It honestly boggles my mind

How big a piece of $#!+ this iPhone 4 is. I had to do a restore as new due to the phone corrupting itself, spent hours recovering all my apps and data and music. Worked ok for a day, then went and plugged in my phone tonight only to find that for no reason what-so-ever my music was completely wiped from my phone. it gets really frustrating wondering from day to day if my iDevices are going to behave themselves or if I'm going to loose data. I used to use this extensively for work, but now it's nothing more than an amusing toy.

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IPhone 4 restoring issue that is boggling my mind

I recently tried to restore my iphone 4 and update it, but in the middle of the restoring process, iTunes comes up with an error message with a different error number almost everytime. It is now stuck in recovery mode and I cant seem to get it out of it. I have tried rebooting my PC, installing latest itunes, turning off my firewall attempting to restore on another computer,and attemtpting a restore in DFU mode. none of these have been successful and I am out of ideas. If anyone could help me I'd be very greatful for your help!!

no i did but it is a loop the only thing you can do is restore if your still with in the hardware warranty yuo can take it in to be replace for free

Design Flaw in Twin Frozr fans

So, I'm finally creating a thread about this.
There's been reports over the last few years about fans making rattling noises, grinding noises, high pitched whines, whether on cold boot, idle, high RPM, or constantly, and quite frankly I'm tired of MSI ignoring the issue.
There is a design flaw with the Twin Frozr fans.
MSI needs to publicly acknowledge this.
Currently, the only way to get a replacement fan is to send your ENTIRE card in for repair. Other more reputable companies will send you out an entirely new fansink attachment at no cost. As one poster said it; "That would be like sending my car to Nissan every time I blow a tire"
My personal experience with Twin Frozr started with Twin Frozr 2 on my GTX 460 Hawks. The Talon Attack edition started to make a bad grinding noise on cold boot or if it actually got cold enough during idle operation. When the card warmed up, the noise stopped. Speeding up the fan to 100% sometimes also caused it to get rid of the noise, but that was only temporary unless the card stayed warm.
My non-hawk exhibited rattling as well, but to a lesser extent. No grinding noise on cold boot, just a low rattling.
My next card was a GTX 670 PE with Twin Frozr 4. Surely they fixed the issue by now right? Wrong! Within 30 days I started having fan issues. This fan doesn't rattle, but there is a high pitched whine when the fan is in operation. The faster the RPM, the louder the whine. Most people don't even know they have this issue because of the subtle tone of the whine and it being muffled by the fan's air sound at higher RPMs.
That's 3 separate graphics cards all exhibiting an issue with their fans.
There's one thing in common with these issues; it's only caused by the fan closest to the I/O. This boggles my mind. Surely if there was a problem with the fan design itself it would affect both fans, right? I just don't understand it. This leads me to believe it's a design flaw with the Twin Frozr design.
Some people seem to have an issue with the other fan, but it appears to be rare and not the same type of problem the majority of people are reporting.
Seeing as they want you to lose your card (and $10+ to ship it) for weeks at a time to 'fix' an issue which will no doubt happen again, something needs to be done about this. Their 'warranty' policy for this issue is completely unacceptable, as is the fact that the fans start acting up within a month of ownership.
If you want to see more threads, just do a search. Here is some of them:
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=151578.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=157567.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=156284.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=161914.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=153463.0
https://forum-en.msi.com/index.php?topic=154030.0
Googling brings more results. I've posted about it in this thread, and others have mentioned it as well: http://www.overclock.net/t/1265574/msi-gtx-670-power-edition-twin-frozr-4-cooler/0_30

