-value projects to customers who are setting up inhouse centres in India to ensure they keep tabs on critical work involving the latest technologies. 

For example, later this year, Lowe's —the second-biggest US home improvement chain with $53 billion (Rs 3.2 lakh crore) in annual revenue —will shift high-end analytics and ecommerce projects from companies including Cognizant, Wipro and Infosys to a new centre in Bangalore. 

Lowe's move, which spends over $1 billion annually on IT, reflects a growing trend of customers shifting their most important work to their own centres, leaving chores such as maintenance to Indian service providers. 

"This (the new Lowe's centre) is not going to be a back office," Robert F Hull Jr, the CFO of Lowe's, said in an interview. For Lowe's, the new technology capabilities in Bangalore will mean a competitive edge against rivals such as Home Depot. As more US consumers shift to the web for home improvement solutions, technology has become the new battlefront. 

Lowe's, which now gets around 2% of its revenues from online sales, has been closing in on market leader Home Depot. The new centre could potentially hire up to 1,000 engineers, and will focus on data analytics and nextgeneration online commerce projects. 

Lowe's also plans to engage with retail software startups in India, and could potentially even invest in some of them. Scores of captives were set up in the 1990s as global corporations looked to take advantage of the lower costs of operating in India without relinquishing control of their information technology systems. 

Over 800 captive centers in India

There are more than 800 captive centres in the country and more are being added each year. In 2012, captives employed about 5 lakh people and delivered as much as $15 billion (Rs 90,000 crore) worth of work, according to Nasscom data. 

While the over-$100-billion Indian software services industry employs around 3 million staff and is forecast to grow at 13-15%, captives are growing at nearly twice that rate. 

While this trend may not be very good news for IT services companies, it will open up new opportunities for employees in the software sector to work on cutting-edge technologies directly with global corporations. 

Over the past year, Hull met around 38 companies having captives in India and got some of the myths busted. "We even visited some of the universities and were fully convinced that there's going to be no scarcity of talent in the long term," he said. "We are going to manage and develop key capabilities in-house. 

The third-party providers can do maintenance and support work far more effectively; they have tens of thousands of people in place." Lowe's has hired Narayan Ram as managing director for India, reporting directly to Hull. Ram, an IT industry veteran who ran Sony's technology centre, said Target, Tesco and Walmart have already set the bar high for Lowe's India. 

"We do expect a war for the right talent," Ram said. Lalit Ahuja, a former Indian Navy commander who helped companies such as Target and several others build their captive centres in India said these centre are also beginning to manage service providers such as TCS and Infosys on behalf of their parent organisations. 

"In some ways, the captives have broken the 'value' barrier that Indian IT has been aspiring to address for a long time now," said Ahuja whose company ANSR Source is helping Lowe's and several others establish technology centres in India. "There are incredible opportunities for Indian IT to understand the games captives play to operate at the high end of value chain." 

Senior executives at some of India's biggest software firms are watching in envy and even praying that these captives remain mere experiments and hopefully fall short of what one called "lofty adventures". "Don't get me wrong — we have seen these waves of captives being feverishly talked about. 

But a lot of them eventually get acquired by a large service provider," said a senior executive at one of the top India-based software firms. He was referring to how the technology captives of banks such as UBS and retailers including Supervalu ended up being acquired by Cognizant and TCS, respectively.

Facebook testing 'missed-calls' in India

SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook wants its users in India to hang up on advertisers. 

The internet social networking company is testing a new type of ad in the country that allows mobile phone users to click a button that calls a brand advertiser, immediately hangs up and then receives a return call. 

The return call delivers pre-recorded audio messages about everything from sponsored cricket scores to information about shopping discounts, minimizing data charges for the user. 

The so-called "missed call" ad was specially created by Facebook to appeal to users in the world's second-most populous country, and potentially in other emerging markets. Facebook has more than 100 million users in India, with the majority accessing the service on so-called feature phones, which lack touchscreens and other capabilities of higher-end smartphones. 

The ads are part of Facebook's effort to bolster its business in countries such as Brazil, India and Indonesia, which could help Facebook boost its overall revenue. 

Roughly 84% of Facebook's 1.28 billion monthly users are outside the United States and Canada, but the average revenue per user that Facebook generates in international markets is significantly lower than in the United States and Canada. 

Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg is in India this week visiting the company's offices and meeting with partners. Last week, Facebook rival Google announced plans to bolster its business there by developing a sub-$100 smartphone that uses its Android software. 

Facebook has optimized the ads on its service to work on slower wireless connections in emerging markets and it is improving its tools in individual countries to help marketers better target different groups of users. 

The company has also recently opened sales offices in Colombia and Indonesia and it is working with measurement firm Nielsen to measure how mobile phone users react to ads. 

