Comments on: [tech] iPhone grr

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 12:49:27 +0000

The iTunes library file just reported itself as damaged for the 4th time this month. I told iTunes not to synchronise applications with my iPhone (because that deletes everything on your iPhone) – it still went ahead and did it anyway.

Had a little peek on various iLounge/iPhones/ietc forums and this seems to be a very very common problem. My patience with this device is ebbing rapidly.

By: tetar

tetar — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:56:20 +0000

Keelan’s had one for awhile now and no problems.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 02:18:10 +0000

I have times when my 2G iPhone bricks itself – you can’t tell if it’s on or off, as any attempt to power cycle it gives zero feedback. There are times when it doesn’t respond to finger presses, and orientation changes

If it gets below 20% charge state, then the next full recharge doesn’t hold, and it drops back to a low state within a couple of hours, and another full recharge is required.

It’s definitely not the sort of phone you can rely on in an emergency.

Then there’s iTunes, whose library corrupts about once a week and you find some app data (like Notes, shopping lists, …) are not part of the phone’s automatic backup. My struggle du jour is to get it to properly synchronize my ringtones. Instead of adding new ringtones from off my computer, it just adds new copies of the existing ones.

EPIC FAIL.