Experiences with replacing iPhoto 08 with iPhoto 06 ?

Hi there,
I have tried to live with iPhoto '08 for three months but this relationship is not working out. I would like to replace it with iPhoto '06 or move to Lightroom as my primary image library.
My question: Will iPhoto 06 be able to interface with other iLife 08 apps (especially iDVD and iWeb) or must I remove iLife 08 entirely and go back to iLife 06?
Thanks for your help.

hidektol:
You can go back as Thomas Wolf once said. (Actually he said you can't go home again). The organizational files, i.e. database files, of V7 is different from V6. All you can do is create a new iPhoto 6 library and import the Originals folder from the current library. iPhoto 6 should be able to interface with the newer iApps.
What problems have you been having with V7 and have you sought help for them here in the forum before?
TIP: For insurance against the iPhoto database corruption that many users have experienced I recommend making a backup copy of the Library6.iPhoto database file and keep it current. If problems crop up where iPhoto suddenly can't see any photos or thinks there are no photos in the library, replacing the working Library6.iPhoto file with the backup will often get the library back. By keeping it current I mean backup after each import and/or any serious editing or work on books, slideshows, calendars, cards, etc. That insures that if a problem pops up and you do need to replace the database file, you'll retain all those efforts. It doesn't take long to make the backup and it's good insurance.
I've created an Automator workflow application (requires Tiger), iPhoto dB File Backup, that will copy the selected Library6.iPhoto file from your iPhoto Library folder to the Pictures folder, replacing any previous version of it. It's compatible with iPhoto 08 libraries and Leopard. iPhoto does not have to be closed to run the application, just idle. You can download it at Toad's Cellar. Be sure to read the Read Me pdf file.

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Looking to buy a new machine, actually I already picked one, I'm going for a MPB 13.3inch i7 (2012).
Even though, I read a lot of people saying around the internet, that this machine tends to heat a LOT.
I want to know your personal experience with the mbp13 (2012 please, i7 experience would be even better). All kind of people welcome to share, from web-browsing like facebook, to word processing and even video edition or gamers (if you managed to play something on this ).

Good, because I have the Mid 2012 MacBook Pro 13-inch Non-Retina. I would say this computer really doesn't get hot at all. With your average Internet browsing with nothing else opened this computer is relatively cool and the fan is quiet. If you have multiple applications opened such as Safari, iTunes, Notes, and iPhoto for example, it gets a little warm but the fan is still just as quiet. Now video editing/gaming. When I am editing a YouTube video or playing a game (depending on how graphic intensive/big the game is) alone with nothing else opened, the computer gets fairly warm and the fan is louder. Now if I am editing a video/gaming and have other applications opened the fan can get really loud and the computer can get really hot. When I say 'really hot' I mean REALLY hot, because this is made out of aluminum the outside surface of the MacBook Pro can get even more hot then the inside. Keep in mind that the heat is different depending on what surface I'm on because on my pants, bed, couch, etc. it would be hotter but on a table it would be substantially cooler.
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Pros:
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I am satisfied with it. I feel I have made a great purchase. Would be nice it I can install an additional SSD in there. Would nice if they can put a high end video card in there. Good for home offices, and home entertainments. Not recommended for hardcore gamer.
Price: 4.5 / 5
Performance: 4.5 / 5
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Interior Design: 3.5 / 5
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5. HP also has wonderful All-In-Ones, but their hardware specs seems weak. Never dealt with HP customer service before, so I will not say anything about their customer services. Hopefully it’s better than Toshiba. = )
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Thank you for replying.
Where I can buy a seperate RapidDrive?
I couldn't find it on the marcket, or on shop.lenovo.com / http://www.lenovospareparts.com/
With the mSata power splitter, there is a problem.
The data portion and the power portion shares the same connector I belive. I have thought of it but don't know how to make it possible. any suggestions?
the only thing I can find is this : http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0317944
but I still need to convert the power connector because it's 4 pin molex;. I guess it should work if I use another 6" Molex to SATA Power Cable Adapter.
Also, I couldn't find which is the SATA 3.0 and Which is the SATA 6.0 connector. SSD will have a huge difference in performace with a SATA 6.0 connector. This is confusing because on the B520 Spec sheet it stated both. I was looking for it's manual to identify, but no one can provides it. Last time when I called, they forwarded my call to Intel. LOL! I was like, **bleep**? It's a board you used and you dont have a manual for it?
Anyways,
Thanks again!

