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Saturday, August 20, 2011

20 iPhone – Hacks, Tips and Tricks [Part 2]


11. Enabling Native Tethering on iPhone:
All you require is jailbroken iPhone. To enable native tethering on your iPhone you require TetherMeapplication that is available for only $2 from the AppStore. This app works for iOS 3.x and higher. Once you installed the app after downloading, you need to reboot the iPhone and then point to Settings and then to General and then click on the Network to enable or disable it.

Enabling Native Tethering on iPhone 20 iPhone   Hacks, Tips and Tricks
12. Locking the screen resolutions:
Suppose you are lying in a bed reading a book or viewing a web page on Safari, it can get sometimes very annoying when the orientation of the page keeps on flickering between portrait and landscape.This problem can be solved easily by double tapping the home button which will reveal the background running jobs.
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Then swipe your finger from left to right across the bar. The bar will now display various button like that of a typical music player along with an iPod icon which is used to start the iPod   application.
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Touch the left most button that will lock the screen in its current orientation. A message will appear that will show “Portrait Orientation Locked”. In order to revert back your changes simply tap the home button again.
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This works only for portrait orientation and not for landscape mode.
13. Tap to Zoom/Focus:
This trick has been tested on new iPhone 4 which has a 5 megapixel camera with very good zooming features.To use this trick, first focus any object, to do this simply tap anywhere on the screen. A white square will appear that will show the object that has been focussed along with a zoom bar which appears at the bottom.
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14. Soft Reset:
Sometimes, the device may not functioning properly or you are stuck at some point and you need to restart the your iPhone. To perform this operation of soft reset, simply hold the Home and Sleep buttons simultaneously until white flash screen appears. Keep on holding it until it restarts.
soft reset 20 iPhone   Hacks, Tips and Tricks

15. Turning off the Phone’s accelerometer:
Accelerometer is one of the most fabulous application, but still it can get annoying sometimes. To disable it you need to jailbreak your iPhone and follow these steps.
a. Jailbreaking the iPhone, First of all Go to Cydia and then Find Boss prefs and install boss prefs.
b. Now move back to Cydia and Find and install Rotation Inhibitor .
c. Toggle rotation and open Preferences (Boss Prefs) and then select various options.
d. You need to Lock your screen in portrait mode using the above method.

16. Moving apps between pages much quickly:
Moving apps the least used apps from one page to other can become a big headache for you. Users don’t know that all the apps, even those at the dock can be moved also. Instead of dragging the apps from one page to other, move it to the dock and then move them to the desired page.

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17. Increasing the number of icons on Home screen:
This tweak will help you in getting more icons on your the home screen. The Five-Column SpringBoard app will add the fifth column containing app icons on the screen. The app is freely available on Cydia. Just Follow the instructions to grab your copy.
a. First of all Launch Cydia and then Locate and install Five-Column SpringBoard.
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18. Enabling Emoji icons:
This requires Spell Number app that is freely available on the AppStore.

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After downloading and installation, simply follow these steps
a. Launch the application.
b. Type 91929394.59.
c. Then press the Home button and then go to Settings and point to General and select the Keyboards.
d. Select Emoji under Japanese.
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Delete the app because the emoji icons will still persist now.
19. How to stop the app crashes:
App crashes can occur anytime. So follow these steps to stop such unforeseen events.
a. Rebooting iPhone that is similar to restarting computer
b. Delete and Re-install the troubled apps
c. Restore the factory settings
d. Reduce clutter by removing the unused or useless apps

20.  Setting Content Restriction:
To set restrictions on your iPhone just go to General – Restrictions and then simply tap it to enable restrictions and enter the password of four digits.
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