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Question of the Day: Do you think Bafana Bafana will win tonight?
The iPhone Tips/Tricks/Apps thread
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Thanks limnos,
Thanks for offering man, not a problem as I am already added to a Dev account.
Can't seem to send the .png, gmail keeps coming back with a (550-5.1.1 The email account that you tried to reach does not exist) did it exactly as you said in your last message? Please check and I will send it again.
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Installed that last night and it works like a charm, my only grip I ever had with cydia was the uninstall of apps, but now I bow down to the glory that is cydia
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That's weird.. Everything should already be on your iTunes library anyways, so i would delete the Music folder in the iTunes_Control folder via Diskaid or SSH or check to see if there isn't an iTunes_Control2 folder that's causing problems and re-sync.
Have a look here also
Sorry bud - made a mistake, was it such a rush when I typed that post. Corrected it, it's kastrogr at gmail
Thanx!
Yeah same! It does work great! It does take a little longer than AppStore apps but it certainly is quicker than going into Cydia, waiting for everything to load and then uninstalling.
The biggest problem, I had was that every now and again I forget an apps name when I want to uninstall it (do not have icon text switched on, on my phone), then I would have to go through a whole extra couple of steps, now its just click on the X
thanks buddy looks as if it's sorted itself out just plugged it into iTunes and it's all showing again with no extra space taken. Hope this is not a recuring thing though
One of my friends had the exact same problem. Tried syncing again with iTunes - so it said there's not enough space (as all the music was still there, not in his library).
Deleted the music from the phone (SSHd into the phone and deleted them) and still couldn't sync. Can't remember the exact error but it boiled down to the partition being corrupted. Did a full restore and still got that error. Not sure if he managed to get it fixed though, but it is weird
iPhone 1st gen and Insurance - What a Pain!
So my SO's 1st gen iPhone broke (no signal). No amount of reflashing could get it to pick up any form of signal. So it had to be a hardware fault. I phone up the insurance tell them it's broken I want a new one, they say no problem send us some quotes oh and by the way we need a report to say the phone is beyond economical repair. "No problem" I think, no one is authorised to fix iPhone's in SA so I'll just pop over to the nearest Vodacare, be told I was a naughty boy and get my form to say they can't repair it.
Not so easy. Vodacare will not touch the phone, neither will the cell repair shop around the corner. The problem? The insurance companies have them by the nuts. They are held accountable for their reports and need to be able to prove why they think the phone is not repairable (I mistakenly thought simply not having the skill to repair something was the same thing). After a bit more of a run around I told my broker I can't produce the paperwork. So my broker gave the insurance company an earful and they appointed an assessor without the paperwork. However the assessor decided to do her own digging and hit the same brick wall I did, but still would not budge. She eventually found a company that would look at the phone. So I took the phone through to the contact who fortunately was quite technical. I talked him through all my troubleshooting and he seemed happy that I had done most of his work for him already. His next steps were to make some further calls to his contacts to enquire about the hardware fault. So after he spent two days with the phone and came up blank with all his contacts he put through the report to say the phone was beyond economical repair. The insurance then came back to me with some insane prices on what they could get the phone for and told me I was under insured. So I resent them my quote from the iStore which matched the value I had insured the phone for and they paid me cash minus the excess. Tonight we picked up a brand spanking new 16GB from the iStore in Canal Walk.
So after a long wait and lots of dead ends a happy ending. The unfortunate truth about this is that I would have been better off if I had thrown the phone in the bin and told them I had lost it. Instead, being honest that the phone had stopped working invited all sorts of enquiries and because the phone is imported I kept hitting brick walls when trying to follow the procedure. Hopefully some words of advice for other imported iPhone owners.
So my SO's 1st gen iPhone broke (no signal). No amount of reflashing could get it to pick up any form of signal. So it had to be a hardware fault. I phone up the insurance tell them it's broken I want a new one, they say no problem send us some quotes oh and by the way we need a report to say the phone is beyond economical repair. "No problem" I think, no one is authorised to fix iPhone's in SA so I'll just pop over to the nearest Vodacare, be told I was a naughty boy and get my form to say they can't repair it.
Not so easy. Vodacare will not touch the phone, neither will the cell repair shop around the corner. The problem? The insurance companies have them by the nuts. They are held accountable for their reports and need to be able to prove why they think the phone is not repairable (I mistakenly thought simply not having the skill to repair something was the same thing). After a bit more of a run around I told my broker I can't produce the paperwork. So my broker gave the insurance company an earful and they appointed an assessor without the paperwork. However the assessor decided to do her own digging and hit the same brick wall I did, but still would not budge. She eventually found a company that would look at the phone. So I took the phone through to the contact who fortunately was quite technical. I talked him through all my troubleshooting and he seemed happy that I had done most of his work for him already. His next steps were to make some further calls to his contacts to enquire about the hardware fault. So after he spent two days with the phone and came up blank with all his contacts he put through the report to say the phone was beyond economical repair. The insurance then came back to me with some insane prices on what they could get the phone for and told me I was under insured. So I resent them my quote from the iStore which matched the value I had insured the phone for and they paid me cash minus the excess. Tonight we picked up a brand spanking new 16GB from the iStore in Canal Walk.