In early tests of the missed call ads by L'Oreal-owned haircare product Garnier Men, the ads led to a 2.5 times year-on-year increase in online sales, according to Facebook. In the coming months, Facebook said it plans to make the missed call ads more widely available.

Cybercrimes shoot up by over 50% across India

NEW DELHI: Cybercrimes registered under the IT Act shot up by over 50% across the country between 2012 and 2013, shows the latest data released by the National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB). The maximum offenders came from the 18-30 age group. Among states, the highest incidents of cybercrime took place in Maharashtra (907) followed by Uttar Pradesh (682) and Andhra Pradesh (651).

The maximum arrests for cybercrimes under the IT Act took place in Maharashtra: 426. Andhra Pradesh was a distant second with 296 arrests. Uttar Pradesh was third at 283 arrests.

In percentage terms, the state that saw the most dramatic increase in cases registered under the IT Act was Uttarakhand at 475% (from 4 cases to 23); Assam a close second with 450% (from 28 cases to 154). Interestingly, the picture postcard union territory, Andaman and Nicobar islands, registered an eye-popping increase of 800% (two cases in 2012 to 18 in 2013) in the same category.

Trends in the report show that the maximum cases of cybercrimes in 2013 were for "hacking with computer systems". Transmission of obscene messages, or "obscene publication/transmission in electronic form" came a distant second in the category. A total 2,516 cases were registered in 2013 for hacking with computer systems with 1,011 arrests. The numbers for "obscene publications/transmission in electronic form", stood at 1,203 cases registered, with 737 arrests. Offences under "hacking of computer systems" are calculated under the two subheads of "loss/damage to computer resources/ utility" and "hacking".

Cyberlawyer Pavan Duggal says that the trends reveal a "maturing of the country's cybercrime economy." "Hacking is no longer done to assert technological superiority, but for monetary gains," says Duggal, pointing to the case of hacker Amit Tiwari from Pune, who was arrested earlier this year for compromising over a 1,000 email accounts both in India and abroad. He was a part of a global network of hackers.

The NCRB data shows that cybercrimes registered under the IT Act rose sharply by 51.5% from 2012 to 2013 and those registered under the Indian Penal Code, by 122.5% for the same time period. If taken together, they would constitute an increase of 63.73 % overall. Delhi Police PRO Rajan Bhagat said that cases where the IT Act and the IPC are used together, are counted within ambit of the IT Act, along with cases exclusively under the IT Act.

Only 23.5%of the cybercrime cases were registered under the IPC last year, while the majority - 76.5% were under the IT Act. Section 81 of the IT Act enshrines what is called the "overriding effect", that is, the IT Act would prevail in case of a conflict between the general law and the IT Act. It reads: "The provisions of this Act shall have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force."

According to the NCRB report, of the total 2,098 arrests made under the IT Act in 2013, 1,190 were between the ages of 18 and 30. 45 were below the age of 18. Rakshit Tandon, advisor at the cybercrime cell, Gurgaon Police, says that this is largely a result of the younger generation lacking "cyberhygiene and cyberetiquette."

"I have seen in my interactions and workshops with young people that internet and mobile are the first tools they use for harassment through social media or through pornographic websites. Even for crimes like hacking, there is very little guidance for young people who enroll in 'ethical hacking' courses, and then later get involved in crimes instead," says Tandon.

HP unveils virtual workstation, internet-on-the-go device

MUMBAI: HP announced a slew of new devices at its APJ Summit. The company launched DL380z, a virtual workstation solution that provides remote access to workstation-class applications from a variety of devices including notebooks and tablets. This is done using HP's server technology as well as Nvidia and Citrix's virtualization technologies. 

According to HP, the workstation keeps intellectual property centralized and secure by transmitting encrypted pixel data over LAN or WAN to remote users, thus protecting sensitive data. Organizations can choose pass-through GPU and virtual GPU modes that can be configured as per their requirements. Up to eight users can connect to the virtual workstation at a time 

HP is targeting fields like engineering, CAD (computer-aided design), AEC (architecture, engineering and construction), digital media, oil and gas exploration and education with this workstation. 

Anneliese Olson, vice president, personal computing, HP Asia-Pacific & Japan, said, "HP's new workstation solutions address the technology demands of evolving work styles and heavy graphics workloads by providing creative professionals with the faster storage performance, centralised, secure data access, and enhanced interactive capabilities they need." 

Along with the workstation, HP announced the Z Turbo Drive, a PCIe-based SSD for workstations; the company claims that this drive is two times faster than other similarly priced SATA drives. HP also unveiled the Remote Graphics Software, a real-time collaboration solution that "turns swipes into hot keys, gestures into control keys and pinches into zooms, and features an on-screen mouse that uses the entire screen as a track pad," to increase productivity for remote users of touch PCs or Windows 8 tablets. 

