My iOS4 3GS List of Problems

I couldn't bring myself to chase down threads for each of these issues, so I admit, I'm being lazy. But if anyone else wants to use this thread to compile their issues into one post then feel free.
iPod EQ lost it's clarity. I used to use Loudness which now sounds flat, so I found Piano which is most like what I was used to.
iPod volume on separate channels (L or R) will occasionally waver or fade in and out.
Mail app will freeze if you're skipping through messages and happen through one that had a lot of downloadable content.
Battery is draining much faster which started around the same time as the next issue.
The worst though... Several weeks after the iOS4 update, so may not be related, my 3GS has started to exhibit terrible reception issues. Not just fewer bars as a result of 4.0.1, but error messages saying "No Data network detected" or "Data Roaming is not enabled" while in my home network. Picking up the phone in weak signal will throw it into "Searching..." or "No Service" where previously the phone worked fine in those same locations and conditions... Going into the Mail app will sometimes pop a network failure message for every mail account I have, one after another, and when tap through to the last one, it starts over. The only way out is to hit the home button... On a bridge over Lake Washington in Seattle with countless towers in sight it went into "Searching..." and then "No Service". My old Win phone did that, iPhone never had a problem there.
I used to look down at my iPhone fearing it would die like the Win phone but it would greet me instead with full bars, as if saying "Oh hi, how are you?" with a smile. I miss those days.
Message was edited by: Vizwar

Ditto on Mail freezing up. Only way to fix it is to turn phone off, then back on.
Also, many more 'jumpy' openings of apps.

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HT201210 please,I need your help ! I was updating my iphone ios to ios4.2 and then problems begins when it shows that it needs to restore the factory software to I was trying to restore ,but that didn't happen it begins but then it shows unknown error 101

please,I need your help ! I was updating my iphone ios to ios4.2 and then problems begins when it shows that it needs to restore the factory software to I was trying to restore ,but that didn't happen it begins restoring but then it shows unknown error 1015

Stop being impatient.
From the article that the question was posted from:
Errors related to downgrading iOS
The required resource cannot be found: This alert message occurs when your device has a newer version of iOS than what is available in iTunes. When troubleshooting a device that presents this alert message, go to Settings > General > About and check the version of iOS on the device. If it is newer than the latest released iOS version, the device may have a prerelease developer version of iOS installed. Installing an older version of iOS over a newer version is not supported.
Error 1015: This error is typically caused by attempts to downgrade the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch's software. This can occur when you attempt to restore using an older .ipsw file. Downgrading to a previous version is not supported. To resolve this issue, attempt to restore with the latest iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch software available from Apple. This error can also occur when an unauthorized modification of the iOS has occurred and you are now trying to restore to an authorized, default state.
You cannot downgrade.
If you have a 3GS, you can only install iOS 6.1.3 which is the current version of iOS for the device.

Long List of Problems and no one will help!!!