Quote from: Noway77 on 28-May-14, 05:39:49
I don't think we have a MSI office in Portugal, most brands don't.
Some stores are not reliable they buy from EU retailers some even from Asia retailers and usually they don't give proper support. In Lisbon you have stores like Globaldata, Nanochip, Chiptek and AquaPC they are in business for years, have good customer support and have also good prices.
I'm probably not going to buy any MSI product from now on , for obvious reasons.
Trying to contact a support shoudn't be this hard from a client , at this point I assume anyone that's doesn't want to lose time will just give up.
As a consumer I was forced to RUN and TRY to find msi support , MSI support mail doesn't event exist , since I made this thread it still hasn't been changed.
I really liked MSI ( I still have my 875P MSI neo here with my p4 and the NX6800 working ) it's like saying goodbye to an old friend that has been by my side since P4 times.
I'll buy msi products in US , or in another country maybe , but never MORE in portugal.
This is not cause of the shops , I recommend everyone to buy in the shops listed !!
In fact most of the portuguese shops tried to help me find msi support ( even though they weren't the stored that sold me the card ).
I really don't want ppl to get this mixed up, the problem here is MSI not acknowledging a problem that is simple to fix, having a non-existant email on their webpage as support for over 4 months and the fact that as a consumer I was forced to jump trough loops to actually contact MSI itself !
Every portuguese shop I contacted was super nice and really helpful pointing me to the new msi email
And actually the fix ( hot needle fix forum post link ) came from a shop reply.
US support was always super nice and helpful !
I was forced to fix my fan with the help of users.
If right now my MSI gpu is working is thanks to guru3d and hardwareoc and simillar forums ( thanks to everyone that posted Twin Frozn fixes , this may not mean much , but really .. thanks for helping me out ! )
MSI didn't help or even try to help me , I had to go out of my way to get help , and I never did.
I know some of those stores , they have great prices , but if I buy anything in portugal I'll buy other brands for obvious reasons. ( it was actually one of those shops that helped me pinpoint the "real" msi email )
I am a customer , I should be treated as such , I was joked and pushed around emails , found emails that don't even exist , I was ignored and left looking at a card going dead.
Maybe for some of you it's easy , you just buy another one .... and maybe that's the custommer MSI wants. But that's not me.
Pointing me to places to buy MORE is almost insulting at this point. I wont buy more ... I would be stupid of I did.
I just hope some other person that has MSI and is having this problem with Twin Frozn fans ( that msi refuses to acknowledge as THEIR problem !! ) can fix them themselves or take some info from my posts and others to at least understand what is happening.
From my pov , the fan eventually has some sort of lubrication problem , and due to that it starts to wobble , after that the coils heat up to a point it wobbles even more.
Due to the high temps the fan either "looses" enough to dump all the lubing out.
At some point the fan will heat up so much the plastic IS REALLY hot to the touch and fells that it can be actually moldable ( so I assume this is really bad )
This leads to the start-stop problem , the fan tries to kick itself on , but just makes things worse.
This leads to a fan that fails in 2-3 years.
MSI should either had a way to put oil in the fan OR just start to be ready to replace them.
The fact that IS an ebay market for Twin Frzn fans is just flabbergasting .
I wish I had a better view on this , but seriously looking at this thread, and seeing all the steps I have done , to find there are others like me that have a failing fan and that the ones that aren't ignored like me have to RMA a card for a simple fan doesn't give me any sort of confidence in this brand.
MSI has one of the best gpu coolers , honestly it's so god that after all this mess I stand as a testimony for it being one of the BEST gpu coolers around ! All my MSI products so far have been great ... but this experience was just ... weird ..
I wish MSI would contact the ppl that are in my position and help them , it's just a fan , it's an easy fix and it's easy to replace.
There are lots of ppl right now with fans starting to fail , just take their card , replace the fan and send them back , and MSI will have happy customers , HAPPY cause the brand CARED !
I'm only 1 client , MSI hardly "fells" me leaving ... I really like MSI ... so I wish this won't ever happen again to no one !
I have been ignored in mailing for TDR problems , after that about the 12h+ card artifacting being fixed with cold boot ( I assume this was an nvidia problem )
After using certain drivers that didn't TDR my card ( I have enough PSU for it so ... it's not the PSU ) and having been 2 years finding my own "solutions" to problems ... being ignored and just struggling to get help from MSI for a stupid FAN a cheap part and being hard just to contact them to get no answer .... and getting help from other users while MSI ignores me ? ... I'm thinking on leaving the brand ...
The fans are now working 100% , I'll post info when and if they fail ( if I see my "fix" stopped working ) .
It has now been a long time since 2011 and my first reports , and its been almost 6 months since I contacted msi about the portuguese email listed not existing.
The email is still there , that non-existent email is STILL listen in MSI website RIGHT NOW after me being emailing them about it for 4+ months ,as a customer, I can only assume they either ignore people , or they have a terrible communications internally .
Again after all this mess , I would be kinda stupid to support or try to buy another product from this brand , MSI support was always great and was the main reason I bought msi products, all this posts are from a person that was truly SHOCKED in everything that is happening and the feeling that no one cared.

Grrrr. Or, "A Sucker's Guide to Safari"

