More iPhone tips

I found more I phone tips listed below from this link:

http://iphone.appstorm.net/how-to/30-super-secret-iphone-features-and-shortcuts/

Text from the above link is repeated here...

Tap the Status Bar to Scroll to the Top

Status Bar
Maybe you haven’t checked your tweets for a few hours or you’ve just read a lengthy article. In many cases, you’ll want to scroll back to the top of the page. By tapping the status bar at the top of your screen, you’ll by whisked straight back up to the top. This nice tip can turn annoying quite easily, though. Be careful not to hit the status bar accidentally.

The latest version of Instapaper lets you return to where you were if you didn’t mean to tap the status bar. This should be part of every app that scrolls!

Press the Home and Sleep Buttons Simultaneously to Take a Screenshot
Ever wonder how software reviewers take pictures of the apps without screen glare? I’ll let you in on the secret: none. Just press the Home and Sleep buttons at the same time. You’ll hear a camera shutter (or, rather, the sound of a camera shutter), and your current screen is saved automatically in your camera roll.

Customize the Home button

Home Button Customization
Take this quick quiz: Where can you go when you double-press the home button?

1.Search
2.iPod, to the currently playing track
3.First Home screen, if you aren’t there.
The correct answer is: d. Any of the above. Within Settings > General > Home, you can choose which of these three behaviours you want to use.

Press Home Once to Go to First Home Screen or Search
But what happens if you only press Home once? If you’re at your first home screen, you’ll be taken to Search. If you’re in Search or at another home screen, you’ll be taken to your first home screen. No customization here.

Hold Home and Sleep to Reboot
It doesn’t happen often, but it is possible that your iPhone will freeze up. When that happens, hold the Home and Sleep buttons until the screen goes black, and subsequently shows the Apple logo. This will probably take about eight seconds.

Hold Home for Five Seconds to Quit the Current App
What happens to an app when you close it? It might look like it’s sucked down a black hole, but that’s certainly not the case. When you close an app, much of it remains in memory, so it can be opened again quickly.

To “force quit” an application in iPhone OS 3.0, press and hold the sleep/wake button until the slide to power off screen appears. Then proceed to press and hold the home button until the application quits (usually takes around six seconds).

If you’re on iPhone OS 1 or 2, it’s just a case of holding the home button for about five seconds. Process exterminated!

Double Tap Shift for Caps Lock

Caps Lock
Many people don’t like caps lock, but it’s still available on your iPhone if you so wish. You will have to enable it, though. “Settings > General > Keyboard > Enable Caps Lock” should do the trick. Then, just double-tap the shift key to type away in capitals.

Tap Shift and Drag
It’s hard to explain, but once your learn this trick, it’s pretty fun to use. Instead of simply tapping Shift and then tapping your letter when you want the capital format, do this: tap Shift, drag your finger to the letter you want to capitalize, and release. It’s a bit odd at first, but I think it’s probably slightly faster.

This trick is even better when you’re going for punctuation: just substitute Shift with the keyboard switcher key (123/ABC). The beautiful thing here is that after inserting your punctuation, you’re back at the alphabet keyboard: definitely a time-saver.

Tap and Hold for Extra Characters

Extra Characters
How would you type the British Pound symbol on your iPhone? Or an inverted question mark? And what about letters with cedillas? To get these, and other special characters, tap and hold on the letter or symbol that closest represents the one you want.

You’ll get a hidden menu that offers the extra characters. This also works with the .com button, offering a few other top-level domains.

Double Tap Space for a Period and Space

Period Shortcut
Without a doubt, a period is the most often used piece of punctuation. But the period is on the alternative keyboard, and it’s a bit of a pain to switch back and forth between keyboards continually.

The shift-swipe trick is nice, but there’s an even faster move to master: double tap the space bar to get a period and space. This is an optional trick, turned on by default. You can get to it via Settings > General > Keyboard.

Enable International Keyboards for International TLDs

Enable International TLDs
The .com button is pretty handy; it’s even handier that you can add a few extra TLDs with the tap-and-hold trick. If you find yourself typing a specific international TLD often, you can add it to that pop-up by enabling the appropriate international keyboard.

Go to Setting > General > Keyboard > International Keyboards. Then, once you turn on the ones you want, they’ll show up inside the .com button.

Enabling international, keyboards will add an extra ‘globe’ button to the keyboard.