I have had NOTHING but problems with this phone since the sales clerk talked me into buying it. I've had it for a little over a year and a half. It's had "Software" issues out the rear and it's been replaced and still has the very same issues. YET I can't swap it out with another phone without paying through the nose for a new one. Verizon sold me a phone that does not work completely. Verizon keeps replacing it with the same phone and numerous Verizon employees keep telling me that this phone has MANY known issues, LOTS of complaints. Yet I am still stuck with a phone that is barely useable. I am so disgusted right now.
Here is just a SMALL sampling of issues with my phone and I am still being denied a new phone unless I want to pay $600. I have 4 weeks until I can "Upgrade" and I still can't even get an early upgrade. I have been VERY patient waiting for my "TWO YEARS" to be "UP" so I can upgrade without being robbed. This in addition to suffering through the Black Berry Storm that SUCKED and was replaced 7 times in a year and a half period due to "Software issues" I will admit, two of those replacements were my fault - one got wet and the other was stolen, but still, 5 replacements is not acceptable. Then I went to buy my new phone (Glory day for me) then I get talked into this Fascinate and it's just as bad as the Storm was, if not worse. I can't seem to win. I have decided to go for an iPhone.
Here is my list of problems and NO one can fix them, no one can help, I get told that this is a known problem yet Verizon won't take care of their customers that got screwed by this phone. I've been a loyal customer for 7 years. I love the actual cellular service, I rarely get dropped calls, which is why I stick with verizon, but I am seriously considering jumping ship, because even though I'm loyal, I buy my phones through them, I can't get support.
The SHORT LIST of problems that makes this phone 100% unacceptable:
1) Can't text 3/4 of the time because a little grey box pops up in the text box and it won't accept anything I type into it.
2) Have not been able to send picture emails for several months now - Verizon can't figure out why. My husband misses out on a lot of pics of our kids, I like to text him fun pics of them doing things or when we are on vacation without him.
3) phone freezes up on a regular basis. Several times a day. I have to pull the battery out and reboot.
4) Sometimes I can't answer the phone when it rings - the phone rings and when I slide the puzzle piece to answer the phone, it freezes and continues to ring long after the person has hung up and the only way to get it to stop ringing is to pull the battery out and reboot the whole thing.
5) a LOT of times, people will call my phone and it won't ring - it goes straight to voicemail. I have had people call me when they are sitting right next to me and it doesn't ring (and yes, I've checked the volume, it's on, the phone is on) sometimes though, it rings and I actually can answer it, but lately, it's becoming more and more of a problem being able to receive and actually be able to answer them
6) I can't use Facebook. It takes forever to actually get into FB and when I do, it only shows about 5 posts before it freezes. A few weeks ago, I could post to FB but only here and there, now I can't post from FB from my phone at all. I know that's likely due to the APP - but FB on this phone has always sucked.
7) At home, even when I standing next to my wireless router, it says I have "Lost Signal", yet all of my other wireless devices work from 5400 square feet away, on the other side of the house, upstairs. Even when I'm standing in the Verizon store, it says "Internet Connection Lost" It is so frustrating. I am a busy mom and I have 5 minuts to myself and I can't even check FB or browse on the internet and yes, I have checked, all of my connections are set up correctly. My wireless is enabled on my phone. But it still doesn't work.
8) Email - it's constantly refreshing, even though I have it set to only refresh once and hour. I think I even changed it to once a day. Instead, that little "refresh wheel" spins constantly on my phone and while this little refresh wheel spins, I can't read email, I can't write email and I can't send email. When it finally stops and I open an email and the try to respond and write back, that little refresh wheel starts spinning again and then I have to wait until i can get home to a real computer to actually read & Respond to email.
9) Calendar inputs the wrong time. I had a dentist appt at 9:30am. I set it as 9:30am. When I saved it, it changed it to 10:40am. I went back into the calendar function to change it thinking I had input the wrong time, but no, when I went to edit it, my 9:30 time was set, I hit save again and saving it changed it to 10:40. WTH? I can't even rely on the calendar function.
10) Two weeks ago, I woke up, looked at my clock, which I also rely on as an alarm clock. The room was dark. The clock said 5:30am. But for some reason, it felt later. Sure enough, I get up, check my husbands alarm clock, it's 7:30am. I am so thankful I had a gut feeling and looked at another clock. I did not change my time zone on my phone (in fact, I went looking for Time change stuff and I couldn't even find it. Then two hours later, the phone went back to normal time all on it's own.
11) Text messages occasionally pop up and it tells me it's from Jay Smith (Not real name) and when I open the actual text, it's from Sarah Jenkins (not real name) WTH? How am I supposed to rely on text if its confused itself?
12) Phone shuts itself off all the time, several times a day. All of a sudden I will hear the musical tone of my phone shutting down and then at some point, it will turn itself back on. When I turn it back on, it resends out old text messages (See below)
13) Text message randomly sends out old text messages to people that I sent text messages out to months ago. So the people will text me back saying "WTHeck is this about?" and I look and it's an old text message I sent them a month or two ago. It usually does this when the phone freezes, shuts itself down and restarts. I have found out that IF I delete my text messages timely, then it won't resend out any old text messages, but I am not very good about deleting stuff and often times, text message contains some important information that I haven't yet had the time to copy down and save. I shouldn't HAVE to delete my text messages so it doesn't randomly send out text messages to people.
14) Often times, I will send out a text message and it will fail to send the message and I get a text message saying my text message has failed.
I could go on, but I think that will give sufficient evidence that this phone stinks and that Verizon should give people owning this phone a chance to get a new phone without raping their wallets.
Maybe someone here will listen? Because no one at the store does... I pay for Verizon service that I barely even get to use because my phone doesn't perform like the guy who sold it to me told me it would.
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW????

About the only thing I can say is to keep going to Verizon, or calling customer service to get them to look at the issues. I talked to 1 rep that told me to dial either 4# symbols, or 4* symbols (Can't remember which it was) after I got the VM message but did not have the phone ring, so it would mark my account record and they could search and troubleshoot the issue.
As far as your upgrade, I think you have done the right thing so far, and that is signing up on this forum, that way you can look at the different phone forums and see what issues that people are having. Talking to people that have the phone is a great way to find out what the issues are. Verizon Sales reps will only sell you the latest and greatest, or if there is something that they are being told to push to get out of stock.
Going with an iPhone is ok, just make sure it is correct for you, because like you said earlier, once it is done, it is done and you are stuck with it for 2 years. I had a friend who made a knee-jerk reaction to a bad phone, and did the same thing. They regretted it after 6 months. I am not saying the iPhone will be bad for you, just make sure you do your homework.

