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Unbrick or Recover Xiaomi Redmi 10A and other MTK devices

Case: Your Redmi 10A (probably other MTK devices too) is not turning on and doesn't react to any button pressed nor cable connection. Requisites:   Dead phone USB Cable  You tried tons of tutorials to unbrick the phone and didn't work This image Willingness to even use Linux to fix it (it's not hard) Steps: Create a bootable USB using the image downloaded. Make sure your computer allows booting from USB. Boot the computer from the bootable USB. When booting, a list of options will be shown. Pick the first one: Boot Live system. Once the system is loaded, go to the right-upper corner to connect to Wi-Fi. Once you have internet, use the Firefox browser (click on the icon in the left-upper corner) and download the Linux version of this tool (SP Flash) and save it in the desktop. Unzip the tool downloaded. Download the fastboot version of the stock ROM . Unzip the ROM, to have the folder and files. Click on 'MTK' icon that is in the desktop. In the command line opene

Reducing the Size of PowerPoint Presentations

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At work it's always required to make presentations in PowerPoint ... but sometimes these presentations have a considerable size that are needed to get smaller. And that is the reason of my next tip, which will help you with your big-sized presentations. I will use a PowerPoint file with 3 images on it and make a copy of it to prove that it's possible to reduce dramatically it size, let me show you the file itself and the 2 equal files that I have created.     Now, I will work with "Test with compressing" file to compress its images, because that's the key. The only thing you have to do is to select one image and go to "Compress Pictures" option which is located within "Picture Tools" ribbon.   Later, in the dialog box shown uncheck "Apply only to this picture" and pick "E-mail (96 ppi)", after that select "OK" button.   At this point the only thing that you have to do is to save you file and you wi