How come when I imessage other iphones sometimes it is blue while other times it is green even though I have disabled sms messages?

I have disabled SMS messaging and use only imessage but how come it's blue when I message one iphone user and green when I message another? I thought you could imessage between any iphone.

It's possible one recipient has disabled iMessage and the other hasn't.
Also, it sometimes takes and initial SMS to shared the keys from each device to enable the secure iMessage channel. Subsequent messages would then be iMessage enabled.

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While you're correct in that Windows media won't sync to the iPhone (or any i-device), the OP states that all the music is in iTunes. If its in iTunes, it would no longer be in Windows media format since it would have been transcoded to whatever the user sets as their import preference (AAC, mp3, etc.), and once that is done then the media should be able to sync to the iPhone just fine.
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Please see here what counts against your storage: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4859?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

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I am frustrated! I add content to my iTunes library from a cd, then find that I am unable to load it. When I click and drag an item to my device, the red NO symbol appears and I am unable to load it onto my phone, although I have synced the devices. I AM able to do this without issue on another computer. Help!

The number of devices authorized on an account and the number that an iPhone can sync to are two different things. You can now authorize up to 5 computers or 10 devices to play your content, but still an iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch can only be tied to one computer at a time. You can copy content from other computers to the computer used for syncing, and get it on the iPhone that way.
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Thank you for your responses.. To Sjazbec, At least you guys in Germany and the Netherlands have some kind of posters from Apple to let you know that the feature is not available.
There is no such warning on the Irish Apple site.!
My point was that, I would not have even considered trying to reorganize my itunes library had I known that the feature is not available in Ireland.
And that falls into the domain of Apple Ireland advertising.. which I"m sorry to say is false and misleading.
There are no "posters" telling the Irish customer that icloud / itunes music is not available!
I"m not blaming Apple for not "having the feature" in Ireland.. I am upset at them for falsing advertising a feature that they cannot for whatever reason deliver to Irish customers..
To Keats 2010 LOL... Trust me there were lots of clouds in Ireland today!.. It's a long time since we've seen the sun!.. As for getting your head around the basics.. I could talk you through everything that doesn't work in Ireland if it's any help lol

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Error 1 or -1
This may indicate a hardware issue with your device. Follow Troubleshooting security software issues, and restore your device on a different known-good computer. If the errors persist on another computer, the device may need service.
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694

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