iPhone contacts with big images – bad performance

Hi, a few days ago I was revisiting my contacts in apple’s addressbook. I found some contact where I had no images attached. I opened up iPhoto and dropped the images I wanted to the contact. Afterwards I synchronized my iPhone to get the changes done. Next day my wife called me and the iPhone kind of froze. No more touch events were recognized, sloppy animations, really bad experience. After rebooting 2 times I recognized that the behaviour is tied to the much too big image of the contact of my wife. So be aware if you rework your contacts, that the images you take for a contact would not be too big, if not it is possible that your iphone freezes on phoning the contact because the os is swapping memory. You can evaluate if a image is too big, if you goto edit contacts, select a contact and if it takes a long amount of time to load the contact that’s a hint of an image too big.

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.

Vodafone GT 3G+ EMEA with Ubuntu 5.10

Victory, after searching the web for about 2 weeks for HOWTO’s to install the vodafone gt 3g+ card with ubuntu for using in austria,I did it at the end. This should be a step by step description of what has to be done to get it work. This HowTo is for all user who have the vodafone model which does not register as usb devices. This type of card registers as pci device.

For details on how to get the thing working, see the attached files. For the content and functionality in the attached scripts I will take no responsibility for any harm and damage done to your system. I advise you to review the scripts before using them. Preconditions for the automatic activation script are:

1. nozomi module (download and make, described in howto)
2. kppp (sudo apt-get install kppp)
3. zenity (sudo apt-get install zenity)

Resources:

• HOWTO
• setpin.txt (Perl Script) – rename to .pl
• activateVodafoneCard.txt (Shell Script) – rename to .sh

Note:

Pleas run the activateVodafoneCard script with sudo, else it would not work correctly. So long and have fun