iPhone problems and solutions

This is my first post about IPhone. First of all, I am a PC guy and I don't like Apple products in general. Half year ago my company offered me a choice of iPhone or Blackberry. I picked iPhone, so since then I am not so anti Apple as I used to be. I still never going to buy Mac, but I have Leopard OS installed on one of my virtual machines.

So, out of the box iPhone is great device. It has a lot of applications, but ...

Problem #1

There are too many IPhones around and all of them have the same ringtone for incomming mail and text message. It quickly becomes very annoying. However there is no way to change it without jailbraking IPhone.

Problem #2

There are no voice dial in IPhone 3G. You can install app such as Voice Dialer Plus, but you can't train those apps and unfortunatly they don't understand my accent or russian names in my contacts. Vocalia is a little better app, since you can add pronentiazations for your contacts. The only other solution is to buy IPhone 3GS. But may be it's time to switch to Google Nexus One instead?

Problem #3

You can develop applications only using Mac and you can make it oficially available only thru App store, but Apple does screen new applications. You can use VMWare virtual machine to run Leopard, however it's pretty complecated and might be even not possible with your hardware.

Solutions:

First of all you need to jailbrake your iphone, keep in mind this is going to void your warranty. Of course you can always backup your iPhone and in case of malfuntioning restore it and then bring to apple store, but this might not always work. You can read more about jailbrake on Dev Team Blog. Then download WinSCP. Using WinSCP you can access your iPhone over ssh. Make sure that you change default password (alpine). 

Note: Starting from July 26, 2010 it is legal to jailbrake iPhone. DMCA has exemptions in this regards. See iPhone jailbreaking and Android rooting get DMCA exemption for more info.

 

IPhone folders:

Here is a list of IPhone folders that I found to be useful:

/private/var/stash/Applications.something
Native IPhone applications, such as Map, SMS, Calendar and etc. Those apps can't be uninstalled, but can be manually deleted using ssh :-).

/private/var/mobile/Applications.something
Apps from apple store.

/private/var/stash/Ringtones.something
Your ringtones. There is a way to upload ringtones without jailbraking of IPhone.

/System/Library/Audio/UISounds
Use this folder to solve Problem #1.


Wednesday, January 06, 2010 | Comments (12) | Add Comment

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Re:IPhone problems and solutions

Please send me the phases of Iphone Technology
2/9/2010 3:48:44 AM | by Lakhisana
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What kind of phases? I didn't get it.
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Re:IPhone problems and solutions

hi
my iphone is not switch on. i put my phone in to charge it was charging and i got a call from my client once your discussion over again put the phone in to charge it not happening i try press the start button its not on. please guide how to start my phone all my dates inside.

thanks
3/20/2010 3:29:32 AM | by Richard Anandraj. S
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Goto apple store. Looks like this is hardware problem.
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Re:IPhone problems and solutions

Help, I have put my iphone on speech where I have to double tap everything to open then, the slide feature dosent work with it so I cant scroll, I need to scroll to get it back to normal settings :o( help
4/7/2010 12:39:08 PM | by Heather
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I don't know how to help you.
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Re:IPhone problems and solutions

The screen has lost one of the primary colours - I think the red - everything looks green and purple. Sometimes by resetting it goes back to the normal colours but this does not work any more. What is the solution?
5/5/2010 9:30:42 AM | by Zibarras
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Sounds like hardware problem. Apple store is your saver.
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Re:IPhone problems and solutions

when my iphone 3g is in upright position the letter "p" and "zero" doesn't work it's hard to get the delete button to work as well. have tried to powering on and off multiple times. used to work but doesn't now. if i turn it sideways to type then it works. any suggestions
5/12/2010 9:57:48 AM | by Anita
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Sounds like you have a dead spot on your touch screen. Open browser on your iphone and try to position some website with link in exact same spot as your letter P. See if link is clickable.
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I have to power off my phone everytime I have to use it and then it won't let me switch screens it stays on one screen.
5/16/2010 8:45:49 PM | by Dee
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Go to apple store.
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Hello, good morning. The problem that I'm having is with the sound on my iPhone like if somebody calls me or I call them I can't hear anything. Also, when on my phone constantly switches from silent to sound mode. What do you think I should do?
5/24/2010 7:53:28 AM | by Janet W
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One of my coworkers had the same problem. This is hardware problem. Go to apple store and exchange your iphone.
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iPhone screen has enlarged everything to the point I slider is too big for screen. How do I decrease back to normal?
6/1/2010 4:42:24 PM | by Collette
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Restart your iphone.
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updated itunes while iphone was connected now icon on iphone of charger going up to itunes. only emergency calls also, have tried everything i can think of and am on the verge of throwing it out the window, can you help?
6/22/2010 3:01:56 AM | by shaz
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Did you try to install update? Did you try jail brake it?
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Re:IPhone problems and solutions

Is there a way to download iphone photos in the order they were taken and are shown on the iphone? I have a Windows XP system. They come off all jumbled up..
Thanks
6/23/2010 7:46:44 AM | by Bob
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Sort them by date.
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Re:IPhone problems and solutions

i sometimes cannot hear an incoming or outgoing call; the caller can hear me; very hit and miss;
6/28/2010 1:16:08 PM | by tom
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Wait until it starts happening more often and then go to apple store to replace phone. The same thing happened before for my co-worker.
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Hi my iphone had a problem For every second when i unlock my mobile a message has been displaying on the screen continuesly,This is the message

This accessory is not made to work with iphone
would you like to turn on airplane Mode to reduce audio interference ?You will not be able to make or receive calls.{yes or No}

I use my laptop for charging and i never connect it to any other accessories.
Plz Find me a solution
Thnk u .
7/28/2010 8:02:59 AM | by Kishor
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I never heard of this problem. Sorry, I can not help you.

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