Purple Symbol

Apple iPhone - Purple Symbol

I just got the iPhone 4. There is a small purple coloured arrow-head symbol next to the battery symbol on the top RHS of the phone.

Does anybody know what it signifies? It remains on even when location services are turned off.

iPhone GPS
Purple arrow is GPS / location services - not sure while it is showing up when if it is turned off

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Something is accessing the gps location on your iphone

iphone/itouch not showing up since itunes 10 upgrade

Apple iPhone iTouch iTunes 10 - iphone/itouch not showing up since itunes 10 upgrade


My son's iPod Touch and my iPhone 3G are no longer showing up in iTunes since I downloaded iTunes 10. I have windows XP Home Edition. Is anyone else having problems? Is there a way to go back to the previous version of iTunes?

iPhone iTouch
I finally found this so am able to connect my phone in iTunes 10.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1538

iPhone, iPad, or iPod is not recognized by Windows due to driver installation issues

Symptoms

When drivers required by a PC's USB interface are not installed correctly or are out of date, an iPhone, iPad, or iPod connected to this computer may not be recognized properly.

One or more of the following may occur:

• Device does not appear in iTunes
• Device cannot be restored in iTunes
• An exclamation point appears next to the device's entry in Device Manager
• iPod screen does not display "Do Not Disconnect" screen when connected to the computer (does not apply to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch)
• iPod is not recognized as a disk in My Computer (does not apply to iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch)

Products affected

• iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and iPod (all models)
• Microsoft Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows Vista
• Microsoft Windows 7.

more detail....

Apps 4 Apple Component Video cables

Apple iPhone - What apps will work with the Apple Component Video cables ?????

I plan to order the Apple Component Video cables so I can watch the Netflix apps movies on my TV. I know this app works with the cables but what else does?

The few apps I know of are:

Netflix
YouTube
included video app

but what else ?

iPhone Apps
My cables finally came and even though they were a bit pricey, I am glad I bought them. I also found an iPad browser that outputs the webpages to your screen but other than that there are really very few apps that will output to your TV.

The video thru the Netflix app was very good, not dvd quality, but I watched a couple shows last night and it was fine.

Clips thru YouTube were not as good but still good enough and showing photo slideshows on the TV might be the best quality image overall.

It also outputs just the audio for all apps which made playing some games a little more fun as the sound was coming out the stereo instead of the tiny iPad speaker.

Free Ringtones from Phonezoo

Apple iPhone - Free Ringtones from Phonezoo

Just wanted to let you all know in case anyone else is interested in getting free ringtones that it is possible.

As I said in my previous msg, I use the website www.phonezoo.com to download and save ringtones that I have purchased over the years. You have the ability to upload a sound file or even create your own ringtone at this website. It provides support for a variety of phones and service carriers. You create a free profile and enter your phone type, carrier, and phone number. There are several methods for downloading these tones, but evidently only one way to get them for the iPhone.

iPhone Ringtones
Here is what I did:
Selected the option to save the ringtone to my pc desktop From my desktop, I dragged the ringtone into iTunes ringtone folder I attached my cables to the computer and clicked on "Melissa's iPhone"

I then clicked on the ringtones tab when the summary page came up

I put a check mark in the "sync ringtones" box and checked "all ringtones"

Then I clicked on "sync".

Once my phone synced and it was safe to disconnect I then had my 29 custom ringtones available on my iPhone (3GS and I am have not downloaded version 10 of iTunes yet). And I didn't pay a cent to phonezoo or iTunes to get them there. Just wanted to share in case anyone else is interested in using this site. I haven't tried any other sites so I don't know if this works with all sites and ringtones or not.

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I just went to PhoneZoo and downloaded the "In Like Flint" ringtone. I've been wanting that for years.

One thing that everyone should be very aware of... while PhoneZoo is free, all around the window are ads that take you to "pay" sites. PhoneZoo really makes you "pay" attention to what you are doing, otherwise you'll wind-up costing yourself $9.99 for a ringtone!

I mean some of these pay-ads look like they are part of PhoneZoo's site.

Bottom line... BE CAREFUL & PAY ATTENTION - or you'll pay $$$ ! ! !

Best iTunes music organizer

Apple Iphone - Best iTunes music organizer

Could someone tell me the best iTunes music organizer? Something that will fill in all the missing art work etc etc ......

itunes music organizer

Pollux - www.polluxapp.com -

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I wonder whether pollux works with iTunes 10? Guess I'll need to write them and ask.