List of Problems with new Web Mail

List of Problems with NEW Web Mail :
- At first doesn't open full page message list or retain full page as default setting, have to drag down bar
- Only shows 20 message lines after “pulling down” the divider, screen partially empty until I scroll down. It should show at least 26, preferably all available
- After moving bar, bar moves back up after going back to inbox (not delete message) after reading a message, have to move it down again, and again...
- Doesn't go to next message when delete message on screen is selected, no setting option for default to do this.
- There is a drop down to select which folder to move a selected email to. The initial display shows 7 usable choices, with the usual slider and arrow to show more choices. The space on the slider clearly shows more choices are present (actually about 20 or so are there), but any attempt to use the slider or arrow to see more choices causes the drop-down to instantly disappear. I can't move the selected field with arrow keys either. I can select any of the visible 7 choices, and move an email to only one of the 7. NOTE: This one works in both IE and Firefox, but if Verizon Webmail was fully web standard (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_standards) compliant it would also work in my preferred browser, Mozilla Seamonkey, the direct descendant of the original Mozilla browser. Webmail should be FULLY web standard.
- Occasionally a message will move from inbox to trash, without NO indication or command to move them.
- Emails occasionally flash an error message and simply disappear - not to trash or other findable place, just disappear. No time to read the error message either.
- No way to set a whitelist for supposed spam emails, unless the whitelist for “Blocking” is the same. Very unclear.
- How can I switch my service back to the original, basic, email which works ok? I know it’s still there, since some of my other accounts still access it!!!
This seems my only way of getting this info direclty to the programming staff. If it doesn't actually do this, will SOMEONE PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO THEM !?!
Thanks!

vz_ric wrote:
The majority of websites are set up the same way for all browsers. It's the software manufacturers responsibility to make their software compatible with websites, not the other way around. Otherwise everyone who has a website will have to make 10 different sites to work multiple browsers.
Contrarily, it is Verizon's, as well as other companies like Verizon whose customer base uses a wide variety of web browsers, web page designers' responsibility to use only standard W3C-recognized code and not to use non-standard non-W3C-recognized code, e.g., Microsoft's Internet Explorer specific code, when designing their web pages. In my opinion based on my observations, Verizon's web page designers are too often guilty of using IE-specific code.

Attachment list printing problem

I am using the Entourage mail program. How does one get the box that lists the file names of attachments to a message to print out as part of the message? I just want to have a printed copy of the list--not the contents of the attachments called out in the list.
For instance, I send out a message with a series of attachments listed in the box below the subject line, but when I print out the message I have sent, the attachments are available when the paper clip is clicked, but are not listed when a copy of the sent message is printed.
Thank you.

Hi Experts,
Could you please let me know,which format has to be selected, my report is exceeding 255 characters.
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Long list of problems I had, culminating in iPhone no longer powering on.

So, let me start off by saying, there is no Apple Store available save by taking a plane to another island.
Anyway, awhile back when I updated my phone to a new version (I don't remember which), a bunch of things started happening.
1. No WiFi, it was grayed out, and inaccessible.
2. Would not ring if someone called me while the phone was on standby, except sometimes if it was plugged in and charging.
3. Calls would sporadically fail, and signal strength would alternate between full bars to none, to showing "No Service", and sometimes would show "No Sim". I could usually (not always) get service or signal strength back by toggling airplane mode on or off, but the only way to get rid of "No Sim" was to power it on and off.
4. Clock would always show the wrong time. It would seemingly stick at say... 3:40.. even though it was 6:00, then suddenly before my eyes jump forward 2 hours to the right time or still a bit behind. This also caused the alarm functions to not work, because it would usually skip over the time it was supposed to go off.
5. Error messages would occasionally flash on the screen, but disappear so quickly as to be nearly unreadable, sometimes saying "Please connect to iTunes" but it hadn't done that one in awhile.
6. A general sluggishness at times, also weird delays on sounds or none at all. I.E. I'd take off standby (wouldn't make swish sound), start to type a text message, only there'd be no sound while typing, but then 30 seconds later it'd make the swish sound it normally makes as you take it off standby, and resume clicking when typing.
Restoring it through iTunes would not help at all.
Anyway, so today, I tried restoring it like 6 times in a row out of pure frustration, and it like got stuck in recovery mode while rebooting, and when iTunes was restarting it, it just turned off.
The iPhone will no longer turn on, even when plugging it in to my computer or to the outlet charger, no matter if I hold power or home button or both.
Update: I just got it to power on again, about an hour after I was last trying fruitlessly. I restored it again, so it's "working" albeit with the long list of problems above still.
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If you regularly sync your iPhone, you won't lose ANY info when restoring.
iTunes creates and maintains a backup of your iPhone - which is updated if needed as the very first step during the sync process. The backup stores all your iPhone settings, SMS messages, notes created with the Notes application, recent calls, call favorites, visual voicemail messages, and photos captured by your iPhone - basically all data stored on your iPhone not included with the sync process.
Your iPhone has not died - not yet, but it has developed a problem which requires a Restore.
It isn't required to have an Apple Store near you. This can be handled over the phone by calling AppleCare (800) 694-7466, but I venture to say that AppleCare will try to troubleshoot the problem over the phone before having your iPhone picked up for inspection and testing, which will very likely include a Restore just as the error message provided indicates. You can do it now, which will probably resolve the problem, or wait and do it when calling AppleCare.

