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Official iPhone/iPod Touch Thread: Part Deux!
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I just ordered one of these microphone nubbins for my iPod touch.
I pretty much just keep my shitty old HTC smartphone around for its voice recorder, and I was happy to sell it, buy an old phone with a million hours battery life and use my iPod touch for voice.
Basically, I'm wondering what app to get! I record interviews with people for work, and all I need is record, playback, and some way of getting the audio files onto my PC or Dropbox for backup.
So I'm back in NZ now. Have to say the network is pretty good. I'm currently on Vodafone Prepay, and I have nominated one number (~US$4/month) that I can call for 1000 minutes and get 1000 txts, and for ~US$7, I get 100MB of data, all on no contract. Since I really only call one person, and just need a bit of internet to save my skin when I'm out an about, that's not bad. US$11/month.
Sure it's not amazing, but it's nice to have these sorts of options. Oh, and tethering works too, although I'd chew through 100MB just like that.
Sure it's not amazing, but it's nice to have these sorts of options. Oh, and tethering works too, although I'd chew through 100MB just like that.
Pastry said:
For non-gaming sites I use:
http://app.itize.us/wp/
http://landingpad.org/
http://smokingapples.com/
http://www.touchintel.com/
Bioshocked
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Right now I've got my 3G jailbroken with iOS4 and I'm having issues with wifi. In the menus it'll say it's connected to my router, but at the top it has the edge symbol instead of wifi, and I can't connect to anything. Sometimes it'll have the wifi symbol and I still can't connect. Anyone know what's going on with this?
Buttonbasher
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My 3G keeps telling me that the accessory I attached is not supported. But I have nothing connected at all. It's blocking me from hearing iPod content through the speaker, and keeps asking me to put it in airplane mode.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
Lamel
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Okay so here's the scoop. My iPod touch is not charging anymore, it was two days ago, but yesterday it only charged when i held the sync cable in tight. Now it doesn't charge at all and I'm afraid the charging dock is broken. I have insurance from best buy that will replace it but I just have a few questions.
This iPod touch (3G 32 GB) had ios4 installed and a multitude of apps. Now I do have them all backed up on my pc but if they give me a new iPod and it has ios3 installed, will it cause any problems? Will I be able to upgrade to ios4 and then sync the apps/music? (some apps are ios4 only such as ibooks). Perhaps they now have ipods with ios4 preinstalled? Thanks a lot in advance, help is needed ASAP
This iPod touch (3G 32 GB) had ios4 installed and a multitude of apps. Now I do have them all backed up on my pc but if they give me a new iPod and it has ios3 installed, will it cause any problems? Will I be able to upgrade to ios4 and then sync the apps/music? (some apps are ios4 only such as ibooks). Perhaps they now have ipods with ios4 preinstalled? Thanks a lot in advance, help is needed ASAP
criesofthepast
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Don't know how this is possible but I just jailbroke my 3G to iOS4 using PwnageTool and I enabled the multitasking, home screen background, battery %, etc features that we 3G owners are not supposed to get and my phone is faster than it was before. I don't really need those features but I was curious to see how they would run. I haven't installed any other apps yet but it is lightning fast right now. Multitasking works great with the Apple made apps I have on the phone after a fresh install.
I don't get it. I thought it was supposed to be slow as molasses? I will probably turn off the home screen wallpaper if I start to see slowdown after installing a few more apps but right now it is perfectly fine.
I don't get it. I thought it was supposed to be slow as molasses? I will probably turn off the home screen wallpaper if I start to see slowdown after installing a few more apps but right now it is perfectly fine.
Hellsing321
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I giving my 3G to a friend who is on T-mobile so I need to Jailbreak and unlock it. Problem is I've never done that before and I'm a little skittish. What Jailbreak software is the best and will give the least amount of problems to someone like me. The 3G is on firmware 3.1.3 if that helps any.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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It is slow as molasses, you just don't have a reference. You get used to the 3G taking 4-10 seconds to open things and it doesn't feel so long.criesofthepast said:
iPhone 4's 5MP Camera Won't Fit in Current iPod Touch Design
Which trade-offs would you make?
iPod touch (left) and iPhone 4 camera (right)
After we heard today's rumors claiming that the next iPod touch might be getting the iPhone 4's 5-megapixel camera, we asked iFixit's Kyle Wiens if that would even be possible given the sizes of the parts involved. iFixit offers repair guides (iPhone 4 guide) and parts for Apple products and has made a name for itself by posting detailed product teardowns.