Leave Off www and .com for Faster Browsing

Shorter URLs
If you just need to access a regular .com website, you don’t even have to hit that button. Just type the domain name of the site, san http://www. and .com. Do you realize that this tip can save about five seconds every time?

Add Sites to Your Home Screen for Quick Access and More

Add a Site to Home
We all have our favourites sites, our preferred places for daily doses of news or inspiration. You can make these super-easy to access by adding them to your home screen. Simply tap the “+” button in Safari and choose “Add to Homescreen.”

Then, you can give it the desired label and save it. Web developers can give you an extra perk or two here: they can add a special icon that your iPhone will use on the home screen. Additionally, they can make the website run in fullscreen view. Check out AppleInsider or Glyphboard as a home screen app for an example.

Tap and Hold a Link for Options

Link Options
You’ve been in the scenario: you’re reading in Safari, minding your own business, when a link jumps out in front of you, tempting you to follow it. If you’ve got misgivings, you can tap and hold that link.

You’ll get a pop-up showing you the URL hiding inside that link. That pop-up also gives you options to copy the link, open it, or open it in a new page.

Scroll Inside Frames and Text Areas With Two Fingers
Occasionally you’ll find that you need to scroll within a frame or textarea within a page. Scroll with just one finger and you’ll move the whole page. To solve the problem, use two fingers. Now you can move around inside your little box.

Double Tap a Text Column or Image to Zoom to It

Zooming on Text
Here’s another great Safari tip that I use all the time: double tap a text column to zoom right into it. You’ll get the best possible reading experience without all the two-finger fiddling. This works with images as well. And speaking of images…

Tap and Hold to Save Images

Save an Image
When browsing the web, if you find an image you’d like to save, here’s how to do it: tap and hold; you’ll get the option to copy the image or save it to the photo gallery.

Voice Dial by Nickname
It’s great to be able to voice dial friends, especially while driving. But you don’t have to use only the callee’s name; you can use their nickname as well. You can set this up in the Contacts application.

Send a Call to Voicemail by Pressing the Sleep Button
Although you might not admit it, you’ve probably looked at the Caller ID on your ringing phone and groaned at least once. When this happens, you can easily send the call directly to your voicemail. Simply press the sleep button twice (once silences the ringer, the second cancels the call).

Redeem Promo Codes From Within the App Store

Redeem Promo Codes
Yay! You’ve finally won a contest here on iPhone.AppStorm. You’re on the go when you find out, but you don’t want to wait until you get back to your desk to fire up iTunes.

Here’s what you do: open the App Store app, go to the Featured tab, scroll to the bottom, and tap “Redeem.” Now, tap in that promo code. This also works with iTunes gift cards.

Rearrange Icons Within iPod

Rearrange iPod Icons
Within the iPod app, in the bottom toolbar, you have four options and the “More button”; not new information. But did you know that if you tap the edit button in the top left corner of the More menu, you can decide which options are on the toolbar?

Just drag one down to replace those currently there, and tap Done when you’re finished. This tip works for most apps that use this type of toolbar.

Double Press Home to Bring Up Music Controls

Music Controls
We’ve already revealed the double-home-press tip. But, if you so desire, this can be overridden while your tunes are playing. If you’re listening to music, pressing home twice will bring up the music controls. This can be changed in Settings > General > Home

Tap and Hold next/prev Buttons to fast-forward/rewind
While listening to a song, you may want to jump ahead or back within that track. If you hold down the Next and Previous Song buttons, you can skip through the song a few seconds at a time. The longer you hold the button down, the more seconds you’ll skip.

Drag Your Finger Up and Down to Change the Scrub Speed

Scrubbing Speed
If you’re trying to find something specific within a track, maybe the previous tip won’t do exactly what you want. Try this: drag the location-in-song-indicator (what’s it really called?) to the spot you’d like. This works okay, but for really fine-grained control, drag your finger down. This will let you adjust the adjust the scrub speed – from Hi Speed to Fine.

Tap Instead of Swipe for Pagination
Safari, Weather, and the home screens: they all have the cute little pagination dots. You probably think of these as an invitation to swipe right or left for more content. You’re right, but you can also tap just to the right or left of said row of dots to do the same thing. If you get good at it, it’s probably faster than swiping.

Hide SMS Previews
By default, when receiving an incoming text message, your iPhone kindly displays a preview of the message. Needless to say, this is a great way to publicize privileged information (or embarrass you in front of your mates with a sentimental text from your mum!)

To avoid such situations, head to Settings > Messages and toggle off Show Preview.

