Hi_Rob,
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Regards,
JEFF
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Transcript for Episode 259
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iOS 6.1.2 was released this past week - this update if for all iOS devices running iOS 6.x - and it fixes the Exchange server bug we mentioned on the last show. So for those of your where you IT department warned you not to update to iOS 6.1 - but you had already done so - well now you can upgrade to 6.1.2 - and be kosher on your corporate network once more. For those who were waiting for a exchange server bug fix but also want to jailbreak - good news - the Evasi0n jailbreak has been updates to version 1.4 - and it supports all versions of iOS 6.x - so everything from 6.0 to 6.1.2 is supported. And I did finally get my tutorial up - with all these changes I kept having to update it just as I was getting ready to release it - but it is out now - at today in iOS dot com - and if you are a first time jail breaker - this is tutorial for you. It takes you step by step click by click on what you need to do to jailbreak - and then goes over how to use cydia and install an app for the first time.
Please note if you already are jailbroken with any other version of iOS 6.x and want to upgrade to iOS 6.1.2 - you will need to restore your iPhone to remove the jailbreak - and then upgrade to iOS 6.1.2 - and then re-jailbreak. And if you plan to jailbreak you should upgrade to iOS 6.1.2 from your computer and NOT repeat NOT from an Over the Air update. in other words no updatie on your iPhone - only updatie from your computer - comprende?
One thing that iOS 6.1.2 does not address is the security bug mentioned on the last show - that is the one where if you tap on this hold that - count to 3 tap on that swipe this and the tap quickly on a couple of other things you could get access to some info on an iPhone with out needing to know the passcode. Well that is being addressed with iOS 6.1.3 - and how do we know - was it from Mac Rumor sites. Nope it is from the beta for iOS 6.1.3 that apple just made available to devs. Expect this one to go live in the next two weeks.
Strategy Analytics released Smartphone shipment numbers for Q4 2012 last week. Part of that was Global Smartphone Shipments by Model. Of Note is that the iPhone 5 outsold the Galaxy S3 in Q4 of 2012 - That really is not surprising it was the first full quarter of the iPhone 5 being available after all. Not a real fair comparison being it one device out for 3 months vs the iPhone 5 only out for one month before the quarter started.
What I found interesting is that the Galaxy S3 was only the 3rd best shipping Handset in Q4 2012. And what was really surprising is the other phone model that outsold the Galaxy S3 to come in 2nd place - was it the galaxy Note - Nope - was it something from HTC - Nyet - was it a windows phone 8 phone - Nine - ok - now I am just being silly. No the Phone model that was second to the iPhone 5 in sales in Q4 of 2012 and ahead of the Galaxy S3 - is a phone that was released in Q4 of 2011 - thats right the iPhone 4S in Q4 of 2012 outsold the Galaxy S3.
HI Rob,
Per the caller asking about marking a spot where you left your car. I use G-Park to pin and mark the location of a parked car. Works like a dream and is very simple to operate.
regards
Dave
Hi Rob,
I found find my car app very handy and effective.
Give u augmented reality as well. He Shd try it out.
Regards,
Tosin O
Hockley Heath,
UK
Rob,
Here's a simple answer to the problem of locating a parked car:
• Before you leave your car, open the native maps app.
• Tap the arrow in the bottom left corner.
• A pulsing blue dot will appear at your current location.
• Tap the low right corner that looks like a page being peeled back.
• Select the "Drop Pin" option.
Your current location is now saved with a purple pin until you elect to remove it.
Regards,
-Glenn
Hi Rob,
For Holly - have her check out the app - The Training Notebook - three words in the app store. It is a bit pricey at $14.99 - regards,
Jeff
Hi Rob
On a recent episode A Voice over user asked about resources to help with editing text on iOS, If they listen to episode 12 of my podcast -
"The iBlindTech Democast" at www.iblindtech.com it is specifically designed to help blind and vision impaired users "Get started and go further on iDevices" In Ep 12 we talk about this issue.
