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iPhone 2.0 tips and tricks

July 24th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Most of these are not that obvious to me but the Edit button in Mail is useful as is saving images from the web
PDAStreet: Software Reviews: Review: iPhone 2.0 Software Upgrade
E-mail Management: You can now mass delete or mass move e-mails in the Mail application. Just tap the Edit button in the top right of [...]

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Jailbreaking iPhone 3G with 2.0 firmware. Not!

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Be careful, I did this on my iPhone 3G and everything seemed to work, but the phone network doesn’t, so I’m restoring my iPhone now to vanilla 2.0. Too bad, I like Mac Pacman!
iClarified has a tutorial for jailbreaking your iPhone 3G so that you can load all kinds of cool games. As if the [...]

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iPhone cannot restore error 6 , -50, etc.

April 12th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Wow, my iPhone got wedged with the Apple logo coming up and then the spinning wheel going on forever. This is apparently fairly common and there are not many good resolutions for error or unknown error
All the resolutions come down it seems to a single thing:

Get the iPhone into what is called DFU or restore [...]

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iPhone stuck at spinning wheel

April 11th, 2008 · No Comments · Geek

Sigh, I’ve had this happen three times now, when I install a bunch of applications and press the HOME button to get back, the iPhone comes up with a spinning wheel and won’t stop. When I turn it on, the apple logo comes up and the spinning wheel is under it. mazbarz had exctly the [...]

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