Your Sim Card Got Corrupted? Here Is the Solution

Purchase A Card

Purchase a card reader, online using a visa card, Sim card reader in America is worth 7.98 dollars. Buy one suitable for your Sim card. Sometimes, you may not get a precise one for your Sim card, you just need to manage, since not all can fit at a goal. The price varies depending on the size or the shape you desire.

Connect Card Reader to Computer

You need to connect your card reader to your computer. Patiently, read and obey the installation guidelines very promptly. This is because some sim card readers are readily accessible once plugged, meanwhile most require appropriate software with respect to the reader.

Insert Sim into Card Reader

Gently put your Sim card into your Sim card reader. One must be careful since the Sim card will only fit half way into your reader. Your Sim card will not articulately fit into the card reader. Care must be taken when inserting. Kindly follow precautions to avoid damaging your device.

Configuration and Back UP

Click to open your Sim card reader program on your computer. There are diverse options one can select for repair. Conveniently, you configure your card, and also back up history that has both been stored and erased on the card.

Gently Insert Sim Card into Your Phone

Close the program and hurriedly remove your SIM card from the SIM card reader. Insert your Sim card into your phone.  So easy, right?

Taking Proper Care of Sim Cards

• Avoid frequently unmounting of your Sim cards.
• Check and make sure your device is switched off as at the time of removal.
• Don’t scratch or rub your Sim card against any metallic object.
• Avoid, sim cards from coming in contacts with any liquid substance.
• Keep sim cards away from heat or heat source.
• Don’t cut out Sim cards, to fit your slot. You may end up destroying your Sim card. Few succeed, you may not. Visit the nearest networking office for such services.

Did you break your sim? Read this

Certain activities may leave your sim card broken. This could be forceful inserting and removal of sim cards from your phone. The Sim card is made of rubber and a semi metallic plate. When you observe, the metallic plate is in the compartment, every part has its role to play.

So, any irresponsible handling may lead a part from not working, hence affecting the work chain in all. You can keep your Sim card in a cotton wool nicely when not in use. One must make sure, the cotton wool is dried up, and has no liquid content to avoid rusting. Now, pay extra attention to this, when your Sim card is  broken,

Now, pay extra attention to this, when your Sim card is  broken,

Check very well to ascertain whether or not it’s really broken. In some cases, it could be a film of dirt cast on the silver plate. In such case, you only need to wipe it with a clean cotton. Immediately you see a message like “sim error” or something similar, just remove your sim and reinsert it and switch on your phone.

If reinserting it does not remedy the situation, call the customer care service to report the matter. They will help you get a new Sim card with the same mobile number and most importantly back up your Sim card history but before such actions, you will be invited to their office.

Your Lost Simcard Could Be Used by Fraudsters, Read This to Prevent It

In Ghana, most mobile users are oblivious to going through proper registration procedure to acquire a Sim card. This is where fraudsters take advantage. You should quickly inform your service provider about your lost sim card, to either block it permanently if you don’t want to use anymore.

It’s very unsafe to stay without reporting. Firstly, you must register your Sim card with your real name and details by using a valid national identification card either voter’s id or health insurance card.

Now, if you just found out someone is using your already lost sim card, just call your network provider for proper actions to be administered.

You may never know, but someone may be spying on you, as you go naked or undress behind your laptop in the comfort of your room. That’s the severity of Laptop Hacking

Finding yourself in such a situation may give you everything but definitely not a smile.

Yes! Hacking is that terrible.

Hmmm! It’s unfortunate but it keeps banging the doors of our nation because its remedy is buried in some long articles. Power brokers and destitute alike have been caught in what many call sex-tapes.

Such footages have flooded social media space since the days of yore. Interestingly, this devil of sex-tapes crops up its ugly head when nationals, are still biting the gossip of existing ones. I’m not talking about sex-tapes but am notifying, what one could be reduced to if knowledge is not sought, even for married persons. After all, this is not taught at marriage counselling sessions.

Many of us have doubted a good number of these victims who openly confessed they don’t know how the tape came into the public space because they were not filming themselves in the act.

If you are looking for more help to overcome this kind of situation should you fall a victim, you can look up BetterHelp.

It’s also very disturbing, the amount of money stolen through hacking. On July 17th, 2017, CNBC online news portal reported a more than $7 million hacked of crypto-coin offering from CoinDash Company.

It’s that serious!

Daily, many computers in Ghana, Africa and all over the world and the hacking of other gadgets, continue to go undetected.

It’s for this reason that I’ll cut the chase and insightfully engage you on the modus operandi of hackers and possible solutions.

Some Laptop Hacking Red Lights and their solutions

Promptings for access to programs you do not know.

It’s very imperative to know that, computer security programs and firewalls help to secure the computer. They are like, security men that bounce people at entrances social functions, but they can overcome by a higher force. These security systems can be compromised when certain links are opened.

Some hackers deliberately, programme viruses on websites.

A computer which accesses this website becomes infected and its security systems are rendered dormant. Sites such as BitTorrent.com, adult music, and porn sites may pop up for you to accept.

Shortened URLs such as twitter.com may be corrupted by hackers to twitteer.com and laced with a virus to corrupt your system the more if you accept them.

To explain, a Firewall is what filters information from the internet to your computer. If the information contains viruses, it won’t be allowed access by the firewall.

Solution

Frequently update your antivirus and make sure your firewall is on/ secured by putting it on auto-update, this will guard against viruses created by hackers. It’s interesting to note that hackers develop new viruses almost every day.

Changed computer passwords

The password is your rightful key to the entrance of your room, in this context your computer. If the locker to the door has been changed, that means there has been a wrongful entry.