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Just tested it and it works fine ;-).

Can't make own iTunes 10 ringtones

Apple iPhone - You can't make your own ringtones in iTunes 10

Mac Life notes that Apple has removed the create your own ringtone feature from iTunes 10. The feature introduced after the launch of the original iPhone in 2007 allows users to download a song from iTunes for 99 cents and then turn it into an iPhone ringtone for 99 more cents.

iTunes 10
At a later Fall Apple music event, Apple added a new section to the iTunes store for both Mac and iOS devices that allows for the purchase of pre-cut iPhone ringtones.

It seems that Apple may have gotten a bit greedy and wants you to go for the pricier, pre-cut tones instead. They have to make up for that Apple TV price drop somewhere, right?

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/TerBpZLLT0Y/you-cant-make-yo\
ur-own-ringtones-in-itunes-10

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Is it still possible to make ring-tone using existing song using "garage band"?

Picasa or some other way

Apple iPhone - Picasa or some other way

Last time I checked, to download photos on blogger by using the iPhone I had to use Picasa. I learned from someone else that once the photos are up, Picasa wants full rights to them to distribute anywhere or how they see fit as long as they wish to do so.

Since I learned that, I decided maybe I don't want to use the iPhone for posting pics to my blog. So far, Picasa is the only way I'm able to transfer over pics to my blog from the iPhone directly without emailing or syncing the pics to my PC first.

Does anyone else know of a way? I have no trouble with Facebook pics going over, but the blogger ones become little boxes without an app.

iPhone iPad
Pixelpipe maybe? It supports a boatload of upload destinations. I use it for Facebook, twitter, and I have a few FTP sites that auto generate galleries with PHP code I wrote. Maybe it supports your blog software.

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There is an app for iPad ($2.99) in app store that allows posting to several blog platforms and allows posting video, photos through several servers: Flickr, Picasa or their BlogPress platform.

I haven't tried it, but it looks interesting. Wonder if anyone is using this one? Says it is also compatible with iPhone, iPod Touch

Not sure if this would meet your requirements, but I thought that any photo you posted via computer to Blogger, went to Picasa or maybe that is my default photo server.

It seems they used to have a direct email address you could sent photos, I haven't tried that either, but might be worth looking on the Blogger Help site or googling it.

MobileMe vs Gmail

Apple iPhone - Mobile Me vs Gmail

I have a Mobile Me account and successfully wirelessly synch my contacts and calendar between my Iphone, Outlook and the MobileMe online web site. Of course, MobileMe costs $100 per year.

A friend was suggesting I could do the same thing using Google Apps including Gmail and Google Docs for free.

My question, has anyone in this group used the Google products to achieve the same results I'm experiencing with Mobile Me? If so, please share how you set up your Iphone and Google products.

MobileMe Gmail
Google Mobile Sync using Exchange ActiveSync:

Google Sync: Set Up Your Apple Device for Google Sync

To set up Google Sync on your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch device, please follow the steps below.

Requirements and Upload

1. Google Sync is only supported on iPhone OS versions 3.0 and above. You can check your current version by going to Settings > General > About > Version. To upgrade, follow the instructions at http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/. Please upgrade to iPhone OS 3.0 before setting up Google Sync.

more detail...http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?answer=138740&topic=14252

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Will I have the same features with Google as I do with Mobile Me
or will I be giving up something to save $100 per year?

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MobileMe has a ton of features if you use a Mac and/or multiple iOS devices (iPhones, iPods, iPads, etc). As far as the photo sharing, storage, mail, calendar, contacts, etc - all of that can be duplicated with Google (Picasa, GMail, GCal, GContacts, can buy storage at 20GB for $5 per year) - the main thing you will be losing is Find My iPhone/iPod/iPad which can be worth it if you misplace your devices.

Also, Amazon sells discounted MobileMe subscriptions at ~79/year and/or you could always split a 'family' plan from Amazon with 4 other people.

That being said, YES Google can do the basics and do them very well for free and if you don't have a Mac will save you the cost of MMe.

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I wanted to share calendars and contacts between my wife and me. MobileMe worked fine, by logging my wife's phone into my account for the calendar and contacts. Only problem was that I couldn't use the "find my iPhone" feature of MobileMe on her phone since it was logged into my account. So we now share a Google calendar, but from what I understand, we can only share contacts on Google with a "commercial" account ($).

