Mobile Phone Addiction
"Youngsters check their phones every 10 minutes. One in 20 looks at their mobile every minute of the day" says an online article. True enough, with all the social networking apps, Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter, Instagram, etc. we tend to feel the urgency to check and provide immediate responses to the person on the other end of the line. So much so it became a habit programmed into our daily lifestyle. (we as in young people, I guess..) It gets even worst when we are bored or caught in a boring event or occasion.
Unresponsive Button (Broken?)
The physical button on your devices like all mechanical parts are prone to mechanical failures. That is why it is wiser for phone manufacturers to use capacitive buttons instead of physical buttons. A good example is the dreaded iPhone home button. Nowadays, there are other method to wake up our phone apart from using the power button. Gestures like "slide to wake", "tap to wake", "knock to wake", is a bliss to us mobile phone addicts. Unfortunately, at the time of writing the developers for MIUI did not gave us these options. You can try bugging them to include those options over at MIUI forum though or at least hope someone is kind enough to develop such options for the MIUI externally that we can install / flash into our MI products.
Lock Widget
While we may not have the tap to wake function at the moment, you can probably reduce the wear and tear of the power button by half by using the "Lock" widget on the home screen. Just follow the steps below.
1. Tap and hold a blank spot on the home screen
2. Tap Widgets
3. Tap Toggles
4. Tap and drag Lock onto anywhere convenient on the home screen.
From there on, just use the Lock widget to off your phone when you're done with your business.
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| 1. Tap Widget |
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| 2. Tap Toggles |
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| 3. Drag Lock onto home screen |
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