Yet another Space Invaders game...

Yes, here is my first Java game:
www.fnfconsulting.no
Feel free to check it out. No registration necessary.
Comments&Questions are welcome.
Hal

haha coded only using your right hand. nice . this
kicks your games to mars and back malo ;) 1 word
SOUND! and good sound :P good stuff although it doesnt
use 1.1 so your audience is limited (its like
developing for linux .. very limited) most people (i
know) wont bother downloading the plug in. very nice
thoughThanks. I dont think I understand all your comments, but I'll give it a try.
Firstly, the game has sound, and personally I think it's the coolest part of the game. The sounds are samples from the movies. I use standard AudioClip, no fancy stuff.
When you mention 1.1, do you mean JVM 1.1, the old stuff that was released with IE 5.0 or something? I think nowadays most people that develop Java games uses "Java 2" which as I understand it is Java SDK 1.2 and up. And most people playing Java games downloads some kind of JRE, often the newest version, 1.4.2.X.
Correct me if I'm wrong :)

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How do i remove an Object (aliens/ bullets) from my Space Invaders game??

Creating Space Invaders game and im getting confused on removing objects from my game. How do you actually remove an object (i.e bullets and aliens).
I know this isnt the right way to do it, but for the bullets i had an array of the Objects bullets[] and set the x and y coordinates off screen so u cant see then wen they are painted you cant see them, then wen the player fires them, the x and y coordinates change so they come from the players ship till it hits an alien or goes off screen, then i reset the coordinates so they are pasted off screen again. Im relatively new to this so i would appreciate any help. Im going to have to do the same with aliens wen a collision is detected. Is there a way of actually removing an object?
Here is sum code incase you need to see it:
public void checkCollision()
          Rectangle playerRec = new Rectangle(player1.getBoundingBox());
          for(int i=0; i<alienRow; i++)
               for(int j=0; j<alienCol; j++){
                    if(playerRec.intersects(aliens[i][j].getBoundingBox()))
                         collisionDetected();
                    for(int k=0; k<bulletNum; k++){
                         Rectangle bulletRec = new Rectangle(bullets[k].getBoundingBox());
                         if(bulletRec.intersects(aliens[i][j].getBoundingBox()))
                              removeBullet(bullets[k]);
                              collisionDetected();
     public static void collisionDetected()
          System.out.println("COLLISION");
private void removeBullet(Bullets bullet){
          bullet.fired=false;
          bullet.setX(-10);
          bullet.setY(-10);
     }Edited by: deathwings on Nov 25, 2009 8:20 AM

deathwings wrote:
I was thinking bout that arraylist angle before, but it makes sense now so i think that will work ok. Thx kevin.Not a problem.
Taking the List idea one step further, you could have a parent Object/Interface that all of your game objects extend/implement. Let's call it GameObject.
A GameObject would have a draw(Graphics g) function that you call from your paintComponent( ) method, and for example an act( ) function as well.
You'd have a single List of GameObjects that you add everything in your game into. Now painting is simply a matter of looping over a single List. And in your game logic loop, you could do a similar thing with the act( ) function: your bullet's act( ) would simply move it forward and check for collisions and going off screen. An alien's act( ) function would move it around and maybe shoot a weapon every so often.
Just an idea.

Need Help with Java Space Invaders Game!