Mi iphone 3GS tiene el problema 1015, como puedo solucionarlo. en internet me dicen que con un programa blackra1n, este programa es confiable???

mi iphone 3GS tiene el problema 1015, como puedo solucionarlo. en internet me dicen que con un programa blackra1n, este programa es confiable???

mi iphone 3GS tiene el problema 1015, como puedo solucionarlo. en internet me dicen que con un programa blackra1n, este programa es confiable???

IOS4.1 introduced Bluetooth problems

I have a Samsung WEP410 which has been paired and has been working fine with my iPhone (3GS) for more than an year. Now after iOS4.1 update, it does not connect easily. I have to reboot iPhone and/or the bluetooth numerous times.
Steps to re-produce:
1. Keep the bluetooth device is off
2 Switch ON bluetooth on iPhone
3. Switch on bluetooth device
4. Tap the device in the device list
5. Spin...Spin...Spin..forever, no connection.
6. Reboot iPhone and try to connect (bluetooth device was kept ON during this time)
Workaround:
1) Shutdown iPhone
2) Switch OFF Bluetooth device
3) Switch ON Bluetooth device
4) Start up iPhone
5) Turn Bluetooth ON
6) Tap the device in the device list
7) Voillla!!! connects within 2 seconds.
Why has iOS4.1 introduced this sequence sensitivity?? Pl. fix in next release (soon)

Try this:
Fixed this problem by copying the 1.1.2 bluetooth version to the 1.1.3 iphone.. Work perfectly without any issue..
Link is here: http://www.ohpedia.com/2008/02/14/fix-for-113-bluetooth-connection-problem-with- bluetooth-carkits-and-some-bluetooth-headsets/

IPhone 3GS - "LOCATION PINNING" PROBLEM ON THE MAP

Hi everyone. I'm currently using an iPhone 3GS running on IOS4 and unfortunately facing "location pinning problem" on the map. Even though, "location services" feature is on and also "active" for photos, I quite often need to reboot my device right after I took a picture(s) in order to see the "location pin(s)" on the map.
But sometimes I don't need to do so, because it somehow captures the place the picture's taken and puts a pin on the map right away.
Do you have any ideas about where that problem might be stemming from? Appreciate your help on this issue. Thx a lot in advance...

so did you happen to resolve that "pinpointing" issue?

List Item problem in oracle forms

Hi,
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Hi Shweta,
Please post your query in Oracle Forms discussion forum.
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Where do I send a long list of problems I have with non-functionality with the Lion OSX and new Safari for Lion.

In the past two weeks I have been documenting my Lion problems.
First, Arrows gone from finder windows; makes it difficult in comparing long lists of files in folder, or compare documents when reviewing line by line. This is obviously a change by people who do not compare long lists in windows comparing files between versions of projects ... the click to next screen is NOT equal to arrows.
Second, Finder Redreaw - doesn't. Move files to a fold, if there are a lot of files, they image of the files being moved remains in finder (see attached screen capture) until Finder is restarted and if COPY function is running. last files in Copy queue are not copied.
Screen capture 5 minutes after moving files to a folder - the selected file images are still in Finder after the move was completed.
Third, it is SLOW, particularly going to an "Attach file" in email, drawing the content of a folder to select an attachment is long enough for me to go to the kitchen, get a drink and come back. Just like the old days of OS7.
Fourth, shifting/recentering screen away from where I am working. Several programs, browsers, Adobe Photoshop/inDesign, and dear old Pages re center my screen - not to the center, but if I choose 30 of 70 images in a folder, it will shift … somewhere else in the folder instead of where I just clicked. If I am working on a document in inDesign or PhotoShop it will do the same - the cursor and screen drift elsewhere to find something it has been amused by. Sometimes it is a word, or a file, but often it is off the pastboard and on the etherial pasteboard on which the pages sit. Or if I'm zoomed in on an image, it moves to somewhere else.
I use a mouse and keyboard, both Apple wireless. I do not use a trackpad, but have a tablet/stylus I am afraid to put into the mix until this crap is stopped.
Fifth, SAVE AS… is gone. You must unlock, duplicate and edit the duplicate … and must rename it in Finder, or use EXPORT to save as the same format under a new name. SAVE AS… worked. Not broke, why fix it?
Personal Comment: The problems seem to be the triumph of coked up software engineers ooohing and aaahing over "Wouldn't it be cool if..." Cool, if they were Microsoft, and required everyone change how they have worked on Macs for the past (almost) three decades. Triumph of brainstorming over functionality.
Sixth, I can't use Cocoa Booklet, but that really started in OSX 10.6 "Snow Leopard". Most of my X11/Cocoa programs stopped worked about that time. Apple is no longer supporting "open source"?
But Wait! There's More...
Seventh, Tonight, trying to download a 1.7 gig archive onto a disk where 280 Gigs were supposedly free, it would not download because, according to the wonderful new Safari and the wonderful new Lion, there is not enough disk space to download a 1.7 gig file in a mere 280 Gigs of free space.
I might be able to move Snow Leopard onto the iMac, but my deciding factor was that Apple, in its wisdom, decided to make iBook Author unable to run under Snow Leopard. So moving to Snow Leopard means I have lost the ONLY benefit I get from the new computer and the new system.
This really stinks.

