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Thu, 5 May 2011
Hi Rob,
I am Calin from Portland, OR. I have updated my IPhone 4 to IOS 4.2.1 and activated the FindMyIPhone service, which works great.
However, after the upgrade, the location services seem to be active all the time (the 'GPS arrow' icon is always on), which I am guessing it has to do with the FindMyIPhone feature.
So, here are my two questions:
A) What does this do to my battery life? I am worried that it will drain it a lot faster.
B) Is there any way to turn off the location part of FindMyIPhone service, but keep the remote locking and ringing?
Love your show.
Thanks,
Calin
Hi Calin,
Thanks for listening to the show.
The Arrow should not be showing up in the upper bar on your iPhone for the find my iPhone feature.
You should check to see what Apps you have Location services turned on for by going into the Settings App to the General section and then to "Location Services"
There you can see all the apps you have locations turned on for. I would suggest turning off just the individual apps you really do not need / want location services for.
But you will need to leave it on overall - as turning it off at the top will give you a message that says - "Turning off location services will no longer enable you to locate your iPhone on a map. with find my iphone"
So you do need it turned on for find my iPhone
But again that alone will not put the arrow in the top bar - some other app is doing that and yes it is draining your battery.
Regards,
Rob W
Hi Rob,
Thanks a lot for your answer, it was right in the money. The culprit was a different app (The Find aka Shop Nearby). It must have been just a weird coincidence.
Thanks again,
Calin
Category: vip_iOS
-- posted at: 6:00am EDT
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Wed, 4 May 2011
iOS 4.3.3 is now available to download for iP4 GSM, iP 3GS, iPad2, iPad1, iPT 3rd and 4th gen.
Apple lists the following for the update:
This update contains changes to the iOS crowd-sourced location databasce cache including:
- Reduces the size of the cache
- No longer backs the cache up to iTunes
- Deletes the cache entirely when location services is turned off
I am downloading it now and will update later with my thoughts.
Category: vip_iOS
-- posted at: 2:22pm EDT
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Wed, 4 May 2011
I'm having a problem syncing my iPhone? I am getting error 13019. I'm using PC with WIN 7 running the latest iTunes and iOS on my iphone. I have Tried replacing sync cable and un syncing voice note which was recommend by the genius bar at apple.
Hi Jose,
Here is a solution that worked for another listener.
Thanks for getting back to me. Well as it stands the problem seems to be fixed for now.
Apparently I needed to unsync all my music, videos, and voice memos and resync back to the iphone...(per Apple Care).
I was told this error has been occurring in an infrequent manner, but happening none the less.
And for another.
Heres how to fix.
Unsync your music/videos or whatever isn't going onto your iphone/itouch by plugging in your device and unchecking the sync box within each multimedia tab then click apply. Let the device sync then once completed reconnect your device check all your sync tabs that you want and sync again. This should resolve the problems and sync your files.
It should only be your music and videos and some podcast that don't sync at the start but this description should fix the error (13019).
And for one more that the above did not work
I did what u suggested and no dice. So I did some digging on the Internet and I deleted all my voice memos that were on my iPhone 4 and synced it...guess what? It worked! Wow Unreal that was the problem. I emailed my voice memos that I wanted to keep for future reference and I also read that deleting any double voice memos will do the trick also. Have no clue as I thought it was very odd this is what was holding up all my music from being synced properly.
Let me know which one works for you.
As you can see you are not alone with the 13019 error.
Good luck.
Rob W
Category: vip_iOS
-- posted at: 5:30am EDT
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Tue, 3 May 2011
Hi Rob,
On an episode of your show in December you mentioned the HP printer that works well with the iPhone/ipad. Would you mind emailing me the model number?
Thanks and keep up the good work.
Marty G
Hi Marty,
The printer I talked about was the HP Photosmart Premium C310 series.
It is $149 at Best Buy. I liked it so much I purchased one for my Mom and another for my Wife.
Regards,
Rob W
Category: vip_iOS
-- posted at: 6:00am EDT
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Mon, 2 May 2011
At the end or near the end of Episode 173 I mentioned reports were coming in about the White iPhone 4 being just a bit thicker than the black iPhone 4. Since then there have been many comparision photos shot and people claiming the white iPhone 4 is 0.2 mm thicker than the black one - but for most phone cases you will be just fine getting your white iPhone 4 into it. So this next report is a little surprising - it is being reported that Apples own Phil Schiller tweeted according to ZDNet the following:
It is not thicker, don’t believe all the junk that you read
Sadly you can not find that tweet as it was not a public tweet but allegedly a private tweet.
If you have both a black and white iPhone 4 where you can compare them - do you see any difference in thickness between the two?
Also note Consumer reports who just can't quit the iPhone is also sticking themselves into this issue and claiming that they put calipers to iPhones and their measurements back up Phil Schiller's claim and show there is no difference in thickness between the two color options for the iPhone 4. Well that should settle it.
