OK, so I encountered this problem that was weird, and I figured out a fix I haven’t seen anywhere else, so thought I would post it here for others.
The problem basically has all your apps starting but then just crashing and tossing you back to the home screen. I thought it was fixed in the 2.1 firmware update, but encountered it on a mate’s phone on Friday, so it’s obviously still out there.
So, how do you fix this annoying situation? I’ve seen people go to some pretty extreme lengths, but I figured out through some fiddling around the following fix…
Simply pick any one of your installed apps, hold your finger down on it and delete it when the icon goes all wobbly and offers you the delete option. It doesn’t matter which app – just delete one. Then go to the app store and reinstall that app. It doesn’t matter if it’s a paid app – you won’t be charged for it again.
And that’s it. You will now find that all your apps are back to normal and working just fine. Don’t ask me why or how this works. It just does. I’ve done it multiple times and on different phones.
Twitter is one of those tools that is hard to explain. It kind of only begins to make sense as you play with it. This is probably one of the best descriptions of Twitter I have come across…
1. It’s still pretty cool. The awesome design just continues to wow.
2. Battery is a big issue – boy, she sucks the juice out of the battery pretty swiftly. I don’t like this. It makes you feel like you have to plug it in at every opportunity. Not good. I’m a bit spoiled by the Blackberry devices I’ve had, which are camel-like in comparison.
3. Data usage seems ok at this point for me. I’m watching it carefully to get a feel for it, and it’s about what I expected based on my research… Roughly 250-300mb per month, I’d say. Buy that’s going to vary depending on your wifi coverage.
4. I just love the Exchange integration -this alone makes this very functional for me. No more absolutely ridiculously crappy synchronization between Mac & Blackberry. This has been worth the switch right there.
If you’re like me, and like to just gather notes and bits of info and stuff in a single place where you know you can go for anything from passport numbers to license plates, to login info for that server you go to twice a year, then Evernote is for you.
This is one of the coolest tools out there, and if you don’t know about it, you should DEFINITELY check it out. Especially (Baggas), if you’re a student… :-)
Also works very nicely with multiple platforms from Windoze to Mac, to smartphones like the iPhone… also has the capacity to search images for text, including reasonable handwriting… very smart.
No cut’n'paste facility on the iPhone is plain weird. A big miss. I still love the device a HUGE amount, but there are some definite things that need to be fixed.
Three quick observations after a day with my iPhone…
First, the input issue I was worried about doesn’t seem to be a problem. With a bit of practice plus the corrective feature in the keyboard software means you can blast away and the device seems to do a pretty cool job of interpreting what you mean. This is a big and pleasing surprise to me.
Secondly, the 3G issues being complained about worldwide seem to be a very real problem. I am amazed at the terrible 3G reception in our area. I’m hoping that this is just a regional thing, but even so, that’s hard to believe given that here in Baldivis we are not exactly out in the bundies. The biggest problem is that the iPhone will latch on to a very weak 3G signal wherever possible, and doesn’t seem smart enough to flip to a much stronger 2G signal quick enough before you hit issues trying to do things.
Finally, after a day, I still haven’t made many calls on the phone, which seems consistent with other users who find themselves primarily using the iPhone for non-call functions mostly. Interesting.
So far…
Next big thing to watch will be data usage after scary stories in the media.
One other quick thing I’ll pick up on later, I’m sure – battery life sucks. Wow! And especially if you are hooked onto an Exchange server with push updates. Wow!
Despite Microsoft’s renewed efforts to jumpstart the company and position itself as more of a true rival to Apple, Redmond still can’t catch a break.
The Australian tech publication APC recently published an interview with HP marketing manager Jane Bradburn, who unveiled this gem:
‘However, what we have been able to do with Microsoft is ship PCs with a Vista Business licence but with XP pre-loaded. That is still the majority of business computers we are selling today,’ she said.
In other words, all those Vista sales that apparently are happening somewhere out there may not actually be, you know, sales of Vista. Freaking fantastic.
So, Steve, which part of the Microsoft story is this exactly?
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OK, so, if you’re a Mac user and you love YouTube, and you’re not using TubeTV, then you’re missing out big time…
This software allows you to download YouTube clips to your Mac in a variety of really useful formats, including for iPod, and it just works… which is why I like my Mac… it just works.
I use it all the time for grabbing stuff to use personally or in sermons, etc. I cannot recommend it more highly.
i’m constantly amazed at the difference between microsoft and apple, and it’s a pretty stark difference, let me tell you.
after having used a mac now for just about a year, i will NEVER go back to using a PC, partly because of the inferior design of most PCs, but largely due to microsoft.
example in point… my mac runs just fine, and all the native apps are very cool and quick, etc. whenever anything crashes on this thing, it’s almost 99.9% like to be one of the microsoft apps in the office package. everything has been reasonably stable for a while, but a recent update to the microsoft office 2004 package has resulted in my entourage hanging 3 times now in 2 days. it’s just amazing to me that a company with the resources and sheer money to throw at tech problems just struggles to get things right on a regular basis, and vista is probably their crowning glory.
i’m seriously now trying to find a way to stop using entourage and move as much as possible towards using the native apple apps, although the biggest issue is exchange server support. this, it seems to me, is a key issue that apple must get on top of if they want to completely convert people like me away from any dependance at all on microsoft products. the apple mail app does have exchange support, but it’s a bit limited. there’s no current calendar syncing either, so that’s a problem. i’d be tempted to even move totally to using gmail as my email client (even if it is web-based), if they could crack the exchange sync problem. dunno, but if i could possibly ditch all microsoft products from my world, i would. they are just ridiculously poor for a company with the heft of microsoft.
so, just killed entourage and rebooted it, but i’m on the journey towards something else now…
my old rugby coach used to declare that there are three kinds of people… those who makes things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who don’t know what the heck happened… (his language was a bit more colourful, but you get the drift…)
came across this one today, and i know this one is totally true…
“There are two types of people: those who’ve lost data and those who will.” — Dan Frakes, MacWorld