Voicemail password pop up

So got the phone 2nd hand and everytime I hang up from a call the "enter voicemail password"popup pops up. Can I disable this somehow? Went through settings and didnt see anything that might be of assistance. Is that something that the previous owner has to do?

iPhone Voicemail

When this happened to me and my wife, we had to go to AT&T (dial 611) to get them to do whatever they do, then all was back to normal. If you don;t us AT&T, then I really don't know what to do.

By the way, when you need AT&T **OR** Apple assistance with issues, just call 611. Its free too!

Mophie Juice Pack Air

Apple iPhone - Mophie Juice Pack Air: coming to double your iPhone 4 battery.

Mophie Juice Pack for your iPhone 4 will be available as soon as next week for $79.

We even managed to get hands on with a prototype that looked and felt pretty tight considering the fact that it doubles the iPhone's non-removable battery.

mophie juice pack air
The Juice Pack Air features pass-through USB charging and sync with iTunes, an integrated 4 LED charge status, and a standby switch the shuts off the juice turning the appendage into a rather attractive (albeit, heavy with a 1500mAh capacity battery), soft-grip case.

source:
http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/02/mophie-juice-pack-air-coming-to-double-your-i\
phone-4-battery-ne/

iTunes 10 (with Ping) available for download

Apple iPhone - iTunes 10 (with Ping) mercifully becomes available for download (update: iOS 4 has Ping, too)

It's said..
Sure, they said it would be available immediately, but they lied. Now, the lie has become the truth, and the truth is just a fleeting dream, caught in between worlds we can't hope to understand, let alone grasp. Meaning: go download iTunes 10 with Ping.

iTunes 10
Update: We've added direct download links below. Thanks commenters!

Update 2: A word of warning -- if you activate Ping, it will potentially make all of the nasty reviews you've written available for the world to see. So now they'll know who panned their recording debut and ruined their career.

Update 3: Got an iPhone or iPod touch with iOS 4 on board? Ping may have magically appeared in your iTunes app, ready to help you wax introspective on the go. [Thanks, Kruze]

from: http://www.engadget.com/2010/09/01/itunes-10-with-ping-mercifully-becomes-availa\
ble-for-download/

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It goes crazy with podcasts. I clicked "update podcasts" and it started downloading one, even though it turns out I was up to date. When that finished it started over. Moreover, It changed the title on one. Nothing was erased, but it's messed up. I have two full and one partial set of Astronomy Cast now.

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So how would you grade Itunes 10?? Is it worth downloading or stay with 9.2?

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Visual upgrade makes it look "Appley" on a windows system.

Tried to set up that Ping thing, but it requires you to enter your first and last name which will be displayed publicly.

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Technically, you can enter any name you want displayed (John Doe if you like) and once you get past that step you can choose who (if anyone) sees it, etc - very simplified privacy controls).

I love Netflix!!!

apple iphone - I love Netflix!!!

Recently I downloaded the Netflix app and its awesome. I was able to watch The Proposal from my bed and it streamed so well. I started out with 66 percent available battery life and was able to watch the whole movie. By the end it was only down to 42 percent.

I also watch Netflix through the Wii and of course renting movies...I think they are ingenious for coming up with all the various choices.

iphone netflix
I agree!! It's fantastic! I enjoy Netflix on my iPhone and iPad both. I just wish that more movies on DVD were available for instant play; hopefully, they will be in the future.

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I assume you were streaming over WiFi. We're you on a iPhone 4 or 3GS?

I have used it several times over WiFi on a 3GS, but did not check the battery usage, but it seems ok.

The streaming on the phone has been good, but I have had one instance where the video flickered and went to black, but the same thing has happened to me while streaming over cable to my Mac. I'm guessing the NetFlix servers are getting hammered since the release of the iPhone version of the app.

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I used to use Netflix. How does it mature now? I'm planning to reinstate my subscription, but is there a way to just use netflix for ipad without renting the physical dvd/bd? Sometimes I'm out of the country half a year at a time.

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Don't know if you can receive over the air (wifi 3G) Netflix if overseas. Would guess not.

My opinion, at $9.99+ tax per month the over the air option is a winner without the mailed DVDs. But not all movies, shows, are available via streaming.

In your case, remember Netflix can be started and stopped for any month.Easy.

Also possible, don't sign up for any DVDs to be sent or delete them when it comes time to go overseas and stop your account.