This issue of camera size is one we've seen before. The iPod nano, for example, contains a video-only camera but is unable to take still photos. Steve Jobs explained the reason to the The New York Times:
I also asked him why the Nano can record video, but can't snap still photos. That reason, he said, is technical: the sensors you need to record video are extremely thin these days -- thin enough to fit into the wafer-thin Nano. But the ones with enough resolution for stills, especially with autofocus (like the sensor in the iPhone), are much too thick to cram into a player that's only 0.2 inches thick.
Wiens reports on the relative sizes of the hardware in question:
- iPhone 4 5MP (back) camera: 6.5mm
- iPhone 4 FaceTime (front) camera: 2.5mm
- iPod touch width (at edges): 6mm
The iPod touch dimensions don't include the casing and display, so actual usable space is smaller than the 6mm shown. This shows that the iPhone 4's back camera can not fit in the iPod touch, though the front FaceTime camera could. It's possible that Apple might "square off" the iPod touch design like the iPhone 4, but even so, Wiens still isn't sure that it would be possible in the current dimensions. That would mean Apple would have to make the iPod touch thicker as well as "squaring off" the design to accommodate the 5MP camera.
Given the early iPod touch parts and Apple's push for FaceTime, it seems likely that the next iPod touch will have a front-facing FaceTime camera, but the same high quality 5MP iPhone 4 camera seems less likely.
Which trade-offs would you make?
Macho Madness
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I was always under the impression that iPod touches were consistently slimmer than iPhones, so isn't that a given? The sky is blue too, don't ya know.
Gamecocks625
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Does anyone use these for their iPod touch? Just curious as to the quality of them
Jamesearlcash
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Right, I have the latest 8gb ipod touch, i was using itunes to upload some stuff onto the ipod for the first time in a while, and it said i can update to 4.0, so i did, however somewhere along the line this didn't go right, and now my ipod is bricked, i have tried restoring it but it says it can't and i get error code 21, which i have googled but none of the results worked.
So my question is, can i do a hard reset or anything, just so i can start over ? Advice guys ? Was thinking i might just take it back to the store.
So my question is, can i do a hard reset or anything, just so i can start over ? Advice guys ? Was thinking i might just take it back to the store.
I tried looking online, but it's difficult to find an answer given how varied this topic is, but is my Japanese iPhone 3GS able to be unlocked? Here's some information:
iOS4
Modem Firmware: 05.13.04
I'm not talking about a Jailbreak per se, but an unlock. It would be nice to use my old AT&T number whenever I visit the U.S.
iOS4
Modem Firmware: 05.13.04
I'm not talking about a Jailbreak per se, but an unlock. It would be nice to use my old AT&T number whenever I visit the U.S.
MiloFoxburr
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cvxfreak said:
You'll have to wait for the new jailbreak. You need to jailbreak to unlock. If you were jailbroken previously and saved your SHSH Blobs for 3.1.3 then you could downgrade, jaulbreak and unlock.
Unless you saved your SHSH blobs for prior firmwares I don't think you can. IIRC Apple has stopped signing firmwares prior to 4.0.1 already thus if you've upgraded you can no longer downgrade without Cydia stored/local SHSH backups. This is regardless of jailbreak status.deadbeef said:
New or old bootrom on the 3GS? If it has the old bootrom you can use the currently available Pwnage tool 4.0.1 jailbreak/ultrasn0w combo to jailbreak/unlock. If you have the new bootrom you'll have to wait for the upcoming jailbreak.cvxfreak said:
Old bootrom: iBoot-359.3
New bootrom: iBoot-359.3.2
iClarified has a simple guide how to check which you have: http://www.iclarified.com/entry/index.php?enid=10301
(FYI: to later exit DFU mode, hold Power/Home buttons for 10+ seconds to reboot back to normal)
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Am I the only one who doesn't understand the way this syncing bullshit works? Why can't I just drag a damn picture folder into iTunes so they get sent to my damn phone in the photos section? Why does it sync apps when I don't give a fuck about syncing apps. Why does it backup when I don't want it to.
