Disabled Apple ID? Wrong birthdate? Read this, I fixed it on my iPhone 4

My apple ID on my iPhone 4 to defaulted to my other email address and my birthdate was input wrong. After months I fixed it last night. It was disabled for security. Figuring this out has taken months and ruined many days to frustration. I hope this can help at least one other person. Here what I did on my iPhone:
First of all you CANNOT fix it thru you "manage my apple id" page. That will update everything except what you need to fix. Go to =settings = iTunes AppStore = change your apple ID to what you want. Now go to EVERY single app installed on your phone and change it where ever the wrong ID is listed. Don't skip anything. I found the wrong Apple ID associated with my video and camera. Any apps with the wrong ID that you cannot manually change the email/ apple ID you will not be able to download updates, so if you need the update you have to delete the app and reinstall after you finish fixing the problem. Now, this is where I think I inherited the problem: go settings= icloud (it may be listed as the wrong email here) on my phone it is first listed w the apps above Mail. So, it's settings = icloud = account advanced (your email)=here is you SMTP server, outgoing mail. Make sure you change this to the correct email associated w correct apple ID. Now go back to settings= mail, contacts and calendars" open your email account (more than one? Do them all) here you will find yourSMTP severs, default email address for your contacts and calendars, you can change what needs to be changed. Open the "advanced" link when you find them and update
when you are checking EVERY thing installed on your device follow every "advanced" setting you see and make changes you need, want. Now go delete the apps with wrong ID that will need upgrades installed. Now go open App Store and now is your opportunity to set new security questions and changed that $@#¥!! Wrong birthdate. Hope this helps. Good luck. Ps, my apple ID is my icloud address. I sync'd my hotmail with it on my phone so when I downloaded apps from a site that I put my hotmail as my email, it changed my ID. I'm pretty sure that's how this happened. I have decided to get all my apps from the App Store from now on and not thru sites on the web. Oh, go check your email for any confirmations Apple sends you. Again, good luck

If you haven't already, try signing out, then back in with your Apple ID (Settings>Store>Apple ID, tap the ID shown, sign out, sign back in). If the problem persists, you can contact iTunes store support here: http://www.apple.com/emea/support/itunes/contact.html.

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If your phone is defective (aside from the accidental damage) Apple will fix or replace the phone. You saud you purchased the phone in January so it is still under warranty.
If you have an Apple Store in your area, make a Genius Bar appointment.
If not, Contact Apple Service Center:
http://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=servicefaq&product=iphone

Repeat One!... developers of apple iPod and iTunes read this!

It’s not an issue I think anyone can help me with but I hope the developers of apple iPod and iTunes read this.
I am a full supporter and user of both iTunes and iPod…. But some things have always bugged me. :P
Repeat one
Can you please, for everyone’s sake, fix the repeat one function? Yes, when the ipod gets to the end of the song I want it to repeat the song ones more. But when I select next (>>) I’m sick of the song and wound like the next one. But instead it just starts over on the same track.
Today I have to click menu, scroll down and select play on the next song to move forward… meaning I actually have to take the iPod out of my pocket and see what I’m doing.
iTunes music library.
Another thing which would have been practical in these holiday times would be a separate music library function for iTunes. In other words be able to select, load and save different library for different usages.
Why you say?....
1.I don’t need my holyday Christmas songs clogging up my library in the summer.
2.When I do sound work for animations I like to have my sound FX and background music outside of my music list.
3.Some people are, (believe it or not), ashamed of some of their music and would like to store theme where no one can se them. Say I invite the boys over for some iron maiden and they end up finding my backstreet boys album. (yikes)
4.Say you have some very privet videos or sound books you don’t want your kids to here or see.
5.When I need background music for some tabletop role-playing I wand them in a separate list as well.
6.ETC
And before you say it… NO… play lists, and do not include in shuffle isn’t the solution…. neither is users. Have you even seen how terrible Microsoft user system works? (Yes I know get a MAC, but you can’t always play that card.)
This function really shouldn’t be difficult to make since you have the “iTunes Library.itl” file already.
This is just my opinion so fare, but if anyone agrees or disagrees; Pleas post a reply.
It’s all in good fun… As I said, I love my iPod and iTunes except for these issues. (Well I could talk about volume but… naaa, enough badgering for one night :P)
Best of days
Tee

No Apple software engineers (the people who can implement these requests) contribute to these forums.
Use either one (or both) of these links.
iPod Feedback.
iTunes Feedback.
"This is just my opinion so fare, but if anyone agrees or disagrees; Pleas post a reply.
No please don't as that will acomplish nothing. The feedback links are the way to go.

