Just about had it with iphone bashers ~vent~

I just wanted to vent a little bit because i am, amongst most of you all here... sorta obsessed with this phone/brand otherwise i wouldn't be here...i wanted to say that i am sick of typing in google: verizon iphone and reading posts with tons of iphone bashers! Look i am in a university studying computer science / engineering and it doesn't take a friggen genis to realize that if it wasn't for apple and their "Innovative" ideas + success then your stupid **bleep** droids wouldn't have came along. I am so sick of hearing the bull**bleep** that apple is a "closed" os? look at your **bleep**! You gotta charge ur phone 3 times a day ( at least from my experience i know that is true on the incredible) and kill your friggen apps multiple times a day just to preserve it ? annoying much? oh and let verizon load your phone up with crapware while your at it. Believe me, i can find ways around apples closed system such as other people have done so as well. So take your droid and the crappy flakey unperfected os elsewhere and get off of apples success!
okay ~breathes~
ahh almost time!!!

A sales and marketing professor once said something very accurate about Apple - "Apple's innovation lies not within its technology, but the presentation and simplicity of its technology"
Im sorry to burst your bubble, but Apple is in no way a revolutionary brand as far as technology goes. The technology they use has been around for years in PCs. The LG Prada beat the Iphone as far as touch screen phones go.
But Apple is a marketing genius because of the presentation of their product, and the simplicity of it

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I've just about had it with Lion

I've just about had it with Lion. I am suffering such severe performance problems with it on my iMac that I'm seriously considering either downgrading to Snow Leopard or running Windows 7 in Boot Camp on the box.
My iMac is a 2.66 GHz iMac Core 2 Duo with 4GB of RAM, which is a decent specification. I am running the latest, fully patched 10.7.2 version of OS X and the performance is absolutely terrible. Pretty much every operation of any significance that I perform results in the spinning beach-ball. Even just switching between things like Firefox and Finder causes major delays. I have searched high and low on these forums and tried everything, including repairing permissions, etc. and the problem is still the same.
The problem I think is related to I/O. All methods of access to the disk is incredibly slow, including USB file transfer, network file transfer, and even moving a file from one part of the disk to another part of the same disk. The problem is there in Finder and also when doing a file copy using the command line. I had no such problems with Snow Leopard on the same computer but as soon as I put Lion on there, I lost the entire performance of the machine. In desperation, I even completely re-formatted my disk and reinstalled Lion and as soon as I started it up, with the factory fresh OS, I had performance issues right from the start.
The only conclusion I can come to is that Lion does not work well on some older Macs. I had no idea why, but I know that I am not alone.
If anyone has any suggestions, I am more than happy to hear them to prevent me from having to downgrade the box, but unless I can fix this then that will have to happen.
Thanks,
Ian.

