Top 6 ways to solve the bad "Home" button of iPhone

There is only one key of iPhone,it is "Home",when the key is broken,what do you repair it? there are 8 ways to help you fix your "Home" key!

1、Flick Home key
Fingers gently playing Home, after a while，it may appear white dirt, followed repeat "bomb", until be the normal.

2、Software debugging
First of all, open one application and hold power switch a few seconds until the screen appears sliding key indicator. At this time you can let go of power key, but don't slip off, and at the same time, press the Home button a few seconds, until the return to Springboard. So you have to adjust the Home key, and should be used normally. But if you try to use the key, but it still can't work, which can judge that is hardware problem, it needs to find apple after-sales maintenance center to solve.

3、Alcohol method
Tools: medical alcohol, cotton ball, tweezers.
A, close mobile phone.
B, iPhone and ground a 45 degree Angle, home button in the next phone.
C, with forceps take a alcohol sponge on home button, tweezers clamp force hold alcohol cotton, let alcohol seepage, the home button edge wiped back and forth.
D, so repeated, wait for alcohol volatile

4、External power method
With external power supply in iPhone, according to the home key, until speech interface appearing, take the external power off.

5、Upgrade iOS5 use gestures function
Why to say iOS5 upgrade, because iOS5 firmware of Assistive Touch gestures function can let you completely farewell Home key, all of the exit, lock screen operation, you can AssistiveTouch in finish. If you upgrade for iOS5 firmware, please in turn open "Settings" - > "universal" - > "auxiliary function" - > "AssistiveTouch" open can use it.

6、Take to Customer Service Executive
This way is the last way you can do to repair your iPhone.

Cook: as long as the iPhone is the best mobile phone in the world, we are not afraid

In the apple conference call of its quarter report today, someone asked apple CEO Tim Cook how the relationship between apple with telecommunication operators, although recently, there are some operators response for iPhone payment is too high, but Tim Cook is still only mention lightly, says as long as the iPhone is the best phone, operators would still be cooperation with apple.

Cook said, no matter how to say, operators will be to give users cell phone that they want to buy, so for apple, as long as making the iPhone become the world's best mobile phone, you need not consider so many other problems.

For operators of subsidies, cook says actually subsidies is only a tiny number if we compare with every month of the users pay monthly fees. Operators of the iPhone will sell the 24 months let users use within the network, and their subsidies money can easily earn back in these two years.

But compared to other Android phone, the iPhone operator subsidies is higher. But cook said iPhone users for operators of loyalty to the benefits of operators are also important.

For our customers, we just choose the best cell phone, if apple fall behind with other mobile phone, we will select other product without hesitation, so, I think the technology is the key of a company, and the competition will put forward the world!

How to continue to use your iPhone, when you lost your password

iOS password system is very safe. A password is enough to protect equipment of user personal information security. But such a secure a system may be a trouble when user forgot the password! Have you ever forgot password around and looking for ways to solve? Here we give everybody to recommend a plugin Plan B, let you also can use your mobile phone when you forget passwords.

Plan B allows users control their mobile phones in the condition of who has lost the password. Such as above, this kind of plugin will add a button in lock screen, click on the same dialog box will jump out requires users to answer the two problems. If a user can correctly answer these two problems, so even if don't enter the password can also continue to use iOS devices.

After you Installation of this plugin, users must set in application of Plan B for setting. First set good questions, then input the answer. Here to remind everybody, you entered every answer characters must be exactly the same with pre-settings characters-including case which are sensitive. If the user input answer is wrong, that nature is unable to use the equipment.

If friends need this kind of plugin, you can download it in ModMyi repo, sells for $1.

How to use iPhone sharing mobile phone network?

MyWi also allows you through the 3 G data to create a WiFi hotspot use data source routing distribution as connecting multiple devices. Yes, through your iPhone sharing network to multiple devices. Whether iPad, Macbook, or Mac Mini are from your iPhone signal will get the data link.

Create WIFI hotspot easy enough, Just put the WiFi MyWi menu Shared switch on.