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/xiLuS

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I have a Droid Razr. I took it into a local store because my battery life is HORRIBLE. The phone had been off the charger for 1h40m minutes and it was already at 60%. The CSR told me it would take 40 minutes. When I came back he told me the test said the battery "was fine", and he went on to explain that it had only gone down 10% in the 40 minutes which is pretty bad. I left and checked the phone and it was at 40%. I thought I could get the battery replaced or possibly get a new phone but he just gave me the information and walked away. I had to track him down to ask him another unrelated question.
the battery has been on the charger the past few days more then i have been using it. i can't make a full day on a 100% charge, not even a half day. I charge at least once during the day, and around when im going to bed.

Hi there Sas1983!
Having a battery that will last is definitely important! I'm so sorry for the less than super experience with your phone and at the store location. I would be delighted to provide some information and suggestions.
4G LTE Smartphones run a different radio so battery life is a little bit different. As you already know you can't remove the battery from your Razr so we absolutely want to ensure it's good!
You can manage your phone by using Smart Actions on your phone. Here's some information: http://search.verizonwireless.com/?q=smart actions razr&x1=t1&q1=support
You can also close running applications easily by "double tapping" the Home Key and then swiping the open applications to the right to close them.
Let me know how these additional steps help!
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5300 RAM showing up as 3200 in Quad, any experience with this problem?

Hello, just received a 2 gig kit for my G5 Quad (2 - 1 gig sticks from Crucial). System Profiler shows it's speed at 3200, lower than the original 512 RAM which is 4200. Crucial says it will only reach 4200, but why is the new RAM showing up at 3200? Tried removing original RAM and only using the new, same speed displayed - 3200.
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Hi I'm writing this piece to share my unpleasant experience with Apple.
Before this event, I'm a keen supporter of apple products especially its iTunes Store. Instead of buying music album CDs from music publishing companies, I prefer to purchase songs from iTunes Store. My reason is if my songs are bought from the iTunes Store, they will be in the Apple's cloud. So whenever any of my devices does not have a song, I can easily download it from the cloud. I can also play the song from the cloud via Apple TV without the hassle of turning on other devices like ipad, iPhone or my computer. It was a wonderful concept and a great experience.
However, all these good experience crushed to ground zero after this event happened. I purchased a music album from iTunes Store a year plus ago. Recently, I found this album was not available for me anymore. I could not download the songs in the album from iTunes Store. Finding this a bit strange, I went to check the iTunes Store. I found that the music album was still available but the cover was slightly different from the one that I had purchased before. However, the album's title, the songs, the names of the songs and the artist are still the same in this album. But this album was not under 'Purchased' in my account anymore.
I called the Apple support. They said the current one in iTunes Store was a 'modified' album. The 'old' album that I purchased was not available anymore. Although the songs are the same, there was no way I could access the 'old' album which I had purchased. If I wanted to access the songs again, I had to purchase this 'modified' album again! They could not tell me the reasons why a 'modified' album had replaced an 'old' album despite the songs, the album's title and the artist are the same. They said I should be responsible to back up the soft copy of the songs in my computer when I purchased the songs last time. Next, they gave me links that point to the legal policies of iTunes Store. The support also said I could not escalate this issue any further. He said there was no one to escalate after him.
After this event, I think through and come up with my own conclusion. There is no more attraction for me in buying a music album from iTunes Store over buying a music album cd. If I buy from iTunes Store, I need to store the soft copy in my local computer. If I buy a music album CD, I also need to rip it and save a soft copy too. Worse is, although I purchase it in iTunes Store, my access to it in iTunes Store may be taken away any time. However if I buy a music album cd, assuming I have not done anything illegal with the songs, I don't think, on any day, a music publishing company will knock on my door and ask me to return the CD back with no refund.
In that case, buying a CD has more advantages. I can rip the songs and store them in my devices for my own enjoyment. I have the lyrics of the songs which most albums from iTunes Store don't have. I have nice physically wonderful music covers that i can ask the artists to autograph on them. Some CDs also have DVDs attached. And one last thing, music companies will not take back my CDs!
I'm not sure any Apple management staff will ever read this but that is ok. I just hope my friends are aware of this.
One last last thing, I think this is:
"A small back leap for me but a big back leap for cloud business."
An ex fan of iTunes Store
14 May 2014

There has never been any guarantee that anything will be available in the future.
You should never rely on this for your backup. You should always keep everything on your computer and always back up your computer.
You seem to be over reacting a bit.

