Lollipop Update Now Available for Infinix (Zero) X506

Infinix Zero X506 16GB users are you tired of your Android OS version 4.4 Kitkat? Now I'm glad to inform you that Infinixmobile have not forgotten you at all in Lollipop upgrade. Now it is time for you to upgrade your old Kitkat to Lolllipop! But not via OTA.

How To Upgrade Infinix Zero to Lollipop Through SP Flash Tool

Below are the Requirements.

1. Vcom port driver - Download it Here

2. Lollipop Infinix X506 Rom .zip file - Download it Here

3. SP Flash Tool - Download it Here

4. A PC with healthy USB Port and your infinix USB cable.

5. The Infinix Zero Smartphone which should have a 90% charged.

6. Also remember to backup your files and contacts

Installation of Vcom Driver

1. Extract the downloaded Vcom driver.

2. Go to device manager>click action>click add legacy hardware

3. Under welcome to add new hardware click next

4. Select advanced option and click next

5. Select ‘show all devices’ and click next.

6. Click have disk

7. Browse to your vcom extracted folder and select the driver setup up file and click    

open, then ok.

8. Select Mediatek preloader usb vcom driver and click next.

Get Your Phone Ready

1. Make sure your phone has about 90% charged as well as your PC.

2. Enable USB debugging under settings>developer options

3. Connect to PC… ignore any driver failure warnings.

Flashing
Now, it is time to load your Infinix Zero X506 with Lollipop; simply follow this link instruction to load your Lollipop Stock Rom: http://pope5ive.blogspot.co.za/2016/01/how-to-flash-mediatek-stock-roms-with.html
 

How to Flash MediaTek Stock ROMs With SP Flash Tool (MTK Android Smartphones)

SP Flash Tool is a user friendly tool designed for MediaTek devices like Tecno, Infinix, Innjoo, Gionee, BML, etc. SP Flash Tool is a great piece of software allows you to flash your Smartphones ROMs (Stock or Custom). It supports flash stock, installing custom recovery, Unbrick the Bricked Smartphones and firmware updates for your Mediatek devices. Below are the guide to Flash Custom ROMs using SP Flash Tool on Windows Computer.

Materials Needed
1. SP Flash tool - Download it here
2. Android ADB drivers - Download it here
3. Stock or Custom Rom you want to flash on your Smartphone. Make sure you download the exact Rom of your phone - few Roms can be found from this #link
4. Laptop or Desktop Computer
5. USB Cable for communicating between PC and Smartphones

To Flash a Backup or ROM with SP Flash Tool
Disclaimer: Don't flash another preloader and DSP_BL blocks! It is always dangerous! On some models of phones you will have a brick even if you download these blocks read from a phone which you own! Always remove from them marks in SPFT! ALWAYS have a working backup of your original ROM before you flash a new unknown ROM. Shelaf take no responsibility for any harm done while attempting this!

1. Disconnect your phone if connected with USB to the PC, and turn OFF the phone completely, also take out the battery if possible (ignore this step 1, for phones with built in battery).
2. Now connect or reconnect the USB cable to the phone with the PC while the phone is still off, Windows should pop up and begin to install the MTK65XX Preloader Drivers, this only happens if you installed the Mediatek Preloader USB Drivers correctly in Windows. After they successfully installed, disconnect the USB cable again.
2. Extract SP Flash tool on your computer and launch it.
3. Open the folder you extract it to and locate flash_tool, double click on it to open.

 3. Once it is launched, hit the Scatter-loading button

4. Locate the scatter file in the backup or Rom of the phone that you downloaded. It's usually a text file. (ALWAYS only load a ROM that is 100% made for your phone, flashing a wrong ROM may make your phone non-bootable).

5. Hit the "Download' button in SP Flash Tool to begin the flashing process

6. Connect your Smartphone to the computer with a USB without battery, if possible to remove. Press, Vol Down or Up so that the computer can easily detect the phone.
7. Once the Flashing is complete you will see a green circle confirming... With Download OK
.

8. Close the SP Flash Tool and disconnect your phone from the computer. Congratulation, your Smartphone is now flashed with the new Stock Rom you downloaded.

If your phone bootloops, remove battery and boot into recovery mode. Factory reset the phone.

MTN Free Unlimted Surfing With N0.00 with SimpleServer and psiphon

This is an updated post for MTN Music Plus of free 150MB and I'm sure that MTN Music Plus tweak is not something new to most of regular/old fans here. This post will guide you on how you can turn your MTN Music Plus of free 150MB to somehow unlimited.
when you exaust the initial 150MB, there will be little intervals before you continue your surfing. So you need to follow the processes below

The MTN Music Plus of free 150MB was customized only to access the MTN Music downloading site, but you have nothing to worry, since you know your way and if not, just continue your reading..., with the below procedure, you will be able to access any website and use it to surf with any apps.

