Slow iPhone 3G after 3.0 OS update

After recognizing some issues with laggy application response and slow input fields and keyboard entries on the iPhone 3G after the update to 3.0 I did a little of googling around if there are any news, rumors or solutions on that. What I found surprised a little bit. It seems so that Apple is aware of memory leakage within the new OS 3.0 release of the iPhone and tell the user to do a hard reset or a reboot once a day or when the phone starts to get laggy because the working memory fills up after starting and stopping numerous application. I also tried this and this did the trick, but this is not a solution for me. So I read a few threads even on the apple forum, where people were complaining and hoping that there will be done something about this. The thing I did so funny it sounds, I filed a feedback at http://www.apple.com/feedback/ That’s the minimum I can do. You can do that also and maybe Apple reacts on that by fixing the bugs (because these are obvious bugs) when there are filed enough feedback surveys on their page according to this problem. Describe you problems in detail, to help them track the bug down, it’s for your own good. Downgrade to 2.2.1 is not an option for me because Apple braged in their advertisements that the OS 3.0 is soooo fast and so straight forward and so on…., so let’s fix them the bugs, file the feedback at the above mentioned link.

iPhone OS 3.0 first review

Hi out there! I was waiting all day here in Austria for Apple to release the new iPhone OS 3.0. 30 Minutes ago iTunes told me that there is a new version for my iPhone 3G available. After downloading the 230 MB of the new image iTunes started to actualize the phone. 15 minutes later and one message “unplug the phone, enter sim pin code and reconnect” later my iPhone was flawlessly running with the new OS. Congratulations Apple. No painpoints there after the upgrade. No errors, all applications are there, all videos all songs, everything perfectly like it was before. First impressions in using the phone did not give me any lacks in responsiveness of the phone or any slowdowns I would have expected like there have been on the iPhone first generation and the OS version 2.0 Update. The new spotlight feature is very usable and the only app where the reaction of the phone (screen) gets a little dogged. I also synchronized to check out if everything works fine and here also everything as we expect it from Apple. So as a final statement after a few minutes of testing around: Congratulations, you did a great job so far as I can judge from here and now.

Add On 2009-06-18

Today I detected that the update erased the settings of the mobile data network settings for UMTS (3G). You have to set the properties new, details for what to set there you can get at your providers homepage! For A1 in Austria, see images below or settings here or directly at A1 homepage.

If you want to enter the information manually see images below or this list:

1. APN: free.a1.net
2. username: ppp@a1plus.at
3. password: ppp
4. MMSC: mmsc.A1.net (OHNE http:// !)
5. MMS-Proxy: 194.48.124.71:8001

(leave the last two fields empty). After having done these changes, restart your iPhone. To get your mobile provider data using profiles which is also possible to use with not jailbreaked iPhones use this site here.  After making all these settings and rebooting the iPhone MMS Button in Messages Application and MMS send possiblity in VoiceNote app where present and working.

(general settings for mobile data screen)

(MMS specific settings for A1)

ACHTUNG: Betrugsmail kursiert – Paypal

Gestern habe ich ein Mail mit dem Betreff: Message Regarding Your Account vom Absender: paypal@10549.com bekommen das vom Layout her ziemlich gut einer Fälschung der Paypal.com Seite entsprach. Stutzig machte mich 1tens der Absender, 2tens dann dass das von paypal.com kommen sollte, da ich doch meinen paypal Account bei paypal.at habe. Neugierig geworden klickte ich dann natürlich auf den Link: “Click here to remove Account Limitations” und landete dann auf dieser URL: http://cpe-121-208-84-144.qld.bigpond.net.au/phpmyedit/248918_paypal_com/webscr_cmd_login-run.php?dudtdwdxegbudvdv, die mittlerweile schon als Betrugsseite gemeldet und zumindes von firefox erkannt wurde. Der Inhalt der Mail fordert den Empfänger dazu auf seine Account Einschränkungen durch Angabe oder Beantwortung unterschiedlicher Fragen wieder aufzuheben. Vorgegeben wird dass es zu Sicherheitsverletzung beim Account gekommen wäre. Hier noch ein paar Bilder, zuerst die Mail und dann ein Screenshot der Erkennung als Betrugsmail.