(I thought I posted this an hour ago but it is not showing up...)
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Basic question: Is there a (marginally) functional browser for the iMac? I have mostly struggled with Safari (code named "Beachball") - see below - but I've also tried Netscape and Explorer and they seem to have their own unique sets of problems.
As background, I have a 1 GHz iMac G4 running 10.3.9. 768 MB of physical RAM. We are in a residential home hooked up to cable internet with a router into which both this machine and my girlfriend's antiquated Windows 98 machine are connected. Invariably, I get snappier response on her PC than on this thing. I've done the basics that I know about - clearing the cache, deleting every possible browser window I can get along without (to great inconvenience at times), and killing every other program running on the machine to free memory. Still I am staring at a beachball more often than not it seems.
I'm using Safari 1.3.2. I checked in here a few months ago and learned to my utter shock that Apple had not bothered to release a new version in years. This boggled my mind, with all of its obvious problems. But I read somewhere that in whichever decade Apple deigned to release an update, it would show up in my regular "New Software" window. Now I am checking in again, and I notice a sub-forum about "Safari 3 beta". Hello? Did I miss a whole major rev? Why was this kept a state secret from Apple's loyal users?
Now on to my specific rants about this shiny and impressive-looking but almost utterly useless piece of crud. For the purposes of catharsis I have given my complaints the subheadings they would have if there were an honest, unvarnished User's Guide to Safari. If anyone thinks these problems may be of my own doing I would appreciate knowing why.
A Sucker's Guide to Safari (aka "Beachball")
Not Now Honey, I'm Washing the Windows
Safari is designed to get geometrically slower as the number of open windows increases. On a PC, you might have about twenty windows open and the incremental slowdown is barely perceptible. With more than about five windows open in Safari however, the program will go into our patented, proprietary "Glacial Advance Mode (tm)". This is actually a nice feature, as it will teach you to simplify your life. We feel that more than five open windows is unnecessary clutter. Remember, less information at your fingertips is more.
It's Hard to Remember to Forget Sometimes
Safari will typically hang up for about 30 to 45 seconds simply deleting a window. You may wonder what the program could possibly be doing at these times, as it doesn't take more than a couple seconds to delete resources like that. The answer? Absolutely nothing. This was just an idea our programmers had for giving you time to go get a snack. Thoughtful, huh?
Don't Press This Button!
There is a little "refresh/stop loading" button at the top of each browser window. Do not ever press it. It is solely there for decoration, and to make Safari users believe they are operating a professional browser. If you press it while it is showing an "X" at any but the earliest split seconds of a window downloading, it will ignore your request to stop loading... until the window has finally completed and it has turned into the arrow (reload) button. Then it is MORE than happy to "process" your request, which it now interprets as a "reload". This will reinitiate the long, character-building, designed-to-be-slower-than-molasses Safari page load process. This "adding insult to injury" fail safe will quickly teach you not to press it. Bad user. Didn't your mother teach you not to touch everything you found in front of you?
Pass Me the Beach Ball!
Ever notice when you are on the beach and things get really slow, someone will break out a beach ball and start tossing it around? Well, we have attempted to recreate that "vacation experience" in Safari for your relaxation and pleasure. Often after you are done loading the last link you clicked on and Safari isn't required to do anything, it will get bored and begin batting one around on a whim. Do NOT interrupt its fun! Would you like it if you were swatting one around at the shore and someone stepped in and said, "Excuse me, I need some information"? No, you wouldn't, and neither does Safari. Have some consideration.
Don't Look at Me Like That!
Safari will crash if you breathe on it wrong, so please brush your teeth regularly while using it. There are many websites that, while perfectly accessible from other browsers, will routinely disintegrate our application into a blithering heap of pitiful bit-rubble. Life is a fragile thing, and this is our way of reminding you. After quitting, Safari will ask you if you would like to share your interesting experience with the nice programmers at Apple. Rest assured that cursing in the text window will not help your cause. We will put out a new version when we are good and ready, which is approximately never.
The Cursors and Arrows of Outrageous Misfortune
The cursor arrow will sometimes inexplicably disappear if you run it through a certain anti-magic "land mine" spot on the screen on some windows. You will have to fumble around without a visible arrow on the screen until some unclear random event occurs and it reappears. Sort of like some wild and wonderful video game. This surreal experience is included in Safari at no extra cost to our users.
Drop Down and Give Me Twenty
Many web pages contain a widget known as a "dropdown" choice. These are bad web pages and should never be visited. As a way of enforcing this point, we have programmed a special tripwire feature. If, when the page has mostly downloaded but Safari is still doing its vital thumb-twiddling tasks (made evident by the blue bar still in the address window), you decide to change the drop down widget on the renegade page to your eventual choice, you will be punished. While the widget itself will appear as your newly selected choice, the page will sit as originally loaded. Now however, in order to really have the page loaded with that choice in mind, you cannot simply "reload". This is because the dropdown itself needs to send its command to the website you are on. So, thanks to Safari allowing the widget to change but not actually take effect, you have to change the dropdown control away from your preferred choice, let the page reload excruciatingly slowly, and then change it back to where you had it, and watch it reload excruciatingly slowly once again. This will teach you not to visit these insolent web pages. Use another browser if you want to work with them. We do not wish to validate them by engaging with them.
Manage Bookmarks? Sure.
When you choose this from the menu, it will wipe out whatever window you had on top. Sometimes there was information on the window that doesn't reload if you back up. Tough. We know that every other browser on the market opens a new window when you want to edit your bookmarks. We think this makes our browser unique. Expect the unexpected, that's our motto.
Have You Seen My Glasses?
Safari sometimes forgets where the edges of its windows are (or even the items inside them). At times you may click in the scroll bar at the right side to drag the slider down and advance the page, but it will think you are actually in the page, and instead highlight the contents! It will look like Safari's hand-to-eye coordination has completely broken down. This is normal. Safari is actually completely at peace with where its windows are. It is you, your eyes, the room around you, and in fact the rest of the known universe that is confused and deluded.
We hope this Sucker's Guide to Safari has been helpful. And don't forget that Safari is "The Most Advanced Browser Ever"!
iMac G4 1 GHz Mac OS X (10.3.9) 768 MB

Hi
Welcome to Apple Discussions
Short answer, download and use either Firefox 2.0.4, or Camino for the time being, until you restore sanity..
Safari upgraded to version 2 with OS X Tiger. It's up to Beta 3 now (Beta means possible bugs) available to anyone with OS 10.4.9 or 10.4.10. It is being groomed for OS X Leopard come October. Whether it is still available as a final product on Tiger remains to be seen. As you have Panther, your version is the most recent. Changes in the browser and OS X made backward compatibility with Safari 2 not practical.
Yes, Safari has shortcomings, as do all browsers (Windows browsers are magnets for viruses, spyware, malware). Yet, I find it my browser of choice, simply because it works. Part of that equation = adjusting your Network settings in System Preferences to speed things up.
One tip: go to your system preferences>Network>TCP panel. In the DNS servers box, enter 4.2.2.1 and 4.2.2.2 on separate lines. Select "apply". Also, click on the show drop down menu>Network Port Configuration. At the top of the list ought to be your primary connection medium (ethernet, airport etc.) - you can drag it there if necessary. All others ought to be unchecked.
Whether this improves performance depends on other factors, such as bookmarks etc. In any event, these changes will prove helpful in the long run.
Answers to your other questions about Safari will come, but first I have a bunch of stuff to handle away from the computer. Perhaps, other contributors to this forum will step in.
I'll be back.