How to Get Free MTN 150MB
Simply text Music to 5900
Wait for few seconds, then check your MTN music plus data balance by dial *559*2#.

How to Turn the Normal 150MB to Unlimited
Your browsing will stop immediately you exhaust the free 150MB given to you, but the below method will guide you on how you can keep renewing the free 150MB over and over to continue your surfing.  

Method 1:
1. After You have exhausted your initial 150MB 2. Make sure your airtime balance is #0.00 to avoid deduction of your money.
3. Text D to 5900, And another 150MB will be given to you.
4. After getting your reply, You can Check your data balance by dialing *559*2# Now connect and resume your surfing.
5. After exhausting the 150MB given to you again, Send Cancel7D to 5900
6. Then wait for the reply and send D again to 5900.
7. Check your balance again when they reply you.

That is how you can keep on renewing the 150MB over and over.
I know this procedure can be a bit stressful that’s the reason I posted another method below which is very much easier.

Method 2:
The method 1 maybe a bit stressful, here is another method which is very much easier.
1. Download Sms Scheduler here
2. Launch the app and click on Schedule SMS
3. Type 5900 in the Phone number field
4. Type Cancel7D in the message box
5. Confirm your date and time
6. Choose your SMS sending interval (the time interval you think you can finish 150mb) I used 30mins in mine, Save that.
7. Go back to the app and create another entry, And extend the time by a minute.
8. Type 5900 in the Phone number field, Type D in the message box, Confirm the date and save the sending interval to the interval you saved the first one.

This tweak works on both SimpleServer and Psiphon.
==> After completing the steps above, You can then setup your Psiphon or SimpleServer with the procedure below.

Psiphon Settings For Android Device Users:

» First of all, Download Psiphon apk version from here.
» Install it on your Android Device

Create New APN settings On Your Phone As Follows:
» Open your phone settings > Go to more > Go to mobile network > Go to access point names > Select Mtn, Then create new APN and configure as shown below:
» APN Type: default
» APN: web.gprs.mtnnigeria.net
» Proxy: 127.0.0.1
» Port: 8080
» Save And Activate it as your default settings

Then Launch Psiphon Handler, in the handler menu:
» Proxy type: Real Host
» Proxy server: musicplus.mtnonline.com
» Real Proxy type: inject
» Real Proxy server: (leave it blank)
» Select save and click on “tunnel whole device”.
Click on the option tab
» Region: Japan
» Select more option, And check “Connect through an HTTP” then select “Use the following settings:” then configure as.
» Host address: 10.199.212.2
» Port: 8080
Save and Connect.

For PC Users to Enjoy this Free 150MB on PC

• Download the modified SimpleServer for MTN Free 150MB here and extract the files inside it to a folder on yourPC
• Run the SimpleServer.exe and configure your browser to manual Proxy 127.0.0.1 Port 8080
• Tick "Use proxy server for all protocols" if you want it to open all secured sites.

SimpleServer Configuration For Android Users:

» Download Android SimpleServer here.
» Install it on your Android Device

Create New APN settings On Your Phone As Follows:
» Proxy: 127.0.0.1
» Port: 8080
» APN:web.gprs.mtnnigeria.net
» Save And Activate it as your default settings.

Open SimpleServer and Configure the Settings as follow:
» Proxy Host: 10.199.212.2
» Proxy Port: 8080
» Injection query/url: http://musicplus.mtnonline.com
» Injection host: musicplus.mtnonline.com
» Connection Timeout: 10
» Injection line: press enter 4 times
» Log level: Debug
» Close the settings and hit the connect button.
Also remember to power up your SimpleServer or Psiphon with AutoProxy or ProxyDroid, details is shown below

SimpleServer or Psiphon Configuration Settings for AutoProxy
=> First of all, download AutoProxy.apk here.
=> Install and launch the AutoProxy you downloaded and tap on the Plus Sign (+) at the top right corner of the App interface, it will reveal the default settings for the Proxy Host, Proxy Port and Host type.
=> Tap on the Proxy Host and enter this IP: 127.0.0.1 then press OK.
=> Tap on the Proxy Port and enter PORT: 8080 then press OK.
=> Now tap the Proxy Type and select HTTP.
=> Go back to the AutoProxy homepage and you will see the HTTP icon as the only icon located at the top left corner of the white page homepage.
=> To connect the AutoProxy, you will need to connect your SimpleServer or Psiphon first. So start up your SimpleServer or Psiphon and then come back and connect your AutoProxy app from the homepage.