IanDavies wrote:
I've just about had it with Lion. ...
This 17" Early 2011 MacBook Pro with the fast and blessed Snow Leopard will be my last Mac and this is coming from a Mac user from day one, even before with the Apple IIe.
I don't like Lion because of the direction Apple is taking OS X and it's UI changes, Internet installs etc.
Apple needs to learn what happened to Ubuntu when it mandated Unity UI and didn't give Linux users choice like they once had, they all flocked to Linux Mint instead.
The problem I think is related to I/O. All methods of access to the disk is incredibly slow, including USB file transfer, network file transfer, and even moving a file from one part of the disk to another part of the same disk. The problem is there in Finder and also when doing a file copy using the command line. I had no such problems with Snow Leopard on the same computer but as soon as I put Lion on there, I lost the entire performance of the machine. In desperation, I even completely re-formatted my disk and reinstalled Lion and as soon as I started it up, with the factory fresh OS, I had performance issues right from the start.
A lot of people don't know but EFI (the firmware in Mac's) was designed by Intel for the chief purpose of Digital Rights Management, basically standing between the operating system and the hardware and watching everything going on, reporting it over the Internet, stoping the OS calls to the hardware to play back media etc.
http://www.uefi.org/about/
It's not like the old firmware of old, it's really a whole operating system unto itself. Programs can be installed in EFI, in fact I do so with rEFIt, which allows my Mac's to triple and quad boot other operating systems. (note, won't work reliably with Lion only Snow Leopard, requires updating)
http://refit.sourceforge.net/
Intel also designed Thunderbolt, so I'm suspectign there is some sort of DRM scheme going on with Thunderbolt monitors.
If Apple mandated DRM checking in Lion, naturally if you've got EFI taking up more processor cycles, that's going to slow your machine down.
Also you might not know this, but for Early 2011 Mac's when Apple rolled out Lion, there was a series of Mac bricking EFI firmware updates. I had a bad suspicion and didn't apply the updates, becaue I frankly don't need Lion internet Recovery. So I'm suspecting there is a WHOLE lot of monkey business going on in EFI recently as Apple exerts more control in this area.
The only conclusion I can come to is that Lion does not work well on some older Macs. I had no idea why, but I know that I am not alone.
Lion added more bloat that makes older hardware slower, it's been tested Lion is slower than Snow Leopard. It's how Apple gets you to upgrade hardware, by bloating down the OS and programs.
I've tried Lion on a 15" Intel Core 2 Duo MBP and reverted it back to Snow Leopard. Slow downs, video issues etc.
I don't recommend installing Lion other than on Early 2011 Mac's and later.
If anyone has any suggestions, I am more than happy to hear them to prevent me from having to downgrade the box, but unless I can fix this then that will have to happen.
You did a fresh install, that would have cured any performance issues with defragmentation or bad install.
You can't upgrade your hard drive in iMac's to 7,200 RPM, because Apple has placed proprietary something on it for heat monitoring, so your screwed there for buying a closed box.
So yes, upgrade to 10.6.8 and remain there on that machine, there is nothing you can really do.
Welcome to the crowd.

Just about had it with Apple - they really don't care!

I’ve got to say that I’m just about finished with Apple! For nearly two weeks now it has been virtually impossible for me to download apps onto my iPad 2 or iPhone 4S. The apps start downloading, get part way then stop and start downloading again. Eventually I get a message saying the app cannot be downloaded at the moment. On the very rare occasion (only 2 apps ou tof an attempted 12) when I can get an app to install, and iTunes tries to download it onto my computer, the same happens and I get an err 8008. I tried raising a support ticket with Apple, only for some support guy to not bother reading my message properly and ignore the fact that this is happening on 3 differen tdevices. I have spent over £1,200 pounds at the Apple store in less than amonth. The iPad and iPhone are being returned this week for a full refund – I’m getting Android devices! Apple don’t care as long as they’re getting the cash!

A sales and marketing professor once said something very accurate about Apple - "Apple's innovation lies not within its technology, but the presentation and simplicity of its technology"
Im sorry to burst your bubble, but Apple is in no way a revolutionary brand as far as technology goes. The technology they use has been around for years in PCs. The LG Prada beat the Iphone as far as touch screen phones go.
But Apple is a marketing genius because of the presentation of their product, and the simplicity of it

Just about had it with N97 GPS

I've tried just about everything to get the GPS on my phone working, without success. Even had my phone in repair for 3 weeks, it worked after that. Using 'location' I could get a fix quite fast and pretty precise. But when I restored the data from my backup it stopped working again. After that I tried a hard reset, afterwards restoring my data by synching with Ovi Suite, it worked again. And after the update to Maps 3.03, it was gone AGAIN. Now I've ben resetting it as if I have nothing better to do but nothing gets it working again... I have had it with this phone's GPS, it's clear that it's a pure software fault... Any possible ideas on a fix?

I have to agree completely.!
I have hard and soft reset my N97 over 10 times in the last 6 months trying to get GPS Navigation to work.
Ever since the update for Free Maps from Nokia the GPS just refuses to work, whereas before it worked like a dream.
I have emailed and taken it to the Service Centre and the get it to work without any updates or free maps and then give it back. Obviously as soon as the phone tries to update or receive Free Maps from Nokia the GPS stops again.
I had just become used to using my N97 for GPS in the car and was even recommending it to friends as a better option than having to buy a separate GPS. Now its just turned in to a huge headache that Nokia wants nothing to do with. I would welcome any Nokia contact about this, but i wont hold my breath.
WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU NOKIA ?

I've just about had it with Failed Downloads.