Can anyone explain to me why on god's green earth....

....Apple doesn't allow me the ability to turn off automatic downloads for TV Shows/Movies? It boggles my mind. I watch a TON of TV shows. I cut the cord a year ago and I have 12 shows that I have purchased season passes for. Every single episode gets queued up on my iPhone, my iPad, and my Mac. And they start downloading right away!! I don't even get a notification, a simple pop-up ASKING me if I would like this to happen. The only notification I get is when my iPhone is about to run out of space because GIGS AND GIGS of content is being forced onto it.
Again, BAFFLED. It seems like a no-brainer. They have options in place for music and apps, why not for TV Shows?
Is this part of Apple's assumption strategy? "Well, we just figured that once you purchase a TV show, of course you're going to want it on all of your iDevices. I mean, why wouldn't you? I honestly don't really see any reason why we should give the user a choice here."

You have uploaded two different things - pHotos are in one and only one event - if you have the same photo in two different events then you have imported it twice
Please explain what you want - your initial question and yoru current comments are 180 degrees apart
You say they are not all in events
Can anyone explain to me why some of my photos are landing in events and others are appearing only in photo stream?
Now you say they are
All 15 pics appear in Sept 2013 PS
It sound to me like you have no problem except you imported some photos twice adn you may not understand how the automatic import form PS works - but that is not clear
you can choose to have all of your My Photo Stream photos automatically downloaded. In iPhoto or Aperture preferences on your Mac, to select Photo Stream > My Photo Stream > Automatic Import. All of your photo stream photos will be imported into your Events, Projects, Photos, Faces, and Places folders in iPhoto or Aperture.
The event they are imported into is MMMM YYYY PS
If you import via iTunes sync or by connecting your IOS device via USB then they are importeed into the regular event structrue as defined in your iphoto preferences - and if you imoport via two or more different methods you will ahe duplicates
LN

Deliveries Today

Supposedly BB gets deliveries on Tues. and Thurs. during the week. I am waiting on my pre order still from Tues. at 10:30am from store #530 (Braintree MA). They don't know if they will be getting any deliveries from Apple though, which boggles my mind. I don't understand why there isn't a number that they call and say, "Hey, I am still short on pre orders for the Iphone, can we have some more?" Why is that so hard. I place most of the blame on Apple for this whole situation, but BB is saying that Apple hasn't contacted us. Well CONTACT THEM! That would be a first.

Solange82200 wrote:
Best Buy cant control Apple. But they can control themselves. And they haven't come close to doing the right thing. No one I have talked to sounded apologetic at all, or like they care whether I spend my money anymore there or not. It's very surprising, to be honest with you. I dont always get stellar customer service everywhere, but I've never had a company make a mistake like this (even admitting that their employees' shouldnt have told us we were getting the phones launch date), and acting so nonchalant about it. Best Buy is telling me loud and clear: "Get lost, your money's no good here!". Message received Best Buy, loud and clear...
Amen, couldn't have said it better myself. Apple and AT&T employees are so much more pleasant to deal with. I know these are trying times for all of these employees and I don't expect to be coddled, but there has been a general lack of professionalism with the employees I have spoken with on the phone. I haven't complained to anyone about this because I don't think those complaints would go anywhere and I prefer to let my wallet do the talking.

How can I combine multiple variations of the same library?

While I have become accustomed to the new Library format/function there are still things that boggle my mind. Case in point is that I now somehow have multiple versions of the same event showing up although I didn't create them. And there is also a combination of 2 separate events that I just don't understand. My current main concern/question is how to combine the duplicitous events?:
At the top you'll see "Perlick" as the Library and "Beer Cooler" as the Event. Then down below there is the "Perlick 20140502_1515_CDT". When I opened the media drive that contains the Perlick event I found a total of 3 "extra" libraries with various long titles as the one just listed. So, my question is can I somehow combine all of this into one, all-inclusive Library and if so, how?
Thanks in advance...

Hello There,
Try and use tcode VT01N.
Provide the collective shipment there
and then click on deliveries & select multiple deliveries there.
Hope it can assist you
Thanks & Regards
JP

Adobe Flash CS5 - Blur effect & tween not working

When I try to create a tween for the blur, so it will blur into focus, the tween just wont work. I go to frame 130, keyframe, add blur filter, create clasic tween. But when i go to frame 131 it instantly pops into focus instead of going along the tween time span to blur in gradually(I have the next keyframe at 160). Anyone have any ideas?! This boggles my mind!
Any help or suggestions would be deeply appreciated
Thanks in advance...

What type of textfield are you using? What type of symbol have you created it as? If you can show a screenshot of the stage and timeline for what you have it might help to identify the problem.

How do you get a RESPONSE from Verizon?

