Good bye to this piece of junk

this is the most unreliable product I've ever encountered...yet more problems were experienced...and probably my fault for some rule not provided in the user guide..went to go workout and guess what ???? no music...the f'r is not working and apple support requires my paperwork to help...hmmm..it was a gift...I beat the crap out of it with my hammer then i cut up the installation cd into shreds..and shredded the paperwork...another 4 hours wasted trying to get this junk working...bye bye...I feel so much better now...I am running out to best buy tommorow to buy another brand...any brand of product...except apple what a ripoff....I hope microsoft buys em...thought I'd never say this...they're software is more reliable....ahhh..I feel better now...signing off of apple forever.....what a feeling...to the rest of you good luck...i hope you have hours to sit in front of your computer to make this sorry excuse for a product work..

So long, and thanks for contributing, in your way.

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  • Please help me with this piece of junk

    I am the unfortunate owner of a dingleberry curve 8310. Today out of the blue the voice dialing stopped working. Then my Media player froze. I started getting the dreaded hourglass timer icon and then it started dropping my calls as well.  I quickly deleted all e-mails and previous messages as well as call records. I have very limited music and pics. I am aware the pathetic OS memory is easily overwhelmed. I have a addtl chip (4g) but the phone does not seem to defualt to it even though it is set to do so, not even with pic's or music as far as I know. I downloaded the pathetic 4.2.2 PC software with media manager by Roxio (yet another poorly designed software program). The media manager (Roxio) portion corrupted my Vista 32 bit OS on my laptop. I had to unload the 4.2.2 so I would not have to reload Vista 32 OS and loose all my PC data. I am going to try to reload v4.2.2 w/o Roxio for the simple purpose of reloading the OS on my crunchberry so I can get this piece of crap to work right atleast for a moment. This is my primary phone for personal and business. What a disaster!
    My questions are:
    1. After loading 4.2.2 w/o Roxio how can I load pic's and music onto the extra memory card on the phone if I don't have Roxio to sync with my phone. Can I simply open "my computer" access the phone and drag items into the "music file" for the phone or the "picture file" for the phone, Or will this just load it into the pathetic OS memor?. In other words is Roxio the only way to load music and media into the extra memory chip?
    2. Will the 4.5 update for my phone help or just make matters worse. This is the only option I get when I search under phone OS systems for the 8310curve. 
    3. What are some basic maintenance steps to keep this thing running stable. I lost two hours of valuable work time so far and possibly a client trying to fix this peice of junk. The only addtl desktop items I have are the icons for google maps and yellow pages which appeared when my browser first went on line. 
    Thanks
    Solved!
    Go to Solution.

    1. Yes.
    http://www.blackberryfaq.com/index.php/How_do_I_add_media_files_to_my_microSD_card%3F
    2. Yes.
    3. First thing? Check the File Free at Options > Status, what is the number at File Free?
    Now, leaving the device powered ON, remove the battery of your device, hold a minute, replace and reboot. What is the File Free now?
    Read this: http://www.blackberryforums.com/general-blackberry-discussion/116396-managing-your-bb-memory-lost-ca...
    And this: http://www.blackberryforums.com/general-blackberry-discussion/112029-losing-call-logs-sms-emails-opt...
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    http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB15345&sliceId=SAL_Pub...
    http://www.blackberry.com/btsc/search.do?cmd=displayKC&docType=kc&externalId=KB14320&sliceId=SAL_Pub...
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    Quite honestly, the 8310 is a great device, I've used it extensively. You need to follow #3 above and clean your device memory out of all the junk you've loaded on it.
    1. If any post helps you please click the below the post(s) that helped you.
    2. Please resolve your thread by marking the post "Solution?" which solved it for you!
    3. Install free BlackBerry Protect today for backups of contacts and data.
    4. Guide to Unlocking your BlackBerry & Unlock Codes
    Join our BBM Channels (Beta)
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  • How can ANYONE be happy with this piece of junk? Seriously?

