Have you ever been lying down or sitting in a comfortable position and wished you didn’t have to use both hands to turn the page on your iBooks? Or scroll down for you on the page you are on? What if you could control the page up and down settings with the volume buttons and go nearly handsfree with your iDevice? This is especially useful to those of us who like using one hand while using iBooks on our iDevices and want to scroll down a page and are too lazy to move our hand to do so.
This tweak is relatively simple to install and requires a few extra steps, this tweak runs on iOS 4 AND 5 and a jailbroken iDevice.
Step 1.
Open Cydia and navigate to Manage
Step 2.
Click on Sources and from the top right tap on “edit” and from the top left choose “add”. You will be prompted to enter a Cydia / APT URL, type the following without the quotation marks.
“rpteri.ch/repo/”
And wait for cydia to download and install all the data and wait for the prompt on the bottom center of the screen to say “Return to Cydia”
Step 3.
Navigate back to Cydia and manage, and once again choose Sources. You will now see the website you previously entered as a new source as “RPetri.ch Repository” tap on this and scroll down to S for SuperScroller.
Step 4.
Just like the other tweaks simply navigate to the top right Choose “Install”, “Confirm” and then once the tweak is installed it will ask you to “Restart Springboard” and your device will do a soft reset taking you back to your lockscreen.
Step 5.
And that’s it, you have now installed SuperScroller, to test this feature our simply go to settings and press the volume button up to move the page up and volume button down to move the page down.
If you wish to change the buttons to your liking you can navigate to “Settings” from your homescreen and navigate down to “Activator” and choose “Anywhere” now choose the button / action you wish to assign your buttons to your liking, so far the tweak works very well with almost every social network application like Twitter and Facebook and Safari too. I have set swipe left / right on the status bar to take my page up and down accordingly which I find to be quite useful.
I hope you found this tweak to help be helpful and yes the tweak has been confirmed to work with iOS 4.3.3 and should also work with iOS 5, the tweak is supposed to work on any iOS 4 / 5 compliant device and since most of these devices do have volume buttons this is a fairly easily available tweak requiring a few extra steps and obviously since Cydia is a requirement for this tweak it goes without saying that jailbreaking is required.
Leave a comment below telling me your ideal settings for this tweak and what application you are planning on using this with.
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