This is a normal thing when it comes to Large File Downloads, and it needs to be addressed.
I can understand the download being stopped if there is some sort of connection error, or my computer goes to sleep...
But for the LOVE of me, I can't effing understand why I can't RESUME MY DOWNLOAD from WHERE IT WAS STOPPED!!!!!
Does Apple do this to **** people off?? Because it's surely working. I hate to rant, but I waited **** near 4 hours for this thing to complete.
Step away for a snack, come back, download has suddenly stopped...
I click the resume option, multiple times, no luck.
What is the **** point in even having a resume button if it's not going to do anything?
I've already started to re-download it, probably won't finish until it's time for me to start my Day anyway, but I want answers on how to fix this and never have it happen again. This is literally the ONLY thing killing my love for Mac Products. It's not the first time, but I hope it'll be the last.

You're not helping. Thanks anyway.
I've never had this particular issue with any Windows product.
If I downloaded something, and it was stopped, or I paused it half-way through, it was possible to RESUME from where it left off. PERIOD, so long as I have an internet connection.
I've never dealt with a browser that ASSUMES something is resumable or not. And to be completely honest, this has only been happening since I started using Safari... Not firefox, not Chrome, not even Torch. This is a Safari issue. So, someone with any other valuable information that they can pass, I'm all ears. If not, just don't respond, because it isn't helping.

Help - I've Just about had it with this INSTALL!!!

Please help. I've been trying to install Oracle Personal 9i on Windows 98 and I can't even get the OUI to run.
No I don't have a Pentium 4. I'm running on an AMD Duron.
I've tried all the tricks that I've read in this forum and elsewhere such as changing the name of the .dll file, or changing the oraparam file with -nojit or giving the absoulte locations of JRE and Source in that same file.
Nothing works.
The latest error message I get is that it "could not initialize the Java Virtual Machine".
I am about to give up on Oracle, but if anyone can give me that one tip that will at least get my OUI to start I will personally declare you a genius.

HI ~
I'm trying to get WinXP Pro going with Oracle9i and it has been a total hassle. The OUI blows up with the common JRE error I've seen posted again and again. Just out of frustration I sent a query to Oracle tech support on this, as WinXP is a pretty stable O/S and a major release, but as you might guess I got the standard / canned reply. Seems sad that they won't even help folks get their product installed, but clearly they care mostly about $$$...

I've just about had it with Dock items disappearing...

I'm getting more than a little ****** at icons disappearing from the Dock. I realize that I must be accidently dragging them off the dock, but is there ANY way to LOCK icons on the dock. A few minutes ago my "Mail" icon disappeard. I was able to make an alias and put it back in the dock, but I'm getting tired of wasting my time LOOKING for an icon when I'm not even sure of the name and then putting it back on the dock.
There, I've posted my rant for the day.

Baby Boomer (USofA) wrote:
You don't have to make an alias. Just go into the Application folder & drag the Mail icon onto the dock. A Mail icon will appear.
As for not knowing the names of the icons on your dock, if you fan out the dock, the names of the icons appear at the top.
I would just make note of what you have in your dock, write them down & keep it near your computer or take a screen shot of the dock & place the pic in your HD for safe keeping.
Re dragging, maybe the "mail" icon is different. In the past when other icons disappeared from my dock, if I when into Applications and dragged them to the dock, the Icon in question also stayed in the Applications folder. When the "mail" icon is dragged, it disappears from the folder. I'm not sure if it would reappear in the applications folder if it was then accidently dragged off the dock. Thats why I went with an alias.
In regards to making a list of all applications on the dock, that's a good idea in case one disappears AND the name of the programs is not clear.

So, I have just about had it. For nine days now, I have valiantly tried to move my library to an external drive. At first, I attempted to move it to my 2TB Time capsule, iTunes didn't like its new home though and moved home without telling me.

