Wifi dropping - What worked for me.

I know there are a lot of wifi issues out there but here's what was happening for me.
My iPhone 4 would drop the wifi connection enough so that I just turned off wifi completely and used 3G all the time. This has been happening for a while now. Then for Christmas I was lucky enough to get an iPad, which had the same problem. Would work ok for 5 minutes or so the wifi would drop. Signal said I had a connection but it wouldn't work. But since I only have a 2gb plan on the iPad I needed to be able to use wifi.
I read the numerous threads here and tried various things without success. I googled the problem and found a PC Mag article on the subject. They recommended 6-7 things to try. The first few I already trying with no luck.
Then it suggested changing your router settings to not broadcast in multiple ways (802.11G, A, N). My Belkin router was by defaut using all available methods. I couldn't use N-only as recommended in the article because I have an older notebook that doesn't recognize anything past G.
So I changed it to broadcast in G only and so far that seems to have solved the problem. It's only been one day but it's already way better than it's ever been.
So if you have having similar issues and haven't tried changing that setting it's worth a shot. There's no risk to trying it. I did and now I'm very happy with both my iPad and iPhone.

What iPad update through itunes are you referring to please? I just synched and it says 3.2 is the latest update software for the ipad.
Thanks
JW

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My Apple TV and IPad drop after x mintues from "Home Sharing". To restart it, I need to close iTunes on my Windows 7 PC, open it , then I can listen again X minutes (15-90 minutes) to my music via "Home Sharing". Any idea why? What worked for you?

I believe if you updated your Apple TV, you need iTunes 11 to make it work.

Here's what worked for me...

Here's what worked for me:
1) I opened iTunes and in Options, I selected iTunes as the default music player for my computer (it wasn't). (I even uninstalled RealPlayer and WinAmp.)
2) I uninstalled iTunes and iPod, and reinstalled using the newer versions on the Apple site.
3) I basically followed this advice:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=291183&tstart=0
Which was basically to leave my iPod connected to the computer while rebooting. The first 2 times it didn't work, I forgot to put iTunes in the start menu, so that it opens when I reboot. I put iTunes and iTunes Helper (whatever that is) in the start menu (I used WinPatrol to do so, available for free here: http://www.winpatrol.com/), and then rebooted, and after a couple of tries, like magic iTunes opened, recognized my iPod, and updated it, and then, for the first time, without freezing my system, told me it was okay to disconnect.
It even worked while still running my regular systray apps, like McAfee VirusScan, Ewido Anti-Malware, Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta, and SpywareBlaster, so those were not the issue. I get the impression you need to boot it once so it recognizes the iPod and does that handshake thing, and hopefully after that it'll always do the same. We'll see...
I hope this helps someone, b/c its been a frustrating day working through all this, and I know a lot of others are still trying to get it solved. And thanks to jcog for posting his solution, that helped me, and hopefully this will help someone else...
c.
iPod Video, 60GB Windows XP

it worked until the next time I synced the iPod, and then back to the freeze up. Next thing I tried was this Microsoft help page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93976
which advises on several things, all of which seem helpful, but the thing still freezes up. I can sync the iPod, then the system freezes and I have to reboot. So, I now believe Apple will have to issue a patch for these bugs when using the new 5G iPods with WinXP.
c.
iPod Video, 60GB Windows XP

Snow Leopard Printing Woes - what worked for me

I found many print problems posted EVERYWHERE from every printer manufacturer and model and many solutions and some worked for some people. None worked for me.
I have a HP Laserjet 2100M, which is old, but is listed as compatible with SL. I cannot part with it, as it is a true laser printer, not a monochrome, which means when I need to colour separate say a blue and red document, it prints as solid, not grayscale. It has printed 44,820 pages for me over the years, with only laser cartridge replacement as an expense. As well, I cannot find anything but monochrome for a replacement.
It worked on my old iMac G5 running Leopard, however, when I got my new iMac running Snow Leopard, I got "Printer Offline" message and it would not go online and while some solution ideas got it to print, sometimes, it was only good for one or two jobs and then would stop again, or it would say printing and nothing would print.
Here is what worked for me:
I disconnected my printer's usb and power supply, reset printer system.
Went to Macintosh HD-Library-printers-PPDs-contents-resources and deleted all of the HP Drivers.
I got my HP 2100 series driver from my old iMac and put that back in the resources folder and emptied trash.
I shut down my computer.
Replugged in power to printer.
Started up computer.
After fully launched, I connected my USB cable for the printer. I went to add printer and it came up right away and said new software update was available for my printer AND I SAID NO to updating. In selected my driver, and...
My printer and I have reached a compromise!
It still says offline, however, everything is printing anyway... this I can live with.
I also found this link, which I will only try if I encounter any other disruptions
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?lang=en&cc=us&task Id=110&prodSeriesId=385457&prodTypeId=18972&prodSeriesId=385457&objectID=c018677 22
At some point I printed a Self Test/Configuration page which has I/O Port Status as
USB STATUS - not ready
and Appletalk Status - Ready
which is probably a good clue, however, I have been printing successfully for 15 hours and my hair is starting to grow back.

