Basic Instinct - Online Survival Guide

If you ever bought a Huawei P20 Pro demo phone online and found out later that you couldn't use it because it has a demo video which kept on looping and sucking the battery out of your daily usage. Here are some tips and tricks for you. Step 1: Install ADB in your Windows PC / Laptop (I will not elaborate further on this just google you can get some answers / how to's) Step 2: Connect your phone to PC and enable USB Debugging (You will need a couple of tries until you see a pop-up box on the phone asking for your permission to allow your connection to the PC) Step 3: check if you have ADB access Open the command prompt and enter the commands below Make sure you change your directory to the ADB folder 1st. Step 3.1: Type in "ADB devices -l" at the command prompt without the " If you successfully connected you will get a prompt showing the device which is connected Example: List of devices attached XXX0000000000000       device product:CLT-L29 mo

Photo by  energepic.com  from  Pexels I have been googling and trying different methods for the whole week. Finally got it resolved and learned quite a bit.  Firstly this entry is just for my own future reference should I encounter and ever forget how to do it again. I successfully applied this technique to a MacBook Pro 13" Retina of Late 2013 edition. Steps below I have taken to successfully upgrade to macOS High Sierra and installed Windows 10 Pro via Bootcamp p/s: The Mac OS recovery partition was still intact and had OS Maverick in it as factory default 1. Press the Option key during boot and enter the recovery partition of the MacBook Pro 2. Select Disk Utility and erase the whole partition (Yes you are going to lose everything, so backup as needed.) 3. Reinstall macOS from the recovery partition (Yes it will take some time maybe you can watch some Netflix or play a few rounds of PUBG) 3.1 - - - - Press the "About This Mac" to check and confirm i