2008-02-08

 

Maybe I am to blame for *some* of my iPhone problems. Well, one of them. The home button dying, well I'm blameless for that one. There's just some shitty soldering or something causing that. I do have to take some blame for the Aunt Pat problem. Stephen took my iPhone to the Apple Store today while I was working -- sweetness, yes I know -- because of the once again dead home button. He also told them about the problem with the headphones not always disengaging correctly. Turns out the switch that detects whether or not your headphones are plugged in is a simple but mechanical (not electronic) switch. Sometimes a hair or some dirt can make it malfunction, so if you're having this problem just blow some canned air in there to clean it out. Unless you're me. If you're me, you have not a hair or some dirt but a giant and compact hot pink ball of fluff shoved down in the speaker jack... from my covet-worthy iPhone cozy. Guess I'll keep an eye on that with the new one they gave Stephen. That was nice, by the way. Both times I've had problems with the phone they've just replaced it immediately, not put me through the bullshit rental program. I appreciate that.

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posted by bethanye 2:16:00 PM   

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Did you get to keep the fuzzball? I'm weird and want to see it :)

# posted by  karrie : 2/08/2008 8:08 PM

 

nah... That phone had other problems, so there was no fuzzball extraction. Sorry to disappoint.

# posted by  bethanye : 2/09/2008 10:37 PM

 

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2008-01-15

 

Arrgh! Now my iPhone has magically fixed itself. For anyone who just happens to get here from searching for b0rken iPhone problems, here's the symptoms I had: Speakerphone worked. Adjusting volume in settings would play a volume-sound. Headphones worked. However, when trying to have a conversation by actually holding the phone up to my ear, there was no sound. When calling the phone, there was no ring. There were no "alert sounds" such as SMS notices. I didn't have time to go to the Apple Store and bitch them out, so I reset the phone using iTunes -- no love. Boo! I also noticed craptastical response from the home button -- as in, it didn't work all the time, and to change apps I was having to power the phone OFF to get back to the menu screen. I gave up. Bah! This went on for a few days. I was listening to podcasts and making calls from the headphones until I got around to giving up the phone for awhile -- and then last night I heard a DING! from the other room. Indeed, the phone had healed itself, and I'm not sure why or what I did. I had sync'd the phone several times in the interim without remedy. I have to figure this is a problem where the phone still thinks the headphones are plugged in when they're not. Some series of events I'm doing is causing this state where the phone is still trying to only send data through the headphones -- even when they're not plugged in.

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posted by bethanye 8:42:00 AM   

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2008-01-11

 

I love my iPhone. I love it. Still, it's hardly been a trouble-free device. Once again - as I was trying to call Aunt Pat, yet again - it has stopped working through the earpiece on the phone. The headphone/mic work fine. The speaker works fine. I'm annoyed it's b0rked on me the exact same way yet again. Unclear what will happen when I go to the Apple Store to get it fixed, but I'll betcha that they take it away for fixing and try to get me to rent another phone for the duration. Bah.

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posted by bethanye 12:43:00 PM   

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