There's a dead pixel near the middle of the screen, been there since day one, should I make a fuss about it?

 

haha hell yeah, just picked my 3GS iphone!!! this thing rocks! phone is awesome but the tape adapter for my car just fuckin sucks, got get the ipod integration installed.

 

yea I played a trial version and I just got the full one. It's so much fun and for a .99$ can't beat it

 

i played it too, not bad. i played worms. im not patient enough for that ish..

 

Quick question for all of you experts, I just did the 3.0 OS on my girls 3g and while some of the new settings were installed, I still cant seem to send or receive picture messages with it, I checked the apple web page and they said that and cut/paste were part of the update, but I cant seem to do either one.

 

AT&T won't be MMS functional yet. It's coming in a couple months hopefully. Cut and paste should surely be working, perhaps it's user error?

 

My 3GS is sitting at the AT&T store but I don't have any time to pick it up until Saturday!!!

 

I think I'm going to have to take my 3GS to the Genius Bar soon. Either I'm one of the few unlucky bastards to have this happen to me, or this is just crap I have to deal with when I have a smartphone that everyone else is used to but I'm not quite yet.

Sometimes after calling or even picking up a call I'll be able to hear someone for a second then all of a sudden this crazy static that sounds like some aliens are trying to scramble my phone call takes over and I have to end the call.

earlier this month while I was trying to get a job, I tried calling the hiring department and for some reason RIGHT after I dialed their number (and the hiring office's number only) the phone kicked me back to the home screen, no warning or anything. Most frustrating shit ever. not to mention a couple of other little annoyances which only happen 2% of the time but still piss me off like no other. I'm used to freezing and slowing down once in a while (though it doesn't help), even if I'm just using one app at the moment, but other things are just a mind fuck.

either all that or AT&T just plain sucks monkey nuts. am I crazy? or is Steve Jobs on a mission to make me go crazy? I swear when crap like this happens I feel like chucking my 3GS as far as I can.

Good luck to the rest of you, don't let me be a deterrent if you plan on getting an iPhone. but my old iPhone 2G had tons of issues, most of which were completely fixed with this new 3GS, but then a few others showed up also. why me, really.

 

Think you do need to talk to a genius asap. I was having a few issues after installing 3.0 on my 3g. Genius played with it for 10 minutes and works great now, g/l.

 

so whats supposed to happen with peoples iphones tomorrow?

 

huh?? something is gonna happen??

 

Glad to hear. I guess I'm not as phone savvy as I used to be because I didn't notice whether or not this started with 3.0 or not.... I love this phone when it works without a flaw, here's hoping all the issues get fixed and never show up again

 

yea something about a hack is coming out today, that if you get a text message with a strange symbol it could be a hacker taking over your phone.

 

http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/30/s...still-isnt-pa/

Remember that alleged SMS-based security hole on the iPhone allowing evil-doers to execute arbitrary code and do all sorts of nasty crap like create an army of mobile zombies ready and willing to execute a DoS attack? The guy who found it, security expert Charlie Miller, said that he'd reveal the details of it at Black Hat -- and Black Hat's this week. Sure enough, Miller and his cohorts plan to unleash details of the hack today, and while they claim they informed Apple of the problem over a month ago, Cupertino's yet to make a move. We'd stop short of suggesting iPhone owners all turn off their handsets and take themselves firmly off the grid and into a completely disconnected underground bunker the moment the attack becomes public, but if it's as serious as Miller claims, it definitely bumps up the pressure on Apple to get a fix out on the double -- preferably before 3.1 drops.


http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2009/0...vulnerability/

Given the hype surrounding Apple's iPhone, we're actually surprised that we haven't seen more holes to plug over the years. In fact, the last major iPhone exploit to take the world by storm happened right around this time two years ago, and now -- thanks to OS X security expert Charlie Miller -- we're seeing yet another come to light. Over at the SyScan conference in Singapore, Mr. Miller disclosed a hole that would let attackers "run software code on the phone that is sent by SMS over a mobile operator's network in order to monitor the location of the phone using GPS, turn on the phone's microphone to eavesdrop on conversations, or make the phone join a distributed denial of service attack or a botnet." Charlie's planning to detail the vulnerability in full at the upcoming Black Hat conference, but Apple's hoping to have it all patched up by the end of this month.