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For what it's worth I am impressed with Hulu Plus which I get on both my iPhone and iPad. The iPad really lends itself to this type of App.

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Go for the $9 plan and don't order and movies. You can not put the plan on hold because you then can not stream movies.

I don't know how well streaming movies overseas will work.

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Yes, and the online only is a cheaper price. When you sign up you'll have the option to pick your plan - and online only is one of them.

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There should be more instant play shows and movies but so far on my iPad, even with just 3G, the shows look nice.

Over 3G I do experience stoppages every now and then but usually it will restart automatically in a few seconds. Still I am very pleased.

Apple’s iPod-athon

Apple iPhone - Additional notes from Apple’s iPod-athon

It is late in the UK, I've put stuff together here and here. There's a few facts which might be of interest to some readers, so I thought I'd take a moment to put them down.

Apple TV
The Apple TV runs an A4 processor

OK, as I expected international audiences lucked out on the Apple TV. We have no on device purchases (so no random podcasts, either), and without access to $0.99 show rentals the product loses a lot of its pitch for international audiences. This is compensated slightly by Apple's move to cut the price and to make set-up of new computers from which to stream content much, much easier you don't need to log in or use code numbers anymore.

A bloke from Apple confirmed the Apple TV is powered by an A4 chip. So while I can see the system doesn't run apps yet (and lack of a drive makes this challenging) I can't see any theoretical reason the device couldn't in future run apps in some way, though perhaps only streamed versions of video games controlled and hosted on an iPad. Well, so I wish, anyway.

I also predict there will be demand in future to separate audio from video streams. This will let people play their audio via the AirPort Express on their huge phat music system while watching the movie on their gazillion-inch Apple-branded TV (did I get ahead of myself there?).

There's no video in the iPod nano

Yeah, you read that right that small screen won't let you watch the tiniest video in the world. And there's no camera also. Never mind thought, it is a really nice little device. And if all you want is music the iPod shuffle is pretty good, too.

The iPod classic

Speaking to my contacts I got no sense that the iPod classic is on its way to the great product graveyard in the sky. I suspect Apple will keep selling them until people stop buying them. I do think a capacity upgrade would be nice, particularly for those who like to use their classic to play lossless audio files. The product isn't an A-lister anymore, but it is respected as a veteran product which opened a new world for AAPL. And it still sells.

Apple v MySpace and Facebook

Apple's new social network for music *as Steve Jobs called it several times* is not just what it says. It is a starting point.

Think about how Apple gets into any new industry. It puts together a simple concept. tests it and makes it popular, then extends it incrementally. This is why I still believe the Apple TV will one day run apps, and also why I believe Apple's taking a new initiative to get into social networking. Particularly now it has iAds and valuable location-based data to use, and is developing understanding of the value of that.

This is a nice and simple beginning. Can't wait to see the Lady GaGa ad for it at some point in future.

Baffle 'em with B.S.

Apple always offers up a few interesting statistics at the beginning of these events. Many of us Mac scribblers gloss over these while we wait for the meat. It is only weeks later that we find we need them and no one has written them down. Here's what we learned in the first few minutes:

Apple retail

- Apple has 300 stores, Covent Garden, London was its 300th store
- Over a million people visit these retail stores some days in every month.
- Apple runs 80,000 one-on-one sessions per week in stores iOS 4
- iOS 4.1 update fixes the Proximity bug
- 120 million iOS devices have shipped since one year ago that's 230,000 iOS devices per day.
- 25,000 iPad apps
- HDR photos are based on algorithmic treatment taken from three images, it pulls out enhanced detail by doing this.
- iOS 4.1 is for iPhone and the iPod touch. Available next week.
- iOS 4.2 comes a little later this year Apple has sold 275 million iPods since 2001. (iPhone is already catching up. I'm sure it must be time for one of those info-graphics, but that's beyond the call at midnight).

I'm sure some of these notes will help somebody. On a lean day, some of these are stories in themselves. (Incidentally, in previous years Apple has hosted a nice little party for Europe's tech hacks. This year it didn't that's fine, but it underlines the new austere age we're in. Sigh).

Additional notes from Apple's iPod-athon

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/ENbMxEOeiq8/additional-notes\
-from-apples-ipod-athon

iTunes 10 is live, iPod Classic is dead...

Apple iPhone - iTunes 10 is live, iPod Classic is dead...

Some notes:
- iTunes 10 is live.

