Author: batteryforpc

If a recent sighting on Android Gerrit is to be believed, the process of installing updates on Android devices could be receiving a significant speed boost. The listing discusses a new feature called “Resume on Reboot” which would allow certain phones to complete the update process without requiring a manual unlock.

Currently, an OTA update does not finish without forcing the user to unlock their phone. This step occurs once the device has been rebooted — after the reboot, many apps still need to update to work properly with the new software. This means that even if you leave your phone alone for several hours while the install occurs, the process won’t actually finish until you unlock the device and allow all your apps to update.

Resume on Reboot changes that. The new feature would store your login information and simply “unlock” the device for you. This would allow the entire update to proceed without any intervention by the user. However, this functionality requires a HAL (Hardware Abstraction Layer) called IRebootEscrow. That isn’t on every device, so this won’t be a universal feature for Android phones. Resume on Reboot is being tested on the Pixel 4 and should be available to the public in a future update.

Tablets and 2-in-1 convertibles from the CHUWI brand are quite often equipped with the stylus support, so the company is also famous for making quality stylus pens. The latest one in their portfolio is the CHUWI HiPen H6, which is compatible not just with their new UBook Pro, but also with Microsoft Surface models and more. All that of course with a pretty customer-friendly price point, unlike some of the comparable models from the competition.

CHUWI HiPen H6 can offer quite a delicate drawing experience with 4096 pressure levels so even professionals will not be limited by it. It also has intelligent palm rejection for accurate writing including multi-touch mistakes. And because it’s equipped with a rechargable battery you don’t have to worry anymore about replacing the AAAA batteries like other styluses. With 90 days of battery life with continuous writing you don’t have to worry about battery at all in fact. And like we said before it uses the same MPP (Microsoft Pen Protocol) as the Surface series so you can get it for them too at a price of fifth of the original pen.

And now the stylus drivers got upgraded to the latest 01.03.06 version, bringing optimized performance and smoother experience in writing. The update process is pretty simple, but can’t hurt going through it, just in case.

Copy the file “Phoenix-hid-update” to the tablet, open the file, click twice “ConfigUpdate ” to run.（About 5 seconds)

Upgrade has completed when the running interface displays the version 01.03.60, close the running window to finish.

You can find more information about the CHUWI HiPen H6 stylus and of course all the tablet, laptop and 2-in-1 devices from this brand on the official website. So make sure to check it out, because maybe just out there is hiding some late idea for Xmas gift for yourself or your loved ones.

It’s felt like we’ve waited for years, but Google Assistant users can finally make notes using Google Keep from their phones, a speaker, or other devices. However, the functionality isn’t enabled by default. Here’s how to connect Google Keep Notes to Google Assistant.

How to connect Google Assistant to Keep Notes

Open Assistant settings

Find “Notes & Lists”

Set Google Keep as your default notes service

Note: This integration started rolling out on December 6th and may take time to hit all devices.

Open Google Assistant settings

First and foremost for this long-awaited functionality, we’ll have to dive into the labyrinth that is Google Assistant’s settings menu. To access the Assistant settings, you’ll want to open the Google app on your phone and tap More at the bottom of the screen. From there, tap Settings and then Google Assistant.

Set Google Keep as your default notes service

Next, locate the Services tab and finally, Notes & Lists.

Under the Notes & Lists section, Google will provide you with a handful of providers for syncing your notes. This includes Any.do, AnyList, Bring, but most importantly, Google Keep. Simply tap on the Google Keep section to set it as your default notes provider.

How to manage your Notes w/ Assistant

Once you’ve linked Google Keep with the Assistant, your future notes will all be saved to the app. On top of that, you can also access other lists and notes from Keep via Google Assistant on your phone, Home speaker, and the like.

However, it won’t work the same everywhere. On a smartphone you can say, “Show me my notes,” but a Home speaker or smart display can’t do that. Instead, they can only access a note titled “Shopping list.”

To start a new note from your phone, you can simply ask Google Assistant to “take a note.”

Silicon Lottery’s binning stats show 56% of its samples were able to of hit 4.1 GHz on all 16 cores.

According to statistics shared by binning company Silicon Lottery, the majority of AMD Ryzen 9 3950X CPUs it’s tested have been able to hit a clock speed of 4.1 GHz. The vendor’s data on the CPU was compiled by a user on Reddit.

Silicon Lottery overclocks its samples to the same speed on all of their CPU cores. The company puts the overclocked chips through stringent tests to guarantee their stability. It’s unknown how big of a sample size Silicon Lottery worked with, but the initial information looks interesting nonetheless.

So far, the statistics show that 56% of Silicon Lottery’s Ryzen 9 3950X samples were capable of hitting 4.1 GHz on all 16 cores with a core voltage (Vcore, the amount of voltage supplied to the CPU) of 1.312V. Only 19% made it to the 4.15 GHz mark.

Ryzen 9 3900X binning statistics from August showed that 68% and 35% of the 12-core samples reached 4.1 GHz and 4.15 GHz, respectively. Therefore, it’s reasonable to assume that your chances of achieving a higher overclock decrease significantly as you climb the core ladder. That’s not to mention that AMD doesn’t leave much manual overclocking headroom on its Ryzen 3000-series processors.

What’s even more fascinating is the gloomy results for the Infinity Fabric (FCLK) clock. In Silicon Lottery’s efforts to bin the FCLK on Ryzen 9 3950X, it concluded that only 12% of the samples can run the FCLK at 1,900 MHz stably.

If you’re not committed to running all your cores at identical speeds, it appears that AM4 motherboard manufacturers will add the ability to overclock AMD CCXes (AMD CPU’s core complexes). This will allow users to overclock the processor’s cores to different speeds, instead of imposing a single clock speed on every core.

There may never be a “Year of the Linux desktop” per se, but Linux on Windows, via the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), is certainly gaining popularity. Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, has just announced it will help sponsor WSLConf, the first WSL-specific conference.

Hayden Barnes, the founder of Whitewater Foundry, a startup focusing on Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and sponsor of Pengwin, Whitewater’s Linux for Windows, started the conference. WSLconf will be held from March 10 to March 11, 2020, at Building 20 on the Microsoft HQ campus in Redmond, Wash.

Canonical, which recently revealed it’s making WSL a priority for Ubuntu, stated it would be a featured sponsor of WSLConf. Besides Canonical, Microsoft, and Whitewater Foundry, speakers from Docker, Kali Linux, Rancher Labs, and wslutilities will also appear at the conference.

WSL is meant primarily for developers and system administrators, not ordinary end-users. For example, at the conference, there will be talks on building Kubernetes on WSL; demos of WSL integration with the Visual Studio and JetBrains IDEs; and WSL for long-time Unix/Linux system administrators.

At the same time, Microsoft is also extending its office programs to the traditional Linux desktop. For the first time, an MS-Office program, Microsoft Teams, will be available to run natively on Linux.

At one time, the idea that the Windows and Linux desktops would cross-pollinate with each other would be dismissed as downright silly. That was then. This is now. The two rival desktops are integrating. Who would have guessed?