In application, you can give WiFi set account name, it also can set WEP password protection. MyWi function make appear problem, application also provides an Auto Fix options to help you to repair. Sometimes appear small problem, as long as the users click the Auto-Fix options. MyWi does not do anything, as long as restart iPhone that is all settled.

Are you waiting for the new iPhone?

We have used iPhone and iPhone 4s for several years, some people consider it is fine, and some other individuals see it not perfect, it has flaw! So, some people are waiting for the new iPhone, are you waiting for the new iPhone?

New iPhone will use a much smaller 19-pin mini dock connector, says report. It is said that apple’s 30-pin dock connector is no more exsiting, the iPhone 5 will be with the feature of 19-pin dock connector, which will be faster than iPhone and iPhone 4s when we connect it to the Internet.

If you are waiting for the new iPhone, the date when does the new iPhone come out is your caring about, there are some rumors from 2011 to now, some say the new iPhone came in 2011 and also some say last month, from these rumors we can guess that the new iPhone will come out in October.

In general,, if you are apple fan, and like iPhone very much, I think you will care the price of the new iPhone, There is no doubt that the price will be more expensive than iPhone and iPhone 4s, because iPhone 5 has mixed new technology. Let’s wait for the new iPhone together!

IPad Boom Strains Lithium Supplies, Lifts Prices

Investors from JPMorgan Chase & Co. to BlackRock Inc. are trying to make money from the exploding popularity of iPads and increasing sales of hybrid cars by investing in producers of lithium for batteries.

Prices for the conductive metal, the lightest in the periodic table, have tripled since 2000 in a market now worth $1 billion a year as uses expand in vehicles, ceramics, electronics and lubricants. Apple Inc. (AAPL) (AAPL) and Toyota Motor Corp. (7203), maker of the Prius electric-gasoline car, have few alternatives as they pursue higher performance and mobility, leading Dahlman Rose & Co. analysts to forecast lithium demand will double by 2020.

Talison Lithium Ltd. (TLH), whose shares have gained 22 percent in the last month, together with Soc. Quimica & Minera de Chile SA, Rockwood Holdings Inc. and FMC Corp. (FMC) (FMC), account for almost 95 percent of world supply. Rio Tinto Group (RIO), the third-biggest mining company, may join the largest suppliers if it goes ahead with a mine in Serbia it says is capable of producing 20 percent of global output of the metal.

“There are some companies now that we think are attractive to get a hold of lithium exposure,” Evy Hambro, who manages about $13 billion in mining stocks for BlackRock in London, said in an interview. “We’ve got a small exposure today and we’re looking for some more,” he said without naming any companies.

Demand for lithium-ion rechargeable batteries out of Asia has helped prices climb threefold in the last 12 years, London- based Roskill Information Services Ltd. analyst Robert Baylis said. Global use doubled from 2000 to 2011 according to Roskill, which has recently consulted on six lithium projects.
Lithium Oligopoly

The advantage of lithium-ion over other battery types is that a typical cell can generate more electricity than competing cells like such as lead-acid. There is about 1.7 grams (0.6 ounces) of lithium carbonate equivalent in a mobile phone, 2.1 grams in a smart phone and 20 grams in a tablet, according to Dahlman Rose.

There will be a “step change,” in the global lithium industry in 2016 or 2017 when electric cars became more commonplace, Rockwood Chief Executive Officer Seifollah Ghasemi said. Hybrid electric vehicles that are fitted with a lithium- ion battery contain about 1.3 kilograms (2.9 pounds) of the material, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles have about 12.8 kilograms, while an electric vehicle uses about 19.2 kilograms.

The four-strong lithium “oligopoly has the capacity to significantly ramp supply higher, but it will take time and significant capital to accomplish,” Dahlman Rose analysts Anthony Young and Anthony Rizzuto said in a May 16th report. “There are a limited number of known high-grade resources that can be economically extracted and there has not been a new lithium mine constructed in the last 25 years.”
Biggest Producer

Global consumption may jump to 300,000 metric tons a year by 2020 from about 150,000 tons now, Dahlman Rose said in a June 7 report. Demand for lithium batteries has been growing at about 25 percent a year, outpacing the 4 percent to 5 percent overall gain in lithium, the firm said.

