Tips for Apple iPhone - Forced quit – iPhone button customization- Keyboard short cuts - mobiles and smartphones repair and service
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Contents of this article
- Force Quit
- Adding now words
- Keyboard shortcuts
Apple iPhoneTips
TIPS
Force Quit
Press and hold the "Sleep/Wake"
button for a few seconds until a red slider appears, and then slide the slider.
Then press and hold the "Sleep/Wake" button until the Apple logo appears.
If the entire iPhone locks up - it can happen - press and hold both the "Home" button and the "Sleep/Wake" switch for eight seconds. You’ll see the screen go black, and then the Apple logo appears as the iPhone reboots.
If the entire iPhone locks up - it can happen - press and hold both the "Home" button and the "Sleep/Wake" switch for eight seconds. You’ll see the screen go black, and then the Apple logo appears as the iPhone reboots.
Application download Pause
Taps on the application icon while it’s
downloading and you’ll see the text change to "Paused". When you’re
ready to resume this download touch the icon again and you’ll see the text
revert back.
DFU Mode
To do this you need to turn your device off.
When it is completely off, push and hold the power button. Count to 5 and then
push and hold the home button (keeping the power button pressed down still).
Count to 10 and then let go of the power button (keeping the home button pressed
down). Count to 30 and you should hear some notification that the device has
been put into DFU mode. Now you can restore it in iTunes.
Screen Shot
Hold the Home button, then hit the
"Power/Sleep" button, the screen will momentarily flash, and the
iPhone’s current screen contents will be saved to the Camera Roll.
Scrolling up
Simply touch the "Status Bar" at
the very top of the screen (this is where the time is). When you’re in
MobileSafari and the Mail application you will automatically scroll back up to
the top of the page (or email).
Auto TLD
You have to have Google set as the default
search engine for this to work. After this is set, you can just put
"apple" into the browser, and press "Go". It’ll automatically
take you to the Apple website.
Set content restriction
General -> Restrictions" then tap
Enable Restrictions and enter a four-digit passcode to restrict your content.
Restrict incoming calls
To stop an incoming call from ringing, press
the "Sleep/Wake" button. To send the call immediately to VoiceMail,
press the "Sleep/Wake" button twice.
How to hide SMS preview
"General -> Passcode Lock" and
enter a 4-digit passcode. After that disable "Show SMS Preview"
Scientific Calculator
You can turn it either way (left or right)
and you’ll see the calculator go into landscape mode where you see your extra
features/buttons.
How to share the URIs
A small Share button popped up in Safari,
which created a new email and pasted the link into the body. Just hit the address
bar to find it.
Punctuation keys to alphabet keys
To solve it, just press the ".?123"
key, but don’t lift your finger as the punctuation layout appears. Slide your
finger a half inch onto the period or comma key, and release. The ABC layout
returns automatically.
Including extra punctuation keys
Touch and hold the punctuation key and you get
a set of additional keys to choose from.
Wi-Fi IP
When you need to SSH into your iPhone or iPod
touch you need to find out your local IP address.
Scrolling Safari
If you’re scrolling through Safari, the
address bar comes with you, disappearing after the first few swipes. But no
matter how far down you’ve scrolled, tapping the top of the screen (where the
network and wireless icons are) will instantly rocket you back to the address
bar.
If you haven’t been to a site with a drop-down search field (like the country chooser on Apple.com), go do so. Apple has even found a way to make that enjoyable.
If you haven’t been to a site with a drop-down search field (like the country chooser on Apple.com), go do so. Apple has even found a way to make that enjoyable.
Select other domain name endings
When you type a website URL in the address
bar, you can now hold down the ".com" button to get a selection of
other domain name endings and tap on any of the endings to insert them in the
address bar.
Select other domain name endings
Tap "Setting -> General -> Network
-> Cellular Data Network". In the "APN, Username and
Password" field, simply type in some words so iPhone will not pass the
correct values to service providers. Restart your iPhone if necessary.
Train your iPhone to learn new words
You can train your phone to
"remember" words if you type them repeatedly, but this tutorial will
teach you a better way to train your iPhone to learn new words on the fly.
Sensors
The iPhone has three cool sensors. First, it
has an accelerometer that detects when you’ve rotated the iPhone into landscape
orientation. In programs like Photos, Safari, and iPod, it triggers the screen
image to rotate as well.
Behind the black glass where you can’t see
them except with a bright flashlight are two more sensors: a proximity sensor
that shuts off the screen illumination and touch sensitivity when the phone is
against your head (it works only in the Phone application), and an
ambient-light sensor that brightens the display when you’re in sunlight and
dims it in darker places.
It experimented with having the light sensor
active all the time, but it was weird to have the screen get brighter and
darker all the time. So the sensor now samples the ambient light, and adjusts
the brightness; it does this only once-each time you unlock the phone after
waking it.
You can use that tip to your advantage. By
covering up the sensor (just above the earpiece) as you unlock the phone, you
force it to a low-power, dim screen-brightness setting (because the phone believes
that it’s in a dark room). Or by holding it up to a light as you wake it, you
get full brightness. In both cases, you’ve saved all the taps and navigation it
would have taken you to find the manual brightness slider in Settings.
