Iphone 5 service worse than a 4 or even razor....???

I have an iphone 5 and when i go to our cottage in gaylord mi mine is the only one that doesnt work all of us have verizon and the other 2 are iphone 4's and ones actually a razor... they can surf web make calls and text but me with the newest phone a iphone 5 cannot... why is this? ive restarted closed apps exc and still not working when up there... what could this be?

My iPhone 5s has perhaps the best data reception of any phone I've owned. Are you running the latest version of iOS? You can try restarting your iPhone as that clears up a myriad of issues. If that doesn't work it might be time to backup/restore your iPhone.

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I have to say, I am completely disappointed in my iPhone 5 from a camera perspective. This phone camera (the back one, not the front one used for Facetime), can not handle the slightest bit of motion without showing extreme amounts of blurr. Unless you are taking a sitting portrait shot, this camera has problems. I have taken pictures, side by side, with my wife and her iPhone 4S and her pictures are clear as day compared to mine. In fact, when we swap phones, I take clear shots on hers while mine shows blurr in the same setting.
I had an iPhone 4 and an iPhone 3S before this and neither one had this problem. Does the phone take higher res photos? Yes. Does it handle low light situations better? Yes. Are the actual pictures better? Absolutely not. Perhaps aperture isn't large enough to let in light? I don't know. And, I have tried with HDR on. This produces even worse effect. I liked HDR on my iPhone 4...it took better pictures than default with no motion blurr issues. But on the 5, if everything isn't perfectly still, there is ghosting and blurr.
Things I have tried or considered:
Replaced phone at Apple Store...no effect
Multiple restores...no effect
All software updates...no effect
cleaned phone...no effect (lense isn't dirty)
removed case...no effect.
I have to think it is just a flawed design on the iPhone 5. Hopefully it is fixed in future iterations as I am thinking Galaxy for next upgrade.

Hello WillNoHo
Check out the quoted section below to troubleshoot issues with your camera on your iPhone. There are other options within the article if it does not resolve the issue for you.
iPhone: Hardware troubleshooting
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2802
Camera isn't functioning or has undesired image quality
If the screen shows a closed lens or black image, force quit the Camera app.
If you do not see the Camera app on the Home screen, try searching for it in Spotlight. If the camera does not show up in the search, check to make sure that Restrictions are not turned on by tappingSettings > General > Restrictions.
Ensure the camera lens is clean and free from any obstructions. Use a microfiber polishing cloth to clean the lens.
Cases can interfere with the camera and the flash. Try gently cleaning the lens with a clean dry cloth or removing the case if you see image or color-quality issues with photos.
Try turning iPhone off and then back on.
Tap to focus the camera on the subject. The image may pulse or briefly go in and out of focus as it adjusts.
Try to remain steady while focusing:
Still images: Remain steady while taking the picture. If you move too far in any direction, the camera automatically refocuses to the center.  Note: If you take a picture with iPhone turned sideways, it is automatically saved in landscape orientation.
Video: Adjust focus before you begin recording. You can also tap to readjust focus while recording. Exiting the Camera application while recording will stop recording and will save the video to the Camera Roll.  Note: Video-recording features are not available on original iPhone or iPhone 3G.
If your iPhone has a front and rear camera, try switching between them to verify if the issue persists on both.
Regards,
-Norm G.

Iphone 5 connectivity worse than Iphone5

I just got an iphone 5 and (like my wife's new droid) the verizon connectivity at our house went from bad (old phones) to worse (can't connect/send text). Looking at returning my new phone, reverting my contract extension and replacing my wife's with her old 'flip phone' so that we can have connectivity. Has anyone had a regression once they went to the 4g world or is it lte? Location - Windham, NH

If the 4G antenna is not pointing your direction, you can have a diminished signal. Most towers, one 3G antenna is removed to add a 4G antenna. So if not pointed in your direction you could have an issue.
Place the Droid in 3G mode and see if the signal increases. If so, then I would guess I am correct in my guesstimation

Apple gave me a "new" iPhone that was worse than my old one what do I do?