How does one get a response from Verizon? Here's my situation...
Given the amount of trouble that I have had with a recent order, you would think that I was trying to land a 747 jet on my roof. In reality, all I was aiming to do was to cancel the $19.99 per month phone service that I never used. I do not even own a phone, for that matter. I also had enhanced high speed Internet, and I wanted to retain the high speed Internet. A few days before January 13, 2012, I called Verizon and spoke to the 1st sales representative, who ensured me that it was no problem to cancel the phone service and yet retain the high speed Internet for the same monthly price. 24 hours later, my high speed DSL service was no longer functioning. I will try to briefly explain the disastrous customer service that ensued.
The first several phone calls to Verizon were not productive as I was transferred to the wrong department, and then at least one of my phone calls was dropped by the Verizon server. The representative did not call me back. I finally got in touch with a technical support representative, the 2nd Verizon representative, who informed me that the high speed Internet had been turned off and that I had to speak to a sales representative to solve the issue. Another sales representative, the 3rd Verizon representative, informed me that the 1st representative had cancelled my phone line, and thus cancelled all of my services. Great. The 3rd representative informed me that he was absolutely capable of handling the problem and that he would simply add a new order for high speed Internet, which was to be activated the next morning. The next morning came and went, and guess what? No Internet. I called again. The 4th Verizon representative told me that everything that had been done previously was incorrect and that the sales department is not capable of making such changes. She told me that she could not help me and that my claim had to be submitted to a different department, which has the authority to un-do all of the previous changes. She told me that I would receive a call back the same day to resolve the issue. Given my previous experiences with Verizon, I was confident that I would not, in fact, receive a call back and so I asked her how I could get transferred to this department, if I needed to call again. She said that I could not be transferred. Okay. So then I asked her what to ask for so that next time I called, I could be transferred to the correct department without dealing with yet another sales representative who gives me yet a different story. She informed me that she could not provide that information to customers. The Department That Shall Not Be Named (and that I cannot contact) did not call me, and I was not surprised. Unfortunately, I did not know how to go about contacting them, because, as I was told, customers aren’t allowed to do that.
The 6th phone call to Verizon was dropped by the Verizon server. The 7th phone call to Verizon went to the 5th Verizon representative, a sales associate who placed us on hold for the first 15 minutes only to inform us that she could not find any record of our Internet service. What the heck was she doing, checking her Facebook account? She finally returns, puts us on another extended hold, and then adamantly tells us that we need to speak with technical support, which, if you recall, was the first Verizon party that I spoke at the beginning of this debacle. The 5th representative transfers me again to technical support. Of course, the technical support personnel, the 6th Verizon representative said what the first one did, that the account was inactive and that we needed to talk to the sales department. My husband was on the phone at this point because I was DONE. When the 6th technical support representative tried to transfer him back to the sales department, my husband insisted that the 6th technical support representative remain on the line while we spoke to yet another sales representative, the 7th Verizon representative. The 6th technical support representative patiently waited with us while we sat in yet another long queue to speak with a member of the sales department.
The 7th sale representative, from the retention department based out of New Jersey, found that all previous orders had been set up erroneously. She cancelled the old orders and reinstated a completely new order. The DSL began working a few days later. MAGIC. She then left me a voicemail message saying that she would eliminate the activation and shipping fee (duh) as I never canceled the account to begin with and as I already had the equipment. She also applied a coupon to reduce the price to around $30 per month, assured for the next 2 years. I was relieved.
You can imagine our frustration then when we received the bill for $79 on February 6, 2012, which included a much higher monthly rate (around $45) and the shipping and activation fee of $19.99 that we were assured we would not pay. Again, nothing was shipped to us because we already had the equipment.
Our next phone call to Verizon landed us with a guy, the 8th Verizon representative, who had no intention of helping us. According to him, there was no record of these wrongs, and despite the fact that we had an old account number and three order numbers that were screwed up, he did not deem that there was enough evidence to change our monthly bill. (Unfortunately, the 7th Verizon representative did not make notes or appropriately document the situation on the new account.) The 8th Verizon representative then had the audacity to comment that we could be lying to him, yet he was unwilling to view the evidence that we could have presented. Instead, he suggested that we call tech support again and try to go through the same process to get connected to the mysterious “retention department” which he knew nothing about.
At this point, I was beyond fed up. The attitude of the 8th Verizon representative put me over the edge. I filed a complaint with the Better Business Bureau (BBB) with an abbreviated version of this story. I did not file the complaint to get back at Verizon. Instead, I filed the complaint because I knew that another phone call to Verizon would be useless. I’ve been dealing with this issue for over a month, and I’m sick of it. I have better things to do with my time, believe it or not, and this situation has resulted in a significantly waste of my time over what, in my opinion, was a very simple issue to resolve.
The BBB processed the complaint and I was contacted last Friday afternoon by a Verizon representative (the 9th) who said that she was looking into the matter and that she would respond to me within two to three business days. Well, it’s almost the end of the week, and I have received no response. Again, after all of this, how could I be surprised?
I have been a Verizon customer, wireless and residential, for as long as I can remember, but I am reaching the point of outrage. This situation is truly unacceptable.
You would think that, in 2012, with all of the technology available to us and the fact that Verizon is a COMMUNICATIONS COMPANY, that at least Verizon employees would be able to make a basic change to an existing order and that at least one out of 9 Verizon representatives would be able to solve this issue in a span of over four weeks. Think again.
How does one get a response from Verizon?

dougiedc wrote:
It boggles the mind. The Verizon store on L Street downtown Washington, D.C. cannot access my Verizon account. They can only sell cellphones then it's up to me to contact Verizon on my own to get the hook up. I even asked "Are you Verizon employes? Is this a vendor store or is it really a Verizon owned and operated store?" The answer "Yes, we are Verizon employes, yes this is a Verizon owned and operated store" ...
Yes, it indeed boggles the mind. I'm of course referring to the fact that your post concerns Verizon Wireless products and services. This forum is dedicated exclusively to Verizon Communications services. As you probably know, Verizon Wireless and Verizon Communications operate as separate companies.
If you need help for a Verizon wireless product or service, it's best to direct questions to the Verizon Wireless forums. You can reach them by clicking on "Wireless" (either here or at the top of the page).
Good luck and I sincerely hope you get your issue resolved.