bigbookjoe wrote:
In the past two weeks I have been documenting my Lion problems.
First, Arrows gone from finder windows; makes it difficult in comparing long lists of files in folder, or compare documents when reviewing line by line. This is obviously a change by people who do not compare long lists in windows comparing files between versions of projects ... the click to next screen is NOT equal to arrows.
Second, Finder Redreaw - doesn't. Move files to a fold, if there are a lot of files, they image of the files being moved remains in finder (see attached screen capture) until Finder is restarted and if COPY function is running. last files in Copy queue are not copied.
Screen capture 5 minutes after moving files to a folder - the selected file images are still in Finder after the move was completed.
Third, it is SLOW, particularly going to an "Attach file" in email, drawing the content of a folder to select an attachment is long enough for me to go to the kitchen, get a drink and come back. Just like the old days of OS7.
Fourth, shifting/recentering screen away from where I am working. Several programs, browsers, Adobe Photoshop/inDesign, and dear old Pages re center my screen - not to the center, but if I choose 30 of 70 images in a folder, it will shift … somewhere else in the folder instead of where I just clicked. If I am working on a document in inDesign or PhotoShop it will do the same - the cursor and screen drift elsewhere to find something it has been amused by. Sometimes it is a word, or a file, but often it is off the pastboard and on the etherial pasteboard on which the pages sit. Or if I'm zoomed in on an image, it moves to somewhere else.
I use a mouse and keyboard, both Apple wireless. I do not use a trackpad, but have a tablet/stylus I am afraid to put into the mix until this crap is stopped.
Fifth, SAVE AS… is gone. You must unlock, duplicate and edit the duplicate … and must rename it in Finder, or use EXPORT to save as the same format under a new name. SAVE AS… worked. Not broke, why fix it?
Personal Comment: The problems seem to be the triumph of coked up software engineers ooohing and aaahing over "Wouldn't it be cool if..." Cool, if they were Microsoft, and required everyone change how they have worked on Macs for the past (almost) three decades. Triumph of brainstorming over functionality.
Sixth, I can't use Cocoa Booklet, but that really started in OSX 10.6 "Snow Leopard". Most of my X11/Cocoa programs stopped worked about that time. Apple is no longer supporting "open source"?
But Wait! There's More...
Seventh, Tonight, trying to download a 1.7 gig archive onto a disk where 280 Gigs were supposedly free, it would not download because, according to the wonderful new Safari and the wonderful new Lion, there is not enough disk space to download a 1.7 gig file in a mere 280 Gigs of free space.
I might be able to move Snow Leopard onto the iMac, but my deciding factor was that Apple, in its wisdom, decided to make iBook Author unable to run under Snow Leopard. So moving to Snow Leopard means I have lost the ONLY benefit I get from the new computer and the new system.
This really stinks.
http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html

