But that won't work in the next update, as Apple has closed the hole making it happen.
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But that won't work in the next update, as Apple has closed the hole making it happen.
Not all earpieces support that. If yours does then after it's been paired with the iPhone it should just work whenever audio is playing.
I'll apologize in advance if this is a dumb question, but I'm an android user.
My wife has been swayed to the apple side due to her recent use of an iPad for all of her work. She loves it.
For Christmas, I'm getting her a new Iphone 4s (just arrived today actually).
I have no idea how she should sync her contacts with the device.
What I know she uses:
E-mail:
Personal - GMail
Work - Microsoft Office
Contacts:
She is currently using a Palm Pre Plus and due to constant loss of contacts, I backed up all of her contacts to Google (what I use and know).
I believe she uses her Outlook contacts, but she may keep the work/personal contacts separate by using outlook for work and Palm for all else.
Calender:
We share our Google calenders as we have found this is the only way we can keep from double booking. So she does currently use her Google calender.
We keep that synced with Microsoft Outlook by using Google Calender Sync.
So... now that I have that all out.
What is the best option for a painless transition?
Contact syncing would be the biggest thing I am curious about. Where should the contacts live? Outlook? Google? Apple's cloud?
E-mail should be pretty much the same. Outlook Exchange for work and GMail for personal. Right?
Calender should remain the same too?? Google Calender Sync should keep that working well.
Any help would be appreciated. She usually turns to me for this stuff and I am just not familiar enough with Apple.
My wife has been swayed to the apple side due to her recent use of an iPad for all of her work. She loves it.
For Christmas, I'm getting her a new Iphone 4s (just arrived today actually).
I have no idea how she should sync her contacts with the device.
What I know she uses:
E-mail:
Personal - GMail
Work - Microsoft Office
Contacts:
She is currently using a Palm Pre Plus and due to constant loss of contacts, I backed up all of her contacts to Google (what I use and know).
I believe she uses her Outlook contacts, but she may keep the work/personal contacts separate by using outlook for work and Palm for all else.
Calender:
We share our Google calenders as we have found this is the only way we can keep from double booking. So she does currently use her Google calender.
We keep that synced with Microsoft Outlook by using Google Calender Sync.
So... now that I have that all out.
What is the best option for a painless transition?
Contact syncing would be the biggest thing I am curious about. Where should the contacts live? Outlook? Google? Apple's cloud?
E-mail should be pretty much the same. Outlook Exchange for work and GMail for personal. Right?
Calender should remain the same too?? Google Calender Sync should keep that working well.
Any help would be appreciated. She usually turns to me for this stuff and I am just not familiar enough with Apple.
I've owned an iPhone since the 3G, been buying Apple products since the 3rd gen iPod and a 12" PowerBook G4. I have an upgrade available soon and I really want to try out the Galaxy Nexus. The revamped ICS and that 4.3" screen look like a combo that can match or surpass the iPhone in some areas. I like the better Dropbox integration, obviously the bigger screen, but other than that I'm not too sure. Anyone have any input if you've played around with an ICS phone?
I own and love an iPad 2 so it would suck not being able to share the universal apps, but I don't know. iTunes Match has been beyond buggy with me, some songs still not appearing on my iPhone while appearing on my iPad. Google's Cloud services seem a tad more fleshed out. Come upgrade time in February I'm really tempted to check out the Galaxy Nexus...
I own and love an iPad 2 so it would suck not being able to share the universal apps, but I don't know. iTunes Match has been beyond buggy with me, some songs still not appearing on my iPhone while appearing on my iPad. Google's Cloud services seem a tad more fleshed out. Come upgrade time in February I'm really tempted to check out the Galaxy Nexus...
Due to all of the benefits you get under Mac OS by using Apple's address book app, I use that for my contacts and then have it sync to everything else. Part of that, though, is syncing them to Google. So far as I know, you can also set it up so that your contacts come directly from Google, so that shouldn't be a problem.
No problem at all. My current iPhone is three Gmail accounts, one Yahoo mail account, and one standard IMAP. I used to also have an Exchange account on there as well.
