Comments on: New Toys! 24″ iMac, iPod Touch, iPhone 3g http://www.declan.net/2008/07/19/new-toys-24-imac-ipod-touch-iphone-3g/ Sun, 23 Nov 2008 09:03:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Jason http://www.declan.net/2008/07/19/new-toys-24-imac-ipod-touch-iphone-3g/#comment-61648 Jason Tue, 22 Jul 2008 17:45:55 +0000 http://www.declan.net/2008/07/19/new-toys-24-imac-ipod-touch-iphone-3g/#comment-61648 The charge problem isn't going to be an easy fix. It's definitely not fixable in firmware--they simply stopped connecting to the FireWire power pins. If you're lucky, your (car's) cable manufacturer brought out the USB +5V power pair, and you could hook something up to that. If not, all they brought out was the FireWire +12V pair. Soldering that 30-pin connector is tricky, but I haven't had the need yet to work up the nerve to try it. There's a <a href="http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8295" rel="nofollow">breakout board</a> from SparkFun. The charge problem isn’t going to be an easy fix. It’s definitely not fixable in firmware–they simply stopped connecting to the FireWire power pins. If you’re lucky, your (car’s) cable manufacturer brought out the USB +5V power pair, and you could hook something up to that. If not, all they brought out was the FireWire +12V pair. Soldering that 30-pin connector is tricky, but I haven’t had the need yet to work up the nerve to try it. There’s a breakout board from SparkFun.

]]> By: declan http://www.declan.net/2008/07/19/new-toys-24-imac-ipod-touch-iphone-3g/#comment-61524 declan Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:23:10 +0000 http://www.declan.net/2008/07/19/new-toys-24-imac-ipod-touch-iphone-3g/#comment-61524 Some learning on the iPhone 3g: The "missing mail" was recovered by checking the "Mail days to sync" under the Exchange mail account. I'd set this to 1 month, but it had been reset to 3 days. This reset issue has thrown me a bit. I initially synced the device with my Mac at work to finish activation. I had to set up an apple account to add apps, I guess, so I did so. Later that night, I plugged it in to the Mac at home, because that's where all my music and photos are. In the process, I guess I reset to my wife's Apple account, which then invalidated all of the apps I'd installed earlier in the day. I've slowly reinstalled everything, but why should I have to? I'm using Twinkle for Twitter, which is pretty neat, but got messed up by the S3 outage yesterday. I could never publish a tweet with a picture, and people were getting tweets from me with invalid URLs. I'll check to see if it's better today. Some learning on the iPhone 3g:

The “missing mail” was recovered by checking the “Mail days to sync” under the Exchange mail account. I’d set this to 1 month, but it had been reset to 3 days.

This reset issue has thrown me a bit. I initially synced the device with my Mac at work to finish activation. I had to set up an apple account to add apps, I guess, so I did so. Later that night, I plugged it in to the Mac at home, because that’s where all my music and photos are. In the process, I guess I reset to my wife’s Apple account, which then invalidated all of the apps I’d installed earlier in the day. I’ve slowly reinstalled everything, but why should I have to?

I’m using Twinkle for Twitter, which is pretty neat, but got messed up by the S3 outage yesterday. I could never publish a tweet with a picture, and people were getting tweets from me with invalid URLs. I’ll check to see if it’s better today.

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