Hi, im new to these forums so forgive if i dont follow the right way on laying things out. Im trying to create space invaders game but im stuck when im trying to create multiple aliens/ invaders. I have a class called Aliens (which is the invaders), and i can create an instance of an Alien. But when I try to create multiple instances they are not showing up on screen. I am not getting any error message though (which im hoping is a good sign, lol).
GamePanel is where all the action is and Alien is the alien (invaders) class.
Here is the code:
import java.awt.; import javax.swing.; import java.awt.Image; import java.awt.event.KeyListener; import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
public class GamePanel extends JComponent implements KeyListener { SpaceInvaders game; static Player player1; Aliens alien1; static public Image spaceship2R; static public Image spaceship2L;
public GamePanel(SpaceInvaders game)
     this.game = game;
     player1 = new Player(this);
     player1.start();
               ///// trying to create multiple instances of aliens here
     for(int i=0; i<4; i++)
          alien1 = new Aliens(this);
          alien1.setX(i*100);
          alien1.start();
    this.setFocusable(true);
    this.addKeyListener(this);
public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
     Image pic1 = player1.getImage();
     Image pic2 = alien1.getImage();
     super.paintComponent(g);
     g.drawImage(pic1, player1.getX(), player1.getY(), 50, 50,this);
     g.drawImage(pic2, alien1.getX(), alien1.getY(), 50, 50,this);
}//end class
import java.awt.Image; import java.awt.*;
class Aliens extends Thread { //variables GamePanel parent; private boolean isRunning; private int xPos = 0, yPos = 0; Thread thread; static char direction = 'r'; Aliens alien; static public Image alien1; static public Image alien2;
public Aliens(GamePanel parent)
     this.parent = parent;
     isRunning = true;
public void run()
     while(isRunning)
          Toolkit kit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
          alien1 = kit.getImage("alien1.gif");
          alien2 = kit.getImage("alien2.gif");
          try
                  thread.sleep(100);
             catch(InterruptedException e)
                  System.err.println(e);
             updateAliens();
             parent.repaint();
public static Image getImage()
     Image alienImage = alien1;
    switch(direction){
         case('l'):
              alienImage = alien1;
              break;
         case('r'):
              alienImage = alien1;
              break;
    return alienImage;
public void updateAliens()
     if(direction=='r')
          xPos+=20;
          if(xPos >= SpaceInvaders.WIDTH-50||xPos < 0)
               yPos+=50;
               xPos-=20;
               direction='l';
     else
          xPos-=20;
          if(xPos >= SpaceInvaders.WIDTH-50||xPos < 0)
               yPos+=50;
               xPos+=20;
               direction='r';
public void setDirection(char c){ direction = c; }
public void setX(int x){ xPos = x; }
public void setY(int y){ yPos = y; }
public int getX(){ return xPos; }
public int getY(){ return yPos; }
}//end classEdited by: deathwings on Oct 19, 2009 9:47 AM
Edited by: deathwings on Oct 19, 2009 9:53 AM