- iPod Classic is dead. RIP. It is all streaming anymore anyway. Update: Maybe not. Still, no mention at the event doesn't bode well long term. Think more like we made enough to last a few more months.

- iPod nano is hella small but also loses the camera which was nice on a device that small. Even Steve said people would wear them as a watch, so I get a star. Speaking of Stars, holy cow! Mr. Nano mockup gets a galaxy of stars.

- AppleTV is awesome but maybe the coolest part is the Airport Express Video functionality. Carrying around media on iPads, iPhones and iPods, it will be pretty cool to be able to shoot that right over to the TV.

Renting movies and TV shows does two things. It makes cable obsolete. It also means that TV shows now are a buck a pop or more. If you watch 10 shows (Fox and ABC) a week, that is $40. Not a bad tradeoff at that frequency. $4.99 for first run movies is also OK, but I still like buying BlueRay for the good stuff. Also, what hardware/OS is AppleTV running? At that size, it is a variant of iOS on A4 most likely. At $99, this will no longer be a hobby.

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/9To5Mac-MacAllDay/~3/s3_Cx7iJCdY/some-notes-from-\
todays-event

iPhone iTunes
1. ITunes 10 is not live. Site still saying "Coming Soon"

2. Cable is most certainly not obsolete. Several folks in a household and several TVs and its most certainly not going to be 10 shows a week, more like 10 per person. Also my cable includes several movie channels ALSO I can DVR and watch anything , anytime I want, no 48 hour restriction My Cable gives me over 200 channel choices, DVR , several movie channels on a unlimited number of TVs all for less than $100 per month. Apple TV is sorta neat but its certainly not going to replace Cable…(Oh and what about local programming, local news??????)

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It would be cool if the AppleTV would pluck the digital channels out of the air to provide the local channels.

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I assume iTunes 10 is for the new ATV, which doesn't go on sale until the end of the month.

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iTunes 10 is for iOS 4.1, iOS 4.2 (iPad/November), new "Ping" social network, fixes to lots of problems and probably code for ATV but it is out now and installed on all machines and finally fixed the problem of my iPhone taking forever to sync.

iPhone doesn't appear in iTunes

Apple iPhone iTunes - iPhone doesn't appear in iTunes

I have my iTunes library on a very slow old PC, but it still works if I give it time.

Today, however, when I plugged my iPhone into the computer, the iTunes library doesn't show the iPhone.

I am using a 3Gs iPhone, and it has the iPhone 4 operating system on it. in case that is of interest.

I have looked around in iTunes and iPhone help. Haven't figured it out.

Picasa picked up the iPhone and imported the photos from it. So the computer is recognizing the iPhone. Just iTunes isn't

iPhone iTunes
There is a minimum version iTunes that iOS 4 will work with. I can not seem to find that minimum for either the Mac OS or Windows. You said you are using an old PC, what version of iTunes are you using?

If it has worked in the past and you have not updated anything recently then it could be either the cable was not plugged in correctly or some 3rd party cables do not work properly. Have you checked the USB port with another device or cable?

To your earlier question, about slowness. It makes a big difference whether you have a 3G or 3GS. It is generally not recommended to update a 3G, at least not until Apple fixes a few things. If you are having a speed problem with your 3GS you can google for solutions or read back in the archives of this list.

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9.2 or maybe 9.x (9.0 or 9.1 or 9.2 or 9.2.1)

"Square Trade" warranty - Legit? Scam?

Apple iPhone "Square Trade" warranty - Legit? Scam? Difficult to get your phone

Does anyone know how good the "Square Trade" warranty is?

Is it a scam?

Do they make it really difficult to get your phone fixed?

See below for cut-and-paste from an ad:

SquareTrade iPhone 2-Year Warranty for $99.
Unlike AppleCare, SquareTrade's extended warranty also includes drop and spill protection.

iPhone Warranty
I have it on my sons pantech matrix. He's had to have it fixed twice at no cost to me(except for shipping it to the repair facility). I would highly recommend them.

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I have used them for another phone. I also have their warranty on my laptop but haven't had to use it, thank goodness. With the phone I had (a treo), they gave me my full purchase price back because it was an older phone.

They've always been courteous and easy to deal with.

Updating apps using iTunes (Mac)

Apple iPhone Question about updating apps using iTunes (Mac)

Lately when I try to update using iTunes on my Mac, I goto Apps tab, click on the update notice at the bottom of the window.

