Apple iPhone and related items (cont.)

[editor]

Fucksake, I've come across a permissions error with the dcim folder on my iPhone and I can't take pics

Restore it is then

Does this work: Right click on the DCIM folder and select Properties.

You will see a window. In the middle of the window you will see the permissions. In the “octal” box replace the existing numbers with 0750.

 

[sim667]

Well the software I've got to look doesn't have a properties box.

It's called iexplore

I did actually delete the dcim, but it rebuilt it with the same problem. I cleared out whatever plists I thought might have been keeping a cache of the camera roll too

 

[editor]

Sorry, the bit I missed out was that you must first connect your iPhone to your computer through Wi-Fi using SSH - http://www.gev.com/2011/12/how-to-connect-to-your-iphone-through-ssh-using-wi-fi/

Apols for missing that bit out.

 

[Structaural]

That only works on Jailbroken phones btw.

 

[sim667]

Sorry, the bit I missed out was that you must first connect your iPhone to your computer through Wi-Fi using SSH - http://www.gev.com/2011/12/how-to-connect-to-your-iphone-through-ssh-using-wi-fi/

Apols for missing that bit out.

Yeah I'm not jail broken, you can only connect through ssh when your j/b

Then I could just ssh into it and run a sudo chmod command on the dcim folder through terminal.

Oh well, restore.

If I sync it to my computer first and then restore from backup that should sort it yeah? Or will that just restore the dcim folder with the wrong permissions??

 

[sim667]

And now to top it all off I can't listen to my fucking music. Wtf are these poindexters doing with this update?

Id hate to be the customer service representative that has to talk to me on the phone later if a restore doesn't sort it. Especially pissed off as they've been essentially ignoring me regarding a problem with my mac pro that only came about after upgrading to lion

 

[sim667]

Phone sorted, restored as a new phone and resync'd..... Once I know it's all fine I'll switch back to iCloud backups.

I discovered Siri couldn't answer the question 'what is consciousness?'...... It's clearly not as good as its be made out

 

[Kid_Eternity]

A mate for the 4S the other day, he was talking excitedly about Siri to me this afternoon, seems to think it's very cool but is actually quite useful. He's by no means a geek at all so it's interesting to see what a 'normal' person makes of things like this.

 

[sim667]

I've edited my backup so that the panoramic should be enabled now, but I've just realised, restoring from it will mean waiting for my songs to copy over again doesn't it? That takes aaaaaaaagggggeeeeeeessssss!

I've just realised holding my keys down on my mac brings up letter selection like on the iPhone, why has no one ever told me that before?!?

 

[Structaural]

Only started with Lion, that.

 

[sim667]

Only started with Lion, that.

Ah, thats why Id missed that.

I can do my ACSP exam for Lion online, but im worried about cocking it up without having some kind of training, kinda for that reason.

 

[editor]

Just an update on iPhones on Giffgaff:

The community focus makes pretty good sense, and has produced several handy things – a forum full of helpful people, and an iPhone app for keeping track of my balance.

The handiest thing about it though involves SIM cards. Giffgaff doesn't provide the Micro-SIMs used by the iPhone 4, but it does reward people for sending cards to people. The result? A cottage industry of users who cut and mail them to new users, completely free.
http://www.techradar.com/news/phone...he-30-smartphone-tax-1045342?src=rss&attr=all

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Cute.

 

[kazza007]

Set up my 4 now, I'm guessing with the latest software. I noticed from my 3gs, that now my hotmail on the iphone displays all my laptop hotmail folders. I didn't have this before and don't really need it now.

How do I go about not having this on my 4 please?

 

[sim667]

Set up my 4 now, I'm guessing with the latest software. I noticed from my 3gs, that now my hotmail on the iphone displays all my laptop hotmail folders. I didn't have this before and don't really need it now.

How do I go about not having this on my 4 please?

I think if you set it up as a pop3 account rather than an imap one that will stop it

 

[kazza007]

I don't really know what pop or imap are, and can't find any of those in the settings? But I set the phone up in the same usual manner as my 3gs, and wondered then, how I can set it up as pop3 to avoid all these private folders on display. TY

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Not sure they can be changed on the phone, with Gmail I had to go into it on the web to change the forwarding settings when I first set up Gmail on my iPhone...

 

[sim667]

Right all my other iPhone problems are sorted, but now it won't let me put some new mp3's on my phone. It says it can't convert them (i have the convert to 128kbps option switched on)

There's plenty of room on my phone, and the originals are all mp3

 

[sim667]

Also I need to change my tariff, im still on the unlimited o2 one. I wanted to change to simplicity, but then I lose my unlimited data. I can keep unlimited date if i change to giff gaff, but then i cant use visual voicemail or personal hotspot.....

Does anyone know of any rolling contracts I could go onto to keep my phone running until i go onto a new contract when a model that isnt the 4s comes out?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

3 do a sim only with unlimited data I think...

 

[editor]

Good news if you're a US iPhone 4 user:

You Can Have $15 or a Bumper Case from Apple’s Antennagate Settlement

Apparently, the "you're holding it wrong defense" didn't work as well as Apple had hoped. The company has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit and will give US iPhone 4 buyers their choice of $15 or a bumper case.

The suit was originally filed in 2010 and alleged that "the case and antenna design has led to a substantial degradation in signal quality and dropped calls when the phone is used in a normal and foreseeable fashion by users."
Customers that purchased an iPhone 4 will be able to redeem their payout from www.iPhone4Settlement.com when the site goes live. Apple will also alert affected customers via email by April 30th. Anyone that bought an iPhone 4 before Friday should be eligible though

http://gizmodo.com/5886214/you-can-have-15-or-a-bumper-case-from-apples-antennagate-settlement

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Lol what a great settlement, £11 or a crap bit of rubber!

 

[editor]

Completely fake, non working Pokemon app somehow ends up in the App Store and despite picking up endless poor reviews saying it doesn't work it rises to be the #2 best selling app.

That's why most will likely be surprised to take a look at the iTunes App Store charts right now, with a Pikachu-adorned Pokemon Yellow app sitting pretty at number 2 as of this writing. The app description really does try to pass the game off as an iPhone version of the monster-collecting RPG, with "press quotes" claiming the game is "just like the original," albeit with "full high-resolution Retina Display graphics." The app doesn't work at all, though, crashing on start for seemingly everyone, and unsurprisingly the reviews are full of disappointed customers who want their 99 cents back. The real question is how on earth this managed to get past Apple's supposedly stringent manual review process.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/20/2812849/psa-fake-pokemon-yellow-app-store-iphone

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Yeah but anyone willing to download a Pokemon app gets what they deserve, real or not.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Phone mock ups are always fun...but this one? Not sure what I think of the design tbh...

Read the full article.

 

[editor]

Looks ridiculous, like a Palm Pre colliding with a block of aluminium.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

It's very uninspired, basically it's just "Hey lets flatten the mouse and make it look like an iPhone'. Plus the headphone jack is in a stupid place.

 

[maldwyn]

5 buttons - this would have Mr Jobs spinning in his grave.

 

[souljacker]

5 buttons - this would have Mr Jobs spinning in his grave.

iphones have got 5 buttons

 

[editor]

iphones have got 5 buttons

They must be the right sort of buttons.