The Official iPhone Thread

[Rubix]

I set up my iPhone 4S yesterday around 6:30 and since than till now the battery has dropped to 70% and I have been texting a lot and playing around with Siri.

Also I know that the battery takes a couple of full charges to get to its full potential so im happy with it at the moment.

Also say to siri "Google Do A Barrel Roll"

Battery life now is 49%

Been using Siri showing people at work, used the camera, listened to about 40 tracks of music and sent a couple of texts.

[rinks]

Something to be aware of when using Siri:

Everyone loves Siri, the iPhone 4S' virtual personal assistant with a particularly snappy comeback for certain questions. But what they may not love is the amount of data Siri uses in catering to your every whim.

A report from Ars Technica suggests that overuse of Siri could unknowingly force users over their monthly data limit. Every Siri-related request gets sent to Apple's data centers for processing, even if all you're doing is asking it to add something to your phone's calendar—something that many might assume wouldn't require any data usage whatsoever.

Ars Technica's Jacqui Cheng did some math and worked out a rough guide to how much data you're likely using with Siri:

"If you use Siri 2-3 times per day at an average of 63KB per instance, you might expect to use 126KB to 189KB per day, or 3.7 to 5.5MB per month. For 4-6 times a day, that might come out to 252KB to 378KB per day, or 7.4 to 11MB per month. If you use it 10-15 times per day, you might end up using 630KB to 945KB per day, or 18.5 to 27.7MB per month."

Some caveats: The 63KB per request figure is an average amount based on a number of tests—and a relatively high average; requests that require additional internet look-up beyond the processing of the request obviously use more data, with different types of requests having a different range of data amounts. Sending text messages through Siri use less data than sending email, for example, and setting calendar events uses less data than looking something up on Google.

It's unlikely that someone who isn't using Siri obsessively is going to incur data overages, based on these numbers, but it's worth bearing in mind that Siri is going to eat data for everything you ask her to do. So maybe you should just use your fingers to dial that number, just in case.

http://techland.time.com/2011/11/04/sir ... -guzzling/

[Minto]

Right, I have just been given a 3GS and was wondering if any of you guys could point me in the direction of a good way of unlocking it? I am on 3 and the phone is on O2.

Do I jailbreak it and then download software via Cydia that will unlock it?

[Rubix]

You can get the person who had the phone originally, to contact O2 and get them to unlock it

[Minto]

What if that's not an option?

[Nathanbrains]

Then you should give it back to whoever you nicked it from.

[Minto]

It was a gift

[Dark Ritual]

Quick Question:

My mate has an iPhone 3GS, which had iOS4 (or something) and he went to update to iOS5. The update wiped the original OS but then couldnt install the new one, so his phone is pretty much dead at the moment. He's not sure how to get the backup working and he can't install/reinstall anything as he keeps getting Errors "6", "1603" and "1611". Any ideas?

[darksideby182]

Minto

jailbreak then unlock via ultrasn0w , what firmware is it on first though

[Frank]

Which part? If there's no "convert to AAC" button you need to change your CD import settings in the preferences.

[Tafdolphin]

Once again iTunes strawberry floated up this morning. Added a single album to my library and tried to sync my iPhone 3G. Cancelled the backup stage (as always) and the strawberry floating thing crashed. I "swiped to cancel" on my phone but had to do a hard reset as the iPod app would only show the "cancelling sync" screen.

[Floex]

iTunes: It just works

[Rubix]

I have never had an issue with iTunes

Iphone 4S is going well, no issues with battery and I have everything turned on.

[Tafdolphin]

I have never had an issue with iTunes

[Minto]

Minto

jailbreak then unlock via ultrasn0w , what firmware is it on first though

05.16.05

[Rubix]

iPhone developer activates hidden panorama function in Camera app

http://www.stuff.tv/news/apple-news/new ... camera-app

[rinks]

Cancelled the backup stage (as always)

Why would you do that?

[Tafdolphin]

Cancelled the backup stage (as always)

Why would you do that?

Because it takes over an hour.

[Frank]

Good God. I think there's something wrong with your iTunes in that case

[darksideby182]

Minto

jailbreak then unlock via ultrasn0w , what firmware is it on first though

05.16.05

Thats the baseband im pretty sure you can unlock that , just need to know what ios firmware number you are running