How To Make Your iPhone Home Button Last Longer

There are two most important buttons on the iPhone that you won't want to lose. That is the Power button and the Home button. If your power button is faulty you are going to feel it as you won't be able to perform many actions like screenshot, DFU mode options among others. yet another one you don't want to get faulty is the Home button.

While there are few times in a day we use the Power button on the iPhone, the Home button is used several times daily. During this frequent usage, the button could get weak. In other to avoid this, the following tips should help in making the home button last longer.

1. Use Assistive touch

Assistive Touch is one great feature that comes with the iPhone. Its a virtual Home button bundles into iPhone and it has being since the first iPhone.

With the virtual Home button, you can do most operations that the physical home button would do except to put a device into DFU mode which is something you do rarely.

To activate Assistive Touch, go to Settings-->Genera-->Accessibility-->AssistiveTouch and toggle it ON

2. Activator

Activator is a very efficient and useful app found in a lot of jailbroken iDevices. It allows you to set a set specific gestures to control or perform certain tasks. For example, you can set that tapping the battery notification should activate screenshot. The things you can do with Activator is endless.

If your devices is jailbroken then you should definitely give it a try. It will save your Home button from breaking.

For those with a jailbroken iPhone you would find Activator in Settings and then scroll down to reveal it. All settings are found under this.

3. Zephyr

Zephyr is another app that can make your Home button last longer if you have configured it well. Just like Activator, it can only be found in Cydia store and only works for jailbroken Apple devices.

With these 3 tips, one of them if not all can be of great help when you want to the physical Home button some slack in other to make it last longer.

Like our Facebook page and follow us on Twitter for more smartphone tips and guides.

Comments

How To Root Tecno Phantom A (Tecno F7)

There are no limit to the possibilities one can achieve on a rooted Android device compared to one that isn't rooted. As you know, Rooting is to Androin as Jailbreak is to iOS. For those that don't know what rooting means, a little definition will suffice. Rooting basically means that you install a set of programs on your phone that gives you total control over your device. Total control means that you have the right to install any applications or even delete core applications that you don't want. Simply put, you have administrative rights over your device, giving you super user access, and of course, you can use DroidVPN to have free unlimited internet. The guide below shows how you can root Tecno Phantom A also known as Tecno F7 and its super easy to achieve. Don't forget to like us on Facebook. Requirements 1. Computer with internet connection 2. PdaNet+ V4.12 zipped file 3. eroot_v1.3.3 zipped file 4. USB to connect your device to the

Infinix Alpha Ultimate Force Smartphone: Pros and Cons

Okay, we know Infinix is really gearing up now and are working tirelessly to bring nice smartphones to its loyal customers especially in Nigeria. That being said, a new Infinix smartphone is now with the name Infinix Alpha or X570 which comes right after the Infinix Race Max Q . One cannot really say how successful the Race Max Q was, but it could be safe to assume that it did below expectations seeing how Tecno Phantom A and A+ dominated the market scene in Nigeria and other African countries where they operate. So, what is in this Infinix Alpha that can change the table in favour of Infinix this time around? See the specifications below to get you started. A video review also available here Infinix Alpha is a 5.7 inch capacitive touchscreen with a screen resolution of 720 x 1280, 12 mega pixel rear camera plus 5 mega pixel front camera with 1GB of RAM and a 1.2GHz Quad core processor and Android Jelly Bean 4.2.1 smartphone. Furthermore, its a

Tecno M3 Specifications and Features

Tecno is making the news again after a slight break. This time around Tecno have released a low-end smartphone called Tecno M3 for those that are on a tight budget. This phone comes with 8GB internal memory card, USB adapter & charger, earphone and a plastic case. Although Tecno L3 and D3 are almost the same with M3, M3 has a better camera (5mp) with more swift feel especially when browsing. L3 on the other hand has a better battery performance but much slower internet speed. As we said in one of our posts, the 3 is a designation for low-end devices and the newly released L3 and M3 is proof of that. For a device of the price, feel and usage is smooth enough. Make sure you check the speaker of your M3 since some have reported that its not too clear. Below is the specifications of the M3 low-end smartphone. Network : the new M3 supports both 2G and 3G networks Connectivity : Bluetooth 3.0 with Advanced Audio Distribution Profile (A2DP). It also has

All About Smartphones

Search This Blog