So after a long wait and lots of dead ends a happy ending. The unfortunate truth about this is that I would have been better off if I had thrown the phone in the bin and told them I had lost it. Instead, being honest that the phone had stopped working invited all sorts of enquiries and because the phone is imported I kept hitting brick walls when trying to follow the procedure. Hopefully some words of advice for other imported iPhone owners.
Yip, learned about that painful little exercise a long time ago, now I specify each and every cellphone, and if something breaks, I drop the thing from a 5 storey window. Most technicians can then usually tell that the thing is a write off
SO?
Brand new 16GB hey - awesome!!Insurance can be a pain at times...
Where is the iPhone now? Would love to put it into a blender and see what happens!!
Lol, there are some clips on youtube 'showing this off'. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1ckCkm8YI
Have you got any idea how sad this was, waiting in anticipation for my 1st gen, seeing how someone destroys a completely working phone. MAkes you wana cry!
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So my SO's 1st gen iPhone broke (no signal). No amount of reflashing could get it to pick up any form of signal. So it had to be a hardware fault. I phone up the insurance tell them it's broken I want a new one, they say no problem send us some quotes oh and by the way we need a report to say the phone is beyond economical repair. "No problem" I think, no one is authorised to fix iPhone's in SA so I'll just pop over to the nearest Vodacare, be told I was a naughty boy and get my form to say they can't repair it.
Not so easy. Vodacare will not touch the phone, neither will the cell repair shop around the corner. The problem? The insurance companies have them by the nuts. They are held accountable for their reports and need to be able to prove why they think the phone is not repairable (I mistakenly thought simply not having the skill to repair something was the same thing). After a bit more of a run around I told my broker I can't produce the paperwork. So my broker gave the insurance company an earful and they appointed an assessor without the paperwork. However the assessor decided to do her own digging and hit the same brick wall I did, but still would not budge. She eventually found a company that would look at the phone. So I took the phone through to the contact who fortunately was quite technical. I talked him through all my troubleshooting and he seemed happy that I had done most of his work for him already. His next steps were to make some further calls to his contacts to enquire about the hardware fault. So after he spent two days with the phone and came up blank with all his contacts he put through the report to say the phone was beyond economical repair. The insurance then came back to me with some insane prices on what they could get the phone for and told me I was under insured. So I resent them my quote from the iStore which matched the value I had insured the phone for and they paid me cash minus the excess. Tonight we picked up a brand spanking new 16GB from the iStore in Canal Walk.
So after a long wait and lots of dead ends a happy ending. The unfortunate truth about this is that I would have been better off if I had thrown the phone in the bin and told them I had lost it. Instead, being honest that the phone had stopped working invited all sorts of enquiries and because the phone is imported I kept hitting brick walls when trying to follow the procedure. Hopefully some words of advice for other imported iPhone owners.
seriously... alexander forbes..... WAAAAAY LESS HASSLE
phoned in when i dropped my ipod, no questions asked, i still have the broken ipod, and they paid out the next day, was a classic 16 gb, they paid out the insured value of something like 4k immediately, bought the 32gig touch the next day
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iPhone os 3.0 app update - facebook
facebook finally got fixed for os 3.0
it had an issue with displaying photos, everything else used to work, that's fixed now... yay
facebook finally got fixed for os 3.0
it had an issue with displaying photos, everything else used to work, that's fixed now... yay
It was yesterday and i still dont know what caused this cause it was ringing fine and 5 minutes later got another call and it was broken lol.Hope this is not a recurring thing but it seems to have fixed itself without much trouble. All my music and video's are back and left off where i last played it so was quite happy i didn't seem to struggle. Another thing could be the swaptunes application that could have caused this issue
My latest screenie with iPhone ZN's (www.pixeldreams.co.za) transparent Vodacom logo and the reflected dock...
http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=9933&cat=500
and the reflected dock...http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=9933&cat=500
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Thats an awesome vodacom logo, I wanted to put an mtn on mine, but that shutter yellow (combination between ***** and butter) logo just looked aweful, so I created a bladerunner one for me with the font and the little figurine running.
The latest thing I installed was the weather elements V3 lock screen, now that looks awesome, and with status notifier it works like a dream
The latest thing I installed was the weather elements V3 lock screen, now that looks awesome, and with status notifier it works like a dream
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