How To Fix Battery Drain Issue On A Rooted Android Device

On several Android forums around the web, Android users have been regularly reporting rapidly draining batteries after flashing custom ROMs (such as Cyanogenmod 7) to their devices. In what follows, we will provide you with a step-by-step solution to said problem.

The battery indicator in the status/notification bar is a reflection of the batterystats.bin file in the data/system/ directory. Every time a custom ROM is flashed on to a device, it is recommended that the battery be software recalibrated or user might experienced an accelerated battery drain.

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A Comic Book Lover’s Guide to Going Digital

Whitson Gordon — Whether you've been a diehard comic book fan for years or you just want to see what they're all about, you may find reading them digitally a better experience than on paper. Here's how to get started with digital comics.

Digital movies and music have become almost the norm these days, but digital comics a bit rarer to come across. It isn't as easy to find a good source of digital comics, a reader for your favorite platform, or an easy way to keep it all organized. Here, we'll lay out some of the best ways to get started going digital with your collection, so you don't have to spend hour scouring Google.

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