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6 Useful How To’s for Safari in iPhone

Given under are 6 useful iPhone tips which are very useful in the daily safari browsing, these might be some basic tips but are very useful in the daily life of an iPhone user.

These tips are pretty basic but are not known by many iPhone users and they struggle to do some basic stuff in the browser like:

Saving an Image, to scroll up to the top, to know the link of the website in the linked text . . . . etc

Hope these tips are useful in browsing Safari better and easily.

How to Force Quit a Frozen or Stuck iPhone App

With the older versions of the iPhone for example the iPhone 3G and the iPhone 2G, you will most probably be experiencing the problem of a Frozen or a Stuck iPhone App which does not respond.

This can be mainly useful with the Jail broken iPhone in which we constantly come across this problem, and there is actually a simple solution to this problem which many are not aware of.

This technique can be used on all the iPhone apps available in the store.

The Problem: A Frozen or a Stuck iPhone App

purplera1n – Jailbreak’s iPhone 3GS

purplera1n is the new Jailbreaking software for the all new iPhone 3GS is open for the public, given out by not the Dev-Team but a Boy named ‘George Hotz’ who was apparently fed up by the long wait Dev-Team is giving for the new unlock. This is what he has to say about it:

Normally I don’t make tools for the general public, and rather wait for the dev team to do it. But guys, whats up with waiting until 3.1? That isn’t how the game is played. We release, Apple fixes, we find new holes. It isn’t worth waiting because you might have the “last” hole in the iPhone. What last hole…this isn’t golf. I’ll find a new one next week.

How to increase iPhone Battery life

Here i am going to jot down some basic but essential tips which will help in increasing the relatively low battery life of your iPhone.
This is what is given in Apple’s Official blog:

The most important thing is to keep your iPhone out of the sun or a hot car (including the glove box). Heat will degrade your battery’s performance the most.

Apart from this great suggestion from Apple i am going to give some tips, by following these you can considerably increase your battery life.

How to Unlock iPhone 3G with Redsn0w and ultrasn0w

The unlock for iPhone 3G aka Redsn0w and Ultrasn0w which were released some time back, were the Tools helpful in this successful unlock.

(Unlock iPhone 3G 4.0.2 using RedsnOw 0.9.5- click here for tutorial)

So here are the STEPS / Tutorial to Unlock iPhone 3G with firmware 3.0 OS

Tools Used:

  1. Macbook with  Mac OS X 10.5.7
  2. iPhone
  3. Redsn0w
  4. iPhone to PC connector
  5. Pawnage tool ( Tried using the pawnage tool but was uncessfull as the phone could not enter the DFU mode)

STEPS:

1) Download redsn0w and Install it.

How to Enter Airplane Mode in iPhone 3G

Go to the Settings and then you can see that the first icon is the option showing Airplane mode ON (or) OFF.

All you have to do is just tap on the slider to activate what you want.

This option makes your iPhone into an iTouch as the Phone options are disabled.

How to Transfer Call to Voice Mail in iPhone

If you want to send your call into Vocie mail or just want to silence the call then all you have to do is:

How to Silence the Call:

When you are recieving the call and want to silence it, all you have to do is

  1. Press the sleep button when you are recieving the call, and the call is silenced.
  2. The other way is to turn off the Vibration option and the Ringtone in your settings.

How to Send your call into Voice Mail:

How to Set your iPhone to Sleep

If you are going to sleep and listening to some soothing songs in your iPhone and want your phone to go into sleep mode without you having to pause it or close it.

You have to know about the hidden option of your iPhone seen in the Clock App.
1) Tap the Clock icon on the Home Screen.

2)Then Click on the Timer icon on the Right side lower border of the page opened.


3) Then set the count down time which you want.

4)Then click on the “When the Timer Ends” button to get the settings which we want like the “Sleep iPod” option.

How to Switch off Your iPhone 3G (or) 3GS


To switch off your iPhone  and iPhone 3G and the iPhone 3GS, is a very simple process but seems difficult as there is no specified button like in that of Nokia which shows the Red button telling that it is a switch off button. The process of Switching of your iPhone is to:

  1. Hold down the Sleep button for 5 seconds.
  2. A Red Slider appears showing “Slide to Power Off” and a “Cancel” button in case you dont want to switch off the iPhone.
  3. Then you have to slide the slider to Switch it off.

How to refresh your Nokia Mobile Phones

How to refresh your Nokia Mobile Phone  ?

Are you thinking of refreshing your Nokia mobile, then just go to the main menu and type  *#7780# then it asks u whether to Restore all original phone settings?

It works for all the Nokia Phones including the new phone released by nokia like the N series, 5800, E series, Music phones. . etc

If you select this the mobile will switch off on its own and no need to panic why the phone got switched off it is just a part of the procedure the phone switches off and then refreshes itself and switches it On.