How to make full screen contact pictures
Browse to the contact and tap edit.
Tap on the photo.
Tap edit photo.
After it opens in fullscreen, tap set photo and save the contact.
Tap on the photo.
Tap edit photo.
After it opens in fullscreen, tap set photo and save the contact.
Customize the iPod buttons
The iPod module on the iPhone starts out with
buttons along the bottom for summoning four lists: Playlists, Artists, Songs,
and Videos.
What about Albums, Genres and Composers?
They’re there, all right, but hidden; you have to tap "More" to see them.
But what if you use those lists more often than Artists or Songs? No problem: you can replace one of those starter buttons with a list of your own.
Tap "More", and then tap the "Edit" button (upper-left corner). You arrive at the
Configure screen. Here’s the complete list of music-and-video sorting lists:
Albums, Podcasts, Audiobooks, Genres, Composers, Compilations, Playlists, Artists, Songs, and Videos.
To replace one of the four starter icons, use a finger to drag an icon from the top half of the screen downward, directly onto the existing icon you want to replace. It lights up to show the success of your drag.
When you release your finger, you’ll see that the new icon has replaced the old one. Tap "Done" in the upper-right corner.
What about Albums, Genres and Composers?
They’re there, all right, but hidden; you have to tap "More" to see them.
But what if you use those lists more often than Artists or Songs? No problem: you can replace one of those starter buttons with a list of your own.
Tap "More", and then tap the "Edit" button (upper-left corner). You arrive at the
Configure screen. Here’s the complete list of music-and-video sorting lists:
Albums, Podcasts, Audiobooks, Genres, Composers, Compilations, Playlists, Artists, Songs, and Videos.
To replace one of the four starter icons, use a finger to drag an icon from the top half of the screen downward, directly onto the existing icon you want to replace. It lights up to show the success of your drag.
When you release your finger, you’ll see that the new icon has replaced the old one. Tap "Done" in the upper-right corner.
Save images in safari and mail
Touch and hold an image in Safari or Mail, an
action sheet will be presented to enable you to save the image. The image will
get stored in the "Saved Photos" library of the Photos app.
Access iPod controls or phone favorites instantly
Go to "Settings -> General -> Home
Button". Double taping the home button goes to "Home",
"Phone Favorites" or "iPod Controls".
Forward/rewind music & video
Press and hold the skip forward/back arrows
to fast forward or rewind rather than skip tracks. Also, press on the album art
to manually FF/rewind.
iPhone as a Modem
You can use iPhone 3G or later as a modem to
connect, or tether, your computer to the Internet. You can connect iPhone to
your computer using the Dock
Connector to USB Cable, or via Bluetooth.
In Settings, choose "General -> Network -> Internet Tethering".
Slide the Internet Tethering switch to On.
Connect iPhone to your computer
Connector to USB Cable, or via Bluetooth.
In Settings, choose "General -> Network -> Internet Tethering".
Slide the Internet Tethering switch to On.
Connect iPhone to your computer
USB: Connect your computer to iPhone, using the Dock Connector to USB
Cable.
In your computer’s Network services settings, choose iPhone.
On a Mac, a pop-up window appears the first time you connect, saying "A new network interface has been detected". Click Network Preferences, configure the network settings for iPhone, then click Apply. On a PC, use the Network Control Panel to configure the iPhone connection.
In your computer’s Network services settings, choose iPhone.
On a Mac, a pop-up window appears the first time you connect, saying "A new network interface has been detected". Click Network Preferences, configure the network settings for iPhone, then click Apply. On a PC, use the Network Control Panel to configure the iPhone connection.
Bluetooth: On iPhone, choose "Settings -> General ->
Bluetooth" and turn on
Bluetooth. Then refer to the documentation that came with your computer system software to pair and connect iPhone with your computer.
When you’re connected, a blue band appears at the top of the screen. Tethering remains on when you connect with USB, even when you aren’t actively using the Internet connection.
Monitor your cellular data network usage:
In Settings, choose "General -> Usage".
Bluetooth. Then refer to the documentation that came with your computer system software to pair and connect iPhone with your computer.
When you’re connected, a blue band appears at the top of the screen. Tethering remains on when you connect with USB, even when you aren’t actively using the Internet connection.
Monitor your cellular data network usage:
In Settings, choose "General -> Usage".
Double-Tapping
In Photos, Google Maps, and Safari (the Web
browser), double-tapping zooms in on whatever you tap, magnifying it by a
factor of two.
In the same programs, as well as Mail, double-tapping means, "restore to original size" after you’ve zoomed in. (Weirdly, in Google Maps, you use a different gesture to zoom out: tap once with two fingers. That gesture appears nowhere else on the iPhone.)
In the same programs, as well as Mail, double-tapping means, "restore to original size" after you’ve zoomed in. (Weirdly, in Google Maps, you use a different gesture to zoom out: tap once with two fingers. That gesture appears nowhere else on the iPhone.)
