are you serious? hmmm my appointment is tomorrow with genius bar

11/16/2009 10:16:41 PM

yup...not saying you ARE dumb with technology but it helps to pretend

11/16/2009 10:32:37 PM

hey anything to get this issue fixed I'll be happy to act idiotic haha

11/16/2009 10:49:59 PM

ok i have several apps on the app store and they were getting steady downloads for the past 6months daily at a very reasonable rate.

7 days ago, they literally stopped getting more than just a couple each a day which is a HUGE dropoff. WTF is going on at the app store??

are keywords broke? did they redo the app search engine again??

11/19/2009 9:13:52 AM

^ so ... do you know WHY you were getting lots of downloads on said apps? Did you have a website that was sending lots of people to your app store page? Did you show up for certain keywords on the app store search?

Probably hard to find out why your sales dropped off if you dont know why you had sales in the first place. People dont really browse into your app by chance, since there are 100k apps out there. Something had to be driving them there if you actually had significant sales.

11/20/2009 8:42:58 AM

they sort of bounced back. must have been something odd for a few days going on.

[Edited on November 22, 2009 at 7:39 PM. Reason : 5]

11/22/2009 7:38:07 PM

Yesterday my jailbroken 3gs crashed and got stuck in a reboot cycle. I restored it with iTunes and now I can only get edge internet. If I enable 3g it gets no Internet service despite having 5 bars of signal strength, if I disable 3g edge comes on and works fine. What's really wierd is that Internet tethering still shows up as an option under network. I had tethering setup before the crash bit I don't understand how it's still there after the restore.

Anyone have something similar happen? I'm hesitant to take it in to the genius bar since Internet tethering still shows up.

11/23/2009 11:24:56 AM

3g network issues in Raleigh. Also reported on WRAL before people start posting that their 3g isn't working.

11/23/2009 11:33:26 AM

yeahh didnt work for me this morning when i was leaving

11/23/2009 11:41:27 AM

Yea I just saw the article.

11/23/2009 11:44:58 AM

A international data roaming question. I know visual voicemail uses data. Is there a way to turn that off? I want to be able to check emails if i have to, but i don't want voice-mails to come through and charge me out the ass.

11/24/2009 2:38:24 PM

^Settings->General->Network->Data Roaming

should be off by default though. If you have no data your visual voicemail won't work and instead you'll get the 'call voicemail' button.

11/24/2009 2:44:39 PM

That's what i thought, but everywhere i could find online says it bypassed that and went to your phone anyway.

http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/index.php/t-665582.html

11/24/2009 2:48:45 PM

hmm...i'm not 100% but I thought it would disable it...I'll find out this Christmas though haha

11/24/2009 2:54:29 PM

suggest me some apps to kill time!

11/24/2009 2:55:49 PM

I've got a list a mile long...what type of apps would you like to try out?

11/24/2009 2:56:51 PM

can you jailbreak and use sbsettings to turn off edge and 3G?

seems like that would def get it

11/24/2009 2:59:20 PM

^that's a good idea. SBsettings can turn off 3g. I don't know about completely turning off data. Although i just talked to someone on ATT website and they said turning off data roaming WILL turn off visual voicemail (it didn't use to).

The only problem is if i have to check my email then turning data roaming back on will automatically download all the voice mails. But i did learn that if you had data roaming turned off, and wifi turned on. Then visual voicemails will be sent through wifi. Thought that was cool.

11/24/2009 3:22:05 PM

sbsettings can turn off edge and 3g. without those, no data service is happening

[Edited on November 24, 2009 at 3:27 PM. Reason : afaik]

11/24/2009 3:27:16 PM

Quote :

"I've got a list a mile long...what type of apps would you like to try out?"

anything useful to kill time! free and offline mode ones if possible

thx

11/24/2009 3:38:38 PM

EliminatePro is free and is both online and offline. If you like first person shooters its worth checking out and its fun.

kind of tying my hands with the 'free + offline' requirements

11/24/2009 3:39:57 PM

so my phone is unlocked and jailbroken! what cool stuff can i do with that?

[Edited on November 24, 2009 at 3:42 PM. Reason : iphone n00b here]

11/24/2009 3:40:55 PM

well for one, if you have ssh installed, change your root password asap

11/24/2009 3:45:12 PM

Quote :

"sbsettings can turn off edge and 3g. without those, no data service is happening"

Found it. Had to add the toggle for edge. Never needed to completely turn off data. So i turned off both 3g and edge, and turned on wifi and left myself a message. The voice-mail was transferred over wifi. Sweet. So now i can get voice-mails for free without having to turn on the phone or data at all.

11/24/2009 3:51:04 PM

awesome

yeah i had a feeling you didnt know about the edge option since it's not in there by default

11/24/2009 6:41:55 PM

Just unlocked it too. Anyone know how cheap the sim cards are in the vending machines? If they're relatively cheap i could just do that and not even have to hassle with AT&T.

-damn check out rates:

http://shop.vodafone.co.uk/shop/sim-only-plans/all-sim-plans

only £20/month for unlimited texting/internet/600 minutes.

[Edited on November 24, 2009 at 7:09 PM. Reason : .]

