iPhone Newbie Questions

[duritz]

^true. as a matter of fact I would get a regular iPhone if i knew someone that had one or understood how to use ebay lol.

[GuJu]

Aluminum> Plastic.

[»X«]

Starting to get to grips with it all now and its running great. One of the solutions was not to use ZiPhone to jailbeak it.

ZiPhones 1-Pass method stuffs everything into the ramdisk, this can lead to memory corruption, like grayed out Wi-Fi or bluetooth.

ZiPhone automatically downgrades your bootloader to 3.9, which thankfully now can be updated again using Bootneuter. The reason this is bad is that if your iPhone is 1.1.2 or higher, your warranty used to be gone permanently, thanks to the Dev team though Bootneuter is an amazing (but again, dangerous if not used properly) tool.

Instead use iLiberty+ or Pwnage. iLiberty+ uses a 2-Pass Method which doesn't load everything onto the ramdisk, in fact it does very little, it uses payloads in the working OS, so no memory corruption can occur.

Therefore, iLiberty+ and Pwnage are much safer, and not to mention ZiPhones code was stolen from the Dev Team, who didn't release it for the reasons above. He has now been kicked out obviously. The Wi-Fi Fix actually replaces the phones MAC address with Zibri's. So make sure not to put two Wi-Fi fixed phones on the same network!

Since using iLiberty+ the iphone has become much more stable. Its also easy to get into. Using SSH & WinSCP. Nearly every sound the iphone makes now ive changed. Its excellent.

[Hardcore Til I Die]

• Is it true that the camera cannot record?
  

By default - no it can't, but 3rd party apps have already been created that can record video. I have personally tried some of these and found they work quite well. Ones that encode "on the fly" are a little sluggish but that could be the implementation as much as anything else. No doubt some kind of video recording app will be released officially after July 11th.

• How do you find texting using the iPhone? Just how smart is the autocorrect and how easy is that feature to use?
  

Takes some getting used to but with it being a qwerty keyboard it's better than the t9 keyboard that you get with nokias.

And the big question. Just how practical is it? What I mean is, with my N95 I click one key and get to a new msg, or hold a key to dial a number. How fast is it to get where you want to be? I dont like the thought of having to tap tap tap just to dial a number or read an SMS.

The iPhone does not have shortcut keys like the n95, you do need to tap-tap-tap, but I'm sure that's something you'll be able to put up with based on its ease of use in general.

The iPhone is missing lots of standard features such as video recording, MMS (multimedia messages), bluetooth file transfer, copy/paste, etc, but it's by far the easiest phone to use and most intuitive.

move it into your Ringtones folder in the Music folder

You can omit that step altogether. Double clicking on a ringtone file on the desktop for example still lets you sync it over.

[Hardcore Til I Die]

Got my new iPhone on Wednesday. Was locked on O2 but good old Ziphone fixed all. However one thing stuck me, just how disappointing the applications for it are and their implementation.

Before it arrived I spent many hours on YouTube etc looking for videos and stories about the iPhone's applications. The main ones I spotted were installer (obviously) and customize & summerboard.

With the videos I saw it was quick and easy, with summerboard you can scroll up/down with ease and change themes.

But in practice and for a first time user, it wasn?t the case at all.

Firstly, installer.app failed to find customize. Even a search yielded nothing. I had to go through the menu to find it. Then it listed 2 entries. Both IDENTICAL except one had an extra space in the description. This confused me for a start. When I installed it (I had to install the SUID to get it to run) I found it so slow it was unbearable. More often than not crashing out to the home screen, taking 2/3 minutes to open one menu or completely locking up the iPhone where only a hard reset will do.

So I took my chances and searched for summerboard. There were 2 versions again but one was labelled old so I went for the new one. That installed fine but it doesn?t actually do ANYTHING. I can?t flip up and down. That?s all I wanted it for and it doesn?t give me the option. It seems to me all these applications people are using are from different sources. The summerboard I saw in a video had tonnes of extra options; this one just allows me to change a few basic things like wallpaper and dock labels.

Im confused, if I google summerboard it takes me to its "official?" site which states

Obviously clicking on that takes me an an ancient installer website. Back to square one. The Version you get with installer.app it pretty much useless.

Since having the phone and trying out apps ive restored the iphone 5 times, in 2 days. Any pointers would be helpful. I dont want the earth, just dustom themes that dont lock up my phone and summerboard which actually works.

Most are written by hobbyist developers, that's why.

Out of the ones I tried the best were probably a solitaire game and a snake game that uses the accelerometer.

Aluminum> Plastic.

Supposedly the plastic will provide better signal which has been a big issue with the 1st gen iphone.