Account not in this store FIX (Step by step) iphone

The quick fix for most people is:
1) Find the 'Settings' icon on your iphone screen. Tap to enter.
2) Scroll down to the tab labled 'iTunes & App Stores'. Tap to enter.
3) At the top is a tab labled with your email, eg: 'Apple ID: [email protected]'. Tap to enter.
4) Select the tab labled 'View Apple ID'. Tap to enter.
5) A password box pops up. Enter your password. (Don't forget there must be at least one capital letter and a number. It is the same password you use to download app's)
6) FIXED! You will be at the 'Apple ID Summary' page. This should have changed your country/region setting to your correct location. It seems like nothing has happened but just exit this screen and update/download an app to test it.
# If you get the same error message again follow steps 1 - 5, then on the 'Apple ID Summary' page select the tab 'Country/Region', then select 'Change Country or Region', then manually select your 'Store'.
This fix works for most people. (Sorry to those who are still stuck. I know what it's like to trawl the forums for bug fixes)
It would be great if Apple had a 'FAQ/PROBLEM FIX' video page (youtube or similar) for common problems like this. It should only take one Apple employee five minutes to upload a video fix.

Thank you both for your thoughts. I do seem to have cured the problem but I am not sure how!!
Did a complete restore from my MBP whilst on a visit to the UAE which is where my iTunes account is based.
So the story goes:
In Oman updated to iOS6 and I could not update any of the apps. See original post for a bit more detail.
On a visit to the UAE, did a full restore, and this seems to be solved the problem. Now, I am definitely not very technical, but having downloaded iOS6 once when I did the restore it downloaded iOS6 again and then I did the restore from the MBP in the normal way.
To confuse me even more, I updated 3 iOS devices and 2 worked fine and it was only the one that didn't.
So, looking at the above, maybe you can understand why I am still confused although things seem to be working now. At some stage I have the prospect of moving my store account from the UAE to Oman and I have to say I am not looking forward to that at all.
Thank you for your thoughts.

Apple please read this! Fix our .mac servers! WAY TO SLOW!

This is the same problem I and many others are having.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=376118&tstart=0
We pay for your service and we have had no notification that anything is even being worked on. If this is going to continue I think you will be losing lost of .mac customers!
Please take a look at the message above!
Thanks

Admit you have a problem.
Wh? What good will it do?
Besides, I (and hundreds of thousands of other users) don't have any problems at all with it.
It's the first step.
Don't you think the first step would be to analyze the info and see exactly what the problems are?

Mirroring stopped working from ipad2 to apple tv 2, how can this be fixed?

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HT204053 I just got my new Iphone, and wanted to create my own apple ID, but when I created my own Apple ID, i recvd a confirmation that said My husbands name and that his apple ID was changed.can this be fixed?

I was trying to create my own Apple ID, when I recvd the verify email it said "Dear (my husbands name) you have entered (my email address)
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"How do I defrag my mac?" "You don't need to, it does it itself" Fragmented Free Space: 99%. READ THIS NOW