The HP document appears to solve your issue. When your hair starts falling out again, use it.

QT7 installing(what worked for me)

There have been numerous post's about having problems installing QT7. I had the same problem and got the same errors that other's are posting. There doesn't seem to be a accurate solution to this problem of wether it is the Microsoft OS or the Apple installer. So I will post what worked for me in finally getting QT7 standalone to install.
I downloaded SP2 for XP pro to get Windows Installer 3.1, I previously had version 2.0
I then removed QT from the computer using the add/remove control panel. And then went to the Folder Options control panel and selected, show hidden files and folders. Then went to Start>search all files and folders, QuickTime, and removed all that was left behind.
I then went into the registry, Start>run>type in regedit>OK
In the registry, I first went to HKEYLOCALMACHINE+SOFTWARE and deleted Apple Computer, Inc. And then hit the F3 key on the keyboard to get the next QT registry key to appear delete it and hit the F3 again for the next one to appear, and keep repeating this until they are all removed.
I then went to each registry listing-HKEYCLASSESROOT, HKEYCURRENTUSER, HKEY_USERS, HKEYCURRENTCONFIG
And would click on one to highlight and then go to the Edit menu, click find, type in QuickTime, hit the enter key on the keyboard. Delete the QT registry entry, and hit the F3 keyboard key for the next one to appear. I went thru this procedure until everything QT was removed from the computer.
Note: the registry is very risky to go into deleting keys. It would be wise to go to the microsoft website to get further info before attempting anything in it!
This worked for me. QT7 standalone then installed. I also downloaded Windows Installer Clean up Utility. Ran it and found QT 7.02 in there and removed it.
goodluck

I don't know why this is not installing on some computers and not others. It took me 2 or 3 days to get it to.
The only things I did was update to SP2 to get Windows Installer 3.1 Remove everything QT from the computer as I previously mentioned.
In Install Shield I downloaded driver 7. I had read a article about having the same number driver in Install Shield as the first number of the version of the progarm you are trying to install. In this case it is 7.0.2, so I downloaded 7. I did not bookmark the link to this. So I don't know now where it is on the web. But after doing this it still did not install.
It didn't install to after I removed QT from the computer and ran Windows Installer Cleanup Utility. And removed QT which was in there. Here is the link to download the installer cleanup utility.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;290301
Also this link my be of interest.
http://consumer.installshield.com/kb.asp?id=Q108393
I don't know what it was exactly that got it to install. But this is all I did. If you have any other questions or compare what I have on this computer your welcome to ask.
I realize it is fustrating and wish I could have been of more help.

IPhone-Outlook 2007 Calendar Sync (What worked for me)

Hi;
Today after 3 weeks of day after day trial my iPhone-Outlook 2007 Calenar synch problems seems to be fully fixed. Once again this is what worked for me - I am sharing it and hope that can help you as well:
Overview
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I now fully believe that the root cause of the issue starts from a corrupted appoinment entry in your local calendar file. This appointment entry in turn breaks your outlook sync file known as the .OST file. I will tell you how to fix this later. This file is what iTune uses to synch the iPHONE calendar with your Outlook 2007 (same should work for outlook 2003).
In short when the outlooksync.DLL file called by iTUNE, request to sync with outlook - it is the outlook that cannot resolve a corrupt .OST file and all goes to **** after that.
I say this as "This is up to you find this bad calendar entry, get rid of it, get rid of the .OST file, and finally tell Outlook to do a repair job on your outlook installation. I will tell you all how to do this as well.
Steps to fix this issue:
===========================================
1- Go to your outlook calendar and delete any old appointment that still is in there. I got rid of anything older that 2 weeks. To do this just go to your calendar in outlook ... swith to a List view ... sort based on date and highlight anything older than that date and delete. This took me about 30-45 miutes of work... so be paitent with this step. Also, get rid of any holiday notification BS that Outlook puts in your calendar ... you can do this later.
2- Go to outlook-tools-trust center-click on Add-In and then at the bottom of the screen click on Go and validate that your two outlook sync dlls are marked and enabled.
3- Shut down outook and go to the following directory.
C:\Documents and Settings\user name\Local Settings\
Application Data\Microsoft\Outlook
and rename your .OST file ... (there should be only one out there).
3- Go to your control panel and do start/stop applications. Select Outlook and click on change ... outlook will come up with a few options. Select "Repair" this should force outlook to replace the .OST file which you just renamed.
4- Now starts your outlook and let it do its initial sync. Make sure iTune is off at this point. After the Outlooks initialization is done ... now comes the moment of truth...
5- Start iTune (I recommend that you select manual sync) and sycn with your calendar.
At this point I learned that all my calendar items have come in ....
Good luck and let me know if this works with you. Please Please remember the first step ... getting rid of your old appointments is the most important step ... don't rush it ... get rid of anything that you don't need.
Cheers;
Darab.