My thorough list of problems after updating to iTunes 7

I've been reading the topics around. Some of these problems below seem to be sort of common, with slight differences in my case. Some others I couldn't figure out whether anyone else has experienced them.
First of all, unlike in a lot of the topics that I've read around, I didn't have any problems installing iTunes 7 (although the problems started right after I turned it on for the first time...). Nor did I have any problems updating the software on my iPod to version 1.2, which I have to say, unlike iTunes 7, seems to be very nice, particularly on the new detail of searching the long lists of songs/artists/albums alphabetically.
1) The least serious of the bugs on iTunes already used to happen to me with the previous version 6. Occasionaly, when I plug in my iPod to the computer, iTunes doesn't recognize it properly. Instead of the 5th generation video, it shows up on iTunes as a previous generation iPod without video. What happens then is that iTunes screws up the whole artwork settings on the iPod. It starts off by switching off the artwork visualization option on my iPod, the next time it correctly recognizes it as the 60 G video model. And when I turn the option back on, as it should always have stayed, iTunes proceeds to reorganize the whole artwork list on the iPod, by first deleting it completely and then optimizing it. When one has the iPod with more than 20 G full of albums (let alone when it's 60 G are completely full...), this is something that already takes a lot of time and becomes irritating, taking into account that it happens sort of randomly: you plug in the iPod and pray that iTunes recognizes it properly. It used to happen to me quite frequently with iTunes 6, and I thought it would be fixed with the new version 7. But it hasn't: yesterday it already happened to me again, once, after I plugged/unplugged it some 10-15 times. The frequency of the ocurrence of the problem, at least, seems to have decreased, when compared to iTunes 6.
2) As opposed to the previous problem, the most serious happend to me right after I started iTunes 7 for the very first time, with the iPod plugged in. Like it has already been reported by several particpants in this forum, it started doing the infamous gapless analysis on my BIG iPod song library and it froze after a while, finally crashing with the usual message "Do you want to send a report to Microsoft". Up to this point, this seems to be common with a lot of users of the new version 7. With me, it went farther. I was the one that froze right afterwards: when I started iTunes again, I realized that in the process of freezing/crashing/restarting iTunes had switched off my manual update option on the iPod, instantaneously erasing about 5000 songs that I had loaded in it. The problem is that I didn't have enough space on my computer hard-disk to hold those 25 G of music, so I only kept them on the iPod whereas my iTunes music library was essentially empty. And there I am now, importing every single one of my CDs back into iTunes and to the iPod, something that will take me another couple of weeks at least.
3) Taking into account the previous point, I am essentially using iTunes 7 now from the start with an empty library, importing every CD back from scratch, as if this was my first encounter with iTunes and iPod. I cannot see then what it could have done to an already existing music library on the computer (other than completely erasing the one that I had on the iPod), like some damage that also I read happened to some people. With the CDs being imported all over again with iTunes 7, it no longer does any gapless analysis of anything, because there are no songs imported with previous iTunes versions to be analyzed. The sound is also fine: I don't get any of the static or garbled noises that I read were also troubling a lot of people.
4) As for the crossfading/gapless discussion, after experimenting with those (now infamous) two options for a while, I got to the conclusion that there's really no point at all in having them, even when they work well... let alone the serious problems that their introduction on iTunes 7 has been causing. By turning the crossfading option on, I can see that iTunes merges the end of one song with the beginning of the following one, with time lengths depending on the slider position chosen by the user in the corresponding option's window. But it's something that I personally dislike a lot, to have both songs sort of being played on top of each other, during their transition. So I switched it off. On the other hand, the gapless playback seemed to be a nice welcome. It is true that, until this version 7 came up, on certain albums, like in the classical "Sgt. Pepper's Lonley Hearts Club Band" (that supposedly first started that concept) or a lot of the Pink Floyd ones, where the songs are almost continuous without any pauses between them, both iTunes and the iPod used to force an inconvenient pause between the songs. I then imagined that this gapless option would at least improve on that. But what I've figured out by now, after using iTunes 7 for three days, is that if the original albums don't have any pauses between songs, iTunes 7 now imports those albums exactly as they are, without any pauses either, even if both the crossfading and the gapless option are switched off. In other words, after importing my "Sgt. Pepper's" and "Dark Side of the Moon" CDs again with iTunes 7, I no longer get forced pauses between the songs like I used to get before, either on iTunes, or in the iPod. This, even though I make sure that those two options are switched off. The gapless playback seems then to be sort of automatic now on iTunes 7, as it should, if that's the way the original imported album is also recorded. And this troublesome gapless option seems then to be a completely useless thing, unless the idea is to fix songs imported with previous iTunes versions, or to force gapless playing on albums that originally have pauses.
5) As many people have noted already, the "Drag and drop" album artwork window only works for single songs. If one wants to cut and paste the artwork into that window for several selected songs or a whole album at once, like it could be done on iTunes 6, that's not working now. One has to select all the songs and then, with the right mouse button, choose the info window to paste the artwork into the small box there.
6) Finally, when the iPod is plugged to the computer, some viewing configurations on iTunes are not being memorized either. For example, I always turn the browser option on (Ctrl+B), so that I can see the artists and albums lists, on top of the complete song list. But everytime I plug the iPod back on, that option is switched off. For the main iTunes music library it's OK: I've only needed to do it once, and now that viweing configuration has been there forever, everytime I start iTunes. But whenever I plug the iPod and click on its music library, I then need to press Ctrl+B every time, because iTunes doesn't seem to keep that viewing option switched on from the previous time the iPod was plugged. Again, this is something that worked fine with iTunes 6.
Conclusion: there are indeed a lot of bugs to be fixed with this new version of iTunes, some of them highly damaging to the saved libraries. IF YOU STILL HAVEN'T UPDATED TO VERSION 7, DON'T DO IT YET. WAIT A FEW WEEKS UNTIL APPLE FIXES ALL THIS.
Windows XP Pro Pentium 4, 2.4 GHz, iPod Video 60 G

Upgrading to itunes 7.0 just cost me 2 days of messing around and in the end I had to revert back to v6.0 and resore my lib.
Apple CS was good but did not belly up the fact that 7.0 is defective in some cases and in the end told me I had a hardware problem!
The main issue is that I could not get itunes 7.0 to see my ipod (very infrequently after a hard boot I would see it but would not be able to upload anything). Worked(s) 100% with v 6.0.
This is very defintey 1/2 baked following in the steps of the other well known producers of sw that is not always functional/buggy the first time around.
My computer is a x40 IBM laptop with xp sp2. Will have to wait a few more weeks to see how this pans out.
IBM X40 Windows XP

List view problems in calendars

Help! All of a sudden I have developed a problem with the list view on my iphone calendar. Events are showing up with incorrect dates, but ARE correct on the page views and month views. For example, an event correctly showing as 25 Oct on month view, reads as 11 Oct in list view. If I select the entry from the list view, the data is correctly recorded under the actual event. Can anyone help? My days get very busy and the list view is invaluable for a quick scan through! Cheers!