Maybe the array I have created is not being used in the paint method, or Im working with 2 different objects as you put it? Sorry, Im just learning and I appreciate your time and help. Here is my GamePanel Class and my Aliens class:
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.event.KeyListener;
import java.awt.event.KeyEvent;
import java.awt.image.BufferStrategy;
public class GamePanel extends JComponent implements KeyListener
     SpaceInvaders game;
     static Player player1;
     static Bullets bullet;
     //static public Image spaceship2R;
     //static public Image spaceship2L;
     private BufferStrategy strategy;
     static int alienNum =0;
     static Aliens[] aliens;
     public GamePanel(SpaceInvaders game)
          this.game = game;
          player1 = new Player(this);
          player1.start();
          Aliens[] aliens = new Aliens[10];
          for(int i=0; i<4; i++)
               aliens[i] = new Aliens(this);
               aliens.setX(i*100);
               aliens[i].start();
               alienNum++;
          initialiseGame();
          this.setFocusable(true);
this.addKeyListener(this);
     public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
          Image pic1 = player1.getImage();
          Image pic2 = aliens[0].getImage();
          Image bulletPic = bullet.getImage();
          super.paintComponent(g);
          g.drawImage(pic1, player1.getX(), player1.getY(), 50, 50,this);
          for ( int i = 0; i < alienNum; i++ )
               g.drawImage(pic1, aliens[0].getX(), aliens[0].getY(), 50, 50,this);
          //if (bullet.fired==true){
          //     g.drawImage(bulletPic, bullet.getX(), bullet.getY(), 20, 20,this);
     public void keyPressed(KeyEvent k)
          switch (k.getKeyCode()) {
          case (KeyEvent.VK_KP_DOWN):
          case (KeyEvent.VK_DOWN):
               player1.setDirection('d');
               break;
          case (KeyEvent.VK_KP_UP):
          case (KeyEvent.VK_UP):
               player1.setDirection('u');
          break;
          case (KeyEvent.VK_KP_RIGHT):
          case (KeyEvent.VK_RIGHT):
               player1.setDirection('r');
          break;
          case (KeyEvent.VK_KP_LEFT):
          case (KeyEvent.VK_LEFT):
               player1.setDirection('l');
          break;
          case (KeyEvent.VK_SPACE):
               fireBullet();
          break;
     public void keyTyped(KeyEvent k) {}//empty
     public void keyReleased(KeyEvent k)
          player1.setDirection('n');
     public void initialiseGame()
     public static void checkCollision()
          Rectangle playerRec = new Rectangle(player1.getBoundingBox());
          for(int i=0; i<alienNum; i++)
               //if(playerRec.intersects(aliens[i].getBoundingBox()))
                    //collisionDetected();
     public static void collisionDetected()
          System.out.println("COLLISION");
     public void fireBullet()
          Bullets bullet = new Bullets(player1.getX(),player1.getY());
          bullet.fired=true;
}//end GamePanelimport java.awt.Image;
import java.awt.*;
class Aliens extends Thread
     //variables
     GamePanel parent;
     private boolean isRunning;
     private int xPos = 0, yPos = 0;
     Thread thread;
     static char direction = 'r';
     Aliens alien;
     static public Image alien1;
     static public Image alien2;
     public Aliens(GamePanel parent)
          this.parent = parent;
          isRunning = true;
     public void run()
          while(isRunning)
               Toolkit kit = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit();
               alien1 = kit.getImage("alien1.gif");
               //alien2 = kit.getImage("alien2.gif");
               try
          thread.sleep(100);
     catch(InterruptedException e)
          System.err.println(e);
          updateAliens();
          parent.repaint();
     public static Image getImage()
          Image alienImage = alien1;
     switch(direction){
          case('l'):
               alienImage = alien1;
               break;
          case('r'):
               alienImage = alien1;
               break;
     return alienImage;
     public void updateAliens()
          if(direction=='r')
               xPos+=20;
               if(xPos >= SpaceInvaders.WIDTH-50||xPos < 0)
                    yPos+=50;
                    xPos-=20;
                    direction='l';
          else
               xPos-=20;
               if(xPos >= SpaceInvaders.WIDTH-50||xPos < 0)
                    yPos+=50;
                    xPos+=20;
                    direction='r';
     public Rectangle getBoundingBox()
          return new Rectangle((int)xPos, (int)yPos, 50, 50);
     public void setDirection(char c){ direction = c; }
     public void setX(int x){ xPos = x; }
     public void setY(int y){ yPos = y; }
     public int getX(){ return xPos; }
     public int getY(){ return yPos; }
}//end class

Firing bullets in space invaders game

hey guys,
I am trying to work out the logic and the code required for firing a bullet in a space invaders style game.
I have a space ship on a stage that moves around freely using the arrow keys and I want to use the space bar to release a bullet.
So far my thinking is as follows:
when the space bar is pressed a bullet is released from the players space ship.
so I need to think about:
- the speed of the bullet
- the position of the spaceship when the bullet is fired
- being able to fire multiple bullets one after the other
- the bullet should move from the bottom of the screen to the top of the screen
- the consequence of a bullet hitting a target
I do not know how many scripts I would need to tackle this? how many behaviours per script and more importantly the code required....
I am desperate for any help and support you can provide...
thank you

thank you for your support
at this current time it would be a waste of time to understand how things work that did not benefit my game, sure knowledge would give me power but at the moment Id rather concentrate on gaining the appropriate knowledge as per the mechanics of my game and not going off in the opposite direction
having had a look at your space invaders game and the code and logic you provided it is different to the game I am building because:
- you use the move for movement and fire whereas I use cursor keys and a space bar
- you have limited the amount of ammuntion, I have not
- there are no explosions or changing of cast members on intersection.
I understand the aim of you posting the guide however I am of the thinking it would be better to follow a tutorial that is in line with what I require rather then learning a particular style and then again having to work out how to amend it again to be used in my game...
So if anyone can help me understand or provide code as per my initial message , I would be so grateful
thank you

