Yet another head scratching limitation with the iPhone

I just recently 'upgraded' to the iPhone 4 (from Android) and I am beginning to see that the iPhone/Apple is really not as forward thinking and innovative as I once thought.
For instance, today I learned that it is 'impossible' to transfer files to/from the iPhone (e.g. cannot use the iPhone as a USB data drive). Although some programs do allow transferring of specific files (e.g. audio recorder), however, those limited data transfers are only allowed through iTunes! Are you kidding me?
Well, this poses a dilemma for those who are not allowed to install iTunes in a corporate environment due to IT policy. I also find it ridiculous that, not too long ago, iTunes was required to charge the Apple device? I guess Apple does believe in small incremental evolutionary steps forward after all.
So, what this means is that I must jail break my iPhone just to access a basic feature that every other non-iPhone already has! Unfortunately, Apple insists on playing a cat/mouse game with jail breakers. I believe I need to await the next iOS in order to fix bugs with v4.1 but by doing so I can't jail break. Or I just put up with the bugs and jail break in order to make my iPhone usable in my work environment.

I changed to the iPhone because my HTC Magic was locked in on AOS 2.1 and I was never going to see Corp. Google Apps syncing, hidden SSID WiFi access, and of course the many apps that iPhone has (e.g. fully operational Skype, ZipCar, etc.).
But the grass is not always greener. The iPhone has a whole list of omitted productive and useful features that Android had...and even my 4 year old Windows Mobile phone had. It makes me wonder, Does Apple live in a vacuum?
a multimedia device, not a better phone,
It is a great multimedia device! No complaints about that! But it would not take much for the iPhone to also be a great business tool and phone. Unfortunately, that which would make it great all around will require jail breaking!
and proper notifications managements is a bummer.
Notifications???? Where are any notifications (besides the pop ups in the locked screen)?
I keep hearing these 'bings' coming from my iPhone but I have no idea what is causing them. On the Android, it is a simple matter of sliding down a window and viewing a historical list of notifications from every participating app. The phone can be set to provide continuous audible and/or visual notification until this notification list is cleared. The fact that the iPhone doesn't have anything like this is baffling to say the least.

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Help urgently needed please ! My Iphone 4 is on silent vibration mode, received a call and has frozen with the Iphone unusable and yet vibrating. I have tried switching off, connecting to power, connecting to laptop and removing SIM card ???

Problem solved... just saw the answer in another thread... https://discussions.apple.com/message/13110222#13110222

HT1937 the SIM card that you currently have installed in this iPhone is form a carrier that is not supported under the activation policy that is currently assigned by the activation server.this is not a hardware issue with the iphon. please insert another

the SIM card that you currently have installed in this iPhone is form a carrier that is not supported under the activation policy that is currently assigned by the activation server.this is not a hardware issue with the iphon. please insert another SIM card from supported carrier or request that this iPhone be unlocked by your carrier.

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I have similar message but for me the Verizon guys said they unlocked it and when I actually connected to iTunes using Verizon sim card and then did the restore as new iphone then everything worked well and at the end i saw the message "Congrats, your iphone is now unlocked" and then I did the set up as new iphone for my kid.
Once new apple ID was set up, then I removed the verizon SIM and then inserted prepaid t-mobile sim card and after the phone booted up then I got the same message like above...."not supported"
What do i do now? I think the phone is unlocked right?
Also do I need to insert Verizon SIM card and do restore as NEW and this time do not set up the iphone but change the SIM card and then set up or ?
I am confused and other threads were talking that if you get congrats message then u shd be good to use other SIM cards....please help!!!

HT1414 The Sim card that you currently have installed in this iphone is from a carrier that is not supprotedunder the activation policy that is currently assigned by the activation server. this is not a hardware issue with the iphone. please insert anothe

The Sim card that you currently have installed in this iphone is from a carrier that is not supprotedunder the activation policy that is currently assigned by the activation server. this is not a hardware issue with the iphone. please insert another sim card from a supported carrier or request that this iphone be unlocked by your carrier.please contact apple for more information.

I have similar message but for me the Verizon guys said they unlocked it and when I actually connected to iTunes using Verizon sim card and then did the restore as new iphone then everything worked well and at the end i saw the message "Congrats, your iphone is now unlocked" and then I did the set up as new iphone for my kid.
Once new apple ID was set up, then I removed the verizon SIM and then inserted prepaid t-mobile sim card and after the phone booted up then I got the same message like above...."not supported"
What do i do now? I think the phone is unlocked right?
Also do I need to insert Verizon SIM card and do restore as NEW and this time do not set up the iphone but change the SIM card and then set up or ?
I am confused and other threads were talking that if you get congrats message then u shd be good to use other SIM cards....please help!!!