Any experience with coolbook?

Does anyone have any experience with coolbook on the Macbook unibody? I am constantly running mine with one proc full out for hours on end and noticed that the CPU is at 80 C and the fans are at about 2.5k, so I figure if I could under volt a little I could get the CPU temp down a little. Pushing the fans up seems like a bad idea to me because that ages them faster.
Also, the idea of being able to keep the processor's speed down when I am not plugged in sounds good to be because I am almost never doing anything that I care to do quickly.
Also, does anyone have an experience with coolbook and apple care? i.e. getting heck from Apple b/c it was installed?

Hi Paul Bailey,
I just bought Coolbook for my 15' Macbook Pro Unibody (2.4ghz) yesterday. I recently asked your very question about Coolbook and warranty / AppleCare and the response I received from iVmichael was that it would be fine (thread visible here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=10132068&#10132068 ). I read the Coolbook instructions yesterday and it said that Coolbook couldn't damage your processor. I did some experimenting with it and even putting the highest speed at the lowest voltage it would let me use on Coolbook only resulted in a kernel panic which just told me to turn the computer off, which I did. When I turned it back on, there were no problems at all so I don't think you'll run into problems with Coolbook or at the very least, that's been my experience.
I played around with the voltages a bit however I found that for most things I do, it didn't make a noticeable difference. I mostly just use my Macbook Pro for web browsing and email, which are already very well handled at cool temperatures by Apple.
I think the one thing to keep in mind is that even if by lowering the processor speed you're able to use less power through undervolting, you'll then end up with the processor working more time (eg. 2.4ghz processor will finish an encoding job much faster than a 1.8ghz processor) and that higher speed processor might actually end up being a better fit because once it finishes the demanding tasks, it'll underclock itself while the slower Coolbook-enabled processor is still working at most likely a higher frequency + voltage.
From what I've read, everyone's Macbook Pro will have different results with Coolbook, as some of the Intel chips are willing to run (and be stable) at lower voltages than others, so some people will get more (or less) benefit than I experienced. I was able to get mine to run at 2.4ghz while using 1.0625 volts instead of the default of 1.1375 volts, so my CPU is running about 7% more power efficiently now. I had similar power efficiency improvements experimenting with different speed/voltage combinations. One thing to watch when lowering voltages is that some people have experienced a Core getting disabled (because not enough power is flowing to keep both enabled). If lowering the voltage causes this, you might find your Macbook Pro getting hotter instead of cooler, especially if doing anything that on one CPU causes it to constantly work at it's maximum performance.
I'm not sure how much of a difference +7% CPU power efficiency would make in battery life, however mine seems to run about 2-3 degrees Celsius cooler which is nice, although it wasn't bothering me at the higher temperature. What I've heard mentioned in other threads on the Apple Discussion forums is that a cooler running Macbook Pro's battery should be able to go through more charging cycles than a warmer running one because of the effect heat has on the duration of a battery's life, so that's another definite plus.
For battery life, you should get a pretty good extension (better than Coolbook) by lowering the Macbook Pro's LCD/LED brightness to the minimum or as low as you can tolerate if you aren't doing that already. I've heard that even not having the keys backlit when on battery power can add about 45 minutes to battery life as well. For the $10 Coolbook costs, it's worth it in my opinion.
As for experimenting with fan speed, I definitely think it's a bad idea to have the fan running at max speed or ramping it up substantially over the default Apple settings. Like you said, it'll make the fan age faster and I've heard replacement fans aren't all that cheap (especially when you factor in labor). I really wouldn't know the answer to this, so I'm just speculating, however I personally would see fan failure resultant from smcfancontrol (or another fan speed program) as the Macbook Pro owner's fault and clearly not the fault of Apple if the fan were to fail because it's being used for extended periods of time at substantially higher speeds than it was intended to run at. I've seen some people say it wouldn't affect the warranty, however I think it's best that you contact AppleCare directly and ask just to be safe if this is something you're considering doing -- I haven't managed to come across an official answer from Apple.
What I think is a good idea would be to increase the minimum fan speed a bit. My Macbook Pro fans usually run at around 2000rpm, so by increasing the fan speed to 2200rpm, I make it run a bit cooler while presumably not doing much to shorten fan lifespan. I may perhaps even be increasing fan lifespan as it now takes longer before the fans need to run at a higher rpm because they're doing a better job at keeping the Macbook Pro running within it's designed thermal envelope.

