I’ve been quite enamoured with my iPhone, personally I don’t think any other smartphone comes close at the moment but I’m no Apple fan boy, just a pragmatist. If something better comes along I’ll be onto it. Unfortunately, I and many many others have been experiencing unpredictable lock ups since the 3.1 OS update. It didn’t manifest itself immediately after the update but once it started I was getting it once a day, Turning 3G and wifi off stopped it for me but some people were getting it much more often and for a lot it seemed that nothing they tried helped other than downgrading to 3.0.1 – not something Apple sanctioned or made easy. When the iPhone coma (as it came to be known) occurred incoming calls just rang out, they didn’t go to voicemail and sometimes the lockup was accompanied by the battery being completely flattened and the phone becoming very hot. Good for it I’m sure!
Shit happens of course, bugs often don’t show themselves until something is made live and used in the real world, you deal with it. What is unforgivable is Apple’s silence on the issue, some acknowledgement of the problem and a statement to the effect of “we’re working on it” would have been much more preferable to the deadly silence we got. There were over 2000 posts in this single thread on the Apple forum alone yet not a single word from Apple on the issue anywhere. The 3.1.2 update doesn’t specifically mention the locking up problem but does say it “Resolves sporadic issue that may cause iPhone not to wake from sleep” and early indications are it does fix the coma bug.
So that’s soured my “Apple experience” somewhat, phone, 3G and wifi are core features after all. Here’s hoping 3.1.2 does fix the problem, so far so good. I can’t see that it can make matters worse.
It is certainly the last update I will be rushing into.
Sadly it looks like I might have another poor customer service tale to tell soon, involving a dead monitor, a 3 year on site warranty and a manufacturer that doesn’t seem to like returning calls or emails. Hopefully they can yet redeem themselves as I’ve had excellent customer service from them on the one occassion I previously had need for it. I’ll let you know how I get on.
After much umming and ahhing I finally decided to get an iPhone 3G 16GB and wow, what a fantastic bit of kit. Feels so good in the hand (you’d have to try it to understand) and the OS is the slickest mobile OS I’ve seen by a good margin. Definitely the best thing I have bought in a long while!
If I had a complaint, and obviously I was aware of this beforehand, it is that it needs iTunes for syncing etc… I don’t have any recent macs here, I’m a long term Linux guy as you know but I do have a couple of XP boxes around so that’s not the problem, it’s just that iTunes always seems so laggy and unresponsive on windows. Might be getting a Mac Mini before too long though as I want to have a look into iPhone app development.
Ofcom proposes to allow local religious and community organisations to operate within the UK Citizen Band allocation, to begin with, by licensing a number of such organisations to transmit services in a limited number of pilot areas.
Can see trouble when mic keyers and worse key over the vicar though!
and how about this, they said it wasn’t possible – a GSM mobile phone interceptor – a scanner for GSM phones, a snip at £228,000
Law enforcement agencies only so looks like I’ll have to give it a miss :p
You might have seen that dual layer burners are now same prices as single layer ones but like me you might never seen the discs anywhere…. well here you go:
Xbox Media Center went Gold on June 29th, Version 1.0.0 should be available from all the usual places. Like XMBP before it, XBMC has continually exceeded expectations and is THE killer app for the Xbox in my opinion. Even as someone who doesn’t play computer/console games much if at all I don’t regret buying the Xbox in the slightest and would still do so today.
Just been over to Homebase and bought myself an air conditioner for home. £149 for a 9000 BTU unit (1000 more than the one I have in my office), not bad at all.
Had enough of hot and looks like there’s gonna be quite a bit of it!!
Online UPS (Uninterruptable Power Supply) interface. There is something wrong with the graphs page when you click on UPS1 though… the values are bollocks and change each time you load the page although if you hover your mouse over each column the tool tip shows the correct value… strange!
I feel a graph of input/output voltage coming on next… want to see how often the power is dropping.
Also finally did something with my barcode reader and made up a database for keeping an inventory of things, don’t know what yet though, automated shopping list or something like that I think.
Definately need to get the outside temperature sensor moved so it doesn’t get direct sunlight. I know it’s warm today but I don’t think it reached 100F!!
Added another lamp module to the home automation system for the book shelf lights in the lounge today. I also modified a KR19 RF keyfob to operate as an X10 wireless door bell by locating two traces on the pcb that operated button two ‘on’ and soldering the two wires from the door bell push button to these traces, hey presto: wireless X10 door bell. When someone presses the door bell misterhouse announces through the speakers that there is someone at the door and logs it to a file. If I am out then it also sends a sms text message to my mobile phone. Huge grins for very little work!
Tue 20/04/04 13:00:03 Front door bell was pressed Tue 20/04/04 12:18:57 Front door bell was pressed Tue 20/04/04 11:39:54 Front door bell was pressed Tue 20/04/04 11:36:05 Front door bell was pressed
@gazza_d Heavily tweaked over years but X10 stuff & lot of the web interface is still based on Misterhouse. Temp graphs are all emoncms now.about 2 hours agoin reply to gazza_d
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