Fast fix for iphone apps and music no longer working, no computer needed

Reply if this works for you, or if it doesn't...
Thanks to sbogaty who posted this fix!
This was buried in the long thread topic : iPhone applications no longer work
http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=7960722#7960722
Posted by: sbogaty
Posts: 1
From: NY
Registered: Aug 26, 2008
Re: iPhone applications no longer work
Posted: Aug 26, 2008 4:10 PM in response to: pmonahan
I am having the same problem as many of you. 3G iPhone. 2.0.2.
In the past 3 weeks I have had at least 5 if not 8-10 examples of loss of all iPod content and access to all apps. I know this happens on 2.0.2 and I know it happened at least a couple of times on 2.0.1. I am fairly certain that it never happened on 2.0.0.
This seems to happen EVERY time that the iPod crashes and reboots itself or when I force a hard reset. I haven't tried with a normal turn off/shut down in fear of having to go through this whole process again.
I have a solution that while not optimal works EVERY TIME!
1. Do a "reset all settings" from general settings. This will wipe out the set up of an exchange mail client, but not Yahoo, Gmail, or POP. While a pain this only takes a few minutes to reset up. It will not touch any app settings, high scores, etc. Additionally, all of your apps will need to reordered on the screen if you are like me and like certain ones to be on certain pages. Again, a pain, but this takes 5-10 minutes max for 4 pages worth of apps. Additionally, you will need to change any other personalized settings that you have set up (ring tones, favorites, brightness, etc.) At this point all iPod content will be back, but apps still won't work.
2. Go to the app store and download any app that you want. This will have you reinputing your username and password. Once this is compthe app is fully downloaded and installed you will have access to all of your apps again and your phone will work perfectly UNTIL THE NEXT TIME YOU HAVE TO DO THIS. Note, during this step, I have done a hard reset multiple times and gone through a overly long Apple logo time frame (and sometimes even hard reset during the Apple logo again) but this has yet to have any ill effect. Once the phone comes back up all apps works and all iPod content is there.
Finally, I have now stopped downloading or updating apps directly from the phone if at all. As this often causes or requires a hard reset.
Generally I get one to two days before having to do this again.
Please know I am not suggest this is all OK and I am barely tolerating this as it should just get fixed, but this is pretty easy and while monotonous on the 5th+ time, it isn't that time consuming and has worked every time.

Downgrading to iTunes 7.7.0 following the steps in the link below has worked for me for about 12 days now.
http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=6055900&postcount=161
It boggles my mind that with an issue like this so big that Apple STILL doesn't have a permanent fix for it yet.

Problems setting up WiFi in Linux Mint 6

Hey Guys,
I'm running a 32bit version of Linux Mint 6 on my T60. I need a hand setting up my wireless connection. It boggles my mind, I am able to see the wireless network in my 'available networks' option. I am just not able to connect to it. Anyone else have this problem. I know my Atheros wireless device has caused problems for others...
Thanks
T60w 8743-CTO Linux Mint 6, M55 8808-94u XP

Also check whether your wireless router has some security keys like WEP or WPA-PSK, then set that too in your system....
Y410-160GB HDD,T5550,2GB RAM
Ubuntu 9.04 -Gnome, Win Vista(not used much) Ubuntu rocks...
Final Year BTech(CSE) Student

T400 Vista vs Access Connections

(I hope this doesn't show up twice. My first try failed with an undecipherable server error)
Basically, wifi is unusable on my new T400 when running Vista Ultimate or Vista Business 64. If I run XP it works just fine. All 3 are stock Lenovo OEM installs from factory media.
My home wifi router is sitting close to the laptop. W/Vista, I can usually see it via "find" but usually can't connect. Occasionally after rebooting I can. Sometimes I can't even see it in find. W/XP on this T400, or with XP on my T61, it works as expected.
I suspect confiicts between Vista wifi management and Access Connections. With XP, one could solve this by unchecking the "let windows manage..." box in wifi properties. There doesn't seem to be such an option in Vista. I have tried disabling the windows "Zero Configuration" service (WLAN Autoconfig after SP1) but that doesn't help. Without that service, AC can't even turn on the radio. Worse (!) I can't turn the radio on manually via Fx-F5 either. Bluetooth yes, wifi no.
It looks like AC actually uses some/all of the WLAN Autoconfig function.
One thing I haven't tried yet is uninstalling AC and just using the Vista wifi management. Even if that works, it gives up a lot in terms of profile management.
I welcome any suggestions. As it stands, this shiny new T400 is unusable. It's a nice little machine, but this isn't the first of the frustrations....
Thanks,
Z
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Unfortunately, I need to use this thing on the road as well as at home, so a fixed IP address isn't an option since I won't know what subnet(s) will be in use. I experienced the same problems last weekend at two hotels and in the Denver airport, so it isn't my router.
I have done quite a bit more experimentation with this problem, without any resolution. I do notice that when it fails Vista thinks it is connected, but only locally. It has assigned a 169... address which I take to mean that DHCP has failed. Trying a command: ipconfig /renew fails with an error.
If I let it fail, then reboot, it usually will succeed as long as I try to connect to the same access point that failed before the reboot.
I tried uninstalling Access Connections, but Vista has the same problem(s) when it is doing the management! Failed connections, local only connections, and often success after a reboot. One interesting and nasty difference is that when using the Windows management w/out Access Connections, wired connections will also fail in the same way!
I see many, many people on the web who are having similar problems. Some of the threads go back more than a year with no resolution.
I have gone around and around with IBM/Lenovo support. They have escalated the problem to a series of lead techs who never return phone calls. Very disappointing, since the first tier techs are quite friendly and helpful - and generally return calls.
My next step is to go back to the nice man who handles escalations from the sales side, and ask him where to send this piece of junk. It boggles my mind that Microsoft and Lenovo will put this kind of half-baked crap in the marketplace, and then do nothing to get it working.
Z.
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Regrets giving up unlimited data

