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Vyer said:
Slide for emergency is the only thing on a new, unactivated phone.
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Well how in the hell could my phone become deactivated by rebooting it? It is asking to be plugged into iTunes, but I am many a mile away from my computer. This is not good.
 
Fuck man...this phone wins so hard. The apps completely make this thing incredible.

Just felt like fapping a bit.
 
RevenantKioku said:
Well how in the hell could my phone become deactivated by rebooting it? It is asking to be plugged into iTunes, but I am many a mile away from my computer. This is not good.
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It is possible though it is rare. I've had it happen a couple of times when I was beta testing the firmware. Apple was never able to find the exact cause. Unfortunately the only way around it is to actually plug it in so it can do a key auth with the iTunes servers.
 
adamsappel said:
Okay, my birthday present is an 8GB iPhone. For those who have the same, do you toss and turn at night for not having the 16GB?
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I have an 8GB and it's plenty enough for me.

I don't have tons of music on it and I don't have any videos on it but I am really happy with what I got on it like the apps. Out of the 8GB's I have only used 3.

It all depends on if u want to put alot of music and videos in it
 
adamsappel said:
Okay, my birthday present is an 8GB iPhone. For those who have the same, do you toss and turn at night for not having the 16GB?
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I got a 16, and with all my music collection on there it took up 11, and I'm not what you'd call a music enthusiast. After apps and other random stuff, I'm down to just over a gig free now.

I don't think it's a problem having an 8GB iphone. But you will probably have to eventually manage your data a bit. Depending on your level of knowledge with how itunes works (I myself find it a bit tedious) you might not think it as a big deal at all.
 
As with anything size-related, buy the most you can afford.

You will never be happy in the long-run, and always fill it up and have to manage your media etc. better.

Personally speaking 8GB has been fine for me. I lost the OCD-like desire of carrying my entire music collection around with me a long time ago, mainly because it had reached 200 gig :)

With iTunes it's easy to create quite complicated playlists that will automatically scale your music down to whatever size you want, based on age, plays, genre or whatever you want. Just create a Smart Playlist for your iPhone and sync with that to get your music onto it.

Sorted.
 
adamsappel said:
Okay, my birthday present is an 8GB iPhone. For those who have the same, do you toss and turn at night for not having the 16GB?
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No... neither size is enough for all my music. I just see the iPhone as a small handful of portable albums good to have at all times.. and in that light 80 albums or 160 albums are both fine.

I still think there's a purpose for the iPod Classic, and there will be one until flash memory on the nano, touch and phone reaches 100GB+
 
Phoenix said:
It is possible though it is rare. I've had it happen a couple of times when I was beta testing the firmware. Apple was never able to find the exact cause. Unfortunately the only way around it is to actually plug it in so it can do a key auth with the iTunes servers.
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Well... it won't. It is asking me to make sure the card is in and not PIN locked...wtf.
 
So I installed Intelliscreen and my missed calls and received voicemails and sms were fucked up. Did I not set it up properly or is this just the price of using the app?

What are the best bookmarlets? Is there any that lets you read spoilers on Gaf (It's possible with the NeoGaf web app)?

Does anybody turn off Edge with BossPrefs when using 3G? Does it save much battery life?

Edit: Another newbie question: How do you 'tap-drag'? As seen here.

Buckethead said:
I got a $20 iTunes Gift Certificate.... what Apps?
Go go go.
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Bloom?!
Airsharing is great but then I got it for free :p
 
iTunes is such a piece of shit. So I'm trying the stupid ringtone workaround with renaming the file (which I'm not even sure if it works anymore), and when I click on "sync ringtones" it tells me it's going to erase all my music and video on the phone or some shit. So I'm like, why the hell would it do that? Sure enough it did, so now I have to sit through it syncing in my songs again. What a piece of shit software for such an awesome phone.

And fuck you Apple, I'm not paying you to fucking create a ringtone for me.
 
VanMardigan said:
iTunes is such a piece of shit. So I'm trying the stupid ringtone workaround with renaming the file (which I'm not even sure if it works anymore), and when I click on "sync ringtones" it tells me it's going to erase all my music and video on the phone or some shit. So I'm like, why the hell would it do that? Sure enough it did, so now I have to sit through it syncing in my songs again. What a piece of shit software for such an awesome phone.

And fuck you Apple, I'm not paying you to fucking create a ringtone for me.
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- Did you use iTunes to sync your music and video onto the phone in the first place?
- Are you using the same computer/iTunes library to try and sync ringtones that you used to sync your music/video?

If the answer to either of these is no, that's why it wants to erase everything. Has nothing to do with making you pay Apple to create a ringtone.
 
SuperPac said:
- Did you use iTunes to sync your music and video onto the phone in the first place?
- Are you using the same computer/iTunes library to try and sync ringtones that you used to sync your music/video?
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Yes and yes. Stupid ass iTunes won't let you sync with more than one computer. I know this already. It was weird. I'd try it again, but it's still syncing my music back in that it erased. :(
 
iTunes does do some crazy things sometimes. Like just viewing at preferences of a song and hitting ok flags that as a change and needs to reload on any ipod. That said, I have never needed to reload my library of media to an ipod.
 