Normally there are numerous app updates. When I click on 'Update All' it does not want to perform this 'update all' function. Looking through the icons for apps that need updating, I will run across one or two icons that are for apps that I have installed on my iphone or ipad, but there is no button under that icon that designates a means to update that particular app individually.

I am wondering why does this occur? Is this the app in the list of apps that is preventing my ability to 'Update All' apps at once?

To perform updates, I click on the 'update' button under each app separately. This is time-consuming and annoying. Does anyone else ever experience this?

Does anyone have a suggestion how I can get my iTunes update procedure to 'update all' at once back to working correctly?

iPhone apps The app that is left in my iTunes apps update window, is evidently not being distributed in the USA itunes store. It is the Yamaha app that controls my piano. It is probably being distributed now by Yamaha in Japan iTunes store. I don't want to delete it, as I use it all the time, so guess it is a bug that will keep me from updating all my apps with a single click.

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It *would* be nice to have a menu option for "ignore this update"....

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It sure would!

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I checked my Yamaha Disklavier Yahoo Group and looks like a new version may be available for the piano forth-coming. Right now not available in the USA store. So I will continue to update apps individually and hope that the app reappears in the USA store.

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Which iTunes Store country did you purchase it from? Switch to that country in the iTunes Store, enter the username and password you used for that country when prompted. That app will be updated.

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I'm having a similar issue, updating directly from the App Store on the iPhone--apps like the Huffington Post sit among the apps to be updated, but during the Update All process, it asks for my password again (once for each one, since there are often two), then says the iTunes store can't be accessed.

Up till now I've just deleted the problem app and reinstalled, but the one that's stuck now is Amazon Kindle and I don't want to have to reload 20 ebooks.

Any other options? Rebooting hasn't helped, and synching from my pc is always a problem because iTunes wants to synch in the wrong direction (that's another discussion).

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I assume that you acquired the app from the Apple iTunes Store in Japan, but are now purchasing and upgrading from the iTunes Store in the US. Or did you purchase it in the US and is just no longer available in the US?

Because of different copyrights and licenses, there are reasons they have to limit by your country which Apps and updates are available. I'm surprised you have been able to keep it on the iPhone. The different licenses only allow them to sell the intellectual properties in certain geographic (and legal) areas.

I have run into the same thing when trying to buy audio books. I could not find it in the US, but managed to buy it with a UK e-ddress. They have since patched that hole in the fence.

If the update will not allow it you to update all, then you will have to update them one at a time. Click on one, give it a second or two and then click on the next. It'll download them and then it installs them.

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Actually I bought the app from the USA store, they just released the update to that app today, guess they pulled it for the update for a few days. Downloading it now. Was able to check on another forum to see that the app was up for update and that others had noticed it pulled temporarily from the app store in the meantime.

Thanks for info on how the licensing for other countries plays out for users.

Yes, that is the method I use to download updates: one by one, but find it so time-consuming when I have 50 to 100 updates at a time. Making sure I update at a more frequent interval now.

Also noticed that I can remove the 'offensive app' from the list of apps that is causing the problem, but choose the option to Keep the files rather than to trash permanently and then update all the others and then move the 'temporarily removed file' back into the apps folder again manually and resync the temporarily moved file.

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Yes, one-zies for 50 -100 would be a pain.

I have removed apps, but have never looked to see how to restore a deleted app that I saved the files.

black out screen

Apple iPhone - black out screen

Help... my Iphone 3Gs dont have any display, its working while ago but after a couple of standby hours its totally black... i tried recharging using my PC just thinking that it has a drained battery but still its not working.

iPhone tutorials
I think it needs to be in charger for couple of minutes

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Suggest charging using the plug in adapter, rather than using the computer to charge. Once it is charged, try rebooting the iphone.

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I did, but still no display. I tried calling my i-Phone using diff number and it rung, but on the other hand my i-phone hasnt any displayed. huhuhu.... it is only a month old

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In which case you should return it for a new one.

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Put the phone under bright light and if you see anything. The brightness is down.

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i never learned that iphone has solar battery too... Mine is working now... battery was just drained...

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There's a good reason you've never heard that: it doesn't...

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how could i reboot by the way?

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This happened to me the other day. Strange. Everything went blank. Try holding the Home and Power button at the same time. And then hold down the Power button.

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I see the battery icon this time.... seems i need to recharge the unit.