What a load of shit. iTunes = old POS. I want to see my phone on my PC and drag stuff into it, period. If I want to do a damn backup I'll do right-click/backup! Why does it have to be more complicated?
And why can't I just create folders on my phone for the photos? Why are they all in photo library?
edit: Now all I see is a giant censorship-like box that is hiding most of my pictures. POS!!!
What a load of shit. iTunes = old POS. I want to see my phone on my PC and drag stuff into it, period. If I want to do a damn backup I'll do right-click/backup! Why does it have to be more complicated?
And why can't I just create folders on my phone for the photos? Why are they all in photo library?
edit: Now all I see is a giant censorship-like box that is hiding most of my pictures. POS!!!
Gamecocks625
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I'm sure this has been discussed ad nauseam, but what's the verdict with iBooks vs the Kindle app on the iPod Touch/iPhone? Is the iPod screen sufficient for an e-reader experience?
Macho Madness
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I think you want a different phone or something if little things like that make you freak out. I personally enjoy how I plugin my iPhone and it does everything for me.Ether_Snake said:
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thewesker said:
Does everything for me? How about 200 pictures that are BLACK BOXES. How about not having a "delete" photo option on the phone anymore? That's right, I can't even delete a photo anymore. Oh wait! You can't delete pictures that were uploaded from your PC. Makes perfect sense! And if I want to organize them I have to download iPhoto? Seriously, wtf.
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Burger said:
Not if they have been added from a PC!
I agree, the biggest annoyance about an iPhone is the hurdles and bullshit that you have to jump through to upload things like pictures. I basically have to sync a directory and then put the photos in there, which means I have to make duplicates of photos in a "to iPhone" folder. Really annoying. And as ether said, if it's a synced PC folder the delete option doesn't exist...
That being said, the good outweighs the bad in this situation.
Thank you so fucking much.
That being said, the good outweighs the bad in this situation.
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Darkflight said:
Thank you so fucking much.
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KTallguy said:
Exactly! It's ridiculous. I just had to do this now.
I had heard Steeve Jobs was a no-nonsense kind of guy when it comes to this kind of stuff but they couldn't get it right for the iPhone because they wanted to shoe-horn iLife into everyone's face.
Here's how it SHOULD be:
I plug my iPhone in my PC.
The display IDENTICAL to my iPhone appears.
I can click on anything like I would on my iPhone. But I can create albums in the photo album, drag and drop pictures, do the same with movies, music, etc., drga and drop apps, and so on and so forth.
It should be the same interface. iTunes is slow, non-user-friendly, etc.
I think it's a mentality thing too.
The sync iLife mentality kind of grabbed older people or non control freak people because of the automatic fill and forget stuff. Also many people have a lot more music than could fit on the older devices (now not so much).
I will be honest, once I got used to it, I'm not as flustered.
I have my whole music library in iTunes and then hit the "random fill button" and get some stuff that I forgot I had :lol I think that's kind of cool.
But after years and years of drag and drop, the lack of control is annoying.
The sync iLife mentality kind of grabbed older people or non control freak people because of the automatic fill and forget stuff. Also many people have a lot more music than could fit on the older devices (now not so much).
I will be honest, once I got used to it, I'm not as flustered.
I have my whole music library in iTunes and then hit the "random fill button" and get some stuff that I forgot I had :lol I think that's kind of cool.
But after years and years of drag and drop, the lack of control is annoying.
Burger said:
In order to get pictures from your (Windows) PC to your iPhone, you have to create a folder with a bunch of pictures in it on your (Windows) PC and sync it to your iTunes in the iPhone menu.
When you sync it, it will appear in your picture folders as the name of the folder on your PC.
However you can't actually delete any pictures in that directory. The trash can icon disappears.
It's similar to the fact that I can't delete an mp3 from my iPhone, I have to sync it to iTunes and delete it from there. I can delete video but not an mp3? Why?
So like most people (I assume), I have a decently large library of music that I've been collecting probably since I was in middle school. I have my iPhone only sync my checked songs but I'm sure there are songs that aren't checked that I'd want. What I'm looking to do is be able to filter my sync based on ratings, but still have the unrated songs sync as I haven't given ratings to the majority of my music.