Thankfully now resolved - it was simply a case of switching of the calendars on MobileMe on my iphone, waiting a minute or two and then switching them back on again!

IPhone 3GS Charging/Battery Problem: Hardware, Software, or Both?

Hello everyone,
I'm a long time Apple user, but this is the first time I've ever posted on the Apple Support forums. I hope you will please excuse the length of my post, as I believe that relaying the approximate sequence of events here is important in determining the cause (or causes) of the problem I am currently facing.
I've trawled the entire internet and I cannot find any reports of a problem that is actually identical to my own. There are many, many similar problems, but none of the exact nature or complexity that I am experiencing. I sincerely hope that someone who really knows their stuff will take the time to read through my story and offer some guidance, as this is my first iPhone and I want to be able to keep it!
I purchased the iPhone 3GS second-hand on eBay approx 3 weeks ago, to replace my old Nokia (which had finally given up the ghost), and although I initially got the 'charging is not supported with this accessory' error - I remedied this problem by using a whole range of different chargers and USB cables which I had accumulated over the years, and so initially, I always managed to get the battery charged one way or the other.
For the record - the iPhone was in very good condition, but had been factory-reset by the seller, and so I upgraded to the latest compatible software (IOS 6.1.3) when I received it.
Anyhow, these charging methods included three different USB cables (OEM Apple ones), two different 3rd party (non-OEM) wall-chargers of differring design, and three different OEM Apple USB Power adaptors. You know - the Wall Socket with the USB slot in it.
There seeemed to be no discernibe pattern as to which charging device or combination of cables and sockets was the 'correct' or 'best' one to use, as the results were random. One charger would work one day, whilst another would work the next, and vice versa. I continued to swap chargers, plugs, and cables in order to get the thing charging. Despite any errors or problems, I would always manage to get it charged somehow, at least for the first week or two.
The only pattern I did discern was that the oldest of my USB cables, from a 2005 iPod Mini, did appear to be somewhat more reliable than the other, more modern cables - though at the same time, the newer cables did work (and charge the phone) on various occasions.
As things progressed though; the 'charging is not supported with this accessory' error appeared on a more regular basis, though I was often able to get around it by changing plugs and/or leaving the device overnight. As many of you will undoubtedly know; this error message was said to be a 'software bug' - one which would typically appear once the battery's charge level was under 20%, and not before. Common advice on Mac forums was to never allow your battery level to drop below 20%, which would prevent the problem from occuring.
However in my case, this error message was now showing up more regularly, often when the phone had more than 20% charge left, leaving me unable to charge the phone quickly and successfully when needed.
And as many of you will also know, the 'official word' across all the different Mac forums is that even when this charging error message is showing, and the phone's battery indicator appears empty or declining, the battery will continue to charge, albeit at a much, much slower rate. This appeared to be true, as I was able to leave it overnight, with the error message displaying, and return to find that the battery had charged - though only to a marginal degree and never to full capacity. At this point, I was still able to use the phone, although on a somewhat limited basis, as the battery was always running out of juice too quickly.
However the situation worsened, whereby the phone started to reject all of the chargers and cables; either failing to recognize them at all, or giving me the aforementioned error message. Its battery would die, and I would have to leave it plugged in overnight (approx 8-10 hours) to get any response out of it at all. If I left it long enough, it seemed that I would at least get some charge out of it, though the maximum charge level was rapidly decreasing despite the amount of time it had been charging for, making the phone become less and less usable by the day.
Still, things continued to worsen - the 'charging is not supported with this accessory' error now appeared regardless of how much charge the battery had left in it, or what type of cables or plugs I was using - leaving me with no choice but to let the battery run down, and watch as the phone switched itself off..
Things have now reached the point where the phone is essentially unusable.
Strangely enough though; when completely dead or switched off, it will recognize the Apple USB to Wall Socket Charger, and will indicate that it IS charging - with the thin red line representing low battery levels, and a 'lightning bolt' logo underneath to signify the transfer of electrcity to the battery. Suffice to say, under these circumstances, the phone will charge, albeit very, very slowly, and only to a certain level (5-10%)
However - as soon as the phone is switched on again (either manually, or automatically - once it has reached a certain charge level) - the 'charging is not supported with this accessory' error appears immediately, and the phone immediately starts to lose power again, switching itself off again within a matter of minutes.
And so the cycle starts again - the phone is dead, it will accept the charger and indicate that it is charging (very slowly) until it comes back on again, at which point it rejects the charger (via the error message), runs out of power, and dies again. For every 4-5 minutes of use I get out of this phone before it dies again - I am having to charge it for hours and hours at a time; during which time the battery indicator never increases or gets beyond the red and into the green.
To confirm: when switched off - it appears to recognise the charger and will charge very, very slowly, but once switched on again - it rejects the charger and dies almost immediately due to lack of accumulated charge, regardless of charging time. The reason I explained the entire sequence of events here is that this did not just happen overnight, but rather progressively, with lots of random occurances and apparent technical contradictions along the way.
Another factor to consider is that I recently tried to charge it using the Apple USB Power Adaptors of two friends (both whilst the device was completely dead), to test whether my chargers and cables were somehow all at fault. The charger/adaptor for a new iPhone 4S did not work - but the charger for an older iPod Touch worked flawlessly, and gave me an immediate and efficient charge which lasted longer than any other, despite the limited amount of time I was able to leave it charging.
Having said that, due to the random behavior of this phone, I am uncertain whether this was simply a random occurance, or something technical relating to the charging equipment I was testing at the time.
It should also be noted that throughout this entire process - the phone will always register with iTunes when plugged into my laptop and switched on. I have had absolutely no trouble with the transferring or music or apps, or the updating of software since I got the device. Even today, where I managed to get a few minutes of 'on-time' out of the phone - it immediately registered with iTunes, despite simultaneously giving me the charging is not supported with this accessory' error, before promptly running out of power and dying again.
It will occasionally charge when connected to iTunes, but only at random and for extremely short periods of time.
If it's of any consequence, I am using a 2nd/3rd generation Macbook Pro from 2007, with a 2.16GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor and 2GB of RAM, running OS X 10.5.8 (Snow Leopard). Snow Leopard has only recently been installed, and when installing it - I did opt for a partial 'Time Machine' restore from a backup drive, which included key files and applications - but which did not restore my complete profile from the previous 'Leopard' OS.
Suffice to say - I am pulling my hair out here. You simply can't get by in today's world without a mobile phone, and I had only just bought this phone as a replacement for my old one. I had really come to depend on it, and would hate to think that I'd have to say goodbye to it because it required some kind of replacement part or repair that cost more than the phone itself (£65)
The only real, discernible pattern with these problems is that they continue to get worse. I've tried booking an appointment at my local 'Genius Bar' but their booking system has been down for a while, presumably due to high demand, and I also know that their policy is to try and sell you a replacement product or accessory before recommending or exploring any alternative solutions. Their policy is that they will not see you without an appointment anyway.
I have a feeling that although this may be hardware related on some level, with a potentially delicate or damaged charging port on the device itself - I've also read in many places that this is a software bug - which some of my experiences and observations would appear to confirm - especially as the phone can withstand lengthy and intensive procedures like the iTunes restore process (both in and out of recovery mode) without running out of power and dying. It seems to be getting fed enough power during these procedures, but not in any other situation - and will randomly charge in some circumstances, while not in others.
Thus far, I have tried:
- The 'Battery Doctor' App - which recognizes when the phone is charging, but doesn't alter the fact that it never seems to charge beyond about 5-10%, and has done nothing to change the fact that whilst apparently 'charging', the phone is still losing power and proceeds to die.
- A
- Cleaning the cables, adaptors and charging port with a toothbrush and some compressed air.
And still - the phone will appear to be charging when switched off (though it never seems to get beyond about 10%) and will stop charging as soon as it's switched on, leaving me with about 5 minutes of usage before I have to go through the whole process again.
Any advice whatsoever would be greatly appreciated - and again, my apologies for such a lengthy post!!
Thanking you in advance,
Adam