Controlling fire in Space Invaders game

Hi again,
still working through the tutorial on Space Invaders in Flash
MX 2004 (bit out of date, I know).
I've got the player craft under mouse control. What I don't
like about the game is that you can fire as rapidly as you wan't,
though the number of bullets is limited. You can change this limit
in the variable - I would rather have it though that you can only
have a set number of bullets in play at a time (at the moment, if
you go over the limit, the uppermost bullets just disapear).
Here is the code:
// when the mouse cliks
onClipEvent(mouseDown)
// duplicate the bullet mc
_root.bullet.duplicateMovieClip("bullet"+bulletNum,bulletNum);
// set the coords to the mouse clik
eval("_root.bullet" + bulletNum)._x = this._x;
eval("_root.bullet" + bulletNum)._y = this._y;
// increment the bullet number
bulletNum++;
// if more than 50 bullets , start again at 0
if(bulletNum>50)
bulletNum = 0;
What code could I use to have it so that you can only have,
say, 3 bullets in play at once, and you can't fire again until
they've hit / left the screen?
regards,
g

Hi again,
thanks for that. Another way would be to use code like the
following:
var enableInterval:Number;
var allowFire:Boolean;
function tempDisableFire():Void {
allowFire = false;
enableInterval = setInterval(enableFire, 500); // 500
millisecond delay
function enableFire():Void {
allowFire = true;
clearInterval(enableInterval);
I am unsure though whether to insert this within my existing
code, or to use this starting from scratch. If it was inside an
onClipEvent tag (the event being the mouse click), I could then use
it to control the fire. I'm not sure if I would do this with an "if
/ then" statement.
Any suggestions on this method? I know it may be asking a bit
much, but if you could even complete this piece of code that would
be magic!
cheers,
g

Help with KeyDown (space invaders game)

I'm making a space invaders type game for school using Greenfoot (new Java IDE). Whenever I press space, a bullet will fire. However, multiple bullets are being created when I press space once, and when I hold space, a long stream of bullets are being made. I want one bullet to be created when I press space. Tried using KeyPress, but apparently Greenfoot does not recognize java.awt? Thanks in advance.
public class Ship extends Vehicle {
     * Constructor for objects of class Shuttle
    public Bullet B;
    boolean canFire = false;
    public Ship() {
        GreenfootImage ship = new GreenfootImage("spaceship.gif");
        this.setImage(ship);
    //Create a bullet
    public void fire(){
        B = new Bullet();
        getWorld().addObject(B,getX(),getY()-60);
    public boolean collision(){
        Actor enemy = getOneIntersectingObject(null);
        return (enemy!=null) ? true : false;
    public void act(){
        // move with keys
        if (this.canMove())
             move();
        if(Greenfoot.isKeyDown("space")){
                fire();
        else if(collision()){
            getWorld().removeObject(this);
}

Make a Class Variable to use as a flag indicating that a key was pressed... check to see if the flag is set, and if it is not, then fire a bullet and then set the flag. Reset the flag when they keyReleased action fires.
This way only one bullet can be fired for each time a key is pressed, provided your act() is being polled, but if a keyPressed fires act(), but not a keyRelease too, then it will not work. If it does not work, then you'll need to go to a regular KeyListener.
//Your code make these changes
public class Ship extends Vehicle {
      * Constructor for objects of class Shuttle
     public Bullet B;
     boolean canFire = false;
     public Ship() {
         GreenfootImage ship = new GreenfootImage("spaceship.gif");
         this.setImage(ship);
     //Create a bullet
     public void fire(){
         B = new Bullet();
         getWorld().addObject(B,getX(),getY()-60);
     public boolean collision(){
         Actor enemy = getOneIntersectingObject(null);
         return (enemy!=null) ? true : false;
     public void act(){
         // move with keys
         if (this.canMove())
              move();
        if(!GreenFoot.isKeyDown("space")) canFire = true; //add this
         if(Greenfoot.isKeyDown("space") and canFire){
                 fire();
                 canFire = false; //add this
         else if(collision()){
             getWorld().removeObject(this);
}

Help! trying to create 'space invaders'

hi. im a high school student with a little knowledge of java. im am currently working on a class assignment where each student has to create their own program. i decided to create the classic game of 'Space Invaders'. But i have a problem; i can't figure out how i will get the characters to move.
does anyone if there is a method that will allow the user to move a character? for example, in C++ there is a conio.h library that has a goto(x,y) function. is there one for java as well? thanks alot!

