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I may be wrong but from my understanding; fingerprint type scanners use a Fairly large amount of current via capacitors and what not; I'm comparison to the other circuit aspects of general electronics in a phone. So while it may be "turned off" until activated once it's used to scan your biometrics you're putting a fair anount of drain on the battery.
That said the only negative thing I have to say about apple products vs their competitors is the battery. I just don't see why they keep then below 3000mah when Samsung as an example throws batteries that exceed 5000mah

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Oops autocorrect *in comparison to circuit design.
In other words it's the hardware.
 
There's more room for bigger battery's in samsungs.

That's more less my point- I know that's not with this thread is for and sorry to go off topic.
Just keep
Hoping apple finds a way to keep their quality and artistic side in and at the same time try to up the power ratio.
 
BioProtect has a few loop holes btw just to let everyone know. the phone and messages app and email, basically everything that sends a notification can still be opened just click on the notification and it opens, or just click in the contact info and you can access all that from the contact without the touch id (like the messages app can still be opened) So it's not as secure as you would hope (another one is the photos can still be accessed from the camera app)

Still have to delete all those messages and nude pics of your gf before you go home to your wife:D
 
Anyone using BioProtect think this is possible...

Great app but its a pain having certain apps locked all the time, is there any way I can use activator to turn it off and on? Like when I hand the phone mates, I'd press volume ^^ to activate it?

Thanks in advance.
 
Homescreen designer is out now, though appears buggy. It isn't letting me save icon layouts on my 5s.

Can anyone else who has bought it try?
 
Nope. When you click on a protected app and leave the touchid prompt up, it just drains and drains and drains until you press your thumb.

Hmmm...not here. I launched a protected app to test, got the TouchID prompt and I left it for 4 minutes without a detectable drop in battery (so less than 1%). Can't imagine that I'd ever leave an app in that state for more than a few seconds. Still, I'll definitely keep an eye on my battery!
 
I tried uninstalling and reinstalling and Homescreen Designer and it is not showing up on bigboss anymore...
 
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Anyone know which app, working on the 5s, would be best for respringing? Using CCSettings just isn't clearing the cache, so updated icons aren't showing after respring.

Unless, of course, I'm doing something wrong.
 
Bigify/Bigify+ was updated and now works on my 5s.

Awesome! Icon resizing works great. Love having my icons a little smaller. Maybe I should call it "Smallify"?

Edit: with smaller icons set, when you open a folder, it opens and then stutters for a second and then resizes the folder window. Not a big deal but not perfect.
 
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Anyone have a screen recording tweak working on their 5S?

Edit: I just installed RecordMyScreen and it's nice but doesn't record your finger presses so it's limited for tutorials.

Edit: I'm a spaz and just saw that DisplayRecorder was uodated for 64-bit. Works great!
 
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I may be wrong but from my understanding; fingerprint type scanners use a Fairly large amount of current via capacitors and what not; I'm comparison to the other circuit aspects of general electronics in a phone. So while it may be "turned off" until activated once it's used to scan your biometrics you're putting a fair anount of drain on the battery.
That said the only negative thing I have to say about apple products vs their competitors is the battery. I just don't see why they keep then below 3000mah when Samsung as an example throws batteries that exceed 5000mah

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Oops autocorrect *in comparison to circuit design.
In other words it's the hardware.


Lol easy: samsung big battery phones are 3x as big as an iPhone. Plus battery consumption is different when using different software OSes.
 
Gridlock??

Anything like this updated yet? Need to arrange my icons at will. Anyone?
 
Lol easy: samsung big battery phones are 3x as big as an iPhone. Plus battery consumption is different when using different software OSes.


I realize that and I personally hate the "tabphones" but if they weren't so big on "thinness"
After you pay for a mophie case your phone is thick anyway just without the protection of say a life proof.
Anyway I keep a backup battery on me regardless cause I'm in the hate hate droid club lol
 
Anyone know which app, working on the 5s, would be best for respringing? Using CCSettings just isn't clearing the cache, so updated icons aren't showing after respring.

Unless, of course, I'm doing something wrong.

I use Activator to respring. I created a menu with Power Down, Reboot, Respring, and Safe Mode. I set it for triple click of the home button. Not sure if it clears cache but I assume it does. The dev was the one who found a respring cache bug in iOS 6.x and released a tweak on his repo to fix it. So based on this, plus his reputation, I would "assume" his respring option clears the cache like you asked. Give it a shot and find out. I assume you already have activator installed?
 
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I use Activator to respring. I created a menu with Power Down, Reboot, and Respring. I set it for triple click of the home button. Not sure if it clears cache but I assume it does. The dev was the one who found a respring cache bug in iOS 6.x and released a tweak on his repo to fix it. So based on this, plus his reputation, I would "assume" his respring option clears the cache like you asked. Give it a shot and find out. I assume you already have activator installed?

Yeah, I've used respring from ccsettings, and SBPowerAlert + Activator, but neither worked properly for me. Not sure why, but it could be my error.

I went with RMCache, and it works perfectly every time.

I do appreciate the reply to my issue.
 
Yeah, I've used respring from ccsettings, and SBPowerAlert + Activator, but neither worked properly for me. Not sure why, but it could be my error.

I went with RMCache, and it works perfectly every time.

I do appreciate the reply to my issue.

No problem. Sorry I couldn't help, but you are very welcome.

Just so I'm clear and don't offer this suggestion to others, activator by itself does not clear the cache on respring? It looks like you said you used a combination of activator and SBPowerAlert. Or were those two independent of each other?

Either way, thanks for sharing. I was not aware of RMCache. Good to know. You learn something new everyday! :). Take care.
 
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