Useful iPhone Tips

Advice for iPhone Gamers - Preventing crashes etc.

If you're an avid iPhone gamer you'll eventually find out that some large games can have problems on the device.  As it turns out, many of these problems can be easily prevented.  Here are some tips.

1. Restart your iPhone before running a large game.  To do this you hold down the TOP button until the iPhone gives you the option to turn off your phone.  The phone will prompt you at that point.  It may take 10 or more seconds for the phone to power down.  Once it has powered down, just count to 5 and then press the TOP button until the phone powers back on.

2. If you have run Safari (the browser) on the iPhone since you last powered it up, you may want to do the restart above.  Safari does use memory (cache) so sometimes you can have less memory than a game may need.

OK, you've done all of that.  You're in your favorite game and the iPhone just LOCKS UP.  What do you do?

In case this happens (and it shouldn't happen very often) you hold down the HOME and the TOP button at the same time, and you hold them for as long as 15 seconds.

I have had to do this maybe 3 times since I got my 3G iPhone on the day they were first released.

More and more games are now checking memory before they run.  If they suggest restarting the phone, you may want to follow that suggestion.

Have fun!

 

How to capture a iPhone/iPod touch screen

This is pretty simple:

To take a screen grab on your iPhone with Software 2.0, just holddown the homebutton (the round button under the screen), then tap the top button (the power on/off button). 

Your screen will flash white signifying you have captured your screen.  

The picture will appear in your Photo album.

Here is where the buttons are located on a iPhone 3G:

Enjoy

Hate untangling those pesky iPhone headphone cables?

Here's a simple way to tie up your headphone cables so they won't get tangled.  What's more, you can untie them with one hand and they will be ready to use.

(If anyone of you are into sailing, you'll recognize this right off)

Step one: Starting with the ear buds wrap the headset cable around your hand.

Wrap them enough to leave a few inches of cable:

 

As you can see I have some cable left over.

Now pinch the loop to form a figure '8' shape:

Then wrap the remaining cable around the loop, then pull the cable thru the far loop:

To release them, you just pull the plug out of the loop and hold it up.  You'll have untangled headphones ready to use.