Your entire Android app will now be powered to access the internet via SimpleServer or Psiphon!

SimpleServer or Psiphon Configuration Settings for ProxyDroid.
=> First of all, download ProxyDroid.apk here.
=> Launch your ProxyDroid after you must have downloaded it to your phone.
=> Then enter these IP in the Proxy Host 127.0.0.1 and then for Port, enter 8080
=> Now, look up and Switch ON the ProxyDroid, but remember to connect your SimpleServer or Psiphon first, then come back to ProxyDroid and tap on Switch OFF to switch it ON and you can now minimize it.
=> Launch any application on your Android device and it should connect perfectly.

You are also free to access Google Play Store with any of these applications via SimpleServer or Psiphon.

Note: You are required to choose any one you like out of the both apps, don't use the both app at the same time.

Hope this information helps? If it works for you, don't forget to comment here and remember to hit Share/Like buttons for the benefit of others.

It rocks well and is very fast. Enjoy it while it last.

POWERVU – Latest tech to watch premium channels on big dishes with Strong decoders

POWERVU – LATEST TECH TO WATCH PREMIUM CHANNELS ON BIG DISH ON STRONG DECODER

This post is for commercial viewing center operators and few individuals who do not have a big dish (A dish of about 3meter in size). I think you are missing a lot as there are so many goodies being enjoyed by users of big dish. For the sake of the newbies, when I mean big dish, I mean a dish not lesser than 1m. However, for this particular article is for dishes not lesser than 1.8metres in Nigeria depending on your location.

WHAT IS POWERVU CHANNELS DECRYPTION / ENCRYPTION TECHNOLOGY?

PowerVU is a conditional access system (CAS like irdeto, viaccess, conssat) for digital television developed by Scientific Atlanta from CISCO Company. It is used for professional broadcasting, notably by Retevision, Bloomberg Television, Discovery Channel, AFRTS ABS-CBN GMA Network and American Forces Network.

PowerVU encryption used to be only on commercial receivers. Unless you are a cable company with thousands of users, and willing to pay for thousands of subscriptions you can’t subscribe to the official PowerVU network.  Also, there is no centralized clearing house – you do business directly with the uplinker (owner of the copyright).

The only PowerVU stations that are non-commercial technically is AFN (Armed Forces Network)
If you are in the military you can get a receiver that decodes it (D9234 last I checked) and subscribe through the military. An example of a decoder that decrypt only PowerVU channels is: CISCO D9865 (This is their official receiver)

However, just like in the case of Biss keys, PowerVU encrypted channels can now be opened with keys and this is hat I shall be teaching you here today. It is either you open it using a dedicated receiver (which I will review later) or through a patch software loaded on some strong decoders.

You can get different types of channels on PowerVU like sports, music, movies, entertainment and so on.

As you can see from the pictures above the first picture is of an EPL match between WBA vs. Chelsea Fc. Live in HD on strong 4922a decoder using PowerVU without internet connection. The second pictures is for 4.0W which is another sat package.

WHAT ARE THE MAJOR ADVANTAGES OF POWERVU CHANNELS

• No freezing or skipping unless maybe the code is blocked or change. It is a very perfect encryption
• No need of internet connection
• It is very cheap to use for those who already have the compatible decoder and dish
• Keys are regularly updated online, all you need is browse for it and enter in your decoder
• You do not need to buy extra acount like dqcam, cccam or gshare account as long as you are content with the channels you receive and you have the keys for them

WHAT are the disadvantages?

• Limited premium PowerVU channels available for Africa due to the distant to the signal
• Only those with big dish can benefit from it in Africa
• The keys can easily be modified(this often happens and you will look for another), the channels may go off, the keys maybe changed, the keys maybe blocked(this doesn’t often happen on PowerVU

WHAT ARE POWERVU REQUIREMENTS?

• You need a big dish: Not the normal small DSTV dish am talking about a dish not lesser than 2meter in northern Nigeria or 3meter in southern Nigeria. The rest of Africa and Asia should contact their local satellite installer for the dish size needed. If you do not know the difference between a big dish and a small dish, please read this.
• You need a PowerVU supported decoder like: CISCO D9865, Strong 4920, 4922, 4922a (or any strong decoder that has a PowerVU software downloadable from crosat.us) and finally any unoffial PowerVU decoder like gsky.
• You need to get the PowerVU keys for the channels you are able to scan online.