Any experiences with editing 50+ MB files.

Hi,
I'm thinking about getting a new camera later this year which outputs file sizes of 50-100 MB. This would mean that I also have to upgrade my Mac since I feel that my 2008 C2D (8MB ram and SSD) has reached it's limit at 25MB (16 MP) raw files.
Does anyone have experience with such large files? What Mac do you use and what would you recommend in terms of performance? I'd love to have a MacBook Air but it might not be powerful enough. Not sure about that. How big is the practical difference in performance between the MBA, MBP, Mini, iMac?
Thanks for any advice...
p.

We do not know specifics of how Aperture utilizes discrete graphics cards but in the past solid graphics were a necessity. E.g. Apple's strongest G5 tower would not run Aperture until an upgraded graphics card was installed. Boxes that rely only on integrated graphics like MBAs and Minis are not recommended.
Usually a good general feeling of relative graphics performance can be obtained by diligently perusing the tests at barefeats.com. Note that Aperture-specific testing is IMO only marginally relevant, but overall graphics app performance is IMO very relevant.
I use a 17" i7 MBP with SSD and 16 GB RAM. It works well as a desktop-replacement box, but my RAW files are only 20-30 MB size. My Aperture/Photoshop workflow was paging out at 8 GB RAM before I upgraded to 16 GB RAM. Odds are that 16 GB will work fine with your big files but if I was moving to a MF DSLR I would be a bit concerned about only having 16 GB RAM as the maximum available.
Personally to obtain mobility I would sacrifice the ability to to exceed 16 GB RAM but I would only do it with Apple's strongest mobile GPU available at purchase time. I.e., the top MBP.
If you do choose to give up mobility plan on a 32-GB box when price comparing. Personally I would go with a cylindrical Mac Pro not an iMac because the stock Mac Pro graphics are far stronger and the Mac Pro is upgradable.
All the good choices (MP, top MBP, top iMac) all have more than enough CPU. IMO in 2014 we can mostly ignore CPU as regards purchase decision making on the top boxes.
512 GB SSD for boot is IMO a mandatory minimum for any new Aperture box in 2014. Note also that if you do create a RAM-intensive workflow that does page out 16 GB RAM the deleterious effects of paging out are substantially ameliorated by SSD.
My 02.
-Allen

Any kind of integration experience with Weblogic JMS and Oracle AQ?

Hi,
In my company I work with java developers who believe in some kind of "holly" database independence I don't understand and as a result my life as a database developer is hell on earth.. Yesterday we again started to discuss, this time where to log, they believe database is slow and prefer logging to filesystem, after some hours finally I could convince them for some operational and reporting needs to use the database and will do this in an asyncronous way whiich they won't get slow. After all I believe the reason for a database is data, this is the place where data lives, and with the correct desing and implementation logging to database would perform better.
I love Oracle features, and know that we paid a lot for this software, so today I started investigating this promised solution. And quickly I found AQ and JMS topics in the documentation :)
After this introduction here is my problem; my company use BEA Weblogic as application server and the java guys want AQ to automatically (but of course with some delay) take their JMS log requests into database tables. Does any one have similar application experience, or any kind of integration experience with Weblogic JMS and Oracle AQ?
Any comments, references, documentation, sample code, url will be most welcomed :)
Thank you very much!
Tonguc
[email protected]
References I found upto now;
Oracle® Streams Advanced Queuing Java API Reference 10g Release 2 (10.2) http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14291/toc.htm
(Packages; javax.jms & oracle.jms)
Oracle® Streams Advanced Queuing User's Guide and Reference 10g Release 2 (10.2) http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/server.102/b14257/toc.htm
Part IV
Using Oracle JMS and Oracle Streams AQPart V describes how to use Oracle JMS and Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing (AQ).
Chapter 11, "Introducing Oracle JMS"
Chapter 12, "Oracle JMS Basic Operations"
Chapter 13, "Oracle JMS Point-to-Point"
Chapter 14, "Oracle JMS Publish/Subscribe"
Chapter 15, "Oracle JMS Shared Interfaces"
Chapter 16, "Oracle JMS Types Examples"
A Sample Code from Otn
http://www.oracle.com/technology/sample_code/tech/java/web_services/jmsws/NewsQueueEJB.java.html