(die Email)

(Erkennung durch Firefox beim Aufruf im Browser!!!)

Jing, image and video capturing of your screen

At this site you will find a very usefull proggi which allows you to capture images of your desktop or produce videos of things happening on your desktop, including your web cam and so on. This is quite a nice piece of software. Check it out.

iPhone looses connection / Internet Connection

Today I had a strange behaviour on my iPhone 3G. When trying to open my emails I got a “no connection to the internet available” against the settings pane, which told me that my 3G Connection is configured and switched on. The only thing I was missing was the connection icon at the right of the provider logo. I tried to switch on and of 3G, checked my connection point settings, nothing helped. It seemed like the daemon responsible for the connections EDGE, 3G and WLAN died somehow. I restarted the device and everything was fine again. A few days ago I encountered messages like “Network Connection Lost” during the day. Has or had anybody out there similar problems??? iPhone 3G free for all providers, no jailbreak.

7ZipX – 7Zip for OSX

Hi there for expanding 7z files you need this proggi here. Just download, doubleclick .dmg file and drag and drop app to your programms. See screencast here.

arRsync does not start syncing

Today I started right with a weird behaviour. I am using arRsync to sync my iPhoto Originals to my NAS box within my home network. I configured the sync and pressed the start button. arRsync told me “staring Sync…”. Nothing suspicious here unless it did not start for about half an hour or more. I checked the error log, nothing. I checked the network traffic, nothing. I checked the processes cpu utilization, nothing. After I detached my external usb drive which is also my time machine backup medium, arRsync immediately began syncing the prior configured job. It seems like an attached time machine backup volume with time machine activated is kind of blocking the rsync possiblities of osx. Did anybody out there detect the same behaviour, if yes, we could open up a bug, meanwhile I am trying to reproduce the error.

iMovie – Photo Booth does not start – Quartz Extreme Error!!

Today I encountered a problem when starting iMovie. A small dialog box appeared telling me that I need a graphic card which supports Quartz Extreme. After pressing the ok button iMovie shutdown. I never had this before, but after googling around a litte I found out that quite a bunch of people has this problem. It seems that OSX starting at version 10.5.2 got this problem when prior working with an additional external display or when the machine comes back from suspend mode. A simple logout and relogin does the thing as mentioned here but I would appreciate when Apple’s developer would fix this bug. There is enough information and hints on the web to pin down the bug. There is no need to reboot your machine as mentioned in some articles, after a new login quartz is coming up ok. I have not checked if there is allready a bug opened at apple for this.

Software review – Wiki in a jar

A nice tool for all who want to carry their knowledge around ist wiki in a jar. This little peace of software is quite amazing, it is a nearly fully blown wiki you can use to organize your thoughts immediately and keep it carrying around. The package you download is a zip file download here at a size of approximately 120KB of size. To keep the wiki mobile, all you have to do is check out a memorystick and unzip the content of the zip file there. A new folder named wiki.in.a.jar will be created. The content of the folder look like this:

Within the bin/ folder you find two binaries: start.cmd for windows and start.sh for linux/unix/osx (osx I have not tested).

If you execute the binary wiki in a jar starts a small webserver on port:3003 where you wiki can be accesses.

From there you can start to edit your wiki entries. The application provides a Wiki Formatting Demo page which you should contact frequently until you have recent knowledge abou the syntax which is not very different from other Wiki’s like TWiki or Moin Moin.

You should be aware of having the wiki structured at your own or organizational needs to be useable. Use the tagging inside a page to make the pages searchable with the built in search functionality.

You can also allow external access to your local wiki using the admin page link on the home tab.

So far I am using this beautiful small software to have my important knowledge always nearby. Use a memorystick like described below, add information, add structure for your everyday use, unplug the stick, go home plug it again and have it all at hand

Firefox – Software-Update fehlgeschlagen

Sollte es zu der obigen Fehlermeldung kommen so ist das meist nur bei eingeschränkten Benutzerkonten unter Windows XP oder Vista der Fall. Da diese Meldung ziemlich nervt habe ich gegoogelt und das hier gefunden.