Use the Timer to Turn Off Your Music

Sleeping Your iPod
It’s great to fall asleep listening to your favourite music. However, you don’t your iPhone playing music all night. Apple has provided an easy solution.

Within the Clock app, set a timer for however long you want the music to play. Then, instead of choosing a ring, choose to Sleep iPod when the timer ends.

Turn Your iPhone Horizontally for a Wider Keyboard

Horizontal Keyboard
Sometimes, bigger is better. All the built-in apps (and many third-party apps, too, now) offer a wider keyboard if you turn your iPhone sideways. If you practice, you can actually type with two thumbs on the wider keyboard.

Turn Your iPhone Horizontally for a Scientific Calculator

Scientific Calculator
But the keyboard isn’t the only thing that gets wider when you go horizontal. The completely unassuming built-in calculator unleashes it’s scientific power when tilted 90 degrees. It’s great for those moments of impromptu trig or exponents…!

Save Battery Power by Turning Features Off

Save Power
It’s no fun when your iPhone runs out of juice. If you notice it’s getting low, and you aren’t going to have a chance to plug in any time soon, here’s what you can do: turn off Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or 3G. If you aren’t using one or two of these, they’re just wasting power. Also, turn the LCD brightness down a notch or two. You’d be surprised how much power it uses.

Send Photos at Full Resolution

Sending Photos
It’s great to be able to take photos with your iPhone and then instantly email them to friends and family. But be aware that there are things going on beneath the surface when you choose “Email Photo.”

Your iPhone actually reduces the quality of the image it sends, which gives the recipient faster downloading. If you want to send the full resolution image, tap and hold the image in the gallery to copy it. Then, you can paste it into an email at full res.

Customize Search Results

Custom Search Results
Most people probably agree that Spotlight search on the iPhone is useful. But what we all use it for most definitely varies. I use it mainly for launching apps; you might use it for finding emails.

To customize what order things show up in, check out Settings > General > Home > Search Results. From here, you can rearrange the order of your results, as well as turn off the ones you don’t want.

Cover the Light Sensor to Dim the Screen
This is probably my favourite tip. You may not have realized it, but there’s an ambient light sensor somewhere in the area above the LCD screen. This sensor adjusts the brightness of your screen when you unlock your iPhone depending on the brightness around you.

By covering the top part of your iPhone as you wake it, you can dim the screen to save a little juice. It appears to re-sense the light around every few seconds, so you’d have to continue holding the top of your iPhone to keep the screen dim.

I know, not the most practical tip; but the light sensor is really a built-in automatic trick.

That’s it!
Well, that’s all I’ve got! If you have an iPhone tip that I didn’t mention, let’s hear it in the comments. It would be great to build up a collection of other unusual features that don’t come explained in the manual!

Turn off / disable screen rotation on iPhone 4

I think this only allows you to set it to portrait mode:

Double click the home bottom (below touch screen)
A set of icons should show up at bottom of screen
Scroll to left to find circular arrow icon (drag finger from left to right)
Click this icon to toggle fixed portrait mode
Tap anywhere on upper screen to close lower icon window or hit home button once

Adding or Accessing Yahoo Mail contacts on iPhone 4 or iPod Touch

UPDATE: 11/23/2010 -> I've been using this method for a while now and it works great!
*OCCASSIONALLY* after phone using up all of its battery, you may need to do this:
Settings->Safari->Clear Cookies. Then quit the Contacts application and restart it. If your phone supports multi-tasking make sure you completely quit the Contacts application. Then reopen contacts and go to your carddav.address.yahoo.com contacts -> they should reappear now

NOTE: if you've already added your Yahoo contacts (carddav.address.yahoo.com contacts), but then they disappear and are no longer visible, try:
-> hitting the home button twice to show all currently running background apps (on iphone 4)
-> hit the "-" on each of these in the lower screen (looks like your deleting them, but it's just terminating them from background process)
-> when all are terminated, reboot the iphone (hold the sleep, then slide to power off)
-> when started back up again, goto Contacts > All carddav.address.yahoo.com > and then these contacts should begin populating
-> I noticed that the "ContactsTool" and "ImportExportContact" apps that I downloaded from the App Store, can cause the Yahoo contacts to disappear and require this procedure