    I started by importing my iPhoto library. It's 10k pictures, many if
    which I could probably delete if I had a good tool like Aperture to
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    <date>2005-12-09T01:43:58Z</date>
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  • Firmware 7.3.1 bricks my TC I am ready to sent this piece of junk back!

    When I got my TC I went through alot of headaches to use it. I had to get it working by playing with it. The ethernet connection would not work right and after fiddling I got it going, and with lots of pain finally got it working with my macbook and iMac. It was working fine but I upgraded the new airport and time capsule stuff. The backups seemed faster, but then I realized I had not done the firmware part and opened airport utility and it of course "upgraded" the firmware -- NOT! it seems to have messed it up completely! I cannot see it on my iMac now, and only after doing a hard reset I could see it in airport utility in my macbook but not in my iMac, and even then I cannot get it to take the settings I do for the macbook and then it goes into the blinking yellow nowhere land after I do that and the macbook no longer sees it either.
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    Russ Jacobson.

    Well at least back at 7.3.0 I am able to back up from either machine fine, and it does seem to be faster with the airport part of update intact. Still am not clear why I cannot update the firmware though, would like to be able to add that as well.
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  • Every time I open this piece of junk and try to visit a website (ANY website), I get this error message: "A script on this page may be busy, or it may have stopped... "

    Here's the error message again:
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    I'm about to give up and head back over to chrome, this is not worth the hassle.

    Create a new profile exclusively for the 4.0 beta version and create a desktop shortcut with -P "profile" appended to the target to launch that profile.
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  • HT5624 I was prompted to update to ios7 so I did as usual. But this update has made my ipad a piece of junk. I am unable to access Siri, I can't read the faint print particularly those tiny letters on the top row which show the visited websites, etc.

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    Outside of the contact number for that you've already used I don't know another way of direct contact. Here are some things that they may or may not of had you try that might help you. If you will go to the settings app and pick general on the right-hand side you will see accessibility. Within that you can adjust a text size make the text bowl you can also increase the contrast. You can also adjust the brightness and control panel.
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  • So annoyed with this new itunes, spent over 2 hrs to get one ringtone on iphone,why apple has to make it so complicated, on samsung just a push of button ringtone or music is on ur phone... i think its time to say good bye to ihpne... Not a user friendly.

    so annoyed with this new itunes, spent over 2 hrs to get one ringtone on iphone,why apple has to make it so complicated, on samsung just a push of button ringtone or music is on ur phone... i think its time to say good bye to iphone... Not a user friendly...
    Highly recommended for samsung galaxy S4....

    hi i had the same problem today when i updated my itunes to latest version. however, i have just found my songs in the 'itunes media' folder. this was accessed through 'my music'  then keep clicking through until you find itunes media and all my library songs were in there and i then just added these files to my library and all were restored however, i have lost all my playlists but at least my 700 songs are back. very dissapointed with apple that they have let this happen with their latest update, the previous version was miles better than this one . hope you find them. stevo

  • Is the Creative zen micro a good bye or a bad

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    I agree with Kerndrone. People come here mostly to look for solutions to their problems. This constitutes a lot to the negati've talk. Also,how many would purposely come into a forum just to praise a player?
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  • Good Bye Version 1.0.3 build 16 -- How do I uninstall everything and go back to previous version?

