Tuesday, July 26, 2016

What You Can Do If Your iPhone Won't Turn On

It will be quite frustrating if your iPhone won't turn on by some reasons, which may bring some inconvenience for your daily life. There are many reasons that can lead to the problem, like battery running out, iOS crash or hardware error. You have no need to ditch your iPhone or send it to Apple Repair shop directly when you find that your iPhone won't turn on. Here are four solutions that you can try to fix the issue by yourself.

1. Charge Your iPhone for  A While and Wait

Sometimes your iPhone is out of battery, so your iPhone can't turn on. What you need to do is to plug in your iPhone and let it charge for a while, at least fifteen minutes. A few minutes later, it should turn on automatically. If it won’t work after charging, try to change another USB cable and charger to try this way.

 2. Forcibly Reboot Your iPhone

If your iPhone is crashed or frozen, the force reboot solution works well, but it can sometimes cause an unresponsive iPhone with a black screen that appears dead because it isn’t responsive to anything.
How to do: Press and hold both the "Home” and “Power” button for at least 10 seconds. You can see the Apple logo and your iPhone will reboot. Your iPhone will back to normal again.

3.   Enter DFU Mode

If your iPhone gets to the Silver Logo but restarts from there again and again, you can fix this easily by entering into DFU mode
Step 1. Plug your device into your computer with a USB cable.
Step 2. Turn off the device.
Step 3. Hold the Power button for 3 seconds.
Step 4. Hold the Home and Power buttons for 10 seconds.
Step 5. Release the Power button but keep holding the Home button.
Step 6. After about 15 seconds you will be alerted by iTunes saying that it has detected a device in Recovery Mode.

                                                                                                                                                          

4. Restore iPhone to Factory Setting with iTunes

If your iPhone still won't turn on after you try to the three methods above. You may need to restore your iPhone to factory setting with iTunes. Before you start restoring iPhone to factory settings, please note that you need to install the latest version of iTunes on your PC or MAC. Then go to Settings > iCloud to turn off Find My iPhone. Now, the detailed restoring steps are as follows.
Step 1. Plug iPhone into the computer with the USB cable. The iTunes on your computer will automatically launch. If not, double-click the icon to start it.
Step 2. Click the name of your iPhone at the upper right corner of iTunes, and then the information of your iPhone will be shown. Click the “Restore iPhone” button in the window to start.
Step 3. iTunes will ask whether you want to back up iPhone before restoring. You’d better choose “Yes” for the reset will erase the contents in your iPhone. Then iTunes will start restoring your iPhone to factory settings.

Step 4. Click Restore again to confirm. Then iTunes erases your iPhone and installs the latest iOS or iPod software. After you restore your iPhone to factory settings, it will restart. Now you can set it up as new.

If you have tried all the methods mentioned above and your iPhone won't turn on, you need to bring your iPhone to the nearest Apple store and ask for help.

Friday, July 22, 2016

Not Enough Storage on iCloud, How to Fix It?

Have you receive a “Not enough storage” message on your iCloud? Usually the message says “This iPhone cannot be backed up because there is not enough iCloud storage available. You can manage your storage in Setting.” Apple only offers 5GB of free storage space on iCloud, the storage space will be filled with all kinds of files day after day when more and more data is backed up to iCloud.



When your available iCloud storage is not enough to meet your daily needs, you may face some unexpected issues. So it is necessary to fix not enough storage in iCloud issue for your iPhone/iPad. Here we introduce four methods for you to fix the problem.

Method 1. Buy More iCloud Storage

Of course, the easiest way to upload your iCloud space is to buy more iCloud storage. Although Apple only offers 5GB free storage space for iCloud users to backup their iOS or Mac device, it allows you to buy more storage.
1. Tap on Setting > iCloud > Storage.
2. Now you can tap on Buy More Storage and choose the plan that works for you.

Method 2. Delete Photos/Videos from iCloud

One of the biggest data hogs to take up your iCloud storage space is the photos and videos. iPhone/iPad will automatically back up all your videos and photos to your iCloud. Therefore, deleting photos and videos from iCloud will free up iCloud storage a lot. Here’s how to do that.
1. Tap on Setting > iCloud > Storage. Then tap on Manage Storage.

2. And then tap on This iPhone.
3. Under the Backup options, you will see Photo Library option, set the slider to OFF position.