It's a shame because the iPhone itself is such an amazing device. iTunes is a crippling piece of software and it's becoming more and more obvious that jailbreaking is the only real way of getting the most out of the iPhone. I've never hacked any of my devices, never felt a need to, but the fake limitations Apple is putting out through software are just overwhelming now.
 
VanMardigan said:
It's a shame because the iPhone itself is such an amazing device. iTunes is a crippling piece of software and it's becoming more and more obvious that jailbreaking is the only real way of getting the most out of the iPhone. I've never hacked any of my devices, never felt a need to, but the fake limitations Apple is putting out through software are just overwhelming now.
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Maybe. I don't know, I love the iTunes software. Granted, I was moving from nothing except a folder system to having the software manage everything for me. I do have a Mac, and I've heard iTunes runs better on that.

There are still a few things I don't like, but overall, I enjoy my experience. I'm not sure if it is a Windows experience thing or not, but I've learnt that a lot of people are not willing to give up control of their media files to software. I don't understand this, personally. I never look at my music files, and just do everything through an interface, and I find it much more pleasant and easy. The library files keep a record of where and what the songs are, so I tend not to edit songs outside of iTunes - I think it will eventually lead to trouble. It probably has some self-check thing and updates when you change, and that's what could be causing a complete resync.

Still, you are having troubles, so I understand your frustration. But I'm sure you can't be expected things to run smoothly when you are trying to make a workaround to the system.
 
dallow_bg said:
I love Scrobble. (haven't tried Scrobbled) but they should be essentially the same.

The only thing I'm missing from pre-2.0 era apps is iFlickr which allowed me to post to flicker in full res and in correct orientation. I do miss that.

Not even the pay apps can do it correctly in the app store.
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Mobile Fotos! It's $2.99 and absolutely excellent. The new iFlickr.
 
Apparently my iPhone has shit the bed? That's great! Now I have to wait until SoftBank gets their dicks in order so I can have a working phone. I anticipate their speedy service!
 
Well, on my second iPhone. Maybe this one will last more than a month? :D
I have to admit, getting my new iPhone to what it was like on my old was stupidly easy. I salute that.
 
This is a little strange but my 3G has weird connection issues.

I'm wondering if I should take it back. It's not normal for it to drop the signal when you enter/exit buildings or low 3G coverage areas, right? I have 3G on but it should just switch to EDGE if the signal is poor, correct? The worst part is that it doesn't reconnect to a signal on it's own when I go outside or if I'm in a place that I know gets good reception. Today, I had to pop the SIM out and slide it back in to get a signal. Now that ain't right. Maybe my phone isn't configured right? I don't know but I certainly never experienced anything similar to this with the original iPhone hence why I'm leaning towards taking it back to Apple. It seems like the phone is defective.
 
Crazymoogle said:
Well, it would be totally pointless if you were browsing outside of the US for any reason, but sure, why not?
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Well if I am able to access it on my computer maybe the jailbreak community could create a mobile VPN or something?
 
VanMardigan said:
iTunes is such a piece of shit. So I'm trying the stupid ringtone workaround with renaming the file (which I'm not even sure if it works anymore), and when I click on "sync ringtones" it tells me it's going to erase all my music and video on the phone or some shit. So I'm like, why the hell would it do that? Sure enough it did, so now I have to sit through it syncing in my songs again. What a piece of shit software for such an awesome phone.

And fuck you Apple, I'm not paying you to fucking create a ringtone for me.
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www.audiko.net
 
B!TCH said:
This is a little strange but my 3G has weird connection issues.

I'm wondering if I should take it back. It's not normal for it to drop the signal when you enter/exit buildings or low 3G coverage areas, right? I have 3G on but it should just switch to EDGE if the signal is poor, correct? The worst part is that it doesn't reconnect to a signal on it's own when I go outside or if I'm in a place that I know gets good reception. Today, I had to pop the SIM out and slide it back in to get a signal. Now that ain't right. Maybe my phone isn't configured right? I don't know but I certainly never experienced anything similar to this with the original iPhone hence why I'm leaning towards taking it back to Apple. It seems like the phone is defective.
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I think this is more of a 3G network thing than an iPhone thing. My 3G is really spotty when I'm inside certain buildings. I end up turning off 3G all together in favor of Edge in these situations.

Like you said, it doesn't seem to intelligently kick back to Edge of 3G isn't working.

If this is a defect, then I have the same one. I assume it has more to do with the 3G network itself than the iPhone, though.

...that being said: Pandora Radio is fucking awesome...what the fuck.
 
mrkgoo said:
I'm not sure if it is a Windows experience thing or not, but I've learnt that a lot of people are not willing to give up control of their media files to software.
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It's not a "Windows experience thing". Even if I'd never used the Zune software, Windows Media Player, which comes loaded onto every Windows machine, already does a decent job of managing the media on people's pc. The problems I have with iTunes have nothing to do with that, and stem from its laughably archaic limitations, from tying your iPhone to only one computer, to wanting to add unwanted crap to my system, like Safari. It's like a frickin Windows program being deployed by Apple. It's bloated and slow. And maybe iTunes doesn't run as glitch-free as it does on mac, I dunno, but that's not the issue I have with it.