So, I have just about had it. For nine days now, I have valiantly tried to move my library to an external drive. At first, I attempted to move it to my 2TB Time capsule. iTunes didn't like its new home though and moved home without telling me. So then there were two libraries. I meshed them back together reluctantly and iTunes in a silent revolt, absolutely refused to use its own 'Keep Library Organized' criteria and may as well have thrown my music against the wall. Seriously, my 5 year old nephew has his computer files better managed. Then I bought a 3TB Time Capsule and you may ask yourself why??? Well, iTunes doubled in size- although when I ran apps that are designed to find duplicate iTunes files, it deleted the music I actually bought from iTunes. So then I watched as iTunes got it back. How you ask; I run a MacBook Air, iMac and Mac mini in my house - as soon as one powered up it hit the net like a sailor on leave and re-downloaded it all without abandon. I tried to keep the libraries separate, no success there. I tried to keep them unified; iTunes response was to ask me if I wanted to join iTunes Match every time I logged on to my computer and on any computer - my iTunes match song number has been as high as 24,367 and as low as 11,112. And I can't simply refuse iTunes. No one refuses iTunes. Refusal to allow iTunes Match to run through all 24000 songs again was to revoke my rights to the songs that were once part of my library. If I took a long time to decide or was visibly impatient while iTunes did its little 3 hour scan it would arbitrarily decide that music I bought from iTunes was ineligible for iTunes Match. How could that possibly be??? I am missing music, or at least iTunes tells me so by showing me that lovely exclamation point. I have tried backing up my computer to do a full system restore and start all over. Time Capsule claims I have 979 GB of data and takes its sweet time to even back up one gig (about 18 minutes) even though I can transfer files to my Time Capsule at about 1 GB every 40 seconds. I guess though performing back-ups are somewhat like government jobs; it will get done, when it gets done. The back up requirement of 979 GB is surprising though, my Mac claims that I currently occupy just about 25% of my 2TB drive. The discrepancy, who knows, but I think the solution lies somewhere in iTunes. But maybe iPhoto. But that is for another time.

After admittedly only a quick read the one thing you don't say is how you are trying to make this move. Most people with moving library issues do it the wrong way. Plenty of web sites tell you how to do it the wrong way.
If the iTunes application is started before the drive with the library is fully mounted and awake iTunes will revert back to the internal drive.

Mavericks; is Apple never going to do something about its many problems? I've about had it with Mac.

Mavericks:
Is Apple never going to do something about Mavericks many problems? I've about had it with Mac and when today's Mavericks update appeared, I declined.
I updated to Mavericks 6 months ago on my new Macbook Pro and have had nothing but trouble ever since -- despite numerous trips to the Genius Bar. They all act as though It's only my machine yet I'm reading literally hundreds of similar complaints on the Internet. To start:
1) My machine now "runs" very slow (as in 1980).
2) Search and Spotlight yield jumbled information.
3) MAIL and CCONTACTS are near useless with a spinning beachball the norm.
My Apple store had my machine for 5 days with no loaner! They did a manual rebuild and shrugged their sholders when it still didn't work after all that.
I have the distinct impression that Time Machine is at the bottom of some of my problems. I've used it to migrate data from my last three machines and I'm seeing some odd stuff from my other machines. In particular, I used an exact Macbook Pro loaned by a client after my last Mac crashed (I was backed up) and I'm seeing their grayed out login ID autoentered when I try to update Imovie and so I cannot log into my apple account.
I've used Mac since 1995 when the first SE came out and I'm very tech oriented. I can only wonder how frustrated the lay used might be. Any thoughts out there?

Supply information about your Mac (guessing is no use)
Download and run Etrecheck, post the output here

Had trouble with iPhone 2.0 upgrade? CHECK YOUR FILESYSTEM!!

I can't find my original post (deleted?), but when I tried to do the first 2.0 iPhone upgrade the day it came out (BIG MISTAKE), I had a lot of trouble. Thanks to an Apple support person who was kind enough to call me, I deleted a file per his suggestion, which made the backup finish to completion and I was happy.
Or so I thought...
Now, several weeks later, I (or rather our IT guy) has discovered that some of my iPhone backup files were corrupted, which has made a mess out of my Macbook Pro (10.4.11)'s file system. It was not fixable with Disk Utility (in the Utilities Folder of the Application Folder) and only partially fixable with Disk Warrior. Nothing appears to be wrong with the hardware (except that my video port was malfunctioning although that problem had started way before the upgrade.)
If you had trouble with the iPhone 2.0 upgrade, I strongly recommend you verify the integrity of your Mac Filesystem. If there's something wrong, you may need expert help in repairing your file system.