This is another way
import java.awt.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
public class Si extends JFrame
     Timer ta;
     myView view = new myView();
public Si()
     setBounds(3,10,765,350);
     addWindowListener(new WindowAdapter()
     {     public void windowClosing(WindowEvent ev)
          {     dispose();
               System.exit(0);
     getContentPane().add("Center",view);
     setVisible(true);
     ta = new Timer(45, new ActionListener()
     {     public void actionPerformed(ActionEvent e)
               view.move();
     ta.start();
public class myView extends JComponent
     Point invs[]   = new Point[15];
     Color invc[]   = new Color[15];
     Color color[] = new Color[]{
                    Color.blue,   Color.cyan, Color.green, Color.magenta,
                Color.orange, Color.pink, Color.red,   Color.yellow};
public myView()
     for (int p=0; p < invs.length; p++)
          int x = (int)(Math.random()*600)+33;
          int y = (int)(Math.random()*200)+33;
          invs[p] = new Point(x,y);
          int c = (int)(Math.random()*8);
           invc[p] = color[c];
public void move()
     for (int p=0; p < invs.length; p++)
          repaint(invs[p].x-1,invs[p].y-1,20,18);
          int x = (int)(Math.random()*3)-1;
          int y = (int)(Math.random()*3)-1;
          invs[p].translate(x,y);
          repaint(invs[p].x-1,invs[p].y-1,20,18);
public void paintComponent(Graphics g)
     super.paintComponent(g);
     Graphics2D g2 = (Graphics2D)g;
     g2.setRenderingHint(RenderingHints.KEY_ANTIALIASING,RenderingHints.VALUE_ANTIALIAS_ON);
     for (int p=0; p < invs.length; p++)
          g.setColor(invc[p]);
          g.fillOval(invs[p].x,invs[p].y,17,13);
public static void main (String[] args)
     new Si();
}      Noah

[FLMX] ayuda con tutorial space invaders

Hola a todos.
estoy tratando de hacer una modificación de un FLA del
space invaders
que me bajé en:
http://www.flashkit.com/movies/Games/Full_Game_Source/Space_In-Paul_Nea-8765/index.php
Este jueguecillo incluye un PHP que guarda los records en
unos txt.
La cuestión es que no tengo mucha idea de
programación y no me funcionan
los records.
¿alguien podria ayudarme?
gracias mil
Juan

Yet Another quesstion about moving Time Machine backups

I have a NAS drive used to back up 3 Macs. In order to upgrade to a RAID drive, I need to reformat the existing drive (along with the new drive I'm adding to the enclosure) - but that would obviously lose the existing backups. I had planned to move them to another NAS drive that I have, reformat, then move them back.
All the discussions I've seen involve reformatting the target drive (which is not a Time Capsule, but a Buffalo NAS).
I can't do that, because I have lots of archive data (not backed up by time machine) on that disk I'll be using only temporarily.
So, how can I temporarily move the sparsebundle without buying yet another drive?

I recommend doing as I suggested. Cloning is the only correct way to backup a Time Machine backup drive. If you have data on the other drive you don't wish to lose then create a new partition on that drive. See the following:
To resize the drive do the following:
1. Open Disk Utility and select the drive entry (mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list.
2. Click on the Partition tab in the DU main window. You should see the graphical sizing window showing the existing partitions. A portion may appear as a blue rectangle representing the used space on a partition.
3. In the lower right corner of the sizing rectangle for each partition is a resizing gadget. Select it with the mouse and move the bottom of the rectangle upwards until you have reduced the existing partition enough to create the desired new volume's size. The space below the resized partition will appear gray. Click on the Apply button and wait until the process has completed. (Note: You can only make a partition smaller in order to create new free space.)
4. Click on the [+] button below the sizing window to add a new partition in the gray space you freed up. Give the new volume a name, if you wish, then click on the Apply button. Wait until the process has completed.
You should now have a new volume on the drive.
It would be wise to have a backup of your current system as resizing is not necessarily free of risk for data loss. Your drive must have sufficient contiguous free space for this process to work.

Space invaders! I need some help...!