You can try resetting sync history by clicking on edit at the top of itunes and choosing preferences. Then click on the iphone icon at the right top of the window that opens. There is a button at the bottom of the window to reset sync history.
Also, you can try creating a new login on the computer.
Open outlook and put in a few trial events.
Then sync the iphone to this outlook calendar replacing all calendar data on the iphone.
This is to see if you end up with dots on every day.
If you do not end up with dots on every day, then you might want to take a look at any reoccurring events in the other outlook calendar.
Hope this helps.

THIS IS WHAT WORKED FOR ME

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This is what worked for me:
I called 1-877-419-4500. I got a guy named Don.
I asked him to make sure the 'business' thing wasn't on my account. It wasn't.
We reset the phone. (Hold home button and sleep/wake button) nothing.
He said he was going to get a hold of someone in the 'technical activation dept'. He did.
They found a 'glitch' on my account. Seems the activation was placed on hold. they took that off.
turned off my phone, plugged it into usb cable, itunes got it, viola! activated.
call that number. talk directly to a human, no wait, no menus.

This is what worked for me, Read!!!! Now I am activated

So like many of you I was stuck waiting for 24 hours. To make this short, do this. If you have been emailed and Activation ID call...877-800-3701. Ask them to cancel the current attempt to activate. Once you do, then connect and iTunes will prompt you to activate as if nothing ever happened. Once I did I was done in five minutes. My hunch is that "We", that are waiting for countless hours, we are stuck in some sort of loop. Break it and good luck.
Vlonjati

This is what worked for me:
I called 1-877-419-4500. I got a guy named Don.
I asked him to make sure the 'business' thing wasn't on my account. It wasn't.
We reset the phone. (Hold home button and sleep/wake button) nothing.
He said he was going to get a hold of someone in the 'technical activation dept'. He did.
They found a 'glitch' on my account. Seems the activation was placed on hold. they took that off.
turned off my phone, plugged it into usb cable, itunes got it, viola! activated.
call that number. talk directly to a human, no wait, no menus.

Wifi is not working for me but woking for everyonne else in my house

Hi my wifi on my ipod5 is not working I am the only one it is not working for.. also I turned off my imessage because I noticed it was taking a very long time to send the message and it made me sign in like normal and i was not able to sign in because i didn't have wifi. PLEASE HELP!!!

open settings, wifi and find the network name. Does it connect? Does it prompt for a password? What happens?

My wifi wasn't working for more than 10 minutes at a time after updating to IOS8 and resetting network settings. I turned off google drive, turned off Bluetooth, reset network settings and rebooted my iPad4. So far so good.

I have an ipad4. Wifi keeps cutting out after the upgrade even after I forget the network and resign on or reset all network settings. I deleted iCloud drive from my iPad, turned off Bluetooth, reset network settings, and rebooted my iPad. Since I upgraded to IOS8 this is the longest wifi has consistently been working for me. Which is approximately an hour now. Anyone else find that this worked or have figured out if this or anything out there is a permanent fix?

Hi CollinGCC78,
It sounds like you have been on the right track in troubleshooting this issue. If you are still having issues, you may want to double-check the steps outlined in the following article, in order if possible (apologies for replicating any steps you have already taken):
iOS: Troubleshooting Wi-Fi networks and connections
Regards,
- Brenden

Express not showing up..What worked for me...