I have had the unlimited data plan for 2 years or so. however when I was renewing my plan months ago the customer service agents told me that to get the cell phone for the discounted prices you have to give up the unlimited plan. Then they stated convincing me about how the average American user barely uses 2Gb a month, and that from my previous usage history it's obvious that I will never need more than 6 Gb/m and my bill will be even cheaper. However, all of that turned out to be absolutely untrue. If I would go back in time I would definitely pay the full price for the phone just to keep my unlimited plan.
Now, I have been trying to live with this plan for months and it's unbearable, one month I had to upgrade from 4Gb to 6Gb and then to 8Gb and I am still about to exceed my limit and the bill was huge. I honestly don't mind paying too much if I would feel like am getting something back in return, but to pay $300+ on a phone bill and be so anxious and cautious about the limits and usage etc. is just so frustrating. Whenever I am streaming a video or looking up something online, I have to check my Data usage. Assuming that I upgraded to 12Gb and my bill got to be $350-400, I would understand paying that much to have some peace of mind and not having to keep tracking and being anxious about exceeding the limits.
The thing is we all agree Verizon is the best service in the market, the best in everything but what's the point of have such awesome service when you can't even use it? Especially that with these new smartphones, the best part is to stream and be online when you are away from home, because if am at home I would just use my laptop or tablet. They keep talking about the best and the fastest 4G service, oh but hold on you can use it only to browse every now and then or maybe stream a very short video or use navigation. But not to stream anything for more than 15mins, otherwise you have to look for a hotspot at Starbucks or McDonalds, oh and also you still have to pay the most expensive bill in the market.
I have actually recommended Verizon to a lot of my friends and family members, I got my uncle and his family and my brother and his family to end their contracts with their previous carriers and to switch to Verizon. Sarcastically, I am the one now thinking about leaving, even though I don't want to, but when I see that I am paying $300 a month and not getting anything in return, but phone calls and text mess. and barely any 4G.
After a lot of thinking, I ended up calling customer service to see what would I owe if I was to end the contract, I have been asked to pay $1000+ in termination fees. What is going on with Verizon, how do you guys treat your customers like that, at least give you customer options when they want to stay with you. I won't mind my bill being $350, 400, or even $450 if I would feel like am getting something in return, but to still be on the limited plan, this is nonsense. What is the problem if Verizon was to offer an unlimited plan to whoever wants it for extra money, and when you talk to the agents about it they say they had to make it limited so that they will be fair to whoever isn't using much data and to not force them to pay for the unlimited. Now they are forcing us to stay on the limited data. I would like to pay more and stay on the unlimited why won't u let me choose that. Oh no, you have to stay on the limited plan and at the same time you can't leave because of the $1000+ termination fees. So, either not use your phone or we will hit you with termination fees. Choose one or the other but no other options. I believe what they have done now is the most unfair, talking about trying to make it fair to other customer who don't use much is nothing but justification to an unfair process. If you wanted that, you could have just added a new plan where you can limit your data and pay less, but at least don't take away our options of having unlimited plan and leave it for whoever is ready and willing to pay more. Because whatever I do, even If I upgraded to 20Gb and my bill is $500 am still limited and can't stream as much as I want.
End of the story, my bill did not get much cheaper as I was told, (maybe $30 cheaper or so), on the other hand I lost the most valuable thing about being with Verizon which is the 4G. All I can say is that I feel like I am using my smartphone just to make phone calls, text messages and maybe some browsing or Nav and my bill is $300. Is this what Verizon calls fair? I would rather get a prepaid phone through any carrier with unlimited text and calls and just use the internet through any Hotspot (which is what I am doing now) and my bill will be 1/3 what I am paying now. However, I am stuck with them for two years because of the $1000 termination fees. I would just like to mention again that I don't want to leave Verizon but they are forcing us to, because of their unfairness. Also, if you can't offer your customers a resolution for their issues, don't ask them to pay a termination fee of $1000+, because you guys aren't offering alternative services. WHAT ARE WE SUPPOSED TO DO?
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"$1000 termination fees" tells me you have multiple lines, as a single smart phone is only $350 ETF at the beginning of the contract, pro-rated -$10 a month each month you are into your contract.
You obviously are not a new customer, did you not have a 4G phone before? If your using up 6-8+gb a month, it might be time to stop streaming Netflix all day.