When you’re watching a video, double-tapping
eliminates or restores letterbox bars.
Standard TV shows are squarish, not rectangular.
So when you watch TV shows, you get black letterbox columns on either side of
the picture.
Movies have the opposite problem. They’re too
wide for the iPhone screen. So when you watch movies, you wind up with letterbox
bars above and below the picture.
How to maximize battery life
a. Turn down the LCD. The new iPhone’s screen
is brighter. You may save your battery power by changing "Settings -> Brightness".
I keep mine at 10% brightness.
b. Turn off Vibrate in Games. Playing a game with vibrate happening frequently is an unnecessary battery suck. If you can turn it off.
c. Limit use of A-GPS tracking. GPS tracking is still pretty useless after you've gained your bearings, since there isn't a turn by turn navigation mode for driving.
I exit out of maps once I've got the directions in my mind, and if I lose myself again, I just start maps up once more.
d. Turn off Wi-Fi new network scanning or Wi-Fi
b. Turn off Vibrate in Games. Playing a game with vibrate happening frequently is an unnecessary battery suck. If you can turn it off.
c. Limit use of A-GPS tracking. GPS tracking is still pretty useless after you've gained your bearings, since there isn't a turn by turn navigation mode for driving.
I exit out of maps once I've got the directions in my mind, and if I lose myself again, I just start maps up once more.
d. Turn off Wi-Fi new network scanning or Wi-Fi
e. Toggle off 3G till ready.
f. Buy Apps and Songs in iTunes at your computer
not over Wi-Fi or Apps over 3G.
g. Set the Autolock to 1 or 2-minutes. It can be set under "Settings -> General -> Autolock".
h. Use programs with 3D less often. Not surprisingly, I've noticed that when I play games rendering 3D, battery life drops. Using the graphics chips more intensely will crank up power usage, but maybe the drain is also because of the nature of gaming: Unlike email or browsing, gaming is a full-time, full attention endeavor that also keeps the CPU, GPU and LCD going full-time. (I'd like to think this is a more useful tip than "don't use your iPhone" but maybe it's not something you can avoid if you're a gaming addict.)
I. Set Push to Off, and Set Fetch Time. Push email isn't that useful for me because I know I'm getting emails all day long and that I have to be checking all the time. Push does use more juice than the fetch mode, which checks for calendar, contact and email syncing at set intervals of 15 minutes to an hour. I set mine to 1 hour unless I'm out of the office. If you seldom update your contacts and calendars, you might even be better off syncing by cable to iTunes, while you pick up a charge.
J. Stay Juiced. If you're at computer or in a car, you should try to use a cigarette adapter or USB cable to pick up a few minutes of charge.
g. Set the Autolock to 1 or 2-minutes. It can be set under "Settings -> General -> Autolock".
h. Use programs with 3D less often. Not surprisingly, I've noticed that when I play games rendering 3D, battery life drops. Using the graphics chips more intensely will crank up power usage, but maybe the drain is also because of the nature of gaming: Unlike email or browsing, gaming is a full-time, full attention endeavor that also keeps the CPU, GPU and LCD going full-time. (I'd like to think this is a more useful tip than "don't use your iPhone" but maybe it's not something you can avoid if you're a gaming addict.)
I. Set Push to Off, and Set Fetch Time. Push email isn't that useful for me because I know I'm getting emails all day long and that I have to be checking all the time. Push does use more juice than the fetch mode, which checks for calendar, contact and email syncing at set intervals of 15 minutes to an hour. I set mine to 1 hour unless I'm out of the office. If you seldom update your contacts and calendars, you might even be better off syncing by cable to iTunes, while you pick up a charge.
J. Stay Juiced. If you're at computer or in a car, you should try to use a cigarette adapter or USB cable to pick up a few minutes of charge.
Keyboard Shortcuts 1
When typing on your iPhone’s keypad, if you make a mistake, and your iPhone offers up the correct word underneath your misspelling, click the SPACE bar to accept the suggestion. (To ignore the suggestion, just keep typing.)
When typing on your iPhone’s keypad, if you make a mistake, and your iPhone offers up the correct word underneath your misspelling, click the SPACE bar to accept the suggestion. (To ignore the suggestion, just keep typing.)
Keyboard Shortcuts 2
If you realize you’ve made a typing error a
few sentences back, tap your finger where the mistake was made to position the
cursor there. You can then correct the error, and use the same technique to
return to your previous position in the text.
Keyboard Shortcuts 4
Double-tab the SPACE bar to add a period
followed by a space
Keyboard Shortcuts 5
Double-tap a picture, map, or web page to
zoom in on it
Keyboard Shortcuts 6
In Safari, after scrolling to the bottom of
the page, tap the top of the screen to immediately return to the top of the
page.
Keyboard Shortcuts 7Visit yahoo/listings, click the + button, and click Add to Home Screen. You now have one-click access to your local TV listing. Okay, so I’m a TV junkie.
Keyboard Shortcuts 8
If you’ve ever flicked so hard that the web page you’re navigating scrolls way past where you want to be, you can stop scrolling by tapping the page during the scroll