Do these headphones work with the iPhone 3G

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MA662G/B
these are the new headphones that came out with the most recent ipods. they are the ones with the volume buttons on the headphones. do they work with the iPhone 3G

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MA662G/B
These are the new headphones that came out with the most recent ipods. They are the ones with the volume buttons on the headphones. Do they work with the iPhone 3G?
Are you sure that is the correct link? There is no mention of volume conrol. They seem to be exacty the same as the ones that come with the 3G iPhone execpet there is no microphone or control button.
<http://store.apple.com/us/product/MA814LL/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1MA&mco=MjM2OTAwMA>
They are the same price too.
You probably mean the new Apple In-Ear Headphones
<http://www.apple.com/ipod/inearheadphones/>
<http://store.apple.com/us/product/MA850?intcmp=AIC-WWW-NAUS-BUYNOW-FOOT-INEARHE ADPHONE-080910>
They are not yet available ("Coming Soon"), so nobody knows if they will work with the iPhone. Probably everything but the volume control will work. They do have a microphone and control button.
Meanwhile you can get the Sennheiser MM50 from Apple
<http://store.apple.com/us/product/TR530VC/A?fnode=MTY1NDA1MA&mco=MjM2OTAwMQ>
(The cord for the second earphone goes behind your head, not undr your chin.)

ITunes could not restore iPhone because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone that is being restored...

I replaced a faulty iPhone 4S with a new handset today, another iPhone 4S. I was certain to backup my previous iPhone 4S to iTunes on my PC before returning the faulty unit. The new phone was 'set up' at the Apple Store and updated to the current iOS, 7.0.4, as was the faulty unit prior to replacement. Upon connecting the new unit to iTunes to restore to the most recent restore point from earlier in the day, the following message was shown:
"iTunes could not restore iPhone because the backup was corrupt or not compatible with the iPhone that is being restored."
I've browsed other forums and have contacted the Apple Store Genius Bar, and will hear from the Lead Genius tomorrow. In the meantime, I am hoping someone may have information for me on what I may need to do in order to restore my phone as I'd anticipated doing by now. My photos, email and text messages are what is affected and have not repopulated. My music is accessable via iCloud without a problem and my contacts were kept via SIM. I regularly copy my Camera Roll from my iPhone to my computer, and most of my photos are still viewable via Apple TV/My Photo Stream however only through the photos last saved. The 348 recent photos that were on my faulty unit, and viewable in My Photo Stream were presumedly safe, but have disappeared.
I have yet to shut down or restart my computer, nor have I exited out of iTunes, for the simple reason that I'd anticipated returning home with the new handset and plug it into my computer to restore right away. I did, but that's as far as I've gotten.
Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

Had the exact same problem whilst upgrading my iphone 4 to ios5. Lost all my data.
Backed up ios 4.3 (8F190) iphone4. Upgraded to ios 5.1 (9B176), and then tried to restore.
No joy, repeated the restore attempts countless times - lost all my data
Tried again with a simulated test.
Created a new itunes account on a new PC (64-bit windows 7), latest itunes(10.6.1.7- 64 bit).
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After quite a few more hours at it, it looks like a bug in iTunes / ios. I would be very happy to be wrong, though.
Tried repeatedly restoring an ios 4.3 backup to 5.1 - no joy.
Happy to try again - it does restore partially (got the call register transferred, but no SMS'es or anything else).
Any ideas?

Things my WM 6.1 phone did that I can't find a way to do with the iphone

Hi All iphoners
I have a small list of things that I can't find a way to do with the iphone. I was hoping that someone would be able to help me with this. I know there must be a way to do these but I just have not found it yet.
here they are:
Play video clips from my favorite news web sites.
search my contacts by just typing the name from anywhere in the contact list
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thanks for all the help
Bill

spock4104 wrote:
Play video clips from my favorite news web sites.
depending on who your "favorites" are, they might have an app in the app store which includes videos
search my contacts by just typing the name from anywhere in the contact list
theres a search bar at the top of the contacts list. you type, it searches.
Play music and sounds thru by stereo bluetooth headset
sorry, can only be achieved via devices such as the Sony TMR-BT8iP (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XRW09Y)
setup different tones and alarms for new e-mail, new SMS, so on
all but SMS is not customizable for now. but even with SMS, you can only choose from those available.
voice announcement of who is calling if the caller is in my contacts
my suggestion is to set a particular ringtone for that person. OR, you can always record yourself saying that person's name, convert it to a ringtone, and use that. (if you dont know how to create your own ringtone, a quick search on this forum should help you out).
Download document to the phone, word, PDF, so on
Beam files from one phone to another
look for "Air Share" in the app store.
Picture mail
it can, you have to do it from the photo, not email tho.
i dont have an answer for the ones i left out. sorry. hope these help.