Some hackers add more or one account so that they can gain entry at their will and retrieve the owners’ information.

Solution

If you observe such developments, report to the company in charge of that service and they will reset your account and hand legitimate security over to you. The company providing the service, for instance, yahoo, outlook and Google cannot change your passwords on their own volition only a hacker does that.

Your mouse moves to make selections.

In regard to my premise, this cunning move is used by some hackers to activate cameras of compromised computers. These cameras are activated without the knowledge of the owner. Bank transactions are done, letters are sent to business associates on one’s behalf in this phase.

Solution

One upon detection should put off the computer, or off the internet connection.

Finally,

Your doors can be locked and physical, social security may be beefed up but technical security can expose you to fraud among others. Most hacking is done via the internet, so please be careful.

Owners of computers have a higher responsibility than non-owners and must be on the guard when their passwords change, their mouse move to make selections by themselves and when they continuously receive popups to open certain sites especially some torrent and porn sites. Analyse your computer.

The worst apps for draining your Android smartphone’s battery life have been revealed in a new report by AVAST.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, highly popular and feature-rich apps including Facebook, Netflix, WhatsApp and Google Maps all feature in the list.

The report, which was put together by Avast, also identifies the worst apps for hogging data traffic, eating into storage and draining overall performance.

You can improve your phone’s battery life by deleting some of the apps you don’t need.

With Facebook, for instance, you can get rid of the app and use the social network in your web browser instead. You’ll have to keep hold of Messenger though.

Switching from Google Docs, one of the worst apps for affecting overall performance, to Microsoft Word could be sensible too.

Some apps, however, can’t be deleted. In this case, Avast recommends limiting notifications from them and reducing background features, refresh intervals and location data usage.

The categories have been split into two lists – one for apps that automatically run at start-up and another for those that you’ll open yourself.

The 10 worst apps for sapping battery life, which automatically run when you turn your phone on, are:

1. Samsung AllShare
2. Samsung Security Policy Updates
3. Beaming Service for Samsung
4. ChatON Voice & Video Chat
5. Google Maps
6. WhatsApp Messenger
7. Facebook
8. WeChat
9. AppLock
10. DU Battery Saver

The 10 worst apps for draining battery life, which users run themselves, are:

1. Samsung WatchON
2. Samsung Video Editor
3. Netflix
4. Spotify Music
5. Snapchat
6. Clean Master
7. LINE: Free Calls & Messages
8. Microsoft Outlook
9. BBC News
10. ES File Explorer File Manager

Samsung’s built-in Video Editor app has risen up the charts, and requires heavy processing and graphical resources.

Meanwhile, the 10 worst apps for hogging data traffic, which automatically run when you turn your phone on, are:

1. Facebook
2. Instagram
3. Yahoo! Japan
4. Firefox Browser fast & private
5. The Weather Channel
6. WhatsApp Messenger
7. Google Chrome
8. DU Battery Saver
9. Facebook Lite
10. Google Play Home

The 10 worst apps for hogging data traffic, which users run themselves, are:

1. Netflix
2. Spotify Music
3. Snapchat
4. BBC News
5. LINE: Free Calls & Messages
6. Microsoft Outlook
7. Clean Master
8. Samsung WatchON
9. Amazon for Tablets
10. PicsArt Photo Studio & Collage

If you’re on a limited mobile data plan, the apps listed above are the ones you need to be wary of. Most worrying is the fact that you don’t even need to have the likes of Facebook, Instagram and Chrome open for them to munch through your data.

The 10 worst apps for eating into storage, which automatically run when you turn your phone on, are:

1. Facebook
2. Instagram
3. Amazon Kindle
4. Facebook Messenger
5. CosmoSia
6. Google Quick Search Box
7. Google Maps
8. Google Chrome
9. Firefox Browser fast & private
10. Tango – Free Video Call & Chat

The 10 worst apps for eating into storage, which users run themselves, are:

1. Spotify Music
2. Snapchat
3. LINE: Free Calls & Messages
4. Samsung Video Editor
5. SoundCloud – Music & Audio
6. PicsArt Photo Studio & Collage
7. Amazon Shopping
8. BBC News
9. Clean Master
10. Photo Grid

Facebook, Instagram, and Kindle are particularly bad because they store local cache files, photos or books, says Avast.

Apps from both Samsung and Google feature heavily in the lists, which may be because both companies’ offerings come pre-installed on a lot of Android devices.

Finally, the 10 worst apps for draining performance, which automatically runs when you turn your phone on, are:

1. Samsung AllShare
2. ChatON Voice & Video Chat
3. Samsung Push Service
4. Google TalkBack
5. Google Play Music
6. Google Maps
7. Google Play Newsstand
8. Google Plus
9. ChatON
10. Google Hangouts

The 10 worst apps for draining performance, which users run themselves, are:

1. Samsung WatchON
2. Google Docs
3. Samsung Media Hub
4. SHAREit
5. Samsung Video Editor
6. Flipboard
7. Google Text-to-Speech
8. Clean Master
9. LINE: Free Calls & Messages
10. Adobe Acrobat Reader

“For many of us, our smartphones are the main device in our everyday lives. Knowing which of our favourite apps are the hardest-hitting on battery life, data usage, and storage is important so we can manage any that we are regularly using on our phones,” said Gagan Singh, the SVP and GM of mobile business at Avast.

“This quarter’s ‘Most Improved’ accolade is shared between picture Messenger tool Snapchat, social media giant Facebook and music streaming behemoth Spotify,” the report says.

“Having previously occupied three of the four top spots for performance-draining apps run by users and on start-up, these companies have made a concerted effort this quarter to improve.”