TimesToCome Mobile

If you do the software update on your old iPhone, or likely new one, while the phone is in airplane mode then when you are finished it will be stuck in a loop.

The iPhone will tell you to plug it in to iTunes, iTunes will tell you it can’t access the phone till the phone is activated.

To break the loop. Go to the phone and tell it you want to make an emergency call. It will tell it must turn off airplane mode. Tell to go ahead. Then you can plug it into iTunes and everything will work itself out and be fine.

After I bought the new iPhone I decided to keep the old one as a back up ipod.

I loaded up the leaked copy of 2.0, then erased it and put the official version on it, then wiped it and resynced it. Just because.

I found that even if I had wifi hooked up the phone would not let me reset up the email accounts in airplane mode. I kept getting “Cannot connect using SSL” errors. Turn off airplane mode to set up the email accounts, then you can swap it back to airplane mode on/ wifi on and all will be well.

If you have it in airplane mode it won’t keep searching for the ATT network and run down your battery on you. Plus you won’t keep getting the ‘activation’ error messages.

Don’t worry about wiping it. I totally wiped it and put the 2.0 software update on after I took that phone off the ATT phone plan and had no problems.

You can sync both the old and the new phone with the same computer. You might want to rename one of them. While syncing click on the name of the phone in the iTunes sidebar. It will let you erase the old name and enter a new name.

Purchased music can be loaded on both phones, you are allowed up to 5 devices including the computer where you store all