HOW TO INSTALL AND OPEN POWERVU CHANNELS ON STRONG DECODERS

Am using strong 4922a as an example because that’s the only software i have for now (4920, 4922 and 4922a shares the same software) visit www.crosat.us and see if you will be able to get a software that will come with PowerVU option for your own decoder. Download and install the software on your strong

1. Download the software here
2. Make sure you have a C-band lnb because all PowerVU channels are on C-band.
3. Also make sure you have the frequencies and positions for example, you can get live sports on

Intelsat 20 – 68.5 ºE
  3900 H 22222 Intelsat 20 – 68.5 ºE

(Sony Kix, Sony SAB India, Sony Pix, Sony Six SD, Sony Max India, Sony Max 2, SET India) for Exclusive La liga, Seria A, World and Euro qualifiers and other sports
ECMKEY00= 6008F6AC7AF2D7
ECMKEY01= 8BBD18DEFB87A9

4. SES 22.0°W 4128v15500
   NSS12 at 57ºE use 3800v20000 for tracking and enter 4147 v 9245 (you will get sport 24 HD that shows live Epl matches)

Key00: 67 45 C6 21 EB AD F5
Key01: B0 B5 09 56 43 EE CC

BELOW IS HOW YOU MUST INPUT THE KEYS AND FREQUENCIES INTO YOUR DECODER

 

5.     scan your channels and press 8282 on your strong remote control. Scroll down until you see PowerVU>>press ok button>enter your PowerVU ECM keys as shown above by entering the first 14 digit in 00 under indent and the second 14 digit under 01 leaving the last 2 digit unchanged for both >>press ok>>save and exit>>restart your decoder and you are done.

To get more of these PowerVU frequencies and keys, for premium channels visit any of the two following sites next.web.tr  or najmsat2017

Types of foundation in civil Engineering

Foundation is a structural part of a building on which a building stands. Foundation transmits and distributes its own load and imposed loads to the soil in such a way that the load bearing capacity of the “foundation bed” is not exceeded. The solid ground on which the foundation rest is called foundation bed. We use various types of footing as a foundation.

Foundations are mainly two categories.

1. Shallow foundation, and
2. Deep foundation.

Details is shown below:

1- Shallow Foundation

Shallow foundation is a type of foundation that transfers load to the very near the surface. Shallow foundations typically have a depth to width ratio of less than 1.


Various types of Shallow Foundations:
Following are the types shallow foundations -

·         Pad footing or column footing

·         Cantilever or strap footings

·         Mat/Raft footings

·         Wall Footings

·            Pad footing or column footing

        This type of footing can be two types - Isolated and Combined.

Isolated footing

These are most economical. They are usually in square or rectangle size with the column sitting in the middle of the square. It's a kind of pad footing.

       Combined footing
       A footing, either rectangular or trapezoidal, that supports two columns. It's also a
       pad footing.

·         Cantilever or strap footingsConsist of two single footings connected with a beam or a strap and support two single columns.      

·         Mat/Raft footings

Consist of one footing usually placed under the entire building area. They are used when soil bearing capacity is low, column loads are heavy, single footing can’t be used, piles are not used and differential settlement must be reduced.

·      Wall Footings
Wall footings are used to distribute the loads of structural load-bearing walls to the soil. 
 

 2- Deep Foundations

Deep foundations are those founding too deeply below the finished ground surface for their base bearing capacity to be affected by surface conditions, this is usually at depths of 3 meter below finished ground level. Deep foundations can be used to transfer the load to a deeper, more competent strata at depth if unsuitable soils are present near the surface.

 Common Type of Deep Foundation:

1. Pile foundations: They are relatively long, slender members that transmit foundation loads through soil strata of low bearing capacity to deeper soil or rock strata having a high bearing capacity. They are used when for economic, constructional or soil condition considerations it is desirable to transmit loads to strata beyond the practical reach of shallow foundations. In addition to supporting structures, piles are also used to anchor structures against uplift forces and to assist structures in resisting lateral and overturning forces. Thick slabs used to tie a group of piles together to support and transmit column loads to the piles.

2. Piers: are foundations for carrying a heavy structural load which is constructed in-situ in a deep excavation.

3. Caissons: are a form of deep foundation which are constructed above ground level, then sunk to the required level by excavating or dredging material from within the caisson.

4. Compensated foundations: are deep foundations in which the relief of stress due to excavation is approximately balanced by the applied stress due to the foundation. The net stress applied is therefore very small. A compensated foundation normally comprises a deep basement.