So about a month ago my iPhone 4 camera stopped working. I went to Apple Genius Bar and got a new one for 169$. But they replaced it with a even worse one. My "new" iPhone heats up like crazy and te battery drains so quickly without me doing anything. I really don't want to have to pay more money if it's just going to be even worse. Anyone have any ideas on what I should do?

You really should download and read the user guide that roaminggnome gave you the link for in the post above.
If you want to totally start from scratch and erase all of her content go to Settings>General>Reset>Erase All Content and Settings. This removes everything from the device and returns it to out of the box status. You can also restore the iPad as a new device in iTunes and that erases everything as well. This article explains that process.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1414
If you want to rename the iPad, connect the iPad to your computer and launch iTunes. Double click on the text of the iPad's name on the left grey source list of iTunes and you can change the name of the iPad. When you are finished typing in the new name, hit the return key on your keyboard. This article explains it for you.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht3965
You will want to delete her mail accounts on the iPad if you have not done so already and set up your own mail accounts. This article will tell you how to do that.
http://www.apple.com/support/ipad/assistant/mail/

BT Openzone iphone app is worse than useless

I've lost count of the number of times I've tried to register my details for the BT Fon/Openzone iphone app
I'm entering the username all in lowercase, and password which is correct as I can log into my email
All I ever get is "there was a problem registering your details"
I get this wherever I go, and i've got full 3g signal, tried while connected to my home wifi (there's a bt openzone hotspot next to where I live with full signal)

Dawg is right! had a similar issue myself about a month back, called the helpdesk who reset my password and its worked fine since. you can reset your password by logging in at www.btinternet.com, click options and then change password.

USELESS ONLINE HELP FACILITIES For all the amazing productivity aids that APPLE offers the world I have to report that their online support service is worse than useless and has recently been the source of immense time wasting and irritation.

USELESS ONLINE HELP FACILITIES
For all the amazing productivity aids that APPLE offers the world I have to report that their online support service is worse than useless and has recently been the source of immense time wasting and irritation.
Incident 1. Since many months attempts to download new and updated APPs produced a response – Apple ID Disabled. I had no time to consult an APPLE Store due to work in distant lands. When I finally visited yesterday I was told that as my IPAD has been reported as stolen, and APPLE in its wisdom had blocked its usage! I am not sure how they became so misinformed and nobody every advised me while with a few swift moves APPLE could have located me by email address or SKYPE.
Incident 2. Once the above anomaly had been fixed I tried to down load a newspaper and diligently input my address, credit card number and personal data. Repeatedly I was advised that my Credit Card was invalid and my postal code was incorrect! Really!
I was left to guess that having moved from UK to the US I should have advised APPLE! Not being told of this requirement brought about a second visit to APPLE Store in the same day to waste both mine and their time with a routine anomaly. How parochial in the context of a globalized world!
In each case I tried to resolve the issues using online access to a help line and by calling by phone at the numbers on the APPLE Website. In each of four separate occasions I diligently went through the routine and ended up with a message that thanked me for contacting Apple followed by a polite ‘Good Bye’!
In desperation I went to an Apple Store for the second time in a day as it is close to where I live when I am not working. On both occasions I was courteously attended to by Apple Staff.
However, my work is usually far away from the US and it is generally many thousands of miles to the nearest Apple Store therefore online help is viewed as imperative if one is to resolve issues away from home.
Why can Apple not provide a clearly marked EMAIL address and Telephone number at a Help Desk with real people to respond to requests for help? It would cost nothing in relative terms and might restore my high level of anti-APPLE sentiment that these two recent events have provoked.
Peter Hanney
Miami, Fl.