I found this info on Yahoo and it worked on my iPod Touch and iPhone 4. If you are running iPhone 4.0 software or newer, you will be able to sync your Yahoo! Contacts to your iPhone or iPod Touch without plugging it into your computer. You can check your current version by going to Settings, then General. From there choose About, followed by Version on your iPhone or iPod Touch device.
To sync your account:
Go to your iPhone or iPod Touch settings application
Tap Mail, Contacts, Calendars
Tap Add Account
Tap Other and then tap Add CardDAV Account
For the Server you need to enter carddav.address.yahoo.com
Now type in the Yahoo! ID and password you use to sign in to your Yahoo! Contacts
Once you click save, your device will verify your Yahoo! ID and password
(after this is done, if you go back to settings/contacts, under the advanced tab for carddav.address.yahoo.com, the settings Use SSL On, and Port 443 will show up)
Next time you open up your iPhone or iPod Touch Contacts app you will see a page allowing you to see your Yahoo! Contacts sync into your device Contact list.
If you'd like to have the contacts you add onto your iPhone automatically sync to Yahoo!, you will need to go back into the device Settings application. Click on Mail, Contacts, Calendar. Drag the page down to the Contacts section and change the default Contacts account that you would like to save Contacts to.
Note: Some characters in the password may not work (such as '#' and ' ') when setting up CardDAV. Depending on what version of the software you are using this may or may not be the case.
If you are having problems syncing your Contacts try going to settings->Safari->Clear Cookies. Then quit the Contacts application and restart it. If your phone supports multi-tasking make sure you completely quit the Contacts application.

Motorola KRZR K1 troubles and solutions

I used to have a motorola U9 rokr phone. I liked that phone because it was small, and had a usb charger interface, and subsequently, when people started texting me, I discovered that it's text prediction interface, and texting were good.

Unfortunately I dropped and broke that phone and I couldn't find a new U9 anywhere.

So, I picked up the Motorola KRZR K1 because it seemed to be a similar small phone, and hoped it would be easy to use based on knowing the U9 interface.

All of that turned out to be true.

One huge problem though, the Motorola KRZR K1 will not charge the battery with the supplied motorola usb charger. You plug it in, it looks like it's charging, but then when you unplug it later the battery meter hasn't moved. I even tried charging overnight with the same result. Both my original KRZR, and the replacement KRZR were new phones (not refurbs), they were unlocked (I use mine on AT&T), and they appear to have originated somewhere in Germany (or Netherlands) as the default phonebook contacts categories being in German. By the way, I could delete all of these categories except for the Allgemein category which cannot be deleted by any means I could determine, and has the unfortunate property of being the default category unless you actively reassign a contact to one of your other categories (you can make any that you'd like).

Anyhow, back to the battery charging issue...

I returned the new phone, and got another new one (with new charger, battery, etc) and the new one wouldn't charge either. This time it went completely dead. I tried a generic usb charger made by a company called PowerUp (which I like because has nearly every charger fitting), but that charger wouldn't charge the phone.

Here's what DOES charge the Motorola KRZR K1 :

1. a T-mobile usb car charger that I bought a long time ago (even the I'm on AT&T, at the time T-mobile was the only local store selling usb car chargers)

2. my ASUS PC usb port running Windows Vista Home Premium which amazingly recognized the phone and automatically installed the drivers, after which, the phone can now charge on my usb port (many posts by other unfortunate people have stated that they couldn't get that to work)

I must say that normally, I wouldn't stand for such craziness just to get a phone to charge, but I like this phone a lot otherwise because it's a lot like my old phone, so it was worth it for me to try to get the thing to charge somehow.

Another small annoying discovery about the Motorola KRZR K1 (relative to the Motorola ROKR U9)... the voice dialing in the in the U9 ROKR was built in -> it had speech recognition that would read your contact list (regardless of whether they were stored on the phone or on the sim). In the Motorola KRZR K1, it is limited to the following:

- any contacts you want to voice dial must be copied to or stored on the phone contacts and not the sim card, you can duplicate the ones on your sim card by copying them, but they have to be stored to the phone (I think the reason is they need to store a voice recording to the contact)

- for any contact that you want to voice dial, you then have to record yourself saying their name and save it (Phonebook > Options > Manage Contacts > Voice Dial)

- when voice dialing, the KRZR K1 doesn't give any verbal feedback unless it guesses the name you said, in which case it plays back the name you recorded (my U9 used to say - "Did you say Home" - to which you could respond "yes", and it would dial home, or if a name wasn't recognized, it would tell you that verbally, and ask you to say the name again).

Anyhow, I hope this info proves helpful to someone...