Category: vip_iPhone
-- posted at: 2:59pm EDT
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Mon, 2 May 2011
How do you redeem a promocode for an App?
Hello Teri,
Thanks for listening to the show.
To redeem a promo code go to the main page in iTunes and in the upper right look for "Redeem" and click that and then paste in the promo code.
Or to redeem directly from iPhone/iPad/iTouch - Go to the App Store, then the "Featured" section. Then Scroll all the way to the bottom where ‘Redeem’ appears. To Redeem Tap in the code. You may be prompted to ‘sign in’ with your iTunes password (if you have not signed in recently or have a different setting). Click Redeem you should then see - “Thank you for redeeming your code. Your item is now downloading”
Regards,
Rob W
Tii
Category: vip_iOS
-- posted at: 6:00am EDT
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Sun, 1 May 2011
Hi Rob,
I can't find this in the app store or on my updated 4.2.1 iPhone 4.
How do you get the app?
Thanks,
Sam in Las Vegas
Hi Sam,
AirPrint is not an app - it is built into the iOS.
And you need to have a valid printer that is on your Wifi Network to see the option.
So if you have an HP eprint printer on your network - then when you are in email for example there is a box with an arrow coming out - hit that box and one of the options is "Print"
Hope that helps.
Rob W
Category: vip_iOS
-- posted at: 6:00am EDT
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Sat, 30 April 2011
Hey rob
last time i had a problem and i exchanged my ipod for a refurb one,
but i lost all my game progress, (i did sync (twice to make sure) with itunes, and i thought it would sync my game progress in games like plants vs zombies)
maybe i didnt have the right settings?
but after i got the new ipod, itunes synced all of the apps, but with none of the game progress or settings,
is there some way to do this, so this doesnt happen in the future, or should i happen to upgrade my device to say ipod touch 6th gen?
many thanks!
Ivan
Hi Ivan,
I found the following info about transferring info for Angry Birds on Mac Daily News.
How to transfer Angry Birds scores between iOS devices:
1. Download the free iPhone Explorer which also works for iPod touch and iPad and lets you use an iOS device as if it’s a flash drive 2. Plug your source Angry Birds device into your Mac and use iPhone Explorer to navigate to Apps > Angry Birds > Documents 3. Create a folder on your Mac called “Angry Birds Data” or similar and drag and drop the following five files from Apps > Angry Birds > Documents into it: - DataStore - FetchManager - highscores.lua - PostManager - settings.lua 4. Remove your source iOS device and plug in the iOS device to which you want to transfer your Angry Birds scores 5. Drag and drop all five files above from your Mac to the new iOS device (with Angry Birds already installed on it) in Apps > Angry Birds > Documents
That’s it! Now you have a backup of your current Angry Birds scoring information so, if anything ever goes wrong, you won’t lose all of your hard “work,” plus when you run Angry Birds on your new device, your game will be up to date with your progress.
Not sure if this is what you are looking for or if this will work for other apps. But it seems like it would.
Regards,
Rob W
Category: vip_iOS
-- posted at: 6:00am EDT
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Fri, 29 April 2011
Hi Rob,
I have downloaded it, but have nit installed because I had read people were having VPN issues and I use VPN for work. Can I safely assume you're aware of that too? The only reason I updated was to get the "hot spot" option that I'll never use, but wanted to have.
Thanks Joe
Hi Joe,
Here is one solution I found on this:
I just restored as a new iPhone with iOS 4.3.2 and found I was missing a bunch of Settings, including the top level Personal Hotspot, Notifications, and VPN tabs. I use these a lot so needless to say it was disconcerting. After a bit of deduction, I was able to get them back.
Notifications controls which apps can send push notifications. Since I hadn’t enabled any push apps, I installed a Twitter client, it popped up the allow push dialog, I accepted, and the push panel appeared in settings. One down.
VPN and Personal Hotspot are enabled by the carrier file which is downloaded and updated separately (so iPhones can work on different carriers, with the features those carriers choose to allow). In addition to being top level, they’re also typically available under General, Network Settings. The problem was I didn’t have Network Settings either. A reboot fixed that.
Once Network appeared I went in and my iPhone began to detect the carrier file and settings, and then Hotspot enabled and appeared. Toggling VPN on in Network also forced it to appear top level.
And then everything was back to normal.
I hope that helps.
Regards,
Rob W
Category: vip_iOS
-- posted at: 6:00am EDT
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Fri, 29 April 2011
Links Mentioned in this Episode:
Apps Mentioned in this Episode:
Tii App
Cake Doodle
Check My Eyes
Game Clinch
Message Therapist Notebook
Red Blue Flix
Pizza Stuff
Remove BG - Cydia
MultiCleaner - Cydia
iGOBy
Speed Intensifier - Cydia
Direct download: tii_0173.mp3
Category: podcasts
-- posted at: 4:50am EDT
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