All three products will be available from July. The 256 and 512GB variants of HP Z Turbo Drive have been priced at $499 and $899, respectively. 

HP also unveiled an internet-on-the-go device, named Data Pass, which allows customers to immediately connect to the internet with 3G or 4G LTE mobile broadband service while travelling. It will cover 13 markets globally and offer up to 250 MB every month for two years at no additional cost and without contract; users can increase the data limit via top-ups. The company said that DataPass will make its debut in Hong Kong and Singapore with HP Slate7 Voice Tablet Ultra by the end of 2014.

LG G Pro 2 review

The top-end phablet segment is dominated by Samsung's Note series, but bigger Android manufacturers are trying to wrest sales away from the company. In comes LG's G Pro 2, a phablet equipped with top-end hardware and the latest software.

At its launch price of Rs 49,990 in May, LG G Pro 2 was too expensive an option to consider, especially for a device without a stylus. But with the price now hitting Rs 36,000, it finds its place among top-end phablets you can buy in India without shelling a very steep price.

Should you go for G Pro 2 or spend another few thousands and buy Galaxy Note 3 instead? Does the LG phablet have enough features to offer enough value for money? We find out in our review...

Display

The display, of course, is the highlight of LG G Pro 2. It is bigger than that of its predecessor by 0.4-inch and measures 5.9-inch; both models have Full HD resolution. The screen quality is excellent and it is not possible to discern individual pixels with the naked eye.

Sunlight legibility of the LG G Pro 2 is pretty great too, as we did not face any problems when using the phablet outdoors. The big screen also ensures that two people can easily watch videos on the device without colours looking washed out at either end.

Colour reproduction in LG G Pro 2's screen is, however, not as great as that of Samsung Galaxy Note 3. The Samsung phablet renders colours that are rich and vibrant, while the LG model's display delivers colours that feel relatively colder. That's not to say colours look poor or inaccurate, but they are simply not as vibrant as that of Galaxy Note 3's. It will matter if you are a discerning customer.

Design

Design is one area where G Pro 2 is much ahead of its rivals as well as the predecessor. The phablet is thinner and lighter than last year's Optimus G Pro and is far easier to handle than most big-screen devices.

In fact, the design is among the highlights of G Pro 2. Sure, it does not use metal and relies on plastic in construction, but the attention given to design certainly shows that LG means business. The screen takes up over 75% of the front area and the bezels are very thin, meaning that the device is not too wide at 3.2-inch.

The sides of LG G Pro 2 are bare and the keys have moved to the back panel. LG introduced this setup with the G2 last year and used it again this year with G3. With the keys positioned on the back, the phablet is slightly easier to operate with one hand than both Samsung Galaxy Note 3 and HTC One Max, not to mention Sony's 6.4-inch behemoth Xperia Z Ultra, which is difficult to handle with one hand.

With the keys on the back, you get the camera on top, followed by the Volume Up, Power and Volume Down hardware keys. The power button also functions as an LED notification light so that you don't miss a message, email etc when the phone is placed downwards.

Another remarkable thing about the LG phablet is how light it is considering it has a pretty big screen. Managing the 5.9-inch display and all the regular innards in a body weighing 172 gram is pretty neat to say the least. Of course, Samsung's top phablet weighs 4 gram less, but its display is also 0.2-inch smaller.

On the back of LG G Pro 2, you will find a plastic casing with a wire mesh design that is not too premium, but certainly helps holding the device easier. The bezels around the screen bear a glittery look that seems a bit tacky.

Hardware
Being a top-end phablet, LG G Pro 2 comes with all the features you can think of. Huge display? Big battery? Fast processor? Enough RAM for all your apps and then some? High resolution camera? It's got all.

But every phablet in this price range has these features, so there is very little to differentiate LG G Pro 2 from the rest of the lot.

LG G Pro 2 has a 5.9-inch 1080p display, 2.3GHz quad-core Snapdragon 800 processor, 3GB RAM, 16GB internal storage (with microSD card support up to 64GB), 13MP rear camera, 2.1MP front camera and 3,200mAh battery. It has all the usual connectivity features like 2G, 3G, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, NFC, Infrared and microUSB 2.0.

Software
Android phone makers have always tried to differentiate themselves by changing the user interface of the core software and LG is no different. With the Android 4.4 (KitKat)-running G Pro 2, we see the latest version of the company's Optimus UI available in the market.

Just like on Galaxy Note devices, you get to open two apps on the same display on G Pro 2, something that utilizes the screen size pretty well. The Slide Aside feature, where you swipe an app away by sliding three fingers over the screen is good too, but we feel that the big screen is a bit of hindrance to using it regularly.