After my 1st generation Express died last week, I got the new 802.11n-enabled unit. I was able to use Airport Utility to set the device up initially, but after rebooting the unit, it disappeared from my network, a WPA protected WDS-type with one Extreme b/g unit acting as the main unit, never to reappear. Numerous resets appeared to be fruitless, even the hardware reset where you hold the reset button down as you plug in the unit did not work.
After reading a bunch of posts on here, I finally got my unit to work. Here's what I did.
First, I did a "hard"-reset on the Express by holding down the reset button till the light started to flash amber, then releasing it. After about 30 seconds of solid amber, the express showed up in Airport utility. I copied its Airport ID number shown. Next I got the same information for the Extreme base station, which by the way, always showed up in AU.
I opened up the config window for the Extreme base station, by double clicking on its icon in Airport Utility. I then verified that it was set to be part of a WDS, confirmed passwords, etc and then manually added the Express's Airport ID # in the box for remotes. Clicked the update button and let it do its thing...
Now here's the trick... Power down your airport card, and plug the Express into your computer with an ethernet cable. At this time the Express is probably blinking amber slowly. Wait a few seconds, and then look for the Express in Airport Utility, (you may have to restart Utility, or at least hit the rescan button). My Express was now available for configuration. I followed the procedure as outlined above for the Extreme base station, although this time when prompted I entered in the Airport ID# for the Extreme base station, and set the Express to act as a remote in the WDS window. Enter security options and passwords to match the network you have entered, and hit the update button.
After a seemingly long restart, the Express showed up in the Utility, with a green light no less! I disconnected the ethernet cable, turned on my wireless card, selected the network and voila! it works. Checking AU showed both units as expected, with each one now fully updatable from their respective configuration windows.
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I apologize if this is a long winded post, but I hope that I may have been able to help some people out who appear to have been having the same problem that I had.
Good luck!!

Yes, the same thing has happened to me. My internet connection was working fine, but I couldn't see my Airport Express in the Admin Utility nor could I see my remote AirTunes speakers in iTunes. After a restart, everything came back to normal. So if anyone else is facing something similar, try that before panicking.
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The fix for loading web pages-What works for me.

Ever since I went to Tiger I have had problems with Safari and any other browser while at work on my dsl connection. I knew it was not the connection because my G4 with 9.2.2 would work. At home on cable Tiger worked fine. What I found out is that the router/server combination my ip used were Sisco and for some reason Tiger does not work well with them. I asked a programmer familiar with linux to help me and he gave me some code to type into terminal and guess what it works great!... almost! Every time I start Safari I have to enter the code and all is fine. Here is the code
sudo sysctl -w net.inet.tcp.rfc1323=0
See if it works for you and let me know. You will find terminal in Applications/Utilities just copy the code and paste if you want. I had problems before just getting web sites like ups.com to load or even google search pages to load.

Thanks for the tip... I don't have the problem, but others must!

Wifi fix that worked for me

I did a reset using the "all settings" option and it seems to solve the weak wifi issue.

What iPad update through itunes are you referring to please? I just synched and it says 3.2 is the latest update software for the ipad.
Thanks
JW

AE n - What worked for me

I am an experienced AE user and owner of four of the 1st gen "g" type which I use with an AX "n" base station to stream music wirelessly around my house. I have previously gone through the setup procedure a dozen or more times and if you want to add an AE to an existing wireless network, the easiest way is to hook it up to your LAN by ethernet and configure it that way. I decided to try a new AE "n" to see if I could improve reception distance and performance and have been suffering the same struggles that others have posted here. After hours of experimentation, everything seems to be working. I tried so many different things it's hard to tell exactly what worked, but here is what I think did the trick.
1. Disconnect all wireless clients from the base station.
2. Change the network security of the base station to WPA/WPA2 and restart.
3. Configure the AE "n" first, connecting by ethernet. You may have to do a reset using a paperclip. Configure it using WPA/WPA2, making sure it is acting as a bridge and using DHCP to acquire an IP address. Restart, leaving it connected by ethernet. Check configuration and restart again, disconnecting the cable. IT WORKS !!!
4. Reconfigure the other wireless devices the same way: connect by ethernet; plug in; reset with paperclip; configure using WPA/WPA2, bridge, DHCP; restart with ethernet; restart again unplugged.
So far all five AEs have been working fine for 24 hours.

it worked until the next time I synced the iPod, and then back to the freeze up. Next thing I tried was this Microsoft help page:
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93976
which advises on several things, all of which seem helpful, but the thing still freezes up. I can sync the iPod, then the system freezes and I have to reboot. So, I now believe Apple will have to issue a patch for these bugs when using the new 5G iPods with WinXP.
c.
iPod Video, 60GB Windows XP

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ok so i hear alot of people use brasso to get rid of scratches and others say it doesnt. i talked to people at best buy and they said it wouldent but then again.....it's best buy. that being said. what has worked for you or worked best? cus my screen is scratched and when i watch videos i can just barely see where they are and it bugs me . thank you.

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