How-to

Seeing the Apple logo when you first boot up an iPhone is an exciting scene. The main part of that excitement is knowing that the logo screen eventually goes away and the iPhone starts up for you to actually begin using it.

However, that same logo turns into the most frustrating thing if the screen gets stuck on it on your iPhone, preventing the device from turning on and you from using it. 

It’s time to put the frustration aside and look at what causes this problem and how to fix it. In this post, we’re explaining the different things that could be causing your iPhone to be stuck on the Apple logo, how to identify the culprit in your own device, and how to resolve this issue, as well as when to consider other options than resolving it!

The Bright Side: In many cases, this is fixable at home without any specialist help. Here's how to work out which situation you're in. 

You’ve moved all your photos and videos to cloud storage or an external hard drive, then deleted them all from your Samsung Galaxy phone’s internal storage. Now your phone’s storage breakdown shows that videos, photos, and files occupy only a few megabytes, yet your phone is still showing that 90% of its memory is full. You can’t download new apps, and the apps already installed are not working properly, let alone updating. It’s frustrating, but it doesn't mean that your phone is broken or at the end of its life.

There are indeed files that are taking up space in your device’s internal memory storage, what we call ghost storage. They just don’t show up in the file browser you’re using to check for files to delete.

You’re ready to sell your old smartphone to get cash or credit based on the buyback service you’re choosing to sell your phone to. While the process of selling an old smartphone is straightforward, it can also go wrong with a mistake that leads to delaying your payment, reducing your quote, or your phone not being processed at all, and you get sent back the device. 

In this guide, you’ll find a complete checklist that you can follow step by step to get your phone ready for selling or trading in correctly right away.

For an iPhone user, iOS updates are routine. However, this is the moment many iPhone users dread, as it means an inexplicable battery drain they know all too well. 

If this is something you’re encountering for the first time, it’s understandable to wonder if something is wrong with your mobile phone. 

For new iPhone users who are not used to this experience, it can be panic-inducing as they may think their iPhone battery, and therefore the device itself, is dying. 

If your iPhone battery started draining significantly faster after a recent iOS update, you don’t need to worry for two reasons: 

1- You’re not alone. 

2- This is temporary and fixable.

In this post, we’re helping you understand what’s happening with your iPhone, why the battery is draining fast after the update, what to do to fix it, and how to uncover underlying reasons if the drain isn’t temporary. 

The green line running down a Samsung phone or an iPhone is feared almost as much as the blue screen of death in Windows PCs.

This problem can be considered relatively new, as you’ll notice it didn’t happen when smartphones used LCD panels. The problem started appearing in Samsung phones in 2016 and in iPhones in 2017, around the time each brand started adopting OLED and AMOLED display panels. 

The cause of this line cutting vertically through the screen was wrongly thought to be a software problem, as it started after a major Android update, but later, we now know that it’s not a software problem; it’s a hardware problem that happens specifically with AMOLED and OLED displays.