“Anywhere between a doubling and a tripling of demand in the next 10 years is absolutely our view,” Peter Oliver, CEO of Talison, the biggest producer, said in an interview. “Maybe a doubling is with minimal impact from electric vehicles and if electric vehicles take off in a big way in the next 10 years it could be as much as tripling.”

Neil Gregson, manager of about $6.9 billion in natural resource assets at JPMorgan Asset Management, said in an interview in London he’s studying investing in the industry. “You can’t see any reason why that won’t be a high growth market for many, many years. It’s a very interesting area.”
Ponce, Kravis

Rio is researching the development of its Jadar lithium- boron operation at a time when other suppliers are expanding output to meet rising demand. Talison, the Perth-based company with a market share of about 32 percent, completed an expansion at its Greenbushes mine in Western Australia this month that has allowed it to double production capacity.

THis aticle comes from:http://www.businessweek.com/news/2012-06-19/ipad-boom-strains-lithium-supplies-after-prices-triple

What is iPhone Jailbroken

Prison break is to point to open the operation of the user permissions, allows users to change any part of the random integration.

Only after the success of the iphone prison breakThe file system will be in (rw) state, you can install and run the third party programs without official authentication. These software are refused for some reason and (usually because violates the apple imho) or no MAC system developers, also may be the author refused to pay $100 to release their works. And it is able to use the software after prison break.

The iPhone iOS and other mobile phone system (such as Nokia's Symbian, Google's Android and so on the biggest different is, they are opening up the user's authority, and iOS user permission is extremely low. Simple said after the user's authentication, is RW (reading and writing), and cisco iOS user permissions only R (read only). So cisco iOS users can only be used after Apple validation (Apple Store in the purchase) application, other behavior cannot be changed on the system. this advantage is compared with other systems such as Nokia, Symbian, Android, iOS system under the condition of the stability of prison break extremely strong, death rate is extremely low...

By the way,you can use greenpoisOn to do prison break!

How to use Summerboard

Do you know the summerboard? we can choose our best like themes,may be you contacted them,let's talk about how to use summerboard.

First:method 1:Installation theme beautification Summerboard, 113,114 version need installing the Summerboard V3.2 version, and then it can be used
In the classification of IBUS version 2.0 system beautification Summerboard3.2 installation can be done.

Method 2:Connect the WIFI, click on the desktop installer icon, go into the System,  find SummerboardV3.2 in the directory,clicking on install, After installation you will find much more on the table, its a SMsB icon , that's right.Then open the iPhone PC SuiteV 1.0.0.2, (referred to as for PC suite),First used will be prompted to install daemon, that need to restart  twice and you can complete the installation of the procedure, according to the tip.


Click on the subject--and then the bell point SMB theme.The theme list show you five theme is SMB, we need to click on the add new theme to add your theme.

The following thing I think you have know,Ok,you have made a right decision,get your theme!

iPhone4 FaceTime function activate and method of use

(1) activation FaceTime function
1. Link to phones activated iTunes iPhone4, iPhone4 will automatically sent 
registering text messages to apple server, apple server receives registered
SMS messages, verification and registration, sent messages to the users
mobile phone number registered successfully , registration processes
completed, FaceTime function is enabled, the user can use FaceTime for video
calling.


2. If the automatically register failured  , iPhone4 provides manual activate
FaceTime method. That is, into the "Settings"-> "telephone" menu-make
FaceTime switch button be closed, and then let FaceTime switch button in the
open position.At this time iPhone4 will send registered SMS messages again,
after registration is successful, FaceTime function is enabled, the user can
use FaceTime for video calling.

