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Illuminati
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Hmm. Then I'm going to send myself an e-mail from another account and time it. That is probably the best thing to do.dallow_bg said:
When you reopen the e-mail app, before it refreshes, I think what you're seeing is what the screen looked like the moment you closed it. How it appears doesn't continue to change when the app is closed and in the background. Thus, the time it last checked won't be shown at the bottom.
Kung Fu Jedi
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Illuminati said:
My iPhone will occasionally stop fetching e-mails as well, but a restart of the phone always cures it for me.
NekoFever
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You're not the only one. My phone rarely, if ever, fetches automatically at the moment (IMAP on my own server, set to check every 15 minutes), and a quick search found that a lot of people are reporting it as a known issue with 2.1. There was a big thread about it on the Apple support forums and someone said that when he contacted Apple the support guy said that it was a high priority bug that would be fixed in the next update.Illuminati said:
Anyway, I finally gave in and bought Beejive. It certainly seems like a solid app and is far better than the others that I've tried. I've got the buyer's remorse going at the moment but that's probably because I'm at home on my computer where I've got good old Adium. I'll be able to have a proper go when I'm at work tomorrow.
Illuminati
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Ah thanks guys, at least it appears I am not the only one then. I was going crazy because I did not see how I could have possibly configured the settings incorrectly. I will try shutting down and starting it again as Kung Fu Jedi suggested.
Illuminati said:
I don't think the indicator at the bottom is necessarily accurate. I haven't had any problems getting email from gmail using fetch every 15 min. Now getting push to work with ymail, that i don't know how to do..
EDIT: hmm, i seem to be able to get push ymail to work if i delete my gmail account. But then when I add the gmail back and set it to default, it doesn't work anymore. Lame.
Illuminati
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Well here is the thing. I got the phone Saturday night and both mail and updates were working on Sunday. Then Monday both automatic mail retrieval and automatic update notification stopped working. I noticed the automatic notification was not working this morning when I was never alerted about the Facebook app update.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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There is no automatic app update notification.Illuminati said:
Illuminati
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Well that is strange. You never got one of those "red dot" notifications on your applications icon? One of the pro-football apps that I used had an update on Sunday, my Applications app had a red dot indicating I had an app update. When I went into the Applications app it showed that football app I had downloaded had a newer version.Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
I'm reading the Apple forums and it seems like the battery saving features may be causing the problem. Like the phone is going into battery saving mode and doesn't do any fetches as a result. Some people on there are saying that if they plug their iPhone into the wall it starts fetching again. Now that I recall the last time my phone fetched it was plugged into the wall.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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It only checks if you open the App Store. You likely opened the App Store and left it without updating, so it put the notifier there.Illuminati said:
Illuminati
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Maybe that is the case, I don't really remember.Liu Kang Baking A Pie said:
With my other problem I feel like shouting at my phone as if it were a pregnant woman "PUSH DAMMIT PUUUUUSSSSSHHHH!!!"
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For what purpose?
Alright, I gave in and bought Japanese:
It's a very, very solid dictionary app. The only thing I'm not so sure about is that the non-search interface is very geared for "Go get Japanese" as opposed to being language neutral. The only reason that bugs me is that I've used Word Tanks for years, and they're oriented in the opposite manner.
That said, it's been a terrific tool for studying Kanji since I got it. The only complaint is there's a known (and pleasantly published) bug that prevents you from saving your own saved lists of words. Luckily that has already been patched and apparently a built-in flashcard player will be included at some point in the future.
I couldn't not support someone who put that much effort into this. $20 is a fair price, given that my WordTank V80 Touch was like $250
EDIT: Oh yeah, you can actually use the Chinese character IME to input characters to search, but note that even though it somehow has unicode equivalency, not all Japanese Kanji are recognized by it (frustrating at times)
It's a very, very solid dictionary app. The only thing I'm not so sure about is that the non-search interface is very geared for "Go get Japanese" as opposed to being language neutral. The only reason that bugs me is that I've used Word Tanks for years, and they're oriented in the opposite manner.
That said, it's been a terrific tool for studying Kanji since I got it. The only complaint is there's a known (and pleasantly published) bug that prevents you from saving your own saved lists of words. Luckily that has already been patched and apparently a built-in flashcard player will be included at some point in the future.
I couldn't not support someone who put that much effort into this. $20 is a fair price, given that my WordTank V80 Touch was like $250
EDIT: Oh yeah, you can actually use the Chinese character IME to input characters to search, but note that even though it somehow has unicode equivalency, not all Japanese Kanji are recognized by it (frustrating at times)
I'll also get app update notifiers without opening the app store, and not from syncing.
They just pop up every now and then, I do notice the updates are a few days old when that happens, which means I'd see them sooner if I had opened the store app earlier.
They just pop up every now and then, I do notice the updates are a few days old when that happens, which means I'd see them sooner if I had opened the store app earlier.
