Oct
18
Problem: Wanting to recover my iPhone using my iCloud account but I don’t see any option within iPhone’s settings to do a recover.
Solution: In order to restore from iCloud, you will have to reset your iPhone. Go to Settings – General – Reset and select “Erase All Content and Settings.” Your iPhone will reset to factory defaults and upon reboot, will walk you through setting it up. One of the options is to restore from iCloud backup. Would be nice for that to be an option within the OS but until then, this will do.
Oct
17
Problem: Uploaded some pictures to Photo Stream on accident. Tried to delete them through iPhoto but it wouldn’t let me. Logged into iCloud.com and tried to find a way to administer the photos there but there wasn’t an option to delete individual photos…
Solution: Login to iCloud and click on your user name in the upper right hand corner. Then click on the “Advanced” button and you will then have the option to reset the Photo Stream. This will delete all of the photos within your Photo Stream but not on your devices. This will have to do until Apple gives us the option to delete individual pics as necessary.
Oct
17
Problem: Recently upgraded to Mac OS Lion and VMWare 4.02 and all seems to be working well except my Wacom Intuos4 tablet in full screen mode. The pointer will work for a few seconds to a minute and then will hardly move. The actions are much like a optical mouse on a reflective surface. A regular USB mouse will work just fine. The tablet does work fine in Unity but in window or full screen mode I have this problem.
Have tried the following:
1. Updated the Wacom driver on the Mac side: No luck
2. Installed the driver on the Windows 7 side without any luck
3. Set the device to connect to the Mac first in the VMWare preferences: Didn’t work
4. Set the device to connect to PC first in VMWare preferences: Didn’t work
5. Set the compatibility mode within the VMware preferences back to version 3: Didn’t work.
Any ideas? Because I’m a a loss. This is obviously a problem with how VMWare works with Lion but not sure how….
UPDATE: VMWARE now has instructions on how to fix this problem. Just one line in the .vmx file. Link below:
Oct
13
Problem: Upgraded to IOS 5 and one of the new features is that there will be a shortcut to the camera when waking it back up to the lock screen. Problem is that I haven’t seen it. Looked for preferences or settings and couldn’t fine anything.
Solution: Instead of clicking on the home button once, you will need to double tap the home button and the camera shortcut will appear. Not really the best solution but a solution at least..
Oct
12
My thoughts and findings while installing and learning the new Apple iPhone/iPad IOS.
Size of download: 774.4 MB – Has taken about 45 minutes to download. So not too much but make sure that you have your iTunes updated to the latest version. It won’t really matter I guess because it will force you to before you can update your iPhone.
First try on my iPhone was unsuccessful. I got an unable to restore iPhone because of an internal error… Looks like it’s in a loop. Backing up my iPhone once again..
During the 2nd backup I got an error saying.. “An error occurred while backing up this iPhone (-402653138). would you like to continue to update this iPhone?” Of course this will wipe everything off of my phone which I don’t want… I canceled… I wonder if this has to do with the fact that I have synched this with more than one computer…
Found a tech doc on Apples site and it said for me to make sure that iTunes was up to date.. Check Make sure that my OS was up to date (not check).. A big update came out today for the Mac OS.(security). I updated and that didn’t fix the issue. I might have to break out my laptop and see if it will work on that…
The issue right now is that why am I getting this error before the IOS updates on my phone. I would think that it would try to restore after the IOS updates but no. Thoughts, anyone? I went as far as resetting my iPhone to factory defaults and the problem still persists… I’m thinking the IOS download is corrupted…
Solution:
I tried another computer and still got errors but I noticed that the error was happening when iTunes was trying verify the restore. It finally worked after numerous tries which tells me that the iTunes servers couldn’t process the information. So keep trying. It will eventually work.
Other thoughts:
Notifications work really well and so does recovering from iCloud. Siri, is pretty sweet except for some issues I had with it not being able to connect to the network. I addressed that issue in this post.
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