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Normally, you can force quit an iPhone application by pressing and holding down the HOME button for around 6-8 seconds in firmware 2.2 or lower. But as Apple released the iPhone 3.0 OS, this method does no longer work. The HOME button shortcut is now preserved for invoking Voice Control, which is a new feature [...]
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This is a iPhone tip for newbie. In some situations (e.g. jailbreak), you’ll need to know the firmware version or baseband version. Where can you retrieve this information from iPhone?
That’s very simple. All the iPhone configuration information are resided inside the “Settings” screen. For both firmware and baseband version, they can also be found [...]
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You may have already experienced this…
Open up an iPhone application, it just freezes and hangs there. You probably try to press and hold the POWER button to turn off the iPhone, but it doesn’t respond.
This is not uncommon for you to encounter the above hang problem as you install more iPhone applications. A friend [...]
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I got a couple of emails from some iPhone new comers asking about:
How do I change the email signature on iPhone?
As you probably know, Apple has configured all iPhones with a default email signature – “Sent from my iPhone”. That’s really cool to show off to the email recipient that you own an iPhone. But [...]
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You know, for any incoming SMS message, iPhone will automatically show you a preview of the message. For whatever reason (e.g. privacy), not everyone expect to have this kind of preview.
So, how do you disable SMS Preview on iPhone?
That’s pretty easy. But it’s required to enable password lock to disable the SMS preview.
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When you launch an iPhone application, it actually stays in the system memory and takes up some amount of resources. Probably you assume that the application is gone when you press the Home button to go back to home screen. But actually it’s not. That iPhone application will still stay in the memory, so it [...]
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At first, I think it’s trivial. But from time to time, I have been asked:
I bought a new iPhone. How can I import SIM card contacts from my old phone to the new iPhone?
You may know the answer. But for iPhone new comer, this quick tip is for you to start using your brand new [...]
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As you may know, I’m just back from Beijing. During my trip, I used to switch on airplane mode to avoid any roaming charge. But sometimes, when I was in a cafe with free Wifi, I turned the Wifi on again. Everything works really fine until I was back home. When I tried to connect [...]
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The Weather application on iPhone is one of my frequently-used applications. This is a great application that shows me the live weather information. Normally, the weather icon is a static image and you tap on the weather icon to gain access to live weather information.
Would it be great if the weather icon dynamically shows [...]
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