 

does anyone else use the Photobucket (free) app? I can upload the pictures easily, but the problem is... it's not "cut/copy/paste" the links in order to post... Anyone else have this problem?

 

yea i use it. its a pain and stupid, what i do is use the app to upload onto photobucket, then log onto the mobile version of photobucket in safari, and then get the link

 

OHH CRAP WTF DO I DO, i reformatted to windows 7 and reinstalled itunes, and now when i try to sync my iphone it says it needs to be erased since i cant have it synced to 2 computers

 

Couldnt wait til Saturday so I picked up my phone tonight I'm kinda digging this black and white feature on my 3GS!

 

ohh man what a pain in the ass this is.

first i have to hack my copy of itunes to set the library ID back to my older version, then i lose all my apps on my iphone, and am now resyncing them back to my phone.

plus you can only authorize up to 5 computers....

luckily for me i backed up everything.

there has to be an easier way to do this for people who format alot.

 

what do you mean "black and white feature"?

 

Go into Accessibility, there is a feature to turn everything into black/white.

 

Gotta wait until Friday to get mine!

 

<--- Has to wait 19 more days

 

Figured out the copy paste thing just fine and the landscape keyboard is pretty nice, but I think its very shitty that they are pushing the picture video messages on the web page and yet att users can't do it, this was really the only reason why we updated and its useless for now

 

Astro/Mizouse maybe you can help, I sold my buddy my original Iphone (1g) when I bought my 3g, at the time when I sold it to him Iphone's weren't available in Canada so I had to unlock it. IIRC I used the unlock that used an exploit in safari and could be totally done from the phone. Anyways, the Iphone has been available here for some time now, and he's looking to upgrade the software to 3.0 from 1.1.1 unlocked. My question is what do I need to do for him so that everything works as it should? Will I still need to unlock it? or should it be alright since now my country and carrier support the iphone? Do I need to virignize the baseband still? I've been out of the unlocking/cydia game for awhile now and need to get back up to speed to help him out, any help would be great.

 

I know the answer, but I'm not astro or mizouse, so....

 

Damnit

 

paging GIBSON6594!

 

So the 1g iPhone was originally on AT&T? If so you still need to unlock it since by default it's locked to AT&T.

All you need to do is update to 3.0 in iTunes and then run redsn0w to jailbreak. Make sure to select to unlock it when jailbreaking it. You will also need the bootloaders when you unlock. There is website posted a few pages back when sarlacc wanted to unlock his 1g

 

Ya it was an original AT&T phone. I figured since now that it's supported here the carrier wouldn't be blocked, but I guess there's more to it than that.

 

Miz I went back through the thread looking for that bootloader link, I can't seem to find it.

 

^found it.

 

might be getting an iphone 3GS this saturday.

my sister, mom and I are on a family plan, and my sister wants to upgrade to an iphone, the guy she talked to at the AT&T store said it would be possible for her to upgrade without having the rest of us upgrade yet

so if she really wants it, and with my understanding to get the upgrade price you have to renew your contract for another 2 years, then ill just plunk down the money now and upgrade as well.

 

isn't that what a lot of people are doing? I believe that's how I did it...

 

I didn't renew and I upgraded from a 3g

If I told you how I did it I'd have to kill you though.

 

we are all eligible to upgrade.

to my understanding to get the upgrade price on the iphone, that would require renewing your contract for 2 years which in this case is a family plan?

my question is, if she upgrades, would that force me and my mom to upgrade as well?

the guy at the AT&T store said it would be possible for her to upgrade and not have my mom and I upgrade yet, until we wanted to.

 

i dont know if what i wrote made any sense.

 

well, basically... I was in the same situation... I wasn't up for an upgrade... I had just gotten the HTC Fuze (which I hated) about 7-8 months ago... My sister AND my mom were due for an upgrade. I got the iPhone with renewing HER contract... it didn't touch my mom's plan or contract or whatever.

 

but all our phones are under 1 plan

 

The whole plan doesn't get a renewal, only the line that upgraded. The phones can be interchanged since the SIM cards can be moved around.