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Do you have the battery% indicator on?

Settings-general-usage.

It'll give you an ongoing readout at the top on what your remaining battery % is & serve as a handy reminder about charging.

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actually there is, what happened on my case, my iPhone was totally blackout thats why i dont have any idea whats goin on! But its Ok now, it turned out that my battery was empty which i didnt noticed!

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That's where having the battery% on helps -- it's a fairly constant reminder not to let it run down! since you can *see* when it's getting low, like a gas gauge in your car.

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... finally, i see my home page... thanks so much! For this incident, were suppose not to let the battery drain in all apple unit in order not to experience this kind of problem. I am thinking my iPhone is already damage.

Internet access?

Apple iPhone - Internet Acess?

Someone told me that using a smart phone for internet access uses a lot of bandwidth on a public system and bogs it down if enough people do it at the same time. Anyone know if this is true? Same thing for Skype.

iPhone tutorials
Any device. Too much demand on an insufficient infrastructure will definitely bog it down. Not only mobile phones.

Maybe, the reason behind what that someone who told you said is smart phones make it easier for people to access internet anytime, anywhere. No need for a computer. Therefore, more traffic.

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What they are referring to, putting it back into context is, wireless access to the internet can be overloaded, since there is a limited amount of infrastructure for wireless. The internet is considered to be public, but the wireless access is built by private dollars, once they are granted (in the US) license by the FCC to those frequencies.

I can't tell which one of the liars is telling the truth, since different people are saying that the iPhone uses more bandwidth, and others are starting to say it is Android or the Blackberry.

Remember that the internet was originally built for research, by educational institutions and the military-industrial complex, with no public access. It was intended to speed the exchange of knowledge and research, not gaming, texting and social networking. I know it seems hard to imagine life without the internet or cell phones, but they are recent technology.

It is kind of like the land give aways to build the railroads, only they did not give away the frequencies, they only granted use or licenses. They are more like TV and radio station licenses. Only the government has forgotten that they can tell the providers, that if they want keep the licenses, that they have to play by the governments rules. All they have to say is, "You will charge everyone the same for usage and there no one gets preferential treatment." The license is granted for the greater good of the general public equally.

Them's the rules, play by them, or loose your license. We're starting to learn that you cannot have the regulators in bed with the industry they are supposed to control, or turn a blind eye on them. Just look at the Gulf.

Stepping off my soap box.

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I think , we can reduce of using bandwith with using data compression. For example in Blackberry or Opera Mini, the compress data, so reducing of using bandwith resource.

I dont know about iPhone. Normally iPhone using uncompression data, so it depends on the site we browse.

Strange symbol

Apple iPhone - Strange symbol

On my wife new iPhone 4 she has a symbol at the top that I don't recognize. Its a tiny phone over two small rolls of dots. The top row of dots has more dots in it than the bottom row. What on earth does this symbol mean??

Also her phone doesn't seem to perform as well as mine does. Reception doesn't seem as good. Using identical cases. She keeps blue tooth on.

Would that effect signal reception or strength in any way.

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Sounds like TTY was turned on by accident (change Settings > Phone > TTY to Off)

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Thanks, that was it!!!

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My spouse discovered another new symbol.

My spouse launches TomTom and gets directions; a lightning bolt symbol appears when the GPS is located.

Shutting down TomTom does not get rid of that symbol. After TomTom has been closed (which is only used in the car, plugged into a charging cable), once the phone removed from the charging cable, that symbol remains... and we can, literally, watch the battery life drain. (2% every couple of minutes).

Even going into airplane mode doesn't shut off that "lightning bolt" symbol (which we figure has to mean GPS is connected to satellite and tracking). Spouse has to completely turn phone off and do a re-boot.

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I am going to guess you are using some version of iOS 4, and that you are not actually going to the trouble of killing the TomTom process by the method that has been described on this forum (i.e., pressing the Home button quickly twice to bring up the App Switcher, then tap-and-holding an icon in the App-Switching tray until they jiggle, then tapping the "minus" sign for the TomTOm App, then pressing Home again to complete the process).

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that does not sound like the active GPS symbol. GPS is a narrow arrow pointing to about 1 o'clock, usually purple in color with a split rear end. Not to be confused with a active Music Player symbol, which a fat arrow pointing to 3 o,clock, usually white, and looking like "play" on a music or tape player.

If it is for GPS then follow Jim's instructions to turn off background applications.