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  • Good-bye verizon, hello wolrd

    Goodbye Verizon, Hello World Account: 012xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Customer Id Code: 11xxxxxxx Customer since 1995 with 56k dial-up But not much longer. {edited for privacy} The service I am suppose to get: High Speed Internet Enhanced 3.1 to 7 Mbps What I really get: download 1.54mbps upload 0.41mbps Wednesday 21May 2014, 01:07:35 PM Your IP: {edited for privacy} Down 1.80 up 0.56 Reboot the modem.Again. Saturday 24-May 2014, 08:12:26 AM Your IP: {edited for privacy} down 1.80 up .56 just like dial up. brings back fond memories. not. Sunday 25-May 2014, 07:55:15 AM Your IP: {edited for privacy} So I do my daily ”how slow is Verizon today?”. http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ Monday 26-May 2014, 07:42:19 AM Your IP: {edited for privacy} up 2.52 down .78 Monday 26-May 2014, 07:35:42 PM Your IP: {edited for privacy} down 2.89 up 0.77 almost like real internet.almost. So I goggle Verizon speed test I choose the “test my internet speed” It goes to “test your lousy internet to our business zoom-zoom fios!!!!!!!” http://www.verizon.com/smallbusiness/internetspeedtest/ Down 1.37 up .71 Now that’s interesting, as the speed is half of speakeasy.net website. So I choose the Verizon speed test on the left. http://www.verizon.com/home/fios-quantum-internet/speedtest.html down 2.90 up 0.71 Now the speed is almost the same as speakeasy.net Must be a mistake. So I run the test on each website several more times. Same results. Is it possible Verizon has deliberately throttled the business site speed by 50% to game the speed??????? Tuesday 27-May 2014, 07:49:56 AM Your IP: {edited for privacy} down 2.89 up .78 Wednesday 28-May 2014, 07:41:56 AM Your IP: {edited for privacy} down 2.89 up .77 Thank god it's Friday 13-Jun 2014, 07:43:39 AM Your IP: {edited for privacy} down 0.77 up 0.75 Speakeasy result 8/7/2014 8:53 AM 2.89 Mbps 0.76 Mbps 98.112.2.172 Los Angeles, CA 08/13/2014 Service has been sporadic or non-existent for the last five days. Again. 8/13/2014 7:59 PM down 2.46 up .76 new ip {edited for privacy} 8/15/2014 1:39 PM down 2.53 up .76 ip {edited for privacy} 8/15/2014 4:52 PM Now slowly connects to internet. Won’t run speed test. Just sits at preparing download test. 08/16/2014 Get email on my smart phone. Yes, my phone. Can’t get emails from the the dsl line, or net access. “Verizon is experiencing a service disruption”. Notice its Verizon, not the customers, who have the disruption. The best part is it tells the customer to go to a web site to check on the outage. The web page I can't access as the dsl signal is down. What does the web page say, you ask??????? “We are having a disruption of service and are trying real hard to get it back up”. Again. I have finally dumped Verizon “enhanced” dsl for charter.net cable internet access. I went from this: down 2.90 up 0.71(sometimes) To this: down 63.54 up 3.31 Sixty-three point fifty-four mbps Charter cable, internet only cable box What a coincidence, now that I have real “enhanced” internet speed, Netflix flys like a rocket. No rebuffering, no “internet service not available”, no waiting for the movie to reload if I fast forward/rewind. And the best part is……. Drum roll, Please rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.(cymbol crash)! Fri, 30 May 2014 01:31:59 an email from Verizon Dear Valued Verizon Customer, We realize you have choices when it comes to choosing your Broadband provider, and would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for being a loyal customer and for choosing Verizon. In order to continue to bring you quality service and product innovation, at times we need to raise our rates. Your monthly rate will increase by $3.00 That was all I needed to switch to Charter. So I’m going from $35 a month for slow and many times nonexistent service, to $40 for service that is 10 to 20 times faster, and doesn’t demand a bribe, err, a voluntary contribution from Netflix not to be throttled. And does anyone really believe Verizon position why net neutrality is bad????? Verizon Says It Wants to Kill Net Neutrality to Help Blind, Deaf and Disabled People http://billmoyers.com/2014/06/13/verizon-says-it-wants-to-kill-net-neutrality-to-help-blind-deaf-and... Verizon lobbyists are canvassing Capitol Hill with a curious new argument against net neutrality — it hurts disabled people. BAWAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA The sad fact is Verizon, and all of the copper wire providers can't wait to dump you. I also cut the satellite/cable TV plans, as 500 channels and nothing to watch. I live in L.A. and are fortunate to have FREE DIGTAL over the air TV. So I programmed my TV to the 15 stations I only watch, use netflix, or gasp, read a book!!!!!!!!! So, good-bye Verizon. Adious. Zoi geen. Adieu. Annyeonghi kyeseyo. Arrivederci. Auf Wiedersehen. Do svidan’ya.