Both on my iPhone and Mac, I have my calendars coming from Google Calendar. Again, no problems at all.
secretanchitman
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its very easy to sync google contacts, calendars, and email to the iphone!
when you first setup the iphone, it'll walk you through setting the language, wifi, apple id, email (if you use your email as your apple id), icloud, find my iphone, etc. after its all done, you actually have two options to sync. you can either tell itunes to sync contacts from google (pic) or if you dont want to use itunes, you can do it all on the iphone itself. instead of normally setting up gmail using imap, you'll want to setup gmail as an exchange account. both are very easy to do. im not sure if setting up gmail normally as imap will allow the contacts and/or calendars sync (i have a google apps account so it only does my email and notes), but it will definitely let you do email at the least.
icloud will give you a free @me.com email address if you choose, it will also keep a copy of your contacts, calendars, reminders, and other stuff for free. more details are here.
her contacts and calendar will appear after you've finished setting everything up. be sure to use wifi so it'll be much faster than 3G.
Thanks for the info-
I'll read through this and the links tonight.
Cheers-
So I'm having difficulty getting my iPhone to Sync new music, be it either over Wifi or connected directly to the PC. I'll try and copy music over, but now it's stuck greyed out sitting there. Any idea what the hell is going on?
Also had a lot of difficulty making the iPhone or PC figure out which podcasts I wanted to keep or not.
Also had a lot of difficulty making the iPhone or PC figure out which podcasts I wanted to keep or not.
PhoncipleBone
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I am having that same problem today, but on Mac OSX. This morning stuff synced fine, but now the music is not syncing at all. I have tried manually managing, syncing playlists only, restarting everything, wifi, USB...nothing works. WTF?
PhoncipleBone
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Ok, I just did a full restore on the phone and now music syncing works. Really, WTF was going on there?
Sutton Dagger
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So I've just unlocked my Australian iPhone 4 for an upcoming trip to Europe. I'm wondering what will be the best carrier for getting a microsim? Will be traveling to England, France and Italy. Any guidance would be appreciated.
So I decided this week to shed my case and go naked with my 4 and damn it's almost like I have a new phone. I went caseless with my 3G and 3GS, but the glass of the 4 made me feel like I needed some kind of protection and also provide a better grip of the phone. I've gotten over those fears and I'm happy with my decision. I appreciate the design of the phone so much more now. It's so smooth and minimalistic looking, yet has just the right amount of weight and thickness as to not feel cheap.
I love my phone. lol.
I love my phone. lol.
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Vilix
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My boss bought a nice shiny iPhone 4. He went case less as well. Then his 5 year old got a hold of it. *hugs his cased up tight iPhone*
Ok gaf I need your help. My friend called me this morning and I picked up and couldn't hear him. So I figured he was pocket dialing me.
Then someone called and left a voice mail. I try to listen to the voice mail and don't hear a thing. So then I put it on speaker and it works fine.
I searched and I've tried plugging and unplugging headphones. I've tried blowing a can of air into the headphone jack and I've also tried sucking from the headphone jack hole. I know there is a dirty joke in there, but this shit is pissing me off.
Has this happened to anyone else? If so did you solve it or did you just have to return the phone and get a new one?
Then someone called and left a voice mail. I try to listen to the voice mail and don't hear a thing. So then I put it on speaker and it works fine.
I searched and I've tried plugging and unplugging headphones. I've tried blowing a can of air into the headphone jack and I've also tried sucking from the headphone jack hole. I know there is a dirty joke in there, but this shit is pissing me off.
Has this happened to anyone else? If so did you solve it or did you just have to return the phone and get a new one?
PhoncipleBone
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Christ. My battery life today is horrible. Was at 100% at noon and with very little use today I am at 18%. Timing it, I have lost 2% in ten minutes of standby. All I have done since is press the power button to see the percentage. Wtf?
PhoncipleBone
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Yeah...down 10% in an hour of standby. Maybe an app running in the background? Any ideas?
The Big Rig
Member
Dude, I thought I was going crazy. I'm having the same problem, and it started 2 days ago.
Treefingers
Member
Did you guys buy iTunes Match by any chance? Cause I did yesterday and today my battery ran out very quickly.
