Posted 31 January 2008 @ 6pm in Desktop iPhone Apps, Guides/How-Tos
With iTunes 7.6, you can now manually manage music on your iPhone. You can’t, however, listen to music stored on your iPhone on your computer. A new release of ecamm’s iPhoneDrive makes that possible — if you’re on a Mac.
iPhoneDrive a tool created for storing files on the iPhone as if it were a removable […]
Posted 31 January 2008 @ 12pm in Troubleshooting
Earlier this week, the iPhone dev team released an automatic, graphical method for upgrading jailbroken 1.1.2 iPhones/iPod Touches to jailbroken 1.1.3 device without any host computer interaction. If you have any firmware version other than 1.1.2, or a non-jailbroken device with any other firmware, you need to follow our complete guide then replace the last […]
Posted 31 January 2008 @ 6am in Desktop iPhone Apps, Applications
Allowing Safari on the iPhone to remember login/password information, Agile Web Solutions has released an updated version of its Mac-only tool 1Password that sends a bookmarklet containing login/password data to the iPhone. Bookmarklets collectively represent a method for storing an entire set of HTML in a bookmark on the iPhone (in effect allowing ‘Web apps’ […]
Posted 30 January 2008 @ 2pm in Troubleshooting
Users, in droves, continue to report a bevy of issues with the iPhone 1.1.3 software/firmware update, and we’ve discovered a number of successful fixes. All of the issues below afflict users with non-hacked, standard iPhones.
Posted 30 January 2008 @ 11am in Web apps, News
Campfire has long been one of the most useful Web-based applications. Described as a “business chat” tool, Campfire lets you set up password protected chatrooms where users can share files, see live image previews, look at old transcripts and, of course, chat.
The Web app is now iPhone-optimized, carrying much of the same functionality as its […]
Posted 29 January 2008 @ 5pm in News, Guides/How-Tos
If you have a jailbroken iPhone or iPod Touch running software/firmware 1.1.2, you now have an automatic, graphical method for upgrading to a jailbroken 1.1.3 device without any host computer interaction. This is not “iJailbreak,” (another computer-less jailbreak method) but rather a solution developed and sanctioned by the iPhone dev team. “iJailbreak” uses the same […]
Posted 29 January 2008 @ 4pm in Troubleshooting
The iPhone software/firmware 1.1.3 update has caused significant problems for a number of users. Here’s a round-up of our coverage with problems and associated solutions:
Increase in dropped calls
SMS (text) messages displayed out-of-order
Bluetooth devices no longer working
No sound from earpiece
Mail reception fails
If you’re experiencing any other issues with the update, please let us know.
Posted 29 January 2008 @ 3pm in Troubleshooting
Several users are reporting a marked increase in dropped phone calls after updating to iPhone software/firmware 1.1.3. The typical symptoms are as follows: signal bars suddenly drop to zero and the display shows “call failed.” As soon as the user manually ends the call, the signal strength immediately returns to normal.
As described by one reader:
“Immediately […]
Posted 29 January 2008 @ 11am in Troubleshooting
Several users are reporting an issue where Gmail accounts do not display the latest incoming messages on iPhones. As described by one iPhone Atlas reader:
“The iPhone Mail application will not download the most recent message in a gMail account; i.e. if you send me an email, it won’t come in until another email comes in […]
Posted 28 January 2008 @ 9pm in Troubleshooting
Several readers have reported that, after installing the iPhone software/firmware 1.1.3 update, SMS (text) messages are displayed out of order. That is, a conversation intended to appear thusly:
User1: Hi
User2: How are you?
User1: Fine.
instead appears thusly:
User1: Hi
User1: Fine.
User2: How are you?
Apple has now acknowledged this issue in a Knowledge Base article, which says the problem may […]