To do away with the problem of picking up the phone each time in order to unlock it, you get the Knock Code feature that allows you to tap on the screen to access your handset. While the feature had been available in previous LG smartphones as well, this time it is more refined.

You can set a customized knocking pattern, so that it also acts as a security code. Unless you repeat the same pattern, the device will remain locked (you can, of course, pick it up and hit the Power key). LG says that there are over 87,000 patterns you can use; we tried five patterns and it worked well, recognizing the knocking pattern most of the times, but not all.



LG G Pro 2 also gets Guest Mode, a common feature on many smartphones nowadays. It shuts down access to the app menu and permits others to only use apps that you have previously approved.

The phablet also gets the Q Slide feature, a staple for LG phones. The Q Slide menu consists of apps that can be moved around the screen and minimized or maximized with a single tap. Quick Memo is there too, allowing you to write quick notes with your finger.

One cool thing that some might not give due credit to is the ability to choose the layout of the keys below the home screens; you can either go for the Back-Home-Options or Options-Home-Menu layout.

While it is not as big as a feature as some others are, it certainly helps those who are upgrading from a low or mid-range smartphone to a more powerful one as it lets them continue with the navigation pattern they are used to.

For a phablet nowadays, one-hand operation is a common feature to make it easier to operate. Just like most one-hand operation software, LG's feature also shrinks the content on display to a more manageable size. And just like the feature on other phablets, you can move the screen to either the left or the right side of the display. LG allows you to increase the size of the on-display area as well.

Performance
Being a top-end phablet, LG G Pro 2 does as advertised. It delivers excellent performance on the device, easily matching the likes of Samsung Galaxy Note 3, Sony Xperia Z Ultra and HTC One Max.

G Pro 2 is fast, delivering zippy performance on all fronts. Apps open quickly, switching between multiple apps is easy and overall experience is quite satisfying. There is no hint of lag on the device and even the most resource-consuming game or app we threw at it failed to slow it down. Common tasks like browsing the web, editing images or playing videos and audio were a breeze.

Call quality of LG G Pro 2 is pretty good, and it does not lose signals even in areas where other handsets falter. It also latches on to weak Wi-Fi networks.

Media playback is easily one of the highlights of LG G Pro 2. It can play all the commonly used video and audio formats. It, of course, does not play 4K videos even though it can record them. The audio quality is pretty good, delivering loud and less distorted (at high volumes) sound than other smartphones and phablets.

Another selling point of the device is the battery life. The 3,200mAh battery has enough juice to get you through a day and a half without looking for the charger; you can even go two days without charging if you are not a power user.

Camera

On the camera front too LG G Pro 2 scores high marks. The 13MP rear camera delivers photos that are true to life and offers great white balance and contrast as well as colours and details. The best part is that images are captured and processed very fast, so you don't miss another important shot.

 

Like many new smartphones, G Pro 2 also allows you to change the focus in pictures you have already taken. Optical image stabilization system of LG G Pro 2, named OIS+, works as advertised and helps maintain focus and avoid blurs in stills.

Then there's a selfie mode as well, where your face and surroundings are illuminated by placing them in a white frame; this does help make selfies better in low-light conditions.

LG G Pro 2 gets a leg up on its chief rival Galaxy Note 3 with 4K recording, which the Indian version of the Samsung device does not have. You can record movie-hall quality videos (though that will take up a lot of space), but viewing them right on the phone is not possible; you need a special 4K monitor to play them. The phablet, however, downscales such videos to play them.

Gaming

Playing even the most demanding games on G Pro 2 is a pleasure. The Snapdragon 800 CPU and Adreno 330 GPU make sure that there is no lag or frame drop even while handling resource-hungry titles like Riptide GP2, Dead Trigger 2 and Real Racing 3. Graphics are pretty intensive on these games, but the chipset is able to handle everything. With the Full HD display and powerful graphics, you really get to notice each aspect of the game, how the cars move, how the water ripples, how sparks fly when the car hits a wall.

Only after a while of gaming will you notice heating, which is really not that big a problem with this device.

Verdict

If you want a big screen smartphone, then LG G Pro 2 should easily make it to the top of your list of probables. It has whatever you want from a phablet and it's much cheaper than market leader Samsung's Galaxy Note 3 at Rs 36,000.

But this comes with a trade-off as there is no stylus. To make use of the productive side of a phablet, a stylus is a tool that Samsung has used successfully. But most others, including LG, HTC and Sony, have ignored it even though there are quite a few apps that make use of one. Buying G Pro 2 is absolutely fine if a stylus does not have much use for you.

There's no big reason for you to not consider LG G Pro 2 as it offers all the crucial elements of the phablet experience (big screen, fast processor, great camera, powerful battery) at a pretty reasonable price.