Rob, thanks for the podcast, I really do enjoy it and you along with a number of other apple centric podcasters helped me to get into podcasting myself. I have found it incredibly rewarding. At first I didn't know if I was helping anyone much but have received lots of really lovely emails of thanks and some great suggestions for episodes from listeners.
Garth from iblindtech dot com
Garth - always great to hear about more people getting into podcasting and love it when I was able to help in some way.
I had a bunch of responses to the question about recording phone calls on your iPhone but they were all about using a 3rd party service to make the calls and then have them record the calls. What is really needed is a solution that allows you to use the native Phone app with your regular carrier that allows you to record your voice going in and the voice of the person you are talking with and to do this easily once a call is started regardless of who called who. And so far I am not aware said app exists even on the jailbreak side.
Hey Rob,
Here are some responses to listener comments:
1. Regarding the Mailbox app for Gmail mail account; I am am number 25,350 in line. I will let you know what I think once I get it.
2. Want to mention a strange Jailbreak crash that occurs and I have another user that confirms that it happened to that person as well. On one occasion, my iPhone 5 rebooted with the Apple Logo showing first. It did not return to the Safe Mode state that is normal when a Jailbroken device encounters a "conflict". When this happened, the device appeared as if it was unJailbroken (no safe mode in status bar). It was a bit alarming, but a turning the device off and then back on fixed the issue. I have never seen this before with any other Jailbreak version previously (and I have tried them all).
3. Finally, I did an instructional guide for Gridlee and also bought the iCade arcade stand for iPad which is tons of fun and has been a hit at every function or gathering I have had or attended with friends. I am 46 and my friends and I are the initial players of the these old arcade games and really get a kick out of this combo.
Gridlee Guide: http://www.iamthereforeipad.com/2013/02/tutorial-my-experiences-with-gridlee.html
Regards,
Carl Brooks
iAmThereforeiPad.com
And folks you can see the link for the Gridlee guide by searching for Tutorial: Gridlee for iOS in the show notes for ep 259
Per the Mailbox app - one Listener Carlos has already received it and is having issues with images in emails causing the full email not to load - which the folks at Mailbox are aware of said issue and are working on it - so if you get your number called and see this issue - yes they are aware of it.
As you may have gathered I don't like Samsung - I think they clearly and purposefully ripped off the iPhone - that said I was not in favor of Apple suing Samsung - I felt it put Apple in a bad light and propped up Samsung because it made it seem like Samsung phones were clones of the iPhone - and if you can't afford an iPhone why not get a Samsung phone. Which guess what happened.
But now I have a reason to actually really really dislike Samsung. It has to do with a lawsuit they luckily lost in Germany and it is with regards to a patent Samsung has dealing with Voiceover features. Yes - Samsung sued apple over Voiceover features. What the Frack were they thinking. Or as John Pacxkowsi at all things d said - this is the PR equivalent of punching yourself in the face. Florian Mueller of Foss Patents agreed that Samsungs efforts here had crossed a line saying quote From a certain angle the voiceover patent suit is the worst [such patent lawsuit] because it's an attempt -- thwarted for the time being, but not dismissed forever -- to hold vision-impaired German Apple customers hostage. unquote. He tried to be diplomatic and say he did not thing Samsung was evil - but you will get none of that diplomacy from me - Samsung is clearly very very evil. I have a large number of blind and sight impaired listeners of this podcast - and they almost all to a tee say they love the iPhone because of what Apple has done to help those with sight issues. And no Samsung is trying at least in Germany to take away some of those features - If this was not a G-rated show - this would be a point where I would say things that would make Joe Rogan blush. Instead I will just say shame on you samsung - shame on you.
Apple has finally caught up with demand on the iPad mini with the iPad mini's now showing up on apples site as in stock. So almost 4 months from release to supply equalling demand. As always expect to see some articles about demand drop being the reasons - others saying increases in production output being the reason and the truth probably being a combination of the two.