The Zune software made it so it would not sync any "thumbs down" songs (but this still let the unrated songs go to the Zune). I am looking to do something similar but I cannot find a way in either the sync settings or the Smartlist filters. Just wondering if anyone knows anything I'm missing.
I know I can sync all of my music and make a Smartlist that will only sync certain ratings, the problem with this is that as I'm listening to "all songs", ratings something 1 star won't remove it from my device, so there is a chance it will pop up again next time I start the "all songs shuffle". Right now I'm thinking my only option is to check all songs, rate them as I listen, then uncheck the 1-stars the next time I sync with iTunes. This wouldn't be ideal but I can't think of anything else.
tldr: I want iTunes to automatically remove 1-starred songs from sync but still sync unrated songs.
The Zune software made it so it would not sync any "thumbs down" songs (but this still let the unrated songs go to the Zune). I am looking to do something similar but I cannot find a way in either the sync settings or the Smartlist filters. Just wondering if anyone knows anything I'm missing.
I know I can sync all of my music and make a Smartlist that will only sync certain ratings, the problem with this is that as I'm listening to "all songs", ratings something 1 star won't remove it from my device, so there is a chance it will pop up again next time I start the "all songs shuffle". Right now I'm thinking my only option is to check all songs, rate them as I listen, then uncheck the 1-stars the next time I sync with iTunes. This wouldn't be ideal but I can't think of anything else.
tldr: I want iTunes to automatically remove 1-starred songs from sync but still sync unrated songs.
Only solution I can think of:
Make two smart playlists.
One playlist is "Rating is NOT 1 star" (you can title it anything you want)
The other is "Rating IS one star" (you can title it anything you want)
Make it so iTunes only syncs songs in the first playlist (plus any other playlists you have)
Make two smart playlists.
One playlist is "Rating is NOT 1 star" (you can title it anything you want)
The other is "Rating IS one star" (you can title it anything you want)
Make it so iTunes only syncs songs in the first playlist (plus any other playlists you have)
Darkflight
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I've been using Expenditure - http://www.expenditureapp.com/border said:
Pizza Luigi
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Okay, for no reason whatsoever my iPod Touch decided to erase all its contents. What the fuck. There is nothing on it anymore. No music, no apps, no photos. I can't use my backup that I did yesterday for some reason as well. So how can I redownload all my apps in one move? Or do I have to do that app by app, for I will surely kill someone if that's the case. What the fuck?
kitchenmotors
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Darkflight said:
Expenditure is amazing. Love it, so useful.
Just got done jailbreaking and unlocking an inherited 3G, running iOS4. While it's a big upgrade from my 2G (which was pretty slow ever since the 3.0 upgrade) it is kinda disappointing that I have this nice new phone and it still hangs and chugs when accessing contacts and SMS and stuff.
Is there any reason whatsoever that I should keep iOS4 on this phone? The major features of the upgrade aren't even available it looks like -- I can't multitask, I can't even set my own wallpaper (wtf?). Why did they even bother making this upgrade available to 3G owners?
How hard/complex is it to downgrade? Will I have to unlock/jailbreak it all over again?
Is there any reason whatsoever that I should keep iOS4 on this phone? The major features of the upgrade aren't even available it looks like -- I can't multitask, I can't even set my own wallpaper (wtf?). Why did they even bother making this upgrade available to 3G owners?
How hard/complex is it to downgrade? Will I have to unlock/jailbreak it all over again?
NotifiedApp
The free version was just released on the ModMyI repo (a pro version is coming this weekend). Unfortunately, it's not working on iPhone OS 3.x (the fix didn't work for me) so I couldn't see it in action on a friend's jailbroken 3GS but it should ork for all y'all running a jailbroken iOS4. The possibilities of a better notification system is one of the main reasons I can't wait to jailbreak my iPhone4!
Notified app adds an Android like notification system to your iPhone, but in true Apple style.
Apple is looking into the problems with iOS4 on the iPhone 3G but who knows if there will ever be a fix. Here's a guide to downgrading. It's not too hard. And you don't have to unlock/jailbreak again unless you want to. Before you downgrade though, try unlocking all the features of iOS4 to see if it's worth avoiding all that hassle.border said:
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