4. Tap on Turn off & Delete to delete all photos and videos from iCloud.

After deleting existing photos and videos, you can either set the Photo Library back to ON position and start backing up new photos to iCloud or keep it OFF and use Photo Stream.

Method 3. Delete Data & Documents

If you still find that there is no enough storage on your iCloud, you can try to delete these app-related documents and data to free up iCloud storage.
1. Go to Settings > iCloud > Storage > Manage Storage.

2. Select an app under “Documents & Data”.(The first one genrally takes the biggest storage)
3. After selecting the app, tap the “Edit” tab in the upper right corner and then select the specific document to remove, or tap the “Delete All” tab.

Method 4. Delete Old iCloud Backups

You can free up iCloud storage space by deleting the entire iCloud backup for an iOS device, such as a device you no longer own. If you’re restoring a device from an iCloud backup, you must wait until the restore operation is finished before you can delete the backup.
Warning: If you choose to delete the iCloud backup for your iOS device, iCloud will stop automatically backing up the device. Instead of backing up your iOS device to iCloud, you can back up your device using iTunes.


Thursday, July 21, 2016

iPhone 7 vs Samsung Galaxy S8, Which One Will Be Better for You?

There is no doubt that iPhone 7 will be the hottest topic in 2016 autumn while Samsung Galaxy S8 is expected to become next hot talk in early 2017 in smartphone market around the world. New innovative features, designs and updates will be incorporated in these two mobile devices to make them the leaders in the industry. And thanks to the thousands of rumors and reports, here we can provide a full comparison between upcoming iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy S8 based on the latest rumors and reports.



iPhone 7 vs Samsung Galaxy S8, Which one will be the winner?

1. Release Date

Talking about the iPhone 7 release date, Apple followed a set pattern for their release but a few of them were released at completely different time. If apple gonna follow the same cycle as it used for iPhone models we can anticipate that the release date of iPhone 7 may fall sometimes in September 2016. And Samsung Galaxy S8 release date is likely to be in either March or April 2017, based on recent release histories for Samsung Galaxy series.

2. Camera

iPhone 7 and Samsung Galaxy S8 will both have an outstanding performance in cameras. Some of the shared camera features will include optical image stabilization, geo-tagging and facial recognition. The iPhone 7 will have a 24MP primary camera with 7MP for the front camera. Galaxy S8 on the other hand will have 30MP for the rear camera and 9MP for the front camera.

3. Battery

The battery life of iPhone has been a complaint ever since iPhone 5, and we don’t want to charge our devices once a day. iPhone 7S is likely to have a battery of 3300 mAh in comparison to the huge 4200 mAh for Samsung Galaxy S8. They are both an improvement compared to their predecessors and will juice up the devices sufficiently.

4. Display

iPhone 7 will keep 4.7-inch screen like iPhone 6s but will give a big leap on resolution that a QHD display is probably packed. And Samsung smartphones always boast bigger screen and higher resolution. Galaxy S8 features a 5.2-inch screen and super AMOLED display with a resolution of 4096 x 2160 pixels supporting 4K playback. What's more, a foldable display is rumored to show on Galaxy S8 offering conveniences to carry the phone in pocket.

5. Memory

iPhone 7 is reportedly to ditch memory of 16GB to have memory options of 32GB, 64GB and 128GB internal memory, with expandable dual micro SD card support. It will also have a RAM of 5GB to keep all processes running smoothly. Galaxy S8 will have options for only 64GB and 128GB for the main memory, with RAM of 6GB.

6. Processor

It is reported that iPhone 7 will feature an octa-core A10 processor. This amazing processor will offer blazing speeds while using low-power mode. Galaxy S8 will on the other hand have the Snapdragon Qualcomm octa-core processor. This also offers amazing speeds with great multi-tasking abilities.

7. Operating System

The iPhone 7 will be run on iOS 10 or above while Galaxy S8 will preinstall Android 6.0. The operating system can be upgraded to Android 7.0. If you fully secure OS then go for Apple but if you want to tweak your OS and want flexible OS then Samsung may be a better choice.

Conclusion:

Samsung Galaxy S8 vs iPhone 7: Both of them will be the superb and amazing products and it is not really quite easy for me to say which one is better. It is obvious that Samsung Galaxy have a better performance on camera specs, RAM, size and a lot more to offer. However, iPhone 7 is proud for amazing performance with developed processor and operation system. 

Which one you will buy?