PhoncipleBone
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No iTunes match. I closed out AIM to see if that was it. I also disabled all notifications with Words with Friends. I went from 21% to 0% in about two hours and ten minutes of standby. Something is wrong there.
When I had that issue, it was due to calendar appointments failing to sync with Exchange ActiveSync. It was endlessly trying and failing, and incidentally using a huge amount of bandwidth in the process. Deleting the Mail/Calendar account and recreating it solved the problem, and I only mention it because that was insanely counterintuitive as a solution to me.
PhoncipleBone
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Not on exchange, but on iCloud. And tomorrow is an appt I deleted off of my calendar. Yet my iPad battery is not draining beyond normal.
The Big Rig
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Somehow, my battery issue went away. I tried to trace what I did; I only disabled some stuff in Locations, and lowered the fetch time for my gmail and college email.
She can use your Apple ID account that you used on your old iPhone. It consists of the email address and password you used to download apps, videos and music with.
Resident_UA
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not sure if there is a better thread to ask about this but I'm hoping that someone can help me out. I dropped my phone and cracked the screen and now I can't hear the caller and the caller can't hear me when making calls. This happens even if I'm on bluetooth. What part of the phone would be responsible for that. It can't be related to speaker can it?
I would appreciate any help. Even if you just let me know what would be a good place to ask about this.
I would appreciate any help. Even if you just let me know what would be a good place to ask about this.
sixteen-bit
Member
What are you looking for? Hard? Soft? Waterproof?
Looking for something similar to a bumper I guess. Problem with the official Apple one is that it scuffs my sides.
krypt0nian
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Caseless here, but the only one I would consider would be the Graft Leverage case. Pricy but gorgeous.
http://www.graftconcepts.com/products/metal-leverage-iphone4-case
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Vilix
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I heard LifeProof has but out a pretty good case. Can withstand a beating and is completely waterproof down to 10 meters. It's gotten some good reviews.
Damn, I'm starting to noticed that my battery is draining quick now. Only had it for a year but I don't really do much with my phone. Cellular data, 3g, notifications, location services all have been turned off and yet the battery is still draining like crazy. I've always just let it run the battery run out and then charge it. I seen the battery percentage go from 35% to 10% overnight.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
Member
It's not 2005 anymore. You don't have to do this.
sixteen-bit
Member
Yeah that's actually not recommended
Are you sure no apps are running in the background? Ideally after a full charge you should lose 5-10% battery life if the phone isnt being used for 8 hours. Something isn't right.
I've always completely close the apps when I'm done using them.
So as of 9:45 p.m., the battery is down to 44%.
Only time I touched the phone today was when I checked on the battery status.
Anyone have any experience repairing a power/lock button that feels "stuck" for lack of a better word? Phone was working just fine, and without dropping it or anything that you would expect might cause a problem the power button doesn't appear to move at all. If you press extremely hard onto it, it'll lock/unlock but there is no tactile give to the thing anymore.
Haven't taken it to an Apple Store yet because it's a launch 4 and of course no longer under warranty, so I'm assuming they're going to say "pay us $200" or something absurd, so I figured I'd get GAF's opinion before proceeding. Found a guide to repair it but the amount of steps required to get to that particular component is kind of staggering. If nothing else, I'm impressed how the innards of the phone are put together.
Haven't taken it to an Apple Store yet because it's a launch 4 and of course no longer under warranty, so I'm assuming they're going to say "pay us $200" or something absurd, so I figured I'd get GAF's opinion before proceeding. Found a guide to repair it but the amount of steps required to get to that particular component is kind of staggering. If nothing else, I'm impressed how the innards of the phone are put together.
Liu Kang Baking A Pie
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People like this exist, I guess.
Provably a regular repair cellphone shop might be able to help you without spending too much money.
I tired to play once with and old iPhone 4 and see how "far" could I go without breaking anything, I failed, and Im accustomed open up electronics.
I would recommend against it, not worth the few dollars that you could save.
SpaceBridge
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Are there any social apps that dont involve meeting people for sex and dating?
Instagram.
... although there is a contingent of users in the community who use the app for that. :lol
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