Why can Apple not provide a clearly marked EMAIL address and Telephone number at a Help Desk with real people to respond to requests for help?
If that is your question, the answer is at the bottom right of this web page. It is clearly marked "Contact Us" and is the best way, really the only way, to contact Apple.
If there were a publicly posted email address for concerns such as yours, it would be quickly filled with spam in about three minutes, thereby becoming instantly useless to you and everyone else. Apple would need to change it hourly, if not more often. That is also the reason you ought not to post your name, location, and what appears to be your iPad's serial number on this publicly viewable website.
Apple does not respond here and I can find no other questions for your fellow Apple users to answer.

Official Apple reseller says "iPhone 5s's camera is much worse than the other"

Hi Apple support and fans,
I am writing to ask you and maybe get Apple's attention to what happened to me. I bought an iPhone 5s 8 days ago. I bought it from official Apple reseller in Warsaw, the capital city of Poland. And then my adventures began.
First, the plug is British, not Polish, because as the reseller said "we have some iPhone not from official distribution, but it will work". Because I needed to buy an iPhone5s fast, I accepted that. However, the question is still there - is it legal to sell British iPhones "from unofficial distribution channel" in Poland?
Second, and more important, my iPhone 5s makes horrible blurred pictures. I mean they are really blurred... I read all the posts on this forum and I tried everything. Finally I decided to visit the reseller and here is what their representative said: "These pictures are totally fine. They are blurred, as this is not a professional camera". Wow! What a discovery. I know that this is not a professional camera, but I know how photos from an iPhone (4 and 4s) might look like. So I replied that something is strange and I wanted to give my iPhone back to check it (under warranty). The representative replied: "We will not take it, and I'm telling you the pictures are all fine. The camera in iPhone 5s is much worse than it was in iPhone 4s and hence the blurred photos. Just live with that".
And now my questions:
1. Is it true that the pictures must be blurred in iPhone 5s, just because it works so? I can't bvelieve it.
2. Isn't the fact that they sell iPhones from "unofficial channels" the reason why they don't want to take the iPhone under warranty?
If anyone from Apple wants to take a closer look at this issue and maybe discover some "strange" actions from Polish official Apple reseller, I'm open to provide you much more details on the purchase, the store location, etc.
Looking forward to hearing from you,
Kuba

iPhones are ONLY sold by Carriers and Apple an Apple reseller is unlikely to be authorised for iPhones and certainly would not sell an iphone with a foreign plug
You have clearly purchased a grey import a genuine Polish sourced iPhone sold by a legitimate iPhone reseller would have the correct plug for the Country
Big issue you have is warranty you need to take to an Apple authorised repairer
https://locate.apple.com/pl/pl/
luckily as long as iPhone came from UK you do have warranty ,EU is one "country" for Apple warranty purposes

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Music-sound on iphone is worse than sound on mac-book

Is this problem only with my iphone?
the music played with headphones on iphone is worse than i listen to the same music with headphones on my macbook.
the music does not live on my iphone, the sound is hard and flat. (equalizer does not do anything, there is no difference)
on the macbook the sound is fantastic, very clear, perfect base etc...
anybody know how to solve?

Same Issue (Sorry timgeers, don't have an answer yet)
The sound quality on my iPhone is pretty poor. Before people tell me to buy new headphones, here are the tests I ran to rule out other variables.
Used my Shure SE210 headphones to listen to an iTunes store bought song (Leather so Soft by Lil Wayne) on my iPhone. With EQ off/on and sound check off/on (so basically all options tried) the low frequencies sound like on a blown out speaker.
To make sure it wasn't the headphone plug I tried the built in speakers. Same result.
To rule out the head phones (even though the previous test kinda did that already) I tried my Philips'. Same problem.
To compare, I listened to the same song with the same 2 pairs of head phones and the built in speakers on my macbook pro. Sounds fine.
Long story short, I came to the same conclusion as timgeers, the sound quality of my iPhone blows when listening to bass. Any ideas?

HT4942 After Creating a new document or editing an old document in Pages on my iPad I no longer see the changes in Pages on my iPhone. iCloud services are on with both devices.

After Creating a new document or editing an old document in Pages on my iPad I no longer see the changes in Pages on my iPhone. iCloud services are on with both devices.