Hello,
i'm trying to program a very simple version of space invaders. I'm drawing my moving objects (spaceship, rockets, aliens) with drawstring but I'm getting these compiling error: illegal start of expression.
Also I want to move the spaceship with translate is this OK to do so!?
Can somebody help me? Thanks for your help!
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
//in deze klasse teken ik het ruimteschip en kan het links/rechts bewegen
public class Ruimteschip
     //ruimteschip
     Ruimteschip roderikschip = new Ruimteschip();
     public void paint(Graphics ruimteschip)
{      //Ruimteschip weergeven
     Graphics2D ruimteschip2D = (Graphics2D)ruimteschip;
String ruimteschip = "ruimteschip";
ruimteschip2D.drawString("ruimteschip", x, y,);
     //beweegmethod
     public void beweegRechts()
     {     //teken opnieuw 1 coordinaat rechts
          roderikschip.translate(1, 0);
          ruimteschip2D.drawString("ruimteschip", x, y);
//beweegmethod
     public void beweegLinks()
     {     //teken opnieuw 1 coordinaat links
          roderikschip.translate(-1, 0);
          ruimteschip2D.drawString("ruimteschip", x, y);
}

Hi and thanks for your replies.
I know drawString isn't the most beautiful way, but I'm making this game for an assignment, and I have to use drawString.
Still i'm getting "illegal start of expression" in my paint method...
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import java.awt.Graphics2D;
//in deze klasse teken ik het ruimteschip en kan het links/rechts bewegen
public class Ruimteschip
     //ruimteschip
        Ruimteschip ruimteschip = new Ruimteschip();
     public void paint(Graphics ruimteschip)
    {      //Ruimteschip weergeven
         Graphics2D ruimteschip2D = (Graphics2D)ruimteschip;
        String s = "ruimteschip";
        *ruimteschip2D.drawString(s, x, y,);*
     //beweegmethod
     public void beweegRechts()
     {     //teken opnieuw 1 coordinaat rechts
          s.translate(1, 0);
          ruimteschip.drawString(s, x, y);
    //beweegmethod
     public void beweegLinks()
     {     //teken opnieuw 1 coordinaat links
          s.translate(-1, 0);
          ruimteschip.drawString(s, x, y);
} Edited by: Roddy on May 1, 2008 8:28 AM

Space Invaders.

Hi, could you please try my game Space Invaders, to see if you can find any bugs etc? Let me know...
http://www.geocities.com/ajbasic/SpaceInvaders.html

the ability to die should definitely be the last thing you code ;) It's so cool to play an early staged game without ever being able to die.
OK, so my comments:
The pictures, if you're going to allow them to overlap, as you do now, give them some transparency.
Also, right now, the ships will go all the way to the bottom and through the bottom of the screen.... that's bad.
Anything else I'd think would be immediately obvious. Keep going with it and I hope to see some origional twists that you come up with

Yet another dimension of Yahoo IMAP suckage

Just when I thought I'd had all the frustration I can handle with the terrible integration of IMAP support for Yahoo accounts (and as stated before I really have no idea if the problem resides with AT&T/Yahoo or Palm), I discovered today that there's yet another possible weirdness that can happen -- duplication of the entire inbox. What I had happen multiple times is that a new message would come in, and when it went to fetch it, it would also fetch all email again from the last 7 days (the cutoff I have set, because as often as I have problems and have to delete the account, there's no point loading any more than that), such that I had 2 copies of every message. Then if I manually refresh (sometimes I had to leave the inbox and go back, sometimes not) it would properly remove the duplicates and set the message count correctly again.
Here's the part that has to be a bug on the Pre, well-documented on this forum by now -- every time this happened, even once the message count was back to the proper value, the disk space used for email grew. So those duplicate messages were being orphaned in /var/luna/data/emails every time, taking away valuable application space made critically important by the failure/extreme delay in addressing the app space limitation issue.
I have no idea if it's done doing this yet. I just sent a test message and it didn't happen that time. I have already deleted and re-added the account once and it happened again twice after that, so it's not some weirdness with the account unless it recreated itself again right away.
We really ought to be past this type of issue by now. IMAP email is not exactly brand new technology, and plenty of folks are having issues with POP as well. We ought to be reaching a point of maturity in WebOS and the core applications that makes it a solid foundation on which to add features and develop apps for. But it's just not. Every new update, while it fixes some things, breaks others, and some of these systemic and long-standing issues have yet to be addressed (again, except for the disk space growth, I don't know for sure that the Pre is doing anything wrong, but that alone is still a huge issue that doesn't seem like it would be hard to pinpoint). I said from the beginning I was willing to wait for this phone to grow into its potential, and I still am, but I expected more progress by now.
-- robert
Post relates to: Pre p100eww (Sprint)

