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congrats!
push a bit harder with the tool, the drawer should pop out far enough to grab, even if you have big fingers!
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Posted: 2009-09-22 15:33:51
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Locked to an operator or unlocked? If unlocked then try to stay at 3.0 or 3.0.1 if you're planning to use tethering!
Apple disabled tethering in unlocked phones so my phone may go back into it's box waiting for Apple to fix this or until a jailbreak is available for 3.1 3GS. Time to dust of my old P990i?
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Posted: 2009-09-22 17:21:28
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Thanks guys.
Will try SIM switch tomorrow morning or night - still gotta get a case first - I'm not risking breaking this sweetness.
* Already downloading basic apps.
- checking out iTunes University some VERY interesting learning there (Japanese Kanji, Cantonese, lots more)
- eBuddy old time favorite IM from SE W810 & K850i days.
- Skype: I have no idea WHY cause I don't use it EVER.
- WordPress: some upcoming thoughts in 2wks for my blog IF I spare time from enjoying 3G[S] lol.
- Watt pad: time to start reading some free books.
- looking for a GREAT money management application (gotta start fixing credit rating - this or apps is the LAST selfish purchases for a LONG time; save iPhone/iPod stereo for wife & I).
- etc etc.
Gotta clean up my music library too MANY duplicates and poor quality music I've never noticed before.
My PC is SERIOUSLY slow with CeleronD on Dell GX520 with 2GB of RAM
I now have a REASON to fillup 500GB HDD.
Oh and checkout VW Scirocco R challenge game looks cool & FREE.
Yahoo Finance; really want Google Finance app exactly like this.
BTW, my iPhone bought at Yorkdale mall here in Tdot came with OS 3.1 pre-installed
no tethering for now, no laptop no need to.
OH gotta get Qik and Facebook
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Posted: 2009-09-23 04:35:13
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Some advice please.
I have a 3GS and have had it since release i was happily running firmware 3.0 jailbroken using purplera1n until last night. I noticed that my battery had suddenly taken a leap from 55% to 85% but i thought nothing of this. i plugged in the phone and went to sleep. ZZzzzz.
When waking up this morning the iphone was showing the empty battery signal but showing as having the charger plugged in. the phone would just not take a charge however or turn on no matter what i did, i thought that i had stored my files in Cydia to restore with a 3.0 firmware however this was not the case and in order to get my phone working i had to put it in recovery mode and restore to the official 3.1 firmware through itunes. i use my phone on orange in the uk so need to unlock. now i know there is currently no jailbreak solution and potentially no future unlock solution at all but i would just like to ask advice on if i should take any further action to reduce the liklihood of the unlock being unavailable in the future. I Have the ibec, ibss and ecid from when i initially jailbroke but are there anyfiles i should back up etc under my current circumstances?
any advice is appreciated
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Posted: 2009-09-23 11:44:53
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Anyone still on 3.0 or 3.0.1? Don't update to 3.1! Wait for Apple to release the next update. The minor improvements 3.1 brings are not worth the problems the same firmware includes.
My iPhone was rock stable with the 3.0 and 3.0.1 firmwares. Good battery life. I didn't need to charge the phone more than at most every second day. Never any hangs. The phone would be on 24/7 for several weeks. And I enjoyed high speed internet tethering on my work laptop.
The 3.1 firmware is a huge disappointment. I have by now experienced three of the major problems other users have reported: rapid battery drain, coma (phone on but doesn't wake up from sleep; only hard reset helps), internet tethering disabled (why on an officially unlocked phone!?).
I love this phone but with the problems, especially missing tethering which I need for my work, I will have to wait for Apple to sort out this firmware. The phone goes back into it's box today.
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Posted: 2009-09-24 10:55:24
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strange. I haven't experienced any of those issues (yet)
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Posted: 2009-09-24 11:07:05
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The battery life for me is definitely worse than before
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Posted: 2009-09-24 11:29:20
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On 2009-09-24 11:29:20, whentheleveebreaks wrote:
The battery life for me is definitely worse than before
Cannot comment on Battery life of 3GS/3.1 yet as today will be the maiden voyage with it. However, I know it doesn't compare to any other phone I've had.
That said, I suggest you log your complaint over on Apple's support forums, since they've ALREADY contacted users complaining of battery life and created & distributed an application to see what battery usuage is on your phone so it reports back to Apple (surely looking for any trends, not just causes).
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Posted: 2009-09-24 15:19:42
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GODDAMN!!!
This 3GS is bloody FAST!
Simple switching of applications, that remember your last place or action; no big deal about multitasking since Email, IM, MMS and SMS, and phone calls work and get updated while your doing something else; Facebook too.
NOW I understand.
Is the simplistic things that make people love the iPhone:
- quickly browse between stock settings.
- quickly jump though contacts (E71 was almost as quick through Contacts, faster at dialing a contact entry though).
- rapidly able to load pages, scroll though them on side menus like forums sites (Esato, Macrumors, etc)
I haven't read the manual yet though...
so still haven't found out how to edit videos recorded, or how to zoom into focus. I can tap focus, but not ZOOOOM.
Thus far I'm liking the experience. Now its fixing my music library which is a horrible mess and create ringtone's ALL over again. arrgh.
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Posted: 2009-09-25 04:47:42
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Eh eh...happens to everyone...turning from iphone haters into iphone lovers after spending some quality time with one
Anyway, you only can see itīs true potential by jailbreaking...thatīs why i īm still on 3.0 and will remain like this untill 3.1 is problem free and there is jb available
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Posted: 2009-09-25 18:07:16
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