11/24/2009 6:48:44 PM

Yeah they're stupid cheap compares to US rates. I wish out prepaid providers were like theirs.

11/24/2009 8:02:34 PM

I have an annoying issue with pdanet. I have pdanet installed on my netbook for use with my iPhone but whenever i'm using wifi and not pdanet i get a "error connecting to pdanet modem" until i connect to wifi and cancel it. I think firefox is defaulting to looking for the pdanet modem. Anyone else notice this?

11/29/2009 5:10:36 PM

Quote :

"only £20/month for unlimited texting/internet/600 minutes."

thats about $40/month still not bad though.

11/29/2009 5:12:34 PM

^about $33. unlimited texting and data plus 600 minutes for that is really cheap.

11/29/2009 5:16:24 PM

Quote :

"ok i have several apps on the app store and they were getting steady downloads for the past 6months daily at a very reasonable rate. "

What apps?

11/30/2009 2:13:07 PM

33rd Division is free for today only. It's a really fun game for those that haven't tried it.

12/1/2009 12:48:48 PM

HALP!

My battery is losing it. Just this morning it has started draining like crazy. As I waited for TWW to load just now, it dropped from 58 to 33%!!! WTF is going on? I've shut down and reset (home + power buttons), nothing has changed. I checked for an update but there is none. I can literally sit here and watch it go. I don't have bluetooth on or wifi.

Now it's 30%

should I call AT&T or apple tomorrow?

[Edited on December 8, 2009 at 12:53 AM. Reason : ]

12/8/2009 12:51:20 AM

^how old is your iPhone, just curious.

12/8/2009 12:59:22 AM

^^ jailbroken? something running in the background?

12/8/2009 7:20:42 AM

oh i forgot to mention that it's not running hot (temp wise).

i got it in july. it's a 3gs. not jailbroken. nothing running in the background except for gmail as far as i'm aware. it died completely sitting there doing nothing overnight. it charges WAY faster than normal too. it went from 0 to 48 in 10 mins.

the only apps that are newish (DLed late last week) are pandora and that 33rd division. snaptell crashed twice last night, but that was way after this started.

after work today i'm going to try a restore. i'm in rocky mount so it would be friday afternoon before i could stop by the genius bar. any ideas as to what else i can do in the meantime and why this might be going on are GREATLY appreciated!!!

what about those memory clear apps? when i synced up last night it cleared out all of the "other" orange stuff on the hard drive.

12/8/2009 8:04:52 AM

take it to apple

you just got a free new iphone

12/8/2009 8:20:43 AM

do they always give out free ones or do they do the refurbished thing?

12/8/2009 8:26:10 AM

i dunno..but either way it'll be like new. i've never been able to tell apple's refurbished stuff from brand new stuff.

12/8/2009 8:44:56 AM

i left my phone at home this morning and picked it up over lunch. i went through and removed all apps that do any sort of notification, turned off push, wifi, and 3g. reset. it still drained like a bitch while doing nothing. i watched it go 100, 98, 97, 96, 94, 92...

i deleted my gmail (only account), and it stopped...

i watched it for a while and it held steady at 90. i added my gmail account back, and it started dropping again. i deleted it again at 85 and it's holding steady there again.

wtf mang this aint right

i'm still going to try the restore tonight. if this doesn't work, i'm going to apple. what can i do about my zagg invisible shield though? it was $30 and i've only had it for about 6 weeks. you can't peel that off and stick it back on a new one will they buy me another?

12/8/2009 2:34:34 PM

lol...sounds like another google fail with gmail.

12/8/2009 2:37:11 PM

what would have changed though? nothing on my phone's end...something on the google end?

12/8/2009 2:53:59 PM

I was just taking a jab at google...but seriously it might just be that your phone is some how locked in a constant 'fetch' mode with your mail...regardless if its google or something else. If thats the case i'd say thats a software bug.

12/8/2009 2:59:31 PM

booo

12/8/2009 3:00:40 PM

Something similar was happening to m periodically while my phone was jailbroken. Unrelatedly it crashed and got stuck in a reboot cycle forcing me to restore. I haven't had any issues since.

12/8/2009 3:34:37 PM

are you using the push for gmail or regular imap?

i tried using push gmail yesterday and it absolutely drained my battery, probably in a few hours. i charged it up again and by lunch today it was already dead.

im going to set it back to imap and let it check itself every 10 minutes or so. with that ive never had any battery issues.

12/8/2009 3:53:42 PM

^ummm not sure...?

i just went through the regular email account setup and let it configure automatically. should i change something?

12/8/2009 4:26:38 PM

^^Push gmail hasn't been working for me for about the last week.
^ if you're going to use imap for gmail it's better to configure manually and take advantage of The trash button archiving instead of deleting, google has device specific instructions somewhere.

12/8/2009 4:48:26 PM

i just found them and set up my account again following their instructions. so far we're holding well at 85% still.

still going to restore. i like formatting

12/8/2009 5:04:26 PM

http://marcansoft.com/blog/2009/10/iphone-syncing-on-linux/

Hey, maybe it will even be finished before I switch to Android.

12/9/2009 12:25:41 AM