Here's a tip for it once you're in a thread, to skip to the bottom of the page without doing the iPhone thumb shuffle, hit the name of the thread at the top and it'll do it automatically.Morts said:
The kanji screen on the screen looks good. Very well laid out. The rest, while the presentation is good, eh I'll save my money and stick with Wedict for now.Juice said:Alright, I gave in and bought Japanese:
It's a very, very solid dictionary app. The only thing I'm not so sure about is that the non-search interface is very geared for "Go get Japanese" as opposed to being language neutral. The only reason that bugs me is that I've used Word Tanks for years, and they're oriented in the opposite manner.
That said, it's been a terrific tool for studying Kanji since I got it. The only complaint is there's a known (and pleasantly published) bug that prevents you from saving your own saved lists of words. Luckily that has already been patched and apparently a built-in flashcard player will be included at some point in the future.
I couldn't not support someone who put that much effort into this. $20 is a fair price, given that my WordTank V80 Touch was like $250
EDIT: Oh yeah, you can actually use the Chinese character IME to input characters to search, but note that even though it somehow has unicode equivalency, not all Japanese Kanji are recognized by it (frustrating at times)
lionelhutz
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How does the iPhone handle contacts that are in my phone when I plug it into my computer? Is it backing up my contacts automatically or do I need to specify it to sync under iTunes?
Edit: I don't use any contact program on my computer.
Edit: I don't use any contact program on my computer.
Kung Fu Jedi
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lionelhutz said:
By default it should be set to sync contacts both directions between your computer and phone. And when the phone does a back-up they get saved that way as well.
It doesn't matter whether or not you actually use a contact program, you don't have to actively use the to sync to Address Book or Outlook. Are we still fighting this notion that syncing data with iTunes to the computer is a good thing somehow? Just sync the data and feel good having it in another location in case you have a lousy phone backup. If your contacts are important to you, this should be a no-brainer.lionelhutz said:
lionelhutz
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Terrell said:
I'm not fighting anything. If it backups my info through iTunes that's all I need to know.
Nameless
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Posted!? Flash is coming, finally!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/flash_for_the_iphone_confirmed_at_fotb/
Apple better not drop the ball on this one!
http://www.flashmagazine.com/news/detail/flash_for_the_iphone_confirmed_at_fotb/
Apple better not drop the ball on this one!
Kung Fu Jedi
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Nameless said:
Um... not so fast. This has been known for sometime, but it's still up to Apple to actually allow it on the iPhone, and there has been plenty of resistance there to not do so. There really isn't any new news here, unfortunately.
:tears hair out:LCfiner said:you've been missing it for weeks
I would still love a native app as then we could post from it without being booted to the normal Gaf page with all the textarea difficulties that Gaf poses to mobile safari.
The mobile CAG site is very functional and you can log in and post straight from it.
The only thing it's missing is the quick drop function.
He'd have to work with the web admins for all that I suppose.
OK, considering how horribly unreliable backups are being reported to be, don't say you weren't warned.lionelhutz said:
Considering how much I don't miss Flash ads blocking my reading and that I'm still on a first-gen iPhone, some of us consider this a god-send. Most legitimate Flash content is a pain to view and navigate on a mobile phone anyways. If Apple were to include it, I would demand an option to disable Flash.Kung Fu Jedi said:
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Terrell said:
What exactly is he being warned about? iTunes does back-ups and it syncs with is address book, that's what he wanted to know.
Sorry, I'm still programmed to assume that when people ask "doesn't it do a backup of my stuff automatically?" and seem to suggest that they didn't go through the initial configuration steps when they first plugged in the phone for its first sync, that means they're trying any possible method to not rely on using iTunes syncing or didn't RTFM. Go read a bunch of pages back, there was a huge hullabaloo about how iTunes syncing is the devil incarnate or something. And my work with Apple phone support back in the day of people crying because they manually added music to their iPod and it crashed without a computer backup also doesn't help my opinion of his question.Kung Fu Jedi said:
But I shall slap myself on the wrist nonetheless.
I just moved to Germany for a few months. Can I unlock my iPhone and use a pay as you go SIM card on it? Is it possible to unlock the phone without having service? Sorry if this has been asked before or if it isn't allowed to be asked, I just couldn't bring myself to search through 231 pages.
Kung Fu Jedi
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Reports today say that Apple has dropped the NDA for developers on released software. That should make some devs pretty happy. NDA remains in place on unreleased features of course.
that doesn't say much and if anything, is reaffirming that Flash isn't coming.Nameless said:
It's also about the same thing Adobe has been saying since the iPhone SDK was announced so many months ago.
Don't get your hopes up for flash, folks. (And as so many have pointed out, the way Safari struggles with the web as is, you sure as he'll don't really want Flash there as an extra avenue of sluggishness and instability.)
Kung Fu Jedi said:
This is good news and an indication that Apple may be taking all this recent developer criticism to heart.
We can only hope that they become more open about app store submissions, as well. By making perfectly clear up front what apps won't be accepted and by loosening some of the rules that have banned useful apps from the store, like Podcaster.
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