Just an update. The loading of duplicate messages appears to have stopped, at least for now, but things are still not working normally. Some messages are simply missed until I do a manual refresh. In other words, say I get message A at 1pm. I can see it in my inbox via webmail, but it's not on the Pre. Then I get message B at 1:30. I see it after message A in my inbox in webmail, but on the Pre, I get a notification for B, and see B in my inbox, but A is not there until I do a manual refresh, and at that point the order even on the Pre confirms that A arrived first. This has happened twice this afternoon, and I can't say as I've every seen that behavior prior to today. I really am beginning to wonder if email is ever going to work properly on this thing...
-- robert

After having yet another problem with my MacBook Pro and having to wipe the drive, I am now unable to sync my iPhones etc without erasing all the music on them. Is there a way around this? I have no other library!

After having yet another problem with my MacBook Pro and having to wipe the drive, I am now unable to sync my iPhones etc without erasing all the music on them. Is there a way around this? I have no other library!
iTunes is a mess! It couldn't find it's own libraries and I was forced to create a new one. Now I don't know where my music is or if any's missing.

columbus new boy wrote:
How crap is that?
It's not crap at all.
It's not that simple. For example, I've 3500 songs on my MacBook but don't want them all on my phone, so I have to manually select each song again???
There has to be a solution.
Why not simply make a playlist with the songs you want on the iPhone?
and maintain a current backup of your computer.

Is this yet another problem with 7.5 or is it just me . . .

Upgrade seemed to be fine, at first . . . now I keep getting distortion on songs. It seems to be quite random and just because a song has been distorted when I've listened to it once doesn't mean it will be when I listen to it again! It's driving me insane. Is this yet another bug or have I done something wrong (apart from upgrading to 7.5).

Hi Emlou,
If you have a Windows based operating system such as XP -
It seems to me that you are suffering what I am having the same problem with - the program takes up to much of your computer's processing usage. If you go into your task manager and watch performance as ITunes runs - you will see how much of the total computer usage it is taking at any given moment - that's why your songs are distorted, slowing, garbled, etc - the usage on mine spikes from 11% - 93% AT ANY GIVEN MINUTE! I have no idea why, but I have found that by going to your "Control Panel" and clicking on Quicktime you can adjust audio output to help. Click the audio tab, click Safe Mode Wavout only (checkbox) / Then adjust the "Rate" to 96kHz / Then adjust the "Size" to 16 bit. Close that and shut down and restart Itunes - it might help a little for you.
Maybe someone out there can help us find out why we are suffering with all the CPU usage trouble and how to adjust that spiking.
Thanks!
Paul

Yet another No Service iPhone 4, second hand

Hi all,
Apologies for yet another topic about the No Service issue on the iPhone 4. I bought a secondhand iPhone 4 16GB 2 days ago after having a 3GS 32GB for 18 months with no problems. iPhone 4 was just over a week old when I bought it (warranty date shows when it was first activated), on the O2 UK network like my old one.
All was fine for 2 days, was receiving and making calls and texts etc with no problems. But since late afternoon yesterday the phone has mostly said No Service. It occasionally goes onto O2-UK but with no bars of signal so calls and texts still fail immediately.
I've tried all of the tips I can find online to resolve this, airplane mode on/off, reset network settings, restore from backup, restore as new phone, hard resets. But nothing's working.
I can take out my SIM and put it into my 3GS, in the same location, and get 5 bars of signal, all my texts come through. Then put SIM back into iPhone 4 and straight away, No Service.
I've made a Genius bar appointment for tomorrow afternoon, but I'm wondering what happens regarding the fact that I'm not the person who bought the phone in the first place? Will this be an issue?
Thank you in advance for any advice about this, was so looking forward to having this phone and now, bleh!

I spoke to o2, they checked my SIM is activated and said they don't need a record of my IMEI number. Still saying No Service so will have to see what the "Genius" says tomorrow!

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