Jailbreak tweak provides an easier way of silencing incoming calls and alarms

Normally, when you receive a phone call on your iPhone, you can silence it by pressing the Power button. The same applies to alarms ringing on your device. Sol is an interesting jailbreak tweak that provides an alternative way of silencing incoming calls and alarms.

With the tweak installed, all you have to do to silence alarms and incoming calls is to flip your device similar to some Android devices. To accomplish this task, the tweak takes advantage of the proximity sensor located on the front of the iPhone, near the front-facing camera.

It also claims that placing your iPhone upside-down on a flat surface will silence all calls and alarms but it doesn’t work. You still have to flip it over to silence incoming alerts.

Sol also comes with a dedicated preferences pane located in the Settings app. From there, you can enable or disable it via the kill switch toggle, choose the sensitivity level of the proximity sensor as well as select whether you want the tweak to work with alarms or not for dismissing or snoozing them.

You can also enable or disable the use for incoming phone calls. Once done, no respring is required for the changes to take place. When you receive a phone call or your iPhone starts ringing, simply flip over your device and it will be silenced right away.

Sol is quite an interesting tweak that doesn’t require you to press the physical Lock button every time you want to silence incoming alerts. It has been inspired from Android devices which feature the same functionality for silencing calls.

If you’re in to give this tweak a try, Sol can be download for free via Cydia’s BigBoss repo. Let us know what you think about the tweak once you’ve installed it.