yeah lol. but at first the 4s was draining really quickly while in standby, but seems to have settled now.
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yeah lol. but at first the 4s was draining really quickly while in standby, but seems to have settled now.
thanks guys. I drained my battery all the way down and let it charge fully back up, so idunno if it was the rebooting of the phone or battery drain but it seems better now. ~64% percent after 1.45 hours of use and 17+ hours of standby.
Patrick Bateman
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Is there a free blog-reader-app for the iPhone which doesn't need a google account?
My battery is worrying me, the last 2 days it charges for 8 hours and when I pull it off, its at 91%.
Also, my battery will rapidly lose battery life and become VERY warm, I'm talking about losign 20% within 2 hours of sitting on my desk at work, not inside anything warm and no case.
I will have to head to the Apple store and see what they will do.
Also, my battery will rapidly lose battery life and become VERY warm, I'm talking about losign 20% within 2 hours of sitting on my desk at work, not inside anything warm and no case.
I will have to head to the Apple store and see what they will do.
tHa_vIlLaMaN
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Yea no prob.
Oh! I forgot, the bridge over the cutout for the volume controls is pretty delicate. Mine lasted about a month until it cracked. Didn't fully come off till about the 2nd month though.
So, has anybody extensively used Siri to listen and reply to texts while driving? I'd love to hear your thoughts on this. Everything I find on Google seems to be about the legality of doing so with current texting while driving laws, I'm instead looking for impressions on how feasible/enjoyable the process is.
BuggyDClown
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It works well with my built in bluetooth on my Elantra. I never have to look at my iphone anymore, and Siri is much faster to make calls than the built in voice system. I just wish my car had a siri button. I just have my phone mounted and hold downthe home buttone, so I dont even have to look at it, but I wish my steering wheel had a way to activate it.
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I do this fairly regularly. Listening to texts is no big deal:
Hold button, ask Siri to read you the text. When it's done reading it'll ask you if you want to reply. From there you just rattle off what you want to say, and it'll read back what it's going to send (to make sure it's what you wanted). When you're done just say "send it" and off it goes.
The only frustrations I have is that I get overconfident in the voice recognition and say something rather long winded, only to find out that burger got turned into merger or something like that and I have to do it over.
A completely viable method of texting while driving with no hands.
Using Siri to read/reply to text messages works okay for me. I do have a few frustrations:
- I have a French accent, so Siri regularly has difficulty correctly transcribing my messages.
- Dictating a rather long message and then having Siri run into server problems is terribly frustrating. I wish there was a way to "retry" instead of her saying, "Nope, can't do that."
- I have a French accent, so Siri regularly has difficulty correctly transcribing my messages.
- Dictating a rather long message and then having Siri run into server problems is terribly frustrating. I wish there was a way to "retry" instead of her saying, "Nope, can't do that."
joeblackisback
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I use it pretty regularly with the standard apple earbuds and it's a lifesaver. I almost never have any problems with Siri understanding me, and I have learned how to add punctuation and the like. I use it almost exclusively when I'm in the car, and as long as the radio isn't too loud it's not a problem.
It was in the iPhone 4 thread, lol:
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?p=33208015&highlight=#post33208015
Jezbollah
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Hello 4S-Gaf.
After a lifetime, O2 are now opening up the 4S to new customers (I was an old customer, but went from pay monthly to pay as you go...).. I am about to trade in my POS Galaxy S and get a 32gb 4S from Carphone Warehouse. I have a couple of questions I hope you may be able to help with:
1) How long did you guys charge your 4S before you started using it?
2) Do you need an active Micro Sim to activate the phone on Itunes?
The reason I ask: I am currently on site at a customer of my company, away from home and I'd like to listen to Podcasts on the way home.. Cheers guys.
After a lifetime, O2 are now opening up the 4S to new customers (I was an old customer, but went from pay monthly to pay as you go...).. I am about to trade in my POS Galaxy S and get a 32gb 4S from Carphone Warehouse. I have a couple of questions I hope you may be able to help with:
1) How long did you guys charge your 4S before you started using it?
2) Do you need an active Micro Sim to activate the phone on Itunes?
The reason I ask: I am currently on site at a customer of my company, away from home and I'd like to listen to Podcasts on the way home.. Cheers guys.
Patrick Bateman
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1. I didn't charge my 4S at all before I started to use it. It came with 50%. I used it, till it was completely empty, then recharged it to 100%. I read that this is the way to go.
2. I needed it.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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I have a question if anyone can help me. Does anyone have an unlocked iPhone on T-Mobile? I heard the data will only be able to do 2G/Edge speeds but are there any downsides? Do any normal functions of the phone not work even though it's unlocked on T-Mobile? I see sites stating some problems but they're so outdated because they all say you have to cut your sim card to make it mini sim but T-Mobile has mini sim and the description even says to use on unlocked smartphones and iPhone. Does this mean the problems with no facetime and other problems that were present when jailbreaking an AT&T version of the iPhone now and you can just pop in the sim card and go? Thanks for the help.
Everything works, including Facetime and iMessage.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Sweet, so the only thing that doesn't work is 3G on it? Also, do you have to do anything special to get it running or you just put in the sim card and act normally? I know the old way you had to call at&t customer support in the UK or something and all these extra hoops.