3. If the user want system to upgrade through iTunes iPhone4 mobile phone ,
and choose never take the wifi iPhone 3 GS in restore backup, iPhone 4 mobile
phone menu options FaceTime switch can not be set. Should guide the user
operation are as follows: "Settings"-> "common"-- > "restoration"-- >
"restore all Settings" (interface such as wallpaper may return to original
state, but the iPhone 4 content will not lost); Since then to enter
"Settings"-> "telephone"-menu, open the FaceTime switch, by the above 2 steps
you can activate FaceTime function.

4. If the user want system to upgrade through iTunes iPhone4 mobile phone, and choose from the iPhone 3 GS with wifi in restore backup, iPhone4 mobile phone menu items will be no FaceTime switch option. Should guide the user according to the following operation restore system: make the iPhone4 cell phone connect to iTunes, click the iPhone equipment on the left of iTunes, and click on the right side of the iTunes "resume" button ,it will be made the iPhone4 returned to the latest version, activate the FaceTime function.

(2) using FaceTime function
Using a mobile phone iPhone4, call common voice on the phone to another one iPhone4 mobile phone ,  there is a FaceTime button in the middle of the panel, this button is gray at first and will not allow to click on the form, the called party answer, a caller to highlight the FaceTime button; A caller can click on FaceTime video calling to the other side puts forward button application, the called party can choose to refuse or accept, in the called party click accept after successfully established a FaceTime connection, into the video call interface. In the FaceTime, the original voice calls will disconnect, no longer produce words free.

(3) the necessary conditions of iPhone 4 FaceTime video calling
1. The FaceTime video phone must be both sides of iPhone4 users.
2. Both sides success in apple server registered FaceTime function.
3. Two iPhone4 must have cellular signal, can a phone call.
4. Both parties must successfully on WiFi network connection.

Top 3 iPhone video player software

iPhone is more and more popular now,we can do many things by iPhone,work,study,read,etc.while people spend most of time on watching videos,reading news and novels, and do you know how many video player software can we install on my iPhone and play videos well? Here we can talk about the top 3 iPhone video player.

1、RushPlayer
RushPlayer provides the most clear definition, play the fluency count times as many as in the same type of so-called all-around player. In the BBS website search engine, have been used for RushPlayer users, who are sharing amazing artifact, so smooth playback 720 p,1080 p MKV, RMVB, FLV and WMV film, and other players in the films are just one second of a frame PPT effect. At the same time RushPlayer beautiful of the UI and convenient operation, WIFI transmission, gestures operation, quality regulation and so on many kinds of practical function.

2、OPlayer
OPlayer can be used to enhance your iphone's media player ability, you can also use it to play the network of streaming media, now support HTTP protocol. Currently supporting file formats have mp3, wma, WMV, avi, FLV, rm, RMVB, mp3, 3 gp, MKV etc.
Characteristics:

• use WiFi transmission on the PC to download files to your iphone/ipod.
• built-in browser, can directly download video on the web site.
• built-in FTP client, can directly download video on the FTP server.
• can play any format audio video.-can broadcast network based on the video HTTP.-built-in basic file operations.

3、GoodPlayer
GoodPlayer is not only a local media player, or a network flow media player. As long as through the iTunes file sharing or Wi-Fi transmission media files to iOS devices, can immediately play; Or enter a streaming URL, also can play right away.

System requirements: and the iPhone 3 GS, iPhone 4 and iPod touch (the third generation), iPod touch (4 th generation), iPad compatibility. Need to iOS 3.2 or higher version support format: Xvid, Divx, WMV, MKV, RM, RMVB, AC3, HTTP, FTP, RTSP, MMS, MMSH, MMST, RTP and UDP and so on media file with the streaming media, GoodPlayer don't need to convert the media file format can play.

  Maybe you think that some other video player are also very good,Ofcourse you are right, I just recommend you three video players,you can have a try!

Former iPhone engineers hired by Zuckerberg

 
Rumors of a Facebook phone show no sign of abating, with the latest reports suggesting former Apple engineers who worked on the iPhone have been hired by Mark Zuckerberg to help build the device.

The New York Times’ Nick Bilton said his sources – who spoke on condition of anonymity – told him the company is hoping to launch its mobile phone “by next year.”

