Archive for August, 2008

it couldn’t last. iPhone apps crashing, music is gone… again

Friday, August 29th, 2008

Greeted yesterday with some instability. A sync did not seem to solve anything. This morning my fully charged and syncd iPhone 3G was experiencing random crashing of my new favorite game Quordy and the iPod app. WTF. A restart on the subway left me with no apps and no music. A reset of my ...

iGripe - my iPhone apps quit, tells me I have no music installed

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

While waiting for the PATH train back to NY I was playing Quordy. My second "not free" purchase from the app store. If you like Boggle you'll love Quordy. Although I can think of a few enhancements. I'll save that for another post. I had put my iPhone to sleep by ...

iGripe - i can’t merge calls or add a call on my iPhone, i sorta can now

Wednesday, August 20th, 2008

Another sync, another 2 hours. My music and apps are working. I'm jabbering away on my Jawbone when another friend calls. Time to test out 3-way calling... Guess what? Merge calls does not work. I found this article. I let the kind rep know about the issues people were having and how they indicated that ...

iGripe - iPhone apps stopped working again, software update just in time

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

Invariably my iPhone apps stopped working and my ipod was reporting no music...again. I started a restore and much to my delight... there is a new version of the iphone software- 2.0.2! Lets hope that this helps my Jesus Judas device. UPDATE 1: The upgrade of the software did not help my ...

iGripe - it takes forever for my iPhone to backup

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

why?!?!? iTunes decided to run a full backup of my iPhone. i figure i'll let it run and see if any of my apps come back to life. i have nearly 13GB of free space and it has been over 30 minutes. UPDATE: I cancelled the middle of the backup b/c i ...

iGripe because my iPhone thinks i’m in France

Sunday, August 17th, 2008

after iFinally manually restored my iPhone it was time to run a full backup, sync up some apps and add fill it with music...again. I hadn't initially added music because the flash memory in the iPhone is so damn slow. I actually only had time to add 2 or ...

iGripe because iCrashed - iphone backup failed, blessing in disguise

Thursday, August 7th, 2008

an ongoing iGripe of mine is the fact that i can only sync to one version of itunes at a time. this was not a problem with my ipod 30gb. i could move music to my ipod from my home and work pc. to lessen my load i recently ditched my ...