"2 routers, one subnet" or "how do I access LAN of Router#1 from R#2"

Hi folks,
First post is a question but I hope I can contribute in the future.
I realize what i really want is a Wireless Access Point but I was in a rush and none are available locally. My need is to provide wireless internet on my upper floor where the DSL connected router in the basement will not reach. Wireless is disabled on DSL Router1 and not required there. I have currently succeeded in this by connecting a second router (WRT110) via ethernet on my top floor and configuring it to provide a seperate subnet. It aquires an address on it's WAN port from Router1 via DHCP and feeds wireless divices on the new subnet with DHCP provided addresses of it's own. NAT is enabled.
--Works fine for accessing Internet.
However,
I need to run a Squeezebox (ethernet or wireless) from Router2. It has to talk to it's server on Router1's subnet. It succesfully receives an address from R2 but will not conenct to the server on the other subnet.
Short question is Can I make this Work and How?
Random thoughts.
Ideally, I wanted to have the WRT110 "existing on" and "providing wireless access to" the same subnet as Router1. I was told it could be done and it makes some sense if I connect them via LAN ports on both and address accordingly, disable NAT, etc... but I can't quiet figure it out. Even when I tell the WRT110 that I want to assign it a static IP from the first subnet, it asks for both a WAN and LAN address. If somebody can describe and how to configure it to simply exist on subnet #1, it would be most ideal.
Otherwise if keeping two routed subnets
I see a route in my routing table for the two subnets to talk but is NAT still occuring on the packets travelling through the WRT110, even when just trying to access the other local subnet? If so, that boggles my mind on the routing statement requirements.
I tried enabling port forwarding (totally demiliterized it) for the server's IP on Router2 but I'm now thinking I should have done it on R1 as thats where the server exists, but would that only aply to traffic out R1's WAN port? Is this even required at all?
Tried to ponder combinations of NAT off & static or enhanced routing but haven't devised a combination that makes sense or works.
If I ping the server from a laptop running from the second subnet, I get destination host unreachable vs. a time out. So it knows it's out there (kinda sorta) but can't talk at IP level? This only tells me that 'maybe' it's possible if I get it the routing set right.
I won't write every combo I tried, hoping that by now you see what I am trying to accomplish and can tell me the best way to do it or that it's not worth the effort.
P.S.
Yes, I have considered a cheap switch just ahead of R2 so that I could keep the Squeezebox on the old subnet where it's happy and also feed the WRT110 to let it happily route mywireless internet traffic.
I also considered returning the WRT110 and ordering a Wireless Access Point via the Internet but I need to provide service for some guests by tomorrow night. Hope someone here can help.
Thanks in advance.

Assuming your DSL is connected to Router #1(not linksys) and it's default IP Address is 192.168.1.1(subnet : 255.255.255.0)...Then you should change the default IP Address of Router #2(Linskys - WRT110) to 192.168.1.2(this address should be unique) and disable the DHCP Server on Router #2 and it's Internet Connection type should always be 'Automatic DHCP'...This configuration will work when both the router's are connected using their LAN Ports...Internet/WAN Port is not used when connecting both the routers to each other...
With the above mentioned configuration, computers connected to router #1 will communicate with computers connected to router #2...

Question on reading one character at a time.

Hi. I am assigned a program where I have to read a series of bits (for example: 01010101). Using this I have to make a "graph out of it". The way I am supposed to make a graph is as follows:
Each bit interval will be represented in the output as a field taht is two characters wide.
The value of the signal is represented using either + (to represent +voltage) or - (to represent - voltage) and is always the second character in the output field.
The first character in the output field is either:
' . ' = to indicate no change from the previous signal value or
' / ' = to indicate a negative to positive transition or else
' \ ' = to indicate a positive to negative transition
Example for input: 01010101 and the output would be . + \ - . - / + \ - . - / + . + \ - / +
The code that I got so far is that I read the input from the command line as a argument which I know is nothing but I would just like to know how to read the character one by one and make a graph which is totally boggling my mind because I have no idea how I can do it. Thank you for your help.
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Encoder
     public static void main(String[] args)
          int b = Integer.parseInt(args[0].trim());
          System.out.println("You spit out --> "+b);

Alright I sorta got what you were sayin'. The code that I have now is:
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Encoder
     public static void main(String[] args)
          String toEncode = String.valueOf(args[0]);
          StringBuffer result = new StringBuffer();
          char lastChar = toEncode.charAt(0);
          char curChar = '0';
          char lastSign = '+';
          int length = toEncode.length();
          for (int i = 0; i < length; i++)
          curChar = toEncode.charAt(i);
          if (curChar != lastChar)
          if (curChar == '0')
          result.append("\\-");
          lastSign = '-';
          else
          result.append("/+");
          lastSign = '+';
          lastChar = curChar;
          else
          result.append(".");
          result.append(lastSign);
          System.out.println("You spit out --> "+result);
But it doens't work according to what I want it to do. What I need it to do is the following: Lets say we have the input of 01010101, the result we will get is ". + \ - . - / + \ - . - / + . + \ - / +". The reason for this is because of the following: The graph starts on the v all the time. When there is a 0 bit there is no change and when there is a 1 bit there is an inversion of the voltage level so since we started with a 0 bit at v, when we hit 1 bit we would make a inversion to -v and when we hit 0 bit there would be no change. I don't know of what I said is clear to you or not. For this program, what it does for the input of 01010101, the output is
" . + / + \ - / + \ - / + \ - / + ". Thank you very much.

It honestly boggles my mind

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