Bilton said in his report that Facebook had already hired “more than half a dozen Apple software and hardware engineers who worked on the iPhone, and one who worked on the iPad.”

While Facebook refused to offer any fresh comment on the latest reports surrounding the possibility of it entering the mobile phone market, it told the NYT that last year’s comments made to AllThngsD still stand: “We’re working across the entire mobile industry; with operators, hardware manufacturers, OS providers, and application developers,” the company said then.

Talk of a Facebook phone has been around for a couple of years, but it seems the rumor mill is in overdrive just now. Only last week news appeared that the social networking giant was also looking at buying the firm behind the Opera browser, a browser which could feasibly form part of a Facebook mobile OS. According to TheNextWeb, Opera bosses were “talking to potential buyers right now,” adding that there is currently a hiring freeze at the company, “a surefire sign that something big is about to happen – or at least that Opera wants something big to happen.”

Now that Facebook has shareholders to answer to, it must find ways to make money. Serious money. According to one Facebook employee who spoke to the NYT’s Bilton, Zuckerberg is concerned that if he doesn’t launch a mobile phone soon, “Facebook will simply become an app on other mobile platforms.”

Of course, launching a phone may prove to be the easiest part of the whole process. Getting people to actually buy it will be the real challenge, especially in a crowded market already dominated by Apple’s iPhone and Samsung’s Android-powered devices. Done right, however, and it could prove to be a lucrative money spinner for Zuckerberg and his team.

This article comes from:http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/facebook-phone-former-iphone-engineers-hired-by-zuckerberg-report-says/

iPhone 5 Will Be 'Completely Redesigned,' Resemble iPad: Analysts

A “completely redesigned” Apple iPhone 5 will arrive in October, according to analysts with Piper Jaffray. There have been a lot of conflicting reports about when the new iPhone would arrive but the analysts are “confident,” in their time frame, according to the May 21 research note.

Jefferies analysts also released an Apple-related note May 21, and together the two reports offer a picture of what’s to come from Apple and what’s likely to be phased out.

The launch of the iPhone 5—as the newest model is expected to be called—will represent the biggest product launch of the year, as well as the biggest device upgrade cycle “in smartphone history,” wrote Piper Jaffray analysts Gene Munster and Douglas J. Clinton.

More specifically, Munster and Clinton added:

We believe the iPhone 5 will have a completely redesigned body style, which may more closely resemble the metallic rear panel of the current iPad. We believe there is a 50 percent chance the new phone has a slightly larger 4-plus-inch screen. We believe larger screen size is one of the few areas in which Android devices have been able to compete.

The iPhone 5 will also, they added, include 4G Long-Term Evolution (LTE) technology, an upgraded processor and memory, and a higher-megapixel camera.

While inventories of 28-nanometer chips are limited, Munster and Clinton expect Apple will receive “favorable treatment” and receive access to what’s available, likely selling 49 million units in the December quarter. However, should parts supplies delay the smartphone, the analysts expect Apple fans, unswayed, will wait out the delay.

“We believe it would be unlikely that a consumer would choose to buy another phone if they are unable to get an iPhone 5 due to short-term supply constraints, given past launches with limited supply,” according to the Piper Jaffray report.

The iPhone 3GS, meanwhile, will be discounted and pitched to a new fan base.

“We believe Apple has signed an agreement with a leading distribution and logistics company [that has been] tasked with penetrating the prepaid markets around the world as well as expanding channels for the iPhone 3GS in the developing world,” wrote analysts with investment firm Jefferies.

This would help to plug a revenue hole while consumers twiddle their thumbs into October or possibly beyond.

Presumably for the U.S. market, they add that Apple is in the process of repricing the 3GS so that it can be purchased with no subsidy for around the $200 price that the iPhone 4 sells for with a contract.

Apple is additionally expected to soon debut its new Apple TV. Speaking at a Fast Company event this month, Apple board member and J. Crew CEO Mickey Drexler said Apple will “deal with the living room in the near future.”

