The iPhone Tips/Tricks/Apps thread

[Maktab]

Not cool dude, I'm really pissed.... Everything was fine this morning and now it's a sh1tfest!!! All my stuff....gone.

Don't expect any sympathy from us if you're willing to go hacking around with unsupported IPCC files and whatnot despite knowing full well the risks involved. If you want safety and some recourse when things go wrong wait until Vodacom enables all this stuff with an automatic update, otherwise I suggest you stop complaining. The guys who provide these files and processes do so as a service to those of us who understand the risks and are happy to deal with them and they owe you absolutely nothing if things go wrong.

Out of interest, has anybody managed to get Push Notifications in apps working without using custom configs or IPCC files?

 

[marine1]

21 things to do with OS3

The List:
1. Send an MMS
2. Scrub a song
3. Rate a YouTube video
4. Record a voice memo
5. Download a movie
6. Landscape support everywhere
7. Cut/Copy/Paste
8. Shake to undo
9. Call up AT&T and try to convince them to enable MMS
10. Copy a link out of Safari
11. Search in mail
12. Sync your notes
13. Sync with Google Calendar
14. Search in the iPod
15. Listen to your songs in stereo - wirelessly!
16. Tether
17. Check out the Safari fixes
18. Set up parental controls
19. Spotlight search
20. Resend failed text messages
21. Play with all the new content in third party apps

 

[marine1]

Still nobody is prepared to help me out yoh. Come on smile on me I need to update to OS 3.0. If you are in Milnerton or the Southern Suburbs and prepared to update my Iphone 3G please PM me

Sorry bud I can send you the file if you want? You on Bitfarm?

 

[morkhans]

Bwahahahahahahaha. Bwahahahahahahaha. You got to be kidding????

@theron : funny - my data bundles were also messed up last month. I wonder if it was a general problem. They also turned off my CLIP and it took me a week of fighting with them to get it turned back on. Customer service at Vodacom is useless. I get more luck using internal contacts! Just checked again, and iphone apn does not come off my bundle. Anyway, its not serious - as long as it works I am happy!

Any issues I have had have promptly been solved by the walk in centre in Canal Walk. You should give them a go.

 

[morkhans]

Still nobody is prepared to help me out yoh. Come on smile on me I need to update to OS 3.0. If you are in Milnerton or the Southern Suburbs and prepared to update my Iphone 3G please PM me

I am in Century City in the evenings

 

[d0b33]

Off the topic of the new OS, I want to know if it possible to use a USA bank account to buy apps off the app store.....I have an account in the states but don't have a card.

Best to buy itunes US certificates instead.

 

[Bravestar]

Off the topic of the new OS, I want to know if it possible to use a USA bank account to buy apps off the app store.....I have an account in the states but don't have a card.

Yep, get a paypal account and buy US certificates from Mediawob...

 

[Grimspoon]

Best to buy itunes US certificates instead.

Ok will look into that. I assume you can buy these certificates with a bank account and not have to have a credit card.

 

[Grimspoon]

Another off topic question, and I have googled this, but all of a sudden I have noticed a distinct grey border around my screen. Searched google, most say its normal, a few have said its a fault. Only noticed it since I did the OS3 upgrade. Fluke maybe? Maybe I just didnt notice it before. Everyones phone like this?

Here is a pic of some guys phone with the same issue.

http://www.thepughfamily.com/images/iphone_border.jpg

 

[d0b33]

Ok will look into that. I assume you can buy these certificates with a bank account and not have to have a credit card.

I sell them EFT only, not sure where else to get them without a credit card to be honest.

 

[SlinkyMike]

Another off topic question, and I have googled this, but all of a sudden I have noticed a distinct grey border around my screen. Searched google, most say its normal, a few have said its a fault. Only noticed it since I did the OS3 upgrade. Fluke maybe? Maybe I just didnt notice it before. Everyones phone like this?

Here is a pic of some guys phone with the same issue.

http://www.thepughfamily.com/images/iphone_border.jpg

In a certain light you'll spot this on any iPhone 3G. Its the end of the 'LCD' ...mine is actually a little misaligned in that its thicker on one side than the other..annoying but only visible in direct sunlight.

I cant spot it on my wifes 2G - more evidence of the nose dive that build quality took between the two iterations.

 

[d0b33]

cant spot it on my wifes 2G - more evidence of the nose dive that build quality took between the two iterations.

Indeed, my 2G is perfect

*sigh* shame it's not 3g though

 

[morkhans]

@roland & @fxit I have deleted the ipcc files on my server so the link no longer works.

 

[Grimspoon]

In a certain light you'll spot this on any iPhone 3G. Its the end of the 'LCD' ...mine is actually a little misaligned in that its thicker on one side than the other..annoying but only visible in direct sunlight.

I cant spot it on my wifes 2G - more evidence of the nose dive that build quality took between the two iterations.

Yeah I never noticed it until today and assumed it was OS3, but highly unlikely.

Now that I have noticed it, it is going to irritate me

 

[SlinkyMike]

Just to summarize the festivities of the last 24 hours in iPhoneland:
Should someone download the latest version of iTunes, install it and plug in their Vodacom purchased iPhone 3G they will be prompted to download OS 3.0, after this has downloaded and installed they will then have an iPhone 3G with OS 3.0. MMS will work once the correct settings are applied but tethering is at this stage (for all intents and purposes) not functioning. All of the other advertised features are working fine.
If the phone was previously jailbroken it will no longer be. There is no jailbreak for OS 3.0 at the present time.

Does that aptly describe the current situation?

Its damnwell impossible to fathom what is potting by reading through or indeed following this thread over the time that has passed since OS 3.0 was released.

 

[fxit_man]

Important - if you are running the golden master version of iPhone OS 3.0, first restore with the official version from iTunes. The file sizes are different from GM version, and I suddenly had success with MMS and tethering.

Dunno where you downloaded your GM firmware from but No they aren't..

http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php?p=2884283#post2884283

 

[hxc87x]

so, when do you guys reckon the jailbreak will be out?
according to the dev team's blog, they're expecting to release ultrasnow tomorrow and as far as i know you'll have to have jailbroken your iphone before you can install that, yes?
so possibly a jailbreak by tomorrow afternoon?

 

[Grimspoon]

Thanks for that summary SlinkyMike. . . I stopped following the thread last night as it was just getting more and more confussing. . .I will wait for the hype to die down before sorting MMS / Tethering out (when it gets sorted)

 

[fxit_man]

so, when do you guys reckon the jailbreak will be out?
according to the dev team's blog, they're expecting to release ultrasnow tomorrow and as far as i know you'll have to have jailbroken your iphone before you can install that, yes?
so possibly a jailbreak by tomorrow afternoon?

I'd say but it's still not 100% complete..

http://blog.iphone-dev.org/

 

[hxc87x]

Just to summarize the festivities of the last 24 hours in iPhoneland:
Should someone download the latest version of iTunes, install it and plug in their Vodacom purchased iPhone 3G they will be prompted to download OS 3.0, after this has downloaded and installed they will then have an iPhone 3G with OS 3.0. MMS will work once the correct settings are applied but tethering is at this stage (for all intents and purposes) not functioning. All of the other advertised features are working fine.
If the phone was previously jailbroken it will no longer be. There is no jailbreak for OS 3.0 at the present time.

Does that aptly describe the current situation?

Its damnwell impossible to fathom what is potting by reading through or indeed following this thread over the time that has passed since OS 3.0 was released.

yeah, thats about right.