Why apple dont accept the issue with the iPhone 6 plus? (Battery)

My mom send me as a gift one iphone 6 plus 64 gb (900 dlls...) and i was so happy, it was like wooow!
but after test my phone etc etc (11 days ago) i notice a VERY UGLY FAST battery draining, and i updated my phone to 8.2
same...
I Went to the apple online assistance chat and follow all the instructions of the girl: same...
i Went to the apple store (genious bar) and they test my battery etc (WOW 100% fine)
and i ask for a phone replacement, they toldme they can replace my phone with a refurbished one, becauae my battery is ok
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Coco Man wrote:
Correct, i have a lot of things disabled, location, background refreshing, icloud...
IT have hardware issue, but apple guys cant see it, because they juat aay "nah my test say your phone is OK, so get lost"
You didn't answer my questions. Have you done a reset? Have you done a complete restore and set up the device from scratch?

Hello. I have a problem with the iphone. I had the misfortune of Smader it for a half years ago. but now all my pictures away. and I think it is a security various measures. what should I do?

hello. I have a problem with the iphone. I had the misfortune of Smader it for a half years ago. but now all my pictures away. and I think it is a security various measures. what should I do?

ckuan wrote:
iCloud pushes all your photos to the My Photo Stream album on your devices and computers, and manages them efficiently, so you don’t run out of storage space.
Your iOS devices keep a rolling collection of your last 1000 photos in the My Photo Stream album. From there, you can browse your recent photos or move the ones you like to your Camera Roll or another album to keep them on your device forever.
(Here's that part I'm bolding for you to reference): Because your Mac and PC have more storage than your iOS devices, you can choose to have all of your My Photo Stream photos automatically downloaded. In iPhoto or Aperture preferences on your Mac, select Photos (or Photo Stream) > My Photo Stream > Automatic Import. All of your photo stream photos will be imported into your Events, Projects, Photos, Faces, and Places folders in iPhoto or Aperture. On your PC with My Photo Stream enabled in the Control Panel, all of your photos will be imported into C:\\Users\<user name>\Pictures\iCloud Photos\My Photo Stream. For iCloud Control Panel 2.0 to 2.1.2 users, the path isC:\\Users\<user name>\Pictures\Photo Stream\My Photo Stream .
Exactly. It keeps a collection of the most recent 1000 photos in your Photostream Album on your iOS device. That's the limit of the displayed images on an iOS device. Not the upper limit of storage. It's like the call history. You can have more than 100 calls, but only the most recent 100 calls show on the device. You can still get your entire call history from your wireless carrier. And you can still download all of your Photostream photos from Photostream using iCloud Control panel on a PC, or the iCloud option in System Preferences on a Mac.
iCloud: My Photo Stream and iCloud Photo Sharing limits
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4858
http://help.apple.com/icloud/#/mmc0cd7e99
My Photo Stream upload limits
The My Photo Stream limits below are established based on anticipated upload patterns. Currently, My Photo Stream upload limits are as follows:
Uploads to My Photo Stream per hour: 1000 photos
Uploads to My Photo Stream per day: 10,000 photos
Uploads to My Photo Stream per month: 25,000 photos
If you exceed one of these limits, your uploads to My Photo Stream will be paused temporarily and you may see a notification message on your device. Your uploads will resume automatically after you no longer exceed one of the limits, such as in the following hour or on the following day.
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I have set up a Netgear dual band modem which works well with the iPhone and an older MacBook, but with this brand new MacBook it asks for a password every time I reopen the computer and open safari. Is it Lion?

I have set up a Netgear dual band modem which works well with the iPhone and an older MacBook, but with this brand new MacBook it asks for a password every time I reopen the computer and open safari. As you can imagine this is very annoying. It says I am not connected to the internet and offers me a choice of nearby networks including mine and then asks for a password when I select it. Why does it do this with our new MacBooks (also with my son's brand new one) and not with the iPhone, iPad and older MacBook? They happily automatically connect to our network after entering the password just the once.

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Is it possible to send more than one photo in an email using with the iPhone? Thank you in advance for your help

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HT204368 I recently upgraded from an iPhone 4s to an iPhone 5. I have a Motorola HX550 Bluetooth Headset which worked flawlessly with the iPhone 4s. However, since upgrading to the iPhone 5, I frequently lose audio when in the middle of a call. I am no

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https://forums.motorola.com/posts/94ac15ad7c
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http://www.plantronics.com/us/product/voyager-legend (next paragraph is taken from the review since there is no direct link to the review.
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Since this issue appears to affect multiple headsets from multiple vendors, I think it is fair to conclude that it is an issue with the iPhone5 bluetooth itself.
I am posting this as a new discussion as I don't see any other posts specific to this iPhone 5 Bluetooth issue. I would have reported this as a problem to Apple, but don't seem to be able to find a way to do this on the web. Hopefully they are already aware, but if not, maybe they will see i here.

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Siri seems to behave properly with scenerio above---sans call button. She does not go to lock.

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Just as a book can be in the library and in the fiction section, there is only one book/photo.

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Let's see if I can get this straight.
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Correct?
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4259?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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