    I know your pain and at least you have the choice to dump Verizon and go somewhere else. I don't have that choice because of where I live Verizon are the only internet providers. I've been having line issues since they moved me over to their "enhanced" service last year. Two months after I was switched my speed began to get throttled down so I called regular support, no help there, then I came here and Executive Appeals took over my case. Man, was that the worst decision ever because they actually made my line worse; constant dropouts began a week after they began working on my line. The original issue was only the throttling, so it went from that to my line being barely usuable but E A refused to fix the problem they caused and stopped talking to me altogther, left me high and dry. Anyway, back I went to regular support and that has turned into a nightmare. No one listens, no cares and now they want to take away the 7.1M that I've had for several years because they think that is causing the dropouts even though I have repeatedly told them that the E A caused the dropout issue and that I never had any major problems with the 7 megs. Sigh, so now on top of still having the throttling issue and dropouts, they want to downgrade my speed. They have had me at 1mbps (as a test) and I still had the dropouts, so I don't understand why they're insisting on lowering my speed permanently when they themselves (MCO) know the lower speed did not stop/correct the dropouts. This has been going on for 10 very long months and I went from having a mostly issue free, good line to an issue filled, bad line...and it continues. This November will be exactly one year since this ordeal began.
    Anyway, didn't mean to hijack your post! But I'm glad at least you could leave Verizon and go somewhere better.

  • New "Photos" is a piece of JUNK!  How do I get my image numbers to display as imported like they used to? Can no longer make Events or view old events as before either.

    How do I get my image numbers to display as imported like they used to? Can no longer make Events or view old events as before either.
    If this is replacing Aperture and previous iPhoto it is USELESS...WAY fewer options for editing available. New "Photos" is a piece of JUNK!

    Hi.
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    Is there a way to batch copy all filenames as photo titles, this was done automatically in Aperture and iPhoto, as when photos were imported the filename was used automatically.
    Any help appreciated.
    Thanks.

  • Say good-bye to pirated computer games. Reasons for you to buy generic games!