Wingstat,
It should still work fine. I have the original iPhone and Apple BT Headset purchased about a year ago. I upgraded to the new 2.0 software 2 weeks ago. BT Headset works fine.
There has always been the occasional incident when I couldn't get the 2 to pair. This was always solved by un-pairing then re-pairing the two manually. To do this:
With your BT Headset:
Press and hold the headset's button until you here the 4, rapid descending tones
Your headset is now off.
On iPhone:
Open SETTINGS, then GENERAL, then BLUETOOTH
Under DEVICES, tap on the iPhone Bluetooth Headset link and select UNPAIR.
Note: If your headset doesn't show up here... keep going...
Tap on the DEVICES link again to put iPhone in DISCOVERABLE MODE
Back to your Headset:
Click and hold the button again... when you hear 4 ascending tones, keep holding
Keep holding the button until you hear 5 rapid, short beeps
Release the button: you're in DISCOVERABLE MODE here too.
Back to your iPhone:
You should see the Headset appear on your DEVICES list.
It should pop up and ask for Pairing Code
Enter 0000 on the iPhone.
You should be all paired up for good now.
Jim

I've just about had it.

First I can't sync my address books and iCal anymore since upgrading to 10.5.2 and no help from Apple. Just repeats of stuff I've already done.
Now I can't make a backup using Time Machine on a brand new Timecapsule I paid $500.00 for. What's the point? I didn't need a $500.00 airport extreme base station. I had a base station that worked just fine. I need to back up. I don't want to have to do it manually. I have Time Machine. It's supposed to do it automatically. Well, it won't do it at all.
I keep getting a failed message. When I go to get info it says backup volume could not be found. Well, it's selected in the preferences pane. And it sitting right there on the desktop.
I've searched these discussions for an hour and can't find anyone with the same problem. I'm not useing a third party harddrive. It's an Apple Timecapsule. For what I paid it should work.
I've paid a ton of money for brand new everything. All I've got is the internet. Well, I had that with my old Powerbook and snowy airport.

I've got a Titanium Powerbook I just updated to Leopard because it couldn't connect using 10.3.9. It worked until I ran a software update. Now...nothing. Can't find the timecapsule's airport extreme. Nothing I do helps.
I've also got a tower. It was running 10.3.9 and couldn't find the timecapsule's airport extreme. I updated it to Leopard. It actually did a Time machine backup overnight. Then today...it also can't find the airport. Nothing helps.
The only machine that seems to work with it is the MacBook Pro. Only...Time Machine won't back up wirelessly. I'm going to have to BUY and ethernet cable to do a backup. If I wanted to use a cable, I'd just back up to a fireware external drive.
So the only machine that can go online is the MacBook Pro....only I can't do a timemachine backup to the time capsule. My other two machines can't go online at all anymore.
As far as I'm concerned...Timecapsule is a POS and never should have been released until it reliably worked with every apple product that conceivably would be used with it. Very, VERY disappointed for the $500 I paid. I would not recommend this product to anyone. Waste of money. I may return it and go back to my snow airport.

I've just about had it. Bill keeps increasing by about 30 PERCENT each month!

I don't freaking understand this company. I bought what I thought would be a simple plan. Internet, and a cell phone. I understood that my second bil would be more then my first due to some adjustments, but $359 a month?? Every time I get a bill I get a note on it stating that there were changes made to my plan so there are extra charges. I've only made one change in about four months. This is just absolutely nuts. If this keeps going (and it wont cause I'm cancelling this insanity) by next month my Verizon bill will be more then my rent. I can get the exact same service through my regular phone provider and pay $200 less a month. How does this company stay in buisness like this?

