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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

Stop Spam or Phishing Email Without Filtering

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Case: You receive spam or phishing in your email inbox and you want to avoid it without using the spam or phishing filter. Requisites: None. Steps: Open the email in your inbox.   Show email's header, in Gmail use the 'Show original' option.  In the header, find the 'Received: from' section and copy the IP address (last numbers between brackets). Go to https://check-host.net/ip-info , put the IP in the textbox and click on 'Info'. Look for the 'Whois' section and click on 'Retrieve whois data'. Look for any 'abuse' section where you can get the email to report the spam or phishing email. Report the situation to the email you just found. Results: The IP that sent the email reported will stop sending spam or phishing emails.