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Apple Releases OS X 10.8.2 with Facebook Integration and Game Center

Iron Chef said:
For those having issues with using iMessage with your phone #:
I was having issues with it as well, but here is what I did to make it work.

1) Make sure iOS 6 is installed on your iPhone and synced to iTunes 10.7
2) Sign out of your iMessage and close the app
2) On iPhone, Settings -> Messages -> Turn off iMessage
3) Turn iMessage back on (it will say waiting for activiation)
4) It will give you an option for using your Apple ID. Click that
5) Add your Apple ID
6) Open iMessage on your desktop and it should prompt you about merging #s
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Hey Thanks Dude!

Worked perfectly here, my favorite new feature of 10.8.2!
 
Still no time remaining option to be displayed in the menu bar. :mad: No, it's not the time remaining when you click the battery. It was an option in previous versions of OS X.
 
Have any of the aggressive sleep issues (computer going to sleep during Time Machine backups and software updates, display sleep automatically inducing system sleep etc.) been ironed out?
 
*sigh*

What i've noticed so far after updating:

- Runs way hotter than 10.8.1 with same programs open - about 10°C
-Battery life seems to have decreased yet again, i've ~3hrs on a full charge on my 17" mid-2009 MBP.

I'm going to calibrate the battery again and then we'll see if it gets better but doubt it :(
 
I'll put in my 2c on battery. My MBP 2011 (with 6770M and high res screen), went totally downhill battery usage wise since upgrading from lion to mountain lion. This 10.8.2 update, for me, has almost restored it back to lion levels. Heck it might even be as good as lion was. But I took the MBP to uni today, used it for a few lectures, and had a few more hours of battery left compared to what I normally did under 10.8.1. Its win win here.
 
I think I found solution

lucabrasi said:
After updating, I can no longer use only my external display with my MBP open. Previously I had run the following:

Code: 
sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x0"

This would let me use only the external and keep my laptop open. It was working fine earlier today, then I upgraded to 10.8.2 and it no longer works.

I've reset pvram, rerun this command, even installed the 10.8.2 combo update and it simply won't work.

Anyone else seeing this or have other ideas I can try?
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I have same problem after I update 10.8.2 and EFI 2.5( I using MBA 2012)

this is my solving step

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connect external display and external keyboard
1. (in terminal) sudo nvram -d boot-args
2. sudo reboot
3. sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x1"
4. sudo reboot, and close the lid
5. after boot, Maybe login screen on external screen
6. (interminal) sudo nvram -d boot-args
7. sudo nvram boot-args="0x0"
8. sudo reboot

In my case, I solve our problem.

good luck :)
 
deputy_doofy said:
As a new user of this, after the update and it sits at the login screen, is LogMeIn already running? I guess it makes sense that LogMeIn runs at startup (even before someone logs into their account), but still want to verify that.
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It is, when I use logmein on a Mac at startup I have to login then exit logmein and relogon to get past the login screen, this only happens in the ios app.
 
MJedi said:
Still no time remaining option to be displayed in the menu bar. :mad: No, it's not the time remaining when you click the battery. It was an option in previous versions of OS X.
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I know it's not as satisfying as having the feature natively by the Mac (and I don't really know why they cancelled the feature :confused:) but you can try Battery Time Remaining. It adds an additional tool bar that shows the remaining time. The up side is: Now I have remaining time and percentage simultaneously in my toolbar. :D
 
Hmm.. Updated to 10.8.2. 4:02 hours from the time I took out the powercord.
I have Safari, mail, calendar, spottily and terminal up and running. Screen brightness is about 4 dots from full brightness.

Not okey. It showed about 6-7 hours before on Lion. Hope it will be better....some day.

4:28 now so it keeps getting better...don't know for how long.
 
Junkyman said:
I know it's not as satisfying as having the feature natively by the Mac (and I don't really know why they cancelled the feature :confused:) but you can try Battery Time Remaining. It adds an additional tool bar that shows the remaining time. The up side is: Now I have remaining time and percentage simultaneously in my toolbar. :D
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The problem with these apps is that they cannot be relocated in the menu bar. But thanks for the suggestion.
 
After calibrating I gained about an hour or less. So a little bit less than five hours when I had more than six. That is a huge difference to me.
 
Thanks. This does not survive a reboot though. Worked well initially though, but a lot of effort since I also use the laptop without external display quite a bit.

lsleard said:
I have same problem after I update 10.8.2 and EFI 2.5( I using MBA 2012)

this is my solving step

--------------------------
connect external display and external keyboard
1. (in terminal) sudo nvram -d boot-args
2. sudo reboot
3. sudo nvram boot-args="iog=0x1"
4. sudo reboot, and close the lid
5. after boot, Maybe login screen on external screen
6. (interminal) sudo nvram -d boot-args
7. sudo nvram boot-args="0x0"
8. sudo reboot

In my case, I solve our problem.

good luck :)
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lucabrasi said:
Thanks. This does not survive a reboot though. Worked well initially though, but a lot of effort since I also use the laptop without external display quite a bit.
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The same for me after sleep state... This is very frustrating. I hope we'll find a solution quickly -___-
 
No Facebook integration

I just updated to 10.8.2, but the Facebook section in Mail, Contacts & Calendar shows only Contacts, but no other options of any kind. I'm not getting any of the notifications Apple said I would get in the update. Can anyone help?

Thanks.
 
Heh, that's fun. It doesn't make the icons disappear per se, it just enables some weird auto-scroll-mode. Scrolling will show the icons again, but the stack will then scroll to the top automatically.

Though to be fair, this is more of an easter egg than a bug. Just don't click and drag on the stack title. Or if it annoys you that much, just report it to Apple. (http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html)

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Bloomedis said:
I just updated to 10.8.2, but the Facebook section in Mail, Contacts & Calendar shows only Contacts, but no other options of any kind. I'm not getting any of the notifications Apple said I would get in the update. Can anyone help?
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There's a whole other thread dedicated to the Facebook integration: https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1446542/

A lot of people have the same problem, or get notifications only rarely. :/
 
lucabrasi said:
Thanks. This does not survive a reboot though. Worked well initially though, but a lot of effort since I also use the laptop without external display quite a bit.
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I was searching in the same solution...
and yes the terminal solution doesn't work anymore for me too...

Until now I always refused the "magnet" solution,
but I was wrong thinking in it as dangerous solution...

try to go around the border of the lid with a paper clip,
you'll find on the top border (of the open lid) the magnets which keep closed the lid
and on the left side (for me) another magnet which is the one
that tells to the system that the lid is closed.

So if lid contain magnets means that I can use a (very) soft magnet to cheat the system.

You can give a look to this video

I'm using a very weak magnet took from a toy like this or this.

It's working like a charm.

Ciao!


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jo
 
Battery life data point

Funny story...

So, the first time I ran down my cMBP after the upgrade, my battery life increased 10 minutes over 10.8.1, about 5:47. Then I realized I had been charging both iPad and iPhone, and my display was at full brightness. I have not run it all the way down since, but with half brightnmess and not charging a bunch of stuff, iStat was projecting anywhere from 7:30 to 9:12 in battery life! I have not had time to quantify over the weekend, but it looks like I am pretty close to SL battery life again (I skipped Lion over battery usage).

Good job - Apple.
 
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