Just thought I'd add my solution, I decided to go with WebDAV and I think it actually works better than the iTunes way, the steps are pretty much the same but avoiding the iTunes interface just makes things easier and faster.
I followed this guide but it does have a small mistake in the httpd-dav.conf file, on line 2, where it's WebServer/WebDAV">, it should be <Directory "/Library/WebServer/WebDAV">.
The tricky part is setting permissions which if wrong will give you errors when connecting with the iPad, I opted to set all to Read&Write since my home network has a hardware firewall. Another convenience was to add an alias to the webdav share on the Desktop.
I'm still expecting the call from Apple but even if they fix the iTunes I'm sticking with WebDAV, atleast until I see what's new with iOS5 and iCloud this fall which should bring true sync for documents (I'm hoping that they will offer encryption with my own keys, if not, then I'll probably keep using WebDAV).

Premiere Elements 8 is worse than useless to me

I have to admit, I can't explain why I'm still trying to make Premiere Elements 8 work. I should have given up and moved to another software program by now. I've been on the phone twice with the Customer Service group in India, for over half an hour at a time. Each time they insist they've solved my problem, yet it keeps getting worse. Now, I'm not only having uncontrolled and unexplained system crashes, but hours and hours of work are now corrupted and totally wasted.
Here is a list of the problems I'm having:
1. The primary problem is that Premiere Elements 8 crashes and shuts down in the middle of work with no warning or notice. It happens after about 3-5 minutes of using the software, so I've gotten in the habit of saving my work every time I do anything, no matter how small. Needless to say, you can chart my progress with a sundial. Tedious does not do the process justice.
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4. When I am working on a timeline, I will get a "System Memory Running Very Low" warning, along with advice to save immediately and proceed with caution. Of course, when I get that warning, it is already too late, as any attempt to save the work causes the program to crash.
5. Today, we've seen a new thing, and it's completely destroyed two entire projects. When I try to open projects I've previously worked on, large sections of them appear as blood red with the words "Media Offline" in a number of languages. These red sections appear not only on the organizer, but in the timeline as well. It's as if Premiere Elements 8 can't find the media I copied into the timeline even though I've been working on the project for days and have not moved the media from the folder where it always sits.
Saving work after every task - no matter how small - makes doing anything painfully slow and mind-numbingly tedious, but at least it worked - until today. Now, hours and hours of work have been rendered absolutely wasted. I've never encountered a software program with so many fundamental problems. It's almost as if it was created by amateurs. I can honestly say that it does nothing well.
As I said, I've been on the phone twice now with the problem solving group in India, and while they are very nice and courteous, they've done nothing to solve the problems. In fact, the problems have become worse, although I can't say it's because of anything they've done. Both times, they've assured me that they've fixed the problems, and the software works fine while I am on the phone with them - for about 2 or 3 minutes. But then, it works fine for me for the same length of time.
To be honest, I'm not sure why I would call them back. I'll spend an hour clicking on tabs only to be assured that my problems have been solved. Then, 5 minutes later I'm dealing with the same situation - or worse.
I've tried every solution listed on-line for the crashes. I have the 8.01 update, I have the latest video drivers, I've done all of the steps it recommends. Every day that I use the software, it performs worse than the day before.
I'm not sure why I'm writing this - I think I've reached the end of my rope. I doubt these problems can be fixed - maybe I just have a defective copy, who knows. But, I am very close to demanding my money back and saying goodbye to Adobe products for the future.
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This is aimed at Premiere Pro, but may help
A link with many ideas about computer setup http://forums.adobe.com/thread/436215?tstart=0
Read Harm on drive setup http://forums.adobe.com/thread/662972?tstart=0
Work through all of the steps (ideas) listed at http://ppro.wikia.com/wiki/Troubleshooting
If your problem isn't fixed after you follow all of the steps, report back with ALL OF THE DETAILS asked for in the FINALLY section, the questions at the end of the troubleshooting link... most especially the codec used... see Question 1
Read Bill Hunt on a file type as WRAPPER http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037?tstart=0
What is a CODEC... a Primer http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546811?tstart=0
What CODEC is INSIDE that file? http://forums.adobe.com/thread/440037?tstart=0

IPhone 6 service in Hong Kong?

iPhone 6 service in Hong Kong?

