Hmm.. Mine does that as well but I thought that was a result of the latest jailbreak... Could be wrong... Anyone?
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Hmm.. Mine does that as well but I thought that was a result of the latest jailbreak... Could be wrong... Anyone?
Glad I'm not the only one, can't tell if its a hardware fault or not. Only reason I'm jailbroken is to use gestures to replace the homebutton.
Sorry, OT, but I got a Mophie, pretty good. 2 problems I have it though:
-It uses up the dock connector. So if I want to use an accessory, I have to remove the case which defeats the purpose. They could move the battery power lights to the side to fix this problem.
-It adds enough thickness to the phone, the volume & sleep buttons are hard to press. Could be fixed by just adding covers over them. However, I've gotten so used to the size of the case, when the case is off, the iPhone feels kinda flimsy.
I could push about 3 days from the phone with wifi turned on, push notifications and location services turned off, low-to-mid brightness, and not playing with it too much throughout the day (e.g. let it sleep most of the time, which is what you'd want a phone to do). Maybe even longer if you turn it off at night when you go to sleep.
I regularly charge my phone somewhere between every night and every two nights.
iPhone 3G - too bad?
Um, so my girlfriend and I have both have the iPhone 3G. We have the same tracking issue by virtue of being on iOS 4.x - but at the current highest OS level for this model, 4.2.1, we don't get a "fix?"
Um, so my girlfriend and I have both have the iPhone 3G. We have the same tracking issue by virtue of being on iOS 4.x - but at the current highest OS level for this model, 4.2.1, we don't get a "fix?"
They have it figured out. But they certainly won't do it. Too many security implications of leaving any previous stuff behind. Too many previous versions to test and QA against which would slow down how soon we get updates even more. Plus more corruption risks of doing partial updates that could brick some devices (lots of reports on MR here of that happening with some MacOS X updates). Clean installs are almost always safer and more robust for the typical non-computer literate cell phone customer.
Anybody have the direct download links for the various versions? Would love to download them here at work so I don't have to wait while at home... thanks! 
Yes. Because only a Fandroid uses an Android Phone. The iPhone is perfect for EVERY human being in the planet.
Who needs choice?
Actually I usually can go about 3-4 days with my iPhone 4 without recharging. More if I pushed it. Managing what you do with it really helps. I don't watch videos on it and don't do a lot of network traffic so that really extends the battery life. I found that videos, games, and GPS are the biggest battery drains followed by net activity.
The risk of corruption is the big one. Does nobody remember 1.1.1 anymore, and how the 1.x releases were patches? After finding out that they were getting backlash for the patch not playing nice with jailbreaks, they switched to full OS flashes.
Any way to update and still have the phone keep tracking me everywhere. I like to stay updated but I do not want to lose that feature.
Sure it can, as long as you don't make or receive any calls, play games, stream music, or surf the web.
Well, obviously. It's all about your usage time. You can make it last 3-4 days where I might have to charge mine every night, but when we're both down at 0% we'll have roughly the same usage times (~8 hours)
http://ios.e-lite.org/Anybody have the direct download links for the various versions? Would love to download them here at work so I don't have to wait while at home... thanks!
Downloaded firmwares for all my iOS devices in a couple of minutes. Go go multithreaded download manager!
Anybody have the direct download links for the various versions? Would love to download them here at work so I don't have to wait while at home... thanks!
I'm in the same boat. See below.
http://www.redmondpie.com/download-ios-4.3.3-for-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-direct-links/
iTunes could still check whether the 4.3.2 update is still stored on your computer and only download the delta if yes (and then merge them before doing the update). Of course, this might prolong the update process (though it will shorten the download period) and naturally it introduces new risks of this merging to fail.
I'd call it lazy instead of easier. They could easily detect the current version installed and download the approriate patch, or fall back to the whole OS if it's not the most recent update.
Exactly, my mother's 3G easily lasts a week. But then she gets a call on it about twice a month and that is about all the activity the phone gets.
But the cache is supposedly encrypted, lasts only seven days and won't sync to your computer. And since no apps can automatically run in the background (you can start a navigation app and it will keep running in the background but after every iPhone restart, you will have to restart the app, I am also not sure whether this navigation app will be allowed to stay in the background forever), there is no way to fully automatically collect and store these data but if you are willing to start an app recording your location after every iPhone restart and possibly also at least once per week, somebody could write an app for this (and lot of 'navigation' apps already allow you to record your itinerary, it is just a question of finding one that records it in a manner you find useful).
I think the best would be to forward that question to your senator (or other government authority) for them to include in their probe into this issue. Assuming, eg, the senate hearing is still going ahead.
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