But I'm sure you can't be expected things to run smoothly when you are trying to make a workaround to the system.
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Well, the only reason I have to "make a workaround" is that Apple adds unnecessary steps to the process (at least on Windows) because they're trying to sell ringtones.

...that being said: Pandora Radio is fucking awesome...what the fuck.
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Yes, yes it is. Check out Flycast, it's pretty neat too.
 
Anyone have a guide or know how to make video wallpaper? I know they're .mp4 files, but file size, res etc. I'm unsure about. vWallpaper is mah shit!
 
VanMardigan said:
Stupid ass iTunes won't let you sync with more than one computer. I know this already. It was weird. I'd try it again, but it's still syncing my music back in that it erased. :(
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I can't have my iPhone synced to my desktop and my laptop (both Macs)? You can't authorize multiple accounts, as you can with audio files?

iTunes ran like shit on my Windows PC. I went with WinAmp and the iPod plug-in for music management.
 
adamsappel said:
I can't have my iPhone synced to my desktop and my laptop (both Macs)?
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No. Pick one.

I mean, I don't even want to sync the entire libraries, but if I download one measly podcast or song on my work computer, shouldn't I be able to manually place that file into the iPhone? No? Really, Apple?
 
I know it sucks guys, but it's been that way for like 8 years now.
 
Jtwo said:
I know it sucks guys, but it's been that way for like 8 years now.
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What? This is only true of iPhone.

EDIT:That is to say, I can't sync to multiple computers, but I can at least add music from multiple computers with iPod.
 
Jtwo said:
I know it sucks guys, but it's been that way for like 8 years now.
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Those of us new to the iTunes/Apple universe because of the awesome iPhone did not know this and need to vent a bit. I personally have no previous experience with the software, so all these limitations are new to me. :(
 
I suppose you can check the box to manually manage music and video for the iphone. But that kinda sucks because it eliminates the automatic nature of syncing.
 
LCfiner said:
I suppose you can check the box to manually manage music and video for the iphone. But that kinda sucks because it eliminates the automatic nature of syncing.
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Wait, I was told that this wouldn't work on iPhone.
I guess I should have tried myself.

I prefer this over syncing anyway.
 
dallow_bg said:
What? This is only true of iPhone.

EDIT:That is to say, I can't sync to multiple computers, but I can at least add music from multiple computers with iPod.
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Every iPod I have owned has only been able to sync with one computer.
do you mean like add music to it as an external drive.. which then cant be played on the ipod?
 
I think it's a little bizzare that Google doesn't format their results for iPhone users (like say the NeoGAF app, the engadget iphone site... etc)
 
Jtwo said:
Every iPod I have owned has only been able to sync with one computer.
do you mean like add music to it as an external drive.. which then cant be played on the ipod?
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I mean, setting it to manually manage your music.
That way you can add music from different computers you own/use.

You're right in that you can sync to multiple computers.
 
dallow_bg said:
Wait, I was told that this wouldn't work on iPhone.
I guess I should have tried myself.

I prefer this over syncing anyway.
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The checkmark option is right there on the main iphone option screen in itunes. now, since i haven't had an opportunity to test it, i don't know how well it works but I imagine it's been made to work like the ipod. deselect "automatic syncing" and select "manually manage" on your two (or more) computers.

If you try it out and it works, then I guess you're sitting pretty :)
 
dallow_bg said:
Wait, I was told that this wouldn't work on iPhone.
I guess I should have tried myself.

I prefer this over syncing anyway.
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That's how I have always been doing it.

...
Shit, there seems to be a jailbreak hack for having Softbank mail noise and vibration support like a real Japanese phone. I just loathe the idea of jailbreaking my phone. But it could become a real phone. Ugh.
 
dallow_bg said:
I mean, setting it to manually manage your music.
That way you can add music from different computers you own/use.
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That's not how my ipods worked. Even when it was set to manually manage, I could only operate off of one computer.
 
LCfiner said:
The checkmark option is right there on the main iphone option screen in itunes. now, since i haven't had an opportunity to test it, i don't know how well it works but I imagine it's been made to work like the ipod. deselect "automatic syncing" and select "manually manage" on your two (or more) computers.

If you try it out and it works, then I guess you're sitting pretty :)
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Folks, the manually manage function is there BUT YOU STILL CANtT USE IT IN ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE PRIMARY COMPUTER TO WHICH YOU SYNC WITH iPHONE.

So, while I can manually manage my library in my home computer, selecting manually manage at work will produce the same exact message telling me I can only be synced with one iTunes library. In other words, it won't let me drag and drop any files without totally killing my sync with my home pc.
 
RevenantKioku said:
That's how I have always been doing it.

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Shit, there seems to be a jailbreak hack for having Softbank mail noise and vibration support like a real Japanese phone. I just loathe the idea of jailbreaking my phone. But it could become a real phone. Ugh.
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don't. it's a relatively painless procedure. The main issue is you can't restore your backup so you're starting form scratch and will lose 3rd party application data the first time you do it.
 
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