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How do I obtain service for my iPhone?
The iPhone support site has troubleshooting articles to help you solve your iPhone issue on your own. If you have reviewed those articles and still need service for an iPhone you purchased from Apple, an Apple Premium Reseller, 3 Hong Kong, 1O1O, one2free, or China Mobile, contact Apple. If you purchased your iPhone from another carrier in Hong Kong, contact your carrier.
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How long will my iPhone service take?
For details regarding how long your iPhone service will take, please contact one of the following, depending on the place of purchase:
Purchased from Apple, contact Apple Technical Support or take your iPhone to an iPhone Authorized Service Provider or an Apple Retail Store;
Purchased from an Apple Premium Reseller, take your iPhone to an iPhone Authorized Service Provider or an Apple Retail Store;
Purchased from 3 Hong Kong, 1O1O, one2free, or China Mobile, take your iPhone to an iPhone Authorized Service Provider;
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Finished iMovie picture quality much worse than when creating movie

created a movie recently. Mostly stills. Some video. Stills were from a mix of iPhone, Droid phone and from professional photographer. I "finished" the movie, sent it to iDVD, and burned it to DVDs. The quality looks horribly digital-y. I thought maybe that's because I viewed it on my wide screen HDTV but when I play the DVD on my iMac the results are the same. The finished product is almost unwatchable.
The quality in the finished movie is WAY worse than in the original photos. Can anybody help me?

Cgulls
Unfortunately iMovie will downgrade the quality of any HD home movie capture due to Apples codec, AIC. I have spent a lot of time researching this and have come to the conclusion (like many others) that iMovie is rubbish. The way I found to produce HD footage, either by saving to DVD or .mts files is to create a Windows 7 partition on your loveable Mac, using Boot Camp and a copy of Windows 7. I then have just trialled Corel VideoStudio Pro X5 and I will say it is fantastic and does what you want iMovie to do....HD.
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My iPhone 5 is slower than my iPhone 4s.

My iPhone 5 is slower than my iPhone 4s. I have been using the iPhone 5 for about four days.
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2. Everything moves slower on the 5 than the 4s.
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    C. I have a new 2013 Ford that has Microsoft SYnc. My 4s found the bluetooth device immediately, i put in the pin and it sycned great and worked great. When I attempted to sync my new 5, it took a long time for the 5 to conect with my car. After entering the Sync pin, it took a long time to connect.
I called Verizon and the customer service rep states he had a call with the same problem earlier today.
I did erase all settings and re-activated the phone, but it is still slow.
Furthermore, I gave my old 4s to my son, and I still can use it. I can have the two phones next to each other and the 4s works fine...the 5 is slow, especially with Siri use.
I will try to follow up with more info at a later date as I experience more problems
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Did you set up your iPhone 5 as new or restore from a backup of your iPhone 4S?
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Edge signal bars are worse than 3G

Hello there,
I just purchased my 8GB iPhone 3G from Rogers few days ago. I've been using the 3G for a while and my connection is excellent, I always get 5 bars and not seen it drop once yet. I knew that the 3G drains my battery down so I decided to turn it off and run on EDGE network.
I was surprised because my edge never stayed at 5 bars since the time I've tried it. it always began fluctuating from 5 to 2 and usually just stays at around 3 bars. I've also done a restore on my phone hoping it would fix it, but unfortunately it did not. For most people it's the opposite like the 3G is worse than EDGE.
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I just switched to EDGE and I have full 5 bars but don't know if that's generally the case. I'm rarely on EDGE, since at home, school or work, there's WiFi and otherwise I use 3G.
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