Mac Rumors is reporting on a report out of Brazil where Apple is now being sued because they - wait for it - Updated the iPad too soon. From the lawsuit led by the institute of Politics and Law quote The institute claims that the iPad 4 is not [an] effective technological evolution [compared to] the iPad 3 or 'New iPad', characterizing [a] sort of "planned obsolescence". In practice, the accusation is that the Apple iPad 3 could have reached the shelves with the characteristics presented in the fourth generation - a processor, a connector and a camera a bit more advanced. unquote.
Huh? Hey at least now we know in the US we do not hold a monopoly on really really stupid lawsuits. I know I don't like to talk about lawsuits - but this one is just soooo dumb - I had to mention it.
Ok - lets get back into some real news or not - over on the Apple rumor front - this time we have photos of what was supposed to be the innards of the iPhone 2013 - showing an A7 processor - which is rumored to be a quad core processor with 2GB or RAM. However after these photos made the blog rounds - they were shown to be fakes and left the site - iOSdoc with some egg on their face.
Google Glass is something I think really only the uber uber geeks with way to much money will be interested in the types that have $1,400 to throw away. Which is how much it is supposed to cost - vs say the $115 most Pebble pledgers paid. But hey if you have $1,400 burning a hole in your pocket and you are in any way thinking of actually getting the google glass - then you will be happy to know that Google has officially said Google Glass will work with an iPhone. I will not get into dogging Google Glass just quite yet - I think I will have lots of time to do that in the future. But for now I just wanted to let you know Great News Google Glass and the iPhone will work together.
My Brother used to be a cop in NY City - up until mid 2012 when he hit his 20 years and retired. One thing he talked about was Apple Picking and the big issue it was becoming. Apple Picking is the name given to those robbing People of their Apple wares - specifically their iPhones - but really any Apple products they held out in open and made for easy grabbing. The issue is so bad that when The Big Apple looked at crime stats they found crime had risen in NY city because of Apple picking - take Apple Picking incidents out and crime had dropped. Well now it seems the Big Apple and Apple have teamed up to help curb the issue of the escalating thefts of iOS devices in NY City. And now the NYPD is sharing unique identifying numbers of stollen iPhones with Apple so as to have Apple help track down the stollen devices. NYPD said quote "We're looking for ways to find individuals who have stolen Apple products and return the products to their original owners, It is being done to learn the pattern who is stealing." unquote
And now it appears these efforts are starting to result in arrests - hopefully word will get out that is it not safe for robbers to grab apple gear and will switch over to picking Samsung products - or not.
Thanks to Stephen for this next one - which is about The Crowd-sourced trouble shooting website FixYa and their culling of data. They issued a Smartphone Reliability report based on nearly a million combined issue posts and then they assigned each smartphone manufacturer a reliability score which was weighted based on Market Share. The higher the score the better. And guess who had the highest score - well of course it was Apple - why else would I be bringing it up. That they had the highest score is not surprising - it is that they totally blew away the competition - getting a score about 3 times higher than 2nd place Samsung. Or as FixYa said in their Press Release the iPhone is roughly 3 times more reliable than the Samsung, five times more reliable than Nokia and a whopping 25 times more reliable than Motorola. Sometimes you do actually get what you paid for - as long as it is an Apple Product that is. For Motorola - yeah not so much.
Not sure if you heard about the recent issue in the US with a Carnival cruise that had a fire and they lost power and it was a cruise from Heck basically - it even was the focus of a skit on Saturday night live. Well one of the Tii listeners Mike W was on that cruise and he sent me a picture from the cruise - no not of people using plastic bags for their toilet needs - thankfully not - but rather of a rats nest of mobile devices plugged into tone of the only available outlets on the boat - where everyone was trying to charge up their devices. There are at least 35 devices plugged in and over half are iOS devices. Mike - thanks for the photo and sorry to hear your vacation was anything but.
