Archive for the ‘iPhone’ Category

my iPhone works again, without resyncing my music

Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008

so here is what i did to get my iPhone working again. it has been good since the evening of my last post... almost 5 days. I took suggestions from an iPhone support post at apple.com (which I cannot find.) I was able to make my 10+GB of music reappear ...

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 ...

Goodbye Verizon, Hello iPhone

Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008

After 10+ years with Verizon it took a device to lure me away. I don't even care that att has inferior high speed coverage. It could have been alltell or sprint. Less than 1.5 hours ok line at an AT&T in SE portland on launch day 2 and a shiny ...