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My 13 Month Old Son Wiped My Wife's Phone... How?

WilliamG said:
I wish the iPhones had the feature Blackberry devices have. 10 times before erase, but it asks you after a few failed unlock attempts to enter e.g. 7936 on purpose to make sure it's an intended unlock attempt.

This is a really smart way to get around kids accidentally erasing your device, and I'm amazed Apple hasn't implemented it.
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Kilamite said:
Yeah that's a pretty clever way to combat unintentional unlock attempts.
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How does that work? Does incorrectly entering that number reset the attempt counter? If so, wouldn't that give someone unlimited attempts?
 
My 5c stays in my pocket the whole time well away from my 34 month old son basically I don't wan the hassle of sorting insurance if something goes wrong plus the battery life on this one is good... I read so much about people's replacements being worse than before etc so don't want to risk it lol

My wife with her Galaxy s3 mini however doesn't care! Wait till I get her to upgrade to an iPhone! Haha she'll change her tune then! I'll make sure she gets a spigen case like mine
 
lordofthereef said:
I'll continue letting him play with it while at home, too. There is no physical damage he can do to it (plus we have insurance anyway) and now I know how to lock him out of things thanks to kind people explaining how. He loves pressing buttons, has even started swiping, and realized that his input makes things happen on the screen. It's my job to nurture the boy's mind, not tell him " no" to every thing he does that night inconvenience me, especially when there is no danger to him.
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Not that I promote AOSP, but my parents got my son an Amazon Kindle Fire HD 6" kid's edition with 1 year of Amazon Freetime and it has seriously been a huge blessing.

My son, for being two, is still non-verbal and has since started talking like crazy!
 
darngooddesign said:
So what is the benefit?
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I'll explain in more detail.

With iPhone (with 10 passcode entry limit), little kid picks up phone - presses numbers randomly and enters the password 10 times incorrectly. Phone is wiped. There's currently nothing you can do about that. It's actually pretty sad that Apple has allowed this to happen without some sort of failsafe, that Blackberry has.

With Blackberry (again - with 10 passcode entry limit before OS wipe), little kid picks up phone and enters numbers randomly, as little kids do. After a few incorrect entries - the Blackberry OS pops up a little notification along the lines of: "You have entered an incorrect password 5 times. Please enter 87214 to continue." At that point, the phone will NOT TAKE any other incorrect attempts UNTIL you enter that number. That means little kids can't by mistake erase your phone unless they manage to enter that e.g. 87214 code, and then continue another 5 attempts to wipe the phone.

Hopefully that makes more sense.
 
MH01 said:
For some here, owning an iphone is like being a parent, they baby them ;) Imagine the shock horror that a child is allowed to touch an iphone :rolleyes:
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I completely get it. I used to be that way. I am now literally the cliche that goes around saying being a parent has completely changed my life. :)
 
WilliamG said:
I'll explain in more detail.

With iPhone (with 10 passcode entry limit), little kid picks up phone - presses numbers randomly and enters the password 10 times incorrectly. Phone is wiped. There's currently nothing you can do about that. It's actually pretty sad that Apple has allowed this to happen without some sort of failsafe, that Blackberry has.

With Blackberry (again - with 10 passcode entry limit before OS wipe), little kid picks up phone and enters numbers randomly, as little kids do. After a few incorrect entries - the Blackberry OS pops up a little notification along the lines of: "You have entered an incorrect password 5 times. Please enter 87214 to continue." At that point, the phone will NOT TAKE any other incorrect attempts UNTIL you enter that number. That means little kids can't by mistake erase your phone unless they manage to enter that e.g. 87214 code, and then continue another 5 attempts to wipe the phone.

Hopefully that makes more sense.
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It does.
 
Kyotoma said:
Not that I promote AOSP, but my parents got my son an Amazon Kindle Fire HD 6" kid's edition with 1 year of Amazon Freetime and it has seriously been a huge blessing.

My son, for being two, is still non-verbal and has since started talking like crazy!
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Nice! My son was born underweight and there were some developmental concerns early on. We have a lady from a program call "Early Intervention" come and work with him and he has made enough progress in the eight weeks that she has been coming that he has caught up with his age group completely. Before she started he wouldn't even want to sit up on his own, now he is trying to walk!

I'll have to look into one of those kindles when he is a little older. I'll also have to see what all I can do with our iPad mini. It's already in an otter box case so it's practically bulletproof and it sits and collects dust... Literally!

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Wacko247 said:
No. But perhaps they should. Most people these days have absolutely no clue on how to raise kids.
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My mom ran licensed child care from home for 26 years. She retired as soon as she heard we were expecting and moved across the country (CA to MA) to be with us (more so him lol).

In fairly certain I have one of the best teachers I can have. :)

I'm also curious where you get the data to confidently say "most people don't know how to raise their kids". Are you a psychologist? Studied in adolescent development? Statistical analyst of sorts? Or are you just providing your opinion?
 
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