I received feedback from a few listeners that upgraded to iOS 6.1.2 and iTunes 11.0.2 - that wifi sync is now working for them - where in the past it did not work at all or at least not consistently. So if you are one of those with issues with wifi sync in the past - you should look into upgrading to iOS 6.1.2 and iTunes 11.0.2. Good luck.
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Hi, Rob -->
I received my Pebble last Friday and here's my review after one week. I agree with the reviewer from the last podcast who was hoping for more...the watch faces and apps shown on the website, getpebble.com, don't exist yet, a fact that doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere in the Kickstarter info or the website. Hopefully that will be remedied soon because the existing watch faces are pretty lame.
The watch works as advertized, though. It looks good and notifies me of incoming calls and texts. I chose to not have email notifications because I don't want the watch to vibrate at 3 in the morning. There are posts in the getpebble.com forums that complain about the battery life of the iPhone, but I've noticed no significant difference. There does seem to be a serious problem with the watch battery, though. I'm on my second charging...charge every three days vs. a claimed seven day battery life. I get less than fifteen calls or texts a day. To make matters worse, there's no indication on the watch that the battery is dying. The first time I had to charge it (after the initial charge), the watch just showed up dead one morning. I found that you have to go to the launcher on the watch and manually check for battery life. I've been doing that a few times a day for the past 24 hours and managed to avoid a dead watch this time.
Thanks for the show,
Bob
Just a quick update on the Almond+ Wifi Router mentioned on Ep 257. They are up to over 615,000 dollars pledged well past their goal of 250,000 dollars. You have until Saturday March 9th at 5:19 AM ET to pledge for this one - go back and listen to episode 257 for more info on this or just search for Almond+ at kickstarter.com or in the kickstarter iOS App.
Another Kickstarter project we mentioned on Ep 257 was the Mauz - M A U Z - the Mauz is a minority report interface powered by your smartphone. And well per pledging this one is not doing so well. It has a goal of $150,000 dollars and has just $26,599 pledged which is not good since when ep 257 came out two weeks ago they had a pledge total of $22,000 - so they raised less than $5,000 in the last two weeks. This one will end on Mar 8th at 1:19 PM ET - but for all intensive purposes - this one is already over - not much chance of them getting funded - which is surprising for a product that was one of those picked as best in show at MacWorld 2013.
Hi Rob,
The JB tweak for tricking TV and Video sites to give popup of not for JB devices is called 'xCon'
Regards,
Chris in London.
Thanks to Chris and to everyone else that sent in reminders on that app - yes it is one mentioned before on the show - a couple of times - seems I forgot the name last time as well.
Rob,
If I'm on 6.1 and I'm jailbroken, do I need to restore before updating to 6.1.2? I saw that the jailbreak for 6.1.2 is compatible. I can't tell if it's okay to upgrade (connected to a computer & iTunes) while still jailbroken.
Regards
Tracy,
Nashville
Hi Tracy - actually got this question from quite a few - As mentioned earlier in the episode you need to restore first to remove the jailbreak with you iOS device connected via iTunes - and then do the upgrade via iTunes to 6.1.2 - then do the new jailbreak - obviously you want to do backups before the restore and again make sure all photos and movies in your camera roll have been imported to your computer prior to restoring and upgrading.
Rob,
If any listeners having issues with Siri. Like, "sorry can you say that again" over and over. Seems its a Tweak called 'Location Spoofer'
Removed and working fine.
Regards,
Chris in London
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Hi rob,
Ever since the latest jailbreak I have had a problem with the stock phone app in that every time I click on it to open it the app will crash instantly if I am on my recent calls tab - any other tab in the phone app will work just not my recent call tab. Have any of your other listeners experienced this problem and have they found a solution for it. For me I have found a temp fix which is to shut my phone down and hold the volume up button as it boots and it will all work then but then none of my other jailbrek apps or tweaks work - however the phone app is pretty much the most vital app on the phone so if anyone out there has a solution or knows what other app or tweak might be causing this issue I would appreciate it.