I will call customer service as soon as I simmer down a bit. I think that I have the all in one plan. I get 8 gigs a month that is shared between my internet and phone. I haven't gone over this limit yet.
In Septemember I was late with my payment (wasn't working) and my line was disconnected. Eventually I paid everything that was due and I got reconnected. At that time I paid a reconnection charge of about 15 dollars, and my account stated that I was paid in full.
I did not get any notice stating that this reconnection was going to cause any changes to my plan, or anything that would indicate that my next bill would be twice as much as it should be.
This is my monthly billing:
Date
Payment Method
Amount
10/04/2012
CREDIT CARD
$279.27
09/06/2012
CREDIT CARD
$200.00
07/29/2012
CREDIT CARD
$96.58
In July I only had the internet, but in August I decided to buy a phone as well from Verizon. I do understand that when a new plan is added there are additional charges, but it's been more and more each month, and we're not talking a few dollars here and there. It's been going up by around 30 percent and more. Now I just got hit with a Bill for $359 without any notice that for whatever reason I should expect to pay this much. I'm ASSUMING that my next bill could possibly be around half that amount which is wha I expected to pay per month. But I'm not holding my breath.

I have about had it with AppleCare and my PB....

After an unfortunate dropping incident this past July my computer appeared to be "dead" the following month in August. (My warranty expired the previous April). I took it into my Apple store in Orlando and they told me it was either my logic board or my hard drive. I sent it into Apple and they sent it back 2 days later... the only thing wrong with it was my airport card was knocked out of place. Cost for repair was $331 since it was out of warranty.
3 weeks ago I started noticing strange symptoms. My fan was constantly running even when I had no apps running. Programs would take a while to respond, I would delete songs and pictures from iTunes or iPhoto and the next time I opened the program they would be back as if I never touched them.... just some strange occurences. Finally 3 weeks ago I plugged my iPod in and when I returned to my computer I had a gray boot screen. Tried restarting and my hd and it started making a loud buzzing noise and it couldn't find the OS. Took it into my new apple store in Jacksonville and after the "Genius" played with it for 2 hours she decided to keep it over night. She said it was possible my hd was failing. I didn't get a call back for a week and they said my hd was definitely dead and it would be sent to the repair center and I would have it back in a few days. A week later I get the call that it's been repaired and I can pick it up. I go in expecting a new hard drive and everything to be working amazing. I look on the repair sheet the only things listed were "tighted screws around hd and reseat cable."
So after going through all that mess and paying yet another $331 the only thing that needed to be done was something they could have done in the store IF they would have taken the time to look closely at it. I told myself atleast all my data is still there and I have my computer back.
NOW only a little over a week later my computer is becoming unresponsive, I started hearing the buzzing noise, and now I cannot boot into OS X. I can't do first aid on the drive or erase and reinstall. Even though my computer is out of warranty Apple better be willing to fix this for no charge this time because it's only been a week since they "fixed" it the last time.
AppleCare will be getting a phone call from a not-so-happy customer tomorrow morning.
I'm loosing my faith in Apple

Wouldn't the previous repairs by Apple be covered by warranty?

Anyone had problems with iPhone 5 not charging?

My iPhone 5 stopped charging around 2 weeks ago, I have bought new plugs and cables but still get nothing when it's plugged into the mains or USB.
Has anyone else had this issue?

could have shorted out, lots of complaints about these new lightning cables, if its under warranty sounds like a trip to the apple store is due, and they will replace what needs to be replaced if its under warranty

Just about had it w/ zen mi

i had been using my 2nd micro (2.0.05 beta firmware) for a month and it worked great until today. while transferring songs through media player 0, it froze so i disconnected it and afterwards it would not boot past the 'creative' logo screen. i put it in recovery mode and tried to run 'disk cleanup' and 'format' without any success. there is also a strange sound coming from the micro right after the battery is inserted - its hard to describe but it sounded kind of like a spring going 'boing boing' over and over - this lasts for about thirty seconds. i was left with no choice but to have it RMA'd (again). frankly i'm getting sick and tired of having my micro RMA'd over and over again. when is this going to stop? i've owned an iPod and the zen micro is a better mp3 player but it is plagued by firmware and stability problems. i've never had any firmware or stability problems with my iPod. there isnt a player out there at the moment that i think i'd rather have.. but i dont know whether i'll be keeping my micro once its shipped back to me.

I think it is the hard disk, as thesame happened to my Zen Micro. I must have been "doomed" to fail as you didnt drop it or anything like that.. to bad, you'll have to RMA again.

Just about had it with iphone bashers ~vent~

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