Just a heads up for my fellow Mac users.
"How do I defrag my mac?"
"You don't need to, ever. It does it automatically."
"But it's running really slowly..."
"Repair permissions or something. Defragging is not necessary on a mac."
Techtool pro is now defragmenting my mac. Looks like the job's going to take about 4 hours. I thought I'd give everyone the truth about this while waiting (on a different computer obviously)
The truth is, Apple's defragmenting system ***** BALLS. It has two massive, massive flaws which I feel people urgently need to be made aware of.
#1: It only defragments files up to 20mb. If you're a movie producer, a songwriter, a photographer, or anything which involves working with many massive files, the built in defragmenting program WILL NOT HELP YOU IN THE SLIGHTEST.
#2: It only defragments FILES. Free space is ignored, which eventually causes absolutely hrrendous problems.
Let me give you an analogy here. Imagine your mac's hard drive is a bookcase with lots of books on it.
File fragmentation is when it can't find a gap in the bookcase big enough for the entire book, so it breaks the book into pieces and srotes them in different gaps.
Space fragmentation is when there are gaps all over the bookcase, instead of all the books being pushed to one side so there's a long gap elsewhere.
Apple's built in defragmenting program will only fix the first problem - and even then, it will ignore any book bigger than 20 pages long, if you have bigger books which are broken up, you're screwed.
Why is space fragmentation a problem? It's a problem because it directly LEADS TO file fragmentation. If there is a large block of free space all in one part of the disk, then an entire file can be written to it. However, if there is no single free block big enough for the file, it HAS NO CHOICE but to fragment it.
So basically you might have 5 GB free and want to save a 2GB imovie project. That's cool. But what you may not realize is, the biggest single area of free space is only say 600MB. Others are around 300 and 400. Therefore the file MUST be fragmented into all these different areas, which wouldn't be necessary if all the free space was in one area of the disk.
But apple's built in tools don't do anything about this, at least not in Tiger. PErhaps this has been fixed in later installations but I'm almost certain the same issues exist in leopard.
Your only option is to buy a defragmenting program. I know this ***** but believe me, this IS something you NEED to do if your activity on your laptop involves disk space - intensive projects. I'm using TechTool Pro which has been recommended to me as hands down the best. It has a number of other functions as well, right now I'm only using the defragmenting tools but it has others for repairing damages disk sectors and other mantainence tools. There are other programs such as iDefrag out there as well.
Why am I telling you this? I'm telling you because I experienced mind numbing frustration trying to get answers from the Apple community. Google it or ask the question yourself and you will most likely be whacked in the face with the intro to my post here - "You don't need to, it's not necessary, macs do it themselves, blah blah blah"
Even worse, Apple's own webpage on the subject is nothing short of a disaster. It basically says "You PROBABLY don't need to defragment, unless you work with large files." That's it. You'd expect it to have an extra section saying "If you DO happen to work with large files, here's what you do" but no such section exists. It basically says "You don't need to defrag most of the time, and on the rare occasions when you do, well, too bad, you're screwed."
I urge everyone to heed this or they will be tearing their hair out at how slow their mac has become and the fact that no one will offer any meaningful advice other than the standard, generic, "Repair permissions" - the Mac equivelant of "have you tried turning it off and on again".
My disk is at 99% fragmented free space. NINTEY NINE PERCENT. In other words, although I have 25GB of free space, there was not a single contiguous block on the entire machine. I had almost 5,000 fragmented files as well, mostly imovies. Defragmenting got this down to about 300.
The defrag job is taking more than 4 hours and will probably go on to take a lot longer than that. This machine has been slowly grinding to a halt over the last 3 years and now I know why.
Please don't listen to anyone. Get yourself a defragmenting folder, and email Apple to tell them it's just not good enough to give their customers half assed answers and inadequate basic maintainence tools. Mac OS X must literally be the only operating system out there where something as basic as defragmenting is not only almost impossible to get answers on, but actually costs money to fix once you DO get answers.
As customers, we should not accept this any longer. I intend to spread the above message far and wide.
I LOVE Apple. I've always been "a mac" and I always will be. This in no way a mac bashing post or a windows endorsing one. I wouldn't switch back to windows if you gave me a million euro.
But sometimes even the best developers can royally f*ck up. This is one of them.
There is no readon people should be forced to put up with this crap. Absolutely no reason at all. I've had 3 months of crappy performance with no official explanation whatsoever.
Apple if you're reading this: I love your products. I'm a loyal customer. People are more forgiving than you think, speak up, admit you dropped the ball, and DO something about it in your next updates to Lion and whichever versions of Leopard you are still actively maintaining.
There's no shame in admitting when you're wrong. The shame is in hiding behind false promises and walls of silence.
--Loyal customer, but feeling rather betrayed by all this.

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Do you still have the original memory in that machine too? The metal plate you have to remove in the battery compartment also provides access to the RAM. Your machine will take 2 GB of RAM, possibly 3. You definitely want to max that out too.
Regardless, you definitely need a new hard drive. When Apple switched to PC components, they had to take a quality hit. These 2.5" notebook hard drives are not very reliable. I'm surprised your hard drive hasn't died by now. I usually get a new hard drive with every major OS upgrade. A $ 50 investment every couple of years is no big deal.
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HT5621 My family has an Apple ID and I also have one and I got apps on an iPhone with my Apple ID but I'm giving it away and erasing it an I want to put my account on my iPod and keep my apps and progress from family Apple ID can I do this keeping family

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Why is apple id being disabled .? and i rs this . but not replay my email ?

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Regards.

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