I wouldn't go as far to say Oracle AQ is out-dated today. However, it is indeed a proprietary technology that did not found much main-stream adoption in the earlier years after its introduction. The advent of JMS made it somewhat more useful (or should I say intriguing, because more people are trying to tie it together with other J2EE technologies), but the Oracle's JMS wrapper classes in aqapi.jar were not feature complete for a long while, so using it outside Oracle's application server was painful, if not impossible. I do agree that the info at the dev2dev's JMS newsgroup or in this forum is highly fragmented, as neither Oracle nor BEA provides an official solution to integrate AQ with WebLogic, so people like us have to learn the technology through experimentation and in a piecemeal fashion.
3 years ago I was literally "playing around" - we had a polling mechanism set up to use triggers to write Oracle data changes into an event table, and had a Java-based daemon to scan that table and publish events as JMS messages to the WebLogic JMS server. This continues to work reliably till today, but I was looking for a solution that has few parts - I wanted to hook up my WebLogic MDB directly to AQ as a foreign JMS provider. Although I was able to get it to work (including XA), there were a few hoops I had to jump through, such as decompiling the Oracle AQjms classes to make them bind to the WebLogic JNDI tree.
One year after that Diptanshu Parui took what I did a giant step further - he extended the Oracle AQjms classes to allow them to be bound to the WebLogic JNDI tree naturally, and he figured out how to use WebLogic JMS messging bridge to re-send single-threaded AQ JMS messages to clustered JMS queues, which allow concurrent message assumption by multiple instances of MDB's. My impression is that he is using that setup in a production environment.
I am sure you are aware of it but I would like to make it clear - in order to use AQ as a foreign JMS provider to WebLogic-hosted MDB's, you don't need to update your database to Oracle 10g - Oracle 8i is good enough (although I recommend at least 9i Release 2). It is not the database engine, but rather the aqapi.jar JMS wrapper on top of AQ that matters. I do recommend that you use aqapi.jar from Oracle Application Server 10.0.3 or up for better XA support, among other things. Again, you don't have to replace WebLogic with Oracle AS - you only need a single jar file from it and put it in your WebLogic's classpath. However, I don't know what this means from a licensing point of view if you ever go to production - do you have to pay the full price of OracleAS or OC4J just to use the aqapi.jar?
In the coming days I will test the latest aqapi.jar to see how much progress Oracle has made in terms of making their J2EE products more spec-compliant :-).
Hope the above gives you a different perspective.
Eric

Experience with ftd2xx.dll

Hi all,
as described in a different post I have been having problems that I think I've narrowed down to a dll that is used as a wrapper around another dll. The manufacturer of the hardware has suggested that I might make direct calls to the second dll, which is the ftd2xx.dll from FTDI the USB folks. I created this thread to get more eyeballs looking at it, the other one had gotten so long and had developed a low SNR at this point.
What I'm interested in is any experience with the ftd2xx.dll, whether anyone knows whether it is considered threadsafe (the examples at FTDI are LabVIEW 7.x and the calls to the dll are configured as "Run in UI thread"). I would hate to put a ton of effort in writing wrappers around this dll to replace the calls to the "wrapper dll" we have been using, only to find that my problem was at this level (a distinct possiblity).
Thanks!!
Putnam
Certified LabVIEW Developer
Senior Test Engineer
Currently using LV 6.1-LabVIEW 2012, RT8.5
LabVIEW Champion

It appears that the ftd2xx.dll is threadsafe, I have been running a test (mentioned in this thread) overnight without apparent problems with my calls to the dll marked "run in any thread". It is running in a thread other than the UI's as indicated by the actual user interface not having the momentary "freeze-ups" it had with the original "run in UI thread" dll calls. I won't feel 100% about it until I have put these calls into the actual program and run it continuously for a few days, but I am at the 90% comfort range at this point, high for a pessimistic test engineer.
Putnam
Certified LabVIEW Developer
Senior Test Engineer
Currently using LV 6.1-LabVIEW 2012, RT8.5
LabVIEW Champion

Mail app is crossed out in my Time Machine back up so I can't restore any of my emails. Does anyone have experience with this?