    Found this article!
    It is totally true. So many benefits of generic games!!
    Please check its source here for more picture reference:
    http://happylifegreen.blogspot.tw/2015/01/say-good-bye-to-pirated-computer-games.html
    IT IS CHEAPER
    One of major reasons for most people installing pirated games is because they want to save money. However, they are wrong! If they play it wisely, purchasing generic games can be much cheaper!
    Thanks to this digital era; nowadays you can buy and download almost all games from internet. There are several major gaming platforms. Biggest ones are Steam, Uplay, and Origin.
    Steam is the biggest digital platform which houses thousands of games in more than 237 countries and in 21 different languages. Uplay started with Ubisoft games like Assassin’s Creed series and now expands to a much wider range of games. Origin, on the other hand, is (currently) purely for EA games.
    You can literally find so many game discounts EVERYDAY on these game platforms. Moreover, every now and then, they have big sales as well. For example, last month Steam had its holiday big sales which had more than 5554 games on sale!
    It is common to see many, many 90% off, 75% off, 60% off… You need to be very self-constrained before you put too many games in your Shopping Cart! Haha!
    Another good thing is that games in digital format do drop in prices.
    In Steam, it is common that after a couple of months of its launch, a game will start to have discount, and then it will drop in prices. For example, when Thief was first launched in 2014, the price was US$59.99. But if you check it on Steam, its price now already dropped to US$29.99.
    If you go to a retail shop and want to buy a box version of this game, the price will probably still be close to US$59.99.
    On the other hand, if you buy pirated games. It could cost more.
    Pirated games usually charges by number of DVDs, and one DVD costs around US$3.
    Because of nice visual graphic, it is common to see games exceed 15GB—which will requires roughly 3 DVDs or more. One DVD cost $3; in another word, you need to pay $9 for one game.
    Some games, for example, The Evil Within, requires more than 38.6GB of disk space. It will need, I’m not sure, maybe more than 8 DVDs? Which means US$24??
    What I usually do is to add games in Wish List. When the game is on sales, Steam will send me email, and I will be able to track if I am satisfied with the discount percentage or not. Easy!
    IT IS SAFE WITH NO VIRUS
    This is easy. No one will argue that almost all, if not all, pirated games (or software) have malware hidden inside! There is no free meal. If you want to save money, you need to trade in something else.
    I am not sure how those virus will do to me, but I don’t want it secretly downloading some funny stuff from internet, and definitely I don’t want my credit card or other personal info be stolen!
    YOU CAN CLOUD-SYNC GAME PROGRESS
    Many games support cloud sync, meaning that you can go to any computer and start a game from where it left.
    It is quite convenient. I have two laptops for home and office. When I go to a business trip, I can still continue my games from my work laptop.
    In Steam, if you see a small cloud icon in front of games, it mean that the game supports cloud sync. The function works quite well!
    ENJOY TEAM WORK AND DLC
    If you play pirated Battlefield 4 or Titanfall (and many others), say good-bye to team mode~
    Quite a number of games—especially EA games— require you to connect to game server via internet in order to play in multiplayer mode.
    If you want to play with friends or want to challenge other games, buy generic games!
    Many games have DLC packs which allow you to equip with different weapons, outfit, or special items. Sometime, pre-purchased games give you these for free.
    Well, no such benefits in pirated versions.
    EASY INSTALL AND UPDATE
    How to install a game? You just need to click a “DOWNLOAD” button and then worry free. After installed, the game will update automatically; so you will always have the latest version of the game.
    HAVE A SENSE OF FULFILLMENT
    Currently I have more than 140 games in Steam and many others in Uplay and Origin. I have quite a sense of fulfillment to see all those game icons in one place.
    GAMES WILL NEVER LOST
    Years ago when there is no those digital platforms, you need to keep your game DVDs (or VCDs) well. Once lost, then bye-bye to the game. The same applies to pirated games that cannot comply with game platform.
    If you own generic games, you will never lose them! You can change as many computers as you like; you can un-install games; you can buy-it-and-forget-it; you can keep games for generation for your grand-children. Those games will always be there waiting for you.
    Once you want to put your hands on the games again, you just need to click “DOWNLOAD” button, and the game will alive once again!

    So long, and thanks for contributing, in your way.

  • Why can't they upgrade a piece of junk with issues?

    Since I got it Last October, just 6 months ago, I have had over ten issues, and the computer itself was replaced in February. This new one has had problems too, and just last night the hard drive was replaced. I have lost a lot of trust in Apple. Their policy regarding returns is awful as well. Even after a month a three problems, they decided no returns. I since have offered multiple times to pay for an upgrade to a retina device which was quickly shot down, even when they replaced the device with the exact same piece of junk. I was wondering if anyone knows why Apple can't agree to let me pay for an upgrade to a retina divide, paying the price difference then and there? Also, does anyone else have this many problems with the non retina Pro?? Apple is not getting my next computer purchase for sure.

    Poiuytrertyuiop wrote:
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    What are the problems?  Your dissatisfaction is noted but this is a user community, run by Apple but not staffed by Apple.
    Ciao.

  • Problem with this piece of jsp

    Hi,
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    I would be very grateful if somebody could help to solve this problem.
    Regards.
    Edited by: user1577231 on 04-oct-2010 6:33

    If you get a NullPointerException at that point, then that probably means that value is null.
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