How to Turn Off SIM PIN on Xiaomi, Redmi and POCO (MIUI & HyperOS)

I put a new SIM card into my Xiaomi Redmi Note 4X, and after every restart the phone asked for the SIM PIN first. The PIN was the default 0000 — nothing secret, but typing it every time is pointless. Here is how to turn the SIM PIN request off.

Fastest way on any Xiaomi, Redmi or POCO: open Settings, tap the search bar at the top and type SIM card lock. Open the result, pick your SIM, switch Lock SIM card off and enter the current PIN. Done.

You need the SIM card inserted and you need to know its current PIN — this is the PIN of the SIM card, not the phone’s screen lock.

Below is the step-by-step path with screenshots (MIUI 9.5; my phone’s menu is in Russian, but the layout is the same in English).

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Canon MF3228 Won’t Scan on Windows 10 x64 — Fix

I ran into a problem: the Canon MF3228 multifunction printer doesn’t scan on 64-bit Windows 10!

A good old workhorse, the Canon MF3228

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ASUS Anti-Surge: What It Is and Why Your PC Shuts Down

Many Asus motherboards have a feature called Anti-Surge.

Anti-Surge is an ASUS technology that protects the motherboard and expensive components from power supply voltage spikes: it monitors the voltages and shuts the PC down if they go out of range.

It’s a useful thing: in my case it worked exactly as it should and told me in time that the power supply needed replacing.

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Ingress Power Cube — a Power Bank for Ingress Agents

The world’s first battery made for Ingress agents — the Ingress Power Cube!

A stylish power cube from cheero.

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SoundMAX AD1986A Driver for Windows 7 — Download (No Sound Fix)

On my old Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard the sound disappeared after upgrading to Windows 7.

The Asus M2NPV-VM is a nice, big board with plenty of RAM slots, onboard video and a SoundMAX AD1986A audio codec.

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