Regards,
Ryan
Ryan - the issue is with one of your installed apps / tweaks - which one or ones - I could not say - but by holding down on the volume up button - when booting up the iPhone you proved it is an issue with one of the installed apps - when in that mode - go to cydia and start removing apps one at a time and then reboot and test and see if the problem went away - yes a long process if you have a lot of apps installed from Cydia. Which is why I have said - make sure if you have jailbreak apps you installed you are no longer using - to uninstall them - don't wait for an issue - be proactive.
One question that comes up is changing your root password on your iOS device once you jailbreak - For a while there the MobileTerminal App was not working - and you had to add a repository to get another version - but now that issues is fixed and there is another version of MobileTerminal available from the main BigBoss repository - it is called MobileTerminal - one word. It is free and by installing it and changing your root password you make your jailbroken iOS device more secure than a non-jailbroken device. That is because the root password on all iOS devices is set to the word alpine by default. To change the password install the Mobileterminal app and launch it.
First enter the command su space root and tap return.
second type alpine and tap return
third - type p a s s w d and tap return
fourth type in your new password and tap return - then type it is again to verify it and tap return.
fifth type in exit and tap return. That changes your default SSH password - but there is still the mobile password - same password used but for different items. To change this one - type p a s s w d and tap return.
next type alpine and tap return.
next type in your new password - I recommend the same new one you just entered when changing the SSH password.
Verify it and tap return. Then type exit and tap return.
That is it. Your jailbroken iOS device is now more secure than when it was not jailbroken. Well assuming you don't do something dumb and change the password iPhone or iPad or something like that.
Cult of mac had a list of their favorite Jailbreak tweaks for the iPad. Some of which we have mentioned in the past like SwipeSelection - one word and free. And NCSettings also free. Most of the others they mentioned are paid for - look for the link titled Jailbreak Tweaks For The iPad - Cult of Mac in the show notes for ep 259 over at today in iOS dot com.
Hi Rob:
Just received my Verizon newsletter, which I typically skim and delete. This time I see they are pushing the "StarStar Me" vanity number service, where you pay 3 bucks a month to have your own custom "StarStar" phrase so that, as Verizon puts it, you can give out this more memorable number instead of "ten hard-to-remember digits." The service also has an app that allows you to send a custom auto-SMS text when you are not able to answer your phone.
My question is, does anyone out there know of another app out there that would allow me to send out a CUSTOM text message when I don't or answer? I like this idea, but I really don't need a vanity number or the $3 monthly fee.
Thanks for all you do!
Mari
(Cleveland, OH)
Rob,
Do you know if there is a way to lock a setting such as VPN so that the user cannot remove it without a PIN or password? I want to be able to have the phone always connect over VPN and prevent the user from being able to change that. Thanks much for all you do with your App and podcast!
Regards,
Sergio
If anyone has recently jailbroken their Apple TV 3rd gen - please send me links to the method and tools you used. We have listener Lawrence looking to jailbreak his Apple TV 3rd gen - and I don't have one to do the testing. Send that info to today in iOS at gmail dot com.
Please only send the link if you actually did the jailbreak on a 3rd gen device.
Hi Rob,
I found an excellent app called iMediaShare.
it allows you to wirelessly view content stored on your iOS device on other systems such as a Playstation 3 console.
Just start the app and after a few seconds an iMediaShare icon appears on the PlayStation's Menu.
Using that icon, you can then navigate through your phone to photos, videos or music, and stream them to your PS3.
The icing on the cake though is that it also allows you to copy content too, so you can copy any photos, videos and even music albums strait over to your Playstation.
I found it an excellent way to backup my media and free up space on my iPhone.
The app apparently also works with Xbox360, PC's and even some TVs.
There is a free version of the app in the App Store called "iMediaShare lite"
Thanks for the show!
Gary
UK