Affordable Yu series Android phones from the house of Micromax are very popular in India and have a decent fan following of their own. Despite being offered with decent quality hardware and updated software at very competetive rates, as with other gadgets these mobiles also have issues of their own, - like the famous black screen bug in Yu Yureka, which we shared a fix earlier.

Having a custom recovery like TWRP installed comes very handy for nandroid backup, restore, wiping cache easily and even flashing custom ROM's easily. Here is how to install TWRP custom recovery on Yu Yuphoria phone the easily.

The latest Android Lollipop 5.X based Cyanogen OS 12 update brings a lot of new features to the Micromax Yureka YU, but at the same time introduces a annoying bug which breaks the proximity sensor functionality of the phone and the user is left struggling with blank screen during an incoming or outgoing call. One can imagine the frustration when screen is left in sleep state when receiving a call making it impossible to pick up, and unable to disconnect when the call gets picked up from an woken screen as the screen goes back into sleep mode. Thankfully there is a simple fix as shared ahead.

Yu is the brand-name given to a new line of products by Micromax aimed to counter the competition from likes of Xiaomi (Mi Vs Yu!!), the first smartphone of the series Yu Yureka offered a great combination of hardware and software (CyanogenMod) at an very affordable price. The handset recently got an update to Google Android 5 Lolipop (CyanogenMod 12), everything worked ok but it seems it introduced a bug which would result in blank screen when waked-up from lock-screen or after a reboot and also during calls. Here is how you can fix both issues - the black screen during the call and the blank screen after reboot or wake-up.

While the auction of 3G spectrum is still to happen for private telecommunication players in India, state owned telecom operator BSNL is slowly rolling out their 3G services across cities and towns across the country. If you are from the lucky few cities and towns where BSNL 3G service is available here are all the information you will need to get started with 3G internet on your supported devices.

Basically, you will be needing a 3G supporting Cellphone or Data-card (eg. Micromax 3G Data-card) with an activated BSNL 3G SIM card with proper recharges to use the service, do keep in mind that you can migrate your existing 2G BSNL SIM-Card to 3G plans with a Re. 1/- recharge but this is not advised as it will wipe-out all your existing enrolled special-tariff schemes and validity promos - you can get a new 3G SIM for just Rs. 59/- and an 3G activation top-up of Rs. 120/- under a special promo till 31-12-09 which also provides you following benefits.