I was having problems with my trackpad on my MacBook and it was also running slowly, so in addition to replacing the track pad, I had them cleanout my system. When I went to restore using my TimeMachine back up, my Mail and Address Book didn't restore. When I tried to access the apps through the TimeMachine backup, they are crossed out. All my work emails and contacts are gone! Has anyone had any experience with this? Any and all help would be appreciated.

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Horrible customer support experience with Nokia

I have just had an extremely frustrating and unsatisfactory experience with Nokia's support / repair operation. Unless I can resolve this, I will put my 820 on Ebay and forget all about Nokia and Windows Phone 8.
I initially called Nokia because my 820 would very occasionally freeze when I tried to unlock it to answer an incoming call. The CSR told me to send it in for repair but refused to answer the question "what happens if you cannot duplicate this intermittent issue?". After asking the question many times, being put on hold and then being told over and over again that Nokia's technicians are "very skilled and can repair it" I was put on with a "supervisor" who told me that Nokia has seen this before and can repair it. She said it was a settings issue but would not tell me WHAT settings.
Even though I was pretty sure this was a software issue (and had called primarily to make Nokia aware of it) I sent it in for repair since it is still under warranty.
After it had been in Nokia's hands for a week, I called to see what was happening. The CSR told me over and over that "it was in our facility for repair". After pressing him many times and being put on hold for a supervisor (at my request) he finally told me (I never reached a supervisor) that Nokia was "deciding whether to repair it or replace it" and that it would be returned shortly.
An equally frustrating and lengthy call the next day revealed after MUCH pressing that Nokia had repaired a "mechanical issue" and would be sending it back.
Just now I got an Email with a tracking number and a copy of the repair paperwork. The paperwork states that it was updated (GDR2 I assume) and tested and found to be working. No mention whatsoever of any repair efforts.
In other words, I was lied to TWICE. Once when I was told that the freezing was a known issue and could be repaired. And then again when I was told that a mechanical issue had been repaired.
Is this truly the kind of customer experience Nokia is comfortable with? Really? This was my first experience with Nokia and with Windows Phone and I am here to say without a shadow of a doubt that it will be my LAST unless Nokia can show me that this was an anomaly.
I am writing this here because I don't see any other way into Nokia other than the "support" phone number...... and that didn't work out very well.
Paul

adrianhughes wrote:
guys, please just persist with your local Nokia Care outlet and have your phones repaired to your satisfaction, there is no point taking out your frustration here as it does not get anyone anywhere.
Where do I find a "local Nokia Care outlet"? The only entry to Nokia support I find is the phone number on their web site. If you read my original post, you will see why I found calling that number that a less than stellar experience..... many times. I / we take our frustration out here because there is NO other place to do it.... Nokia is very well insulated from its customers. Maybe I should open a Facebook account?
Since writing my original post, the phone has arrived and I find I was lied to yet again.... although that "lie" kinda cancels out an earlier one. Contrary to the paperwork which states that the ONLY thing they did to the phone was test it, I find that upon close examination they actually seem to have replaced the screen. I can tell because there were a couple near microscopic nicks in the screen that are now absent.
As for whether that actually resolved my original issue, I cannot tell yet. That may take some time since I am in essence trying to prove a negative.
The repair paperwork includes the statement "Passed, software update". Not sure what that means.... the phone as it came back to me was NOT updated to GDR2 / Amber although those updates were available prior to their receiving the phone. The phone came back to me with the same firmware that was in it when I shipped it and I had to do the GDR2 update myself.
Yes, I needed to vent. Yes, I feel (a little) better. But based on my experience this time around, I will go buy an iPhone before I EVER deal with Nokia "support" again. And I am DEFINITELY not an Apple fan, so take that as an indication of my level of frustration. I actually LIKE the 820 and the concept of Windows Phone.
Paul

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