That and MMS, which requires a different APN or something. I don't mess with it anymore since iMessage though. Mine is an official unlocked version from Apple and there was no calling or anything else required. Just pop the sim.
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Ah, ok. MMS is just when you text a picture right? Does that mean you can't receive and MMS either or just sending? I can't really say I text pictures like ever so I don't think that's a huge deal breaker if I get an iPhone 4S.
Right. Both send and receive to non-iOS 5 devices. If they're on iOS 5, you can just use iMessage.
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Giga, I have one more question for you if you don't mind since you're on T-Mobile, is being stuck with 2G speeds really bad? Is anything really slow for you when you go to do something because of it like you have problems watching videos or anything or is it pretty decent?
Is anyone else having issues with iCloud? I created an account when I got my phone a couple of weeks after release using the same email as my AppleID. Whenever I try to check my iCloud email I get an error message saying my account password is wrong.
Yet, if I delete all my iCloud information and put my email and password in (I know it's the correct one because I reset it and it's gives me the little check when I sign in), I still get errors when attempting to access my iClould email. My notes won't sync between my iPad and my iPhone, but my photo stream will sync.
Furthermore, I cannot actually check my email on icloud.com, as it will give me error and not allow me to sign in at all.
Yet, if I delete all my iCloud information and put my email and password in (I know it's the correct one because I reset it and it's gives me the little check when I sign in), I still get errors when attempting to access my iClould email. My notes won't sync between my iPad and my iPhone, but my photo stream will sync.
Furthermore, I cannot actually check my email on icloud.com, as it will give me error and not allow me to sign in at all.
It's terrible. Mobile sites aren't so bad but everything else is.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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That doesn't sound good. Do you regret not getting an android phone since you could use 3G then?Definitely not. The hardware, OS, and platform were worth it over 3G speeds.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Ya, I rather like the apple ecosystem but that makes it sound bad. I guess I can't stream movies or sports or anything.
Why not switch to a different carrier?
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Cool, I might wind up getting an iPhone now.
For non-iOS mmsing, you can use Whatsapp. Lots of people use that app on all kinds of phones. As far as 2G speeds.. are you around wifi a lot? I'm always surrounded, so I barely even use 3G on my network.
Have a damn good contract with tmob. Awesome customer service as well.
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Do you mean down in the button, on the sides? I guess hold it down and use canned air around it.
killertofu
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So is Flipboard like an RSS feed?
Kind of. Think of it more like a magazine since it's so much more visual. And there are tons of different sources you can add like your own accounts (facebook, twitter, flickr, etc) or third party things like bbc, colbert, economist, and so on.
Zaraki_Kenpachi
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Sort of but not really? I mean if I'm at my house or a friends house they obviously have wifi but I can't really think of any shops I frequent that have wifi there. It seems that T-Mobile mostly has 2G around me anyhow. All in the area around me is 2G but if I go to "bigger cities" by me then it has 3G or 4G (It's hard to tell because they colors they use) and like by my college is 4G but I'll only be there another semester and that's it. But anything within an hour of my house more or less is only 2G coverage so I'd most likely have to use 2G anyhow that's why I'm considering it. They don't set up stores in a 2G area either so it's hard to see how the speed is for me and if it bothers me without buying a phone and trying it. :/
Also, what size did you guys get for your phones? Is 16GB usually enough? I sort of think 32GB would be pretty nice but it's $100 more. :/
joeblackisback
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So what's the situation with pulling the phone off the charger and it not being fully charged? Have you had your phone replaced for that? It's weird, because I've had the phone since launch and it has only started doing this for the last few weeks. It has been otherwise wonky, though, such as losing internet (wifi) connectivity during the night and not receiving any of my emails. Has anyone else had problems like these? TIA
I just installed Flipboard. incredible work they've done to get it on the phone screen. the visual cue they give you that you swipe up to change stories and sections (showing the bottom part of the screen flap open and close a bit) is great.
navigation is very fast, layout is clean and the whole thing just screams quality.
navigation is very fast, layout is clean and the whole thing just screams quality.
But you cannot replace the lockscreen with it right? Seems useless then.
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This line of thinking confuses me. Do you use/own an iPhone and still asked this question?
Yes? But I just don't see the point of it save for visually showing you some of the stuff that you get. Notification center already gives me Twitter/Instagram/whatever social thing updates. With this I have to go into the app separately, which takes as much time as just going to the app directly where the update is from.
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It's a matter of active vs. passive consumption. In this case you're actively going out to see what's going on in the social world vs. in your scenario you're just receiving whatever updates you've decided to get from various applications. If it's anything like Flipboard for iPad, it's a great visual experience to see content.
I asked the question I did because of course this can't replace the lockscreen. Nothing can unless you jailbreak your phone.
You must have one messy notification center if you're getting every twitter, facebook status, or whatever update on it. The app is so much more than just your social accounts.
you don't need to limit it only to facebook and twitter feeds.
some of the best design and photography blogs put their content on there. makes for a really interesting browsing experience with stuff you might not stumble across on your own.
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