Likely unendearing himself to the Apple core team further, Drexler added that he didn’t envy Apple CEO Tim Cook.

“The best job to have is to take over a company that’s doing poorly,” he said candidly. “Never take over a company that’s doing great!”

This article comes from:http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/iPhone-5-Will-Be-Completely-Redesigned-Resemble-iPad-Analysts-174315/

Apple's main data center to go fully renewable this year

Apple said it plans to make its Maiden, N.C., data center run entirely off renewable energy by the end of the year.
The company said it's building two solar array installations in the area, which when combined will bring in 84 million kilowatt-hours of power annually. Apple is also at work on its bio-gas fuel cell installation, set to be completed later this year.
All told, Apple says it will produce 60 percent of the power it requires to run the data center on site, procuring the other 40 percent from "local and regional sources" that are renewable.
Facilities like the one in Maiden power Apple's growing cloud services effort. Last June the company introduced iCloud, its storage and sync service, which relies on the data centers to store user data and information. The data centers also play a role in powering Siri, the voice assistant feature for the iPhone 4S.
Apple posted information about its plans in a new section of its environmental Web site today. In an interview with Reuters, Apple Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer noted that the two solar farms would be twice as large as the company had originally let on. A proposal that surfaced earlier today noted that the farm across the street from the data center was given regulatory approval by the North Carolina Utilities Commission.

Apple's updated data center layout.

(Credit: Apple)

The new information comes on the heels of a demonstration against Apple by Greenpeace. Earlier this week, the environmental activist group set up a portable building at Apple's headquarters in Cupertino, Calif., as well as projecting messages onto the company's glass entryway. Both were the latest part of the group's Clean Our Cloud campaign, which pressures tech companies like Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon to use less dirty energy to power their data centers.
The Maiden facility will be the latest used by the company to run entirely off renewable energy, Apple said. The company's operations centers in Austin, Texas; Sacramento, Calif.; and Cork, Ireland, as well as a facility in Munich, Germany, already meet that metric. Apple says its upcoming data center in Prineville, Ore., will also run entirely off renewable energy.
This article comes from:http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-57436553-37/apples-main-data-center-to-go-fully-renewable-this-year/?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=

iPhone: Apple to boost screen size in next version

The new iPhone screens will measure 4 inches from corner to corner, one source said. That would represent a roughly 30 percent increase in viewing area, assuming Apple keeps other dimensions proportional. Apple has used a 3.5-inch screen since introducing the iPhone in 2007.
Early production of the new screens has begun at three suppliers: Korea's LG Display Co Ltd, Sharp Corp and Japan Display Inc, a Japanese government-brokered merger combining the screen production of three companies.

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It is likely all three of the screen suppliers will get production orders from Apple, which could begin as soon as June. That would allow the new iPhone to go into production as soon as August, if the company follows its own precedent in moving from orders for prototypes for key components to launch.
Apple's decision to equip the next iPhone with a larger screen represents part of a competitive response to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.
Samsung unveiled its top-of-the line Galaxy smartphone with a 4.8-inch touch-screen and a faster processor earlier this month.
With consumers becoming more and more comfortable using smartphones for tasks they once performed on laptops, like watching video, other smartphone manufacturers have also moved toward bigger displays.
AESTHETICS AND DESIGN
A likely shakeup in the design of a larger-screen iPhone could go a long way in boosting its "wow" factor, convincing fans to trade in their old iPhones for new ones, said Shaw Wu, an analyst at Sterne Agee.
"Not only do users pay for features, but they also pay for aesthetics and design. That's as important, or more important, than features," Wu said. "People love the current design -- but it's 18 months old."
The latest iPhone 4S was introduced in October of last year and essentially has the same form factor as the iPhone 4, launched in 2010.
Samsung, which this year became the world's largest cell phone maker, sold 45 million smartphones in the first quarter, and sales of the Galaxy phones outstripped the iPhone.
Apple was not immediately available to comment.
This article comes from:http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Latest-News-Wires/2012/0517/iPhone-Apple-to-boost-screen-size-in-next-version