I have had your exact problem with my old 3GS, now I cannot even get it to turn on, I still see that it is supposed to be charging though, but it never charges any so it seems.
I replaced the Lower Dock Connector Assembly back when it still charged while hooked to my PC, and it found it made no real difference.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003Y5YXLK/ref=oh_details_o05_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&p sc=1
At this point I am not sure if I should replace the battery and hope for the best, or just junk the phone, I cannot really sell it if I cannot reset it...

List item problem - couldn't pick a value

Dear professionals,
i used Andreas's code to dynamically populate list item (http://andreas.weiden.orcl.over-blog.de/article-28957008.html) and it works fine (nice work Andreas)!
My problem is that i couldn't pick any value from list - I see many values, but there is now way to choose any of them. (video and picture are here: http://imageshack.us/g/3/property.jpg/)
Also, i spotted that it's not possible to use Combo-box property along with encapsulating procedure - the form is just not opened...
I'm using JRE 1.6, 10gR2 (10.1.2) F&R...
Does anyone know why is that ?
Thanks in advance,
Adnan
Edited by: adnanBIH on Jul 5, 2011 8:33 AM

Andreas Weiden wrote:
You didn't show us the query you use to populate the list. I would guess that all entries have the same value for the VALUE-column of the select, so that they are all "identical" from the value.Andreas bravo ! :))
Yes, you're right - my select statement looks like this:
select a value, "Word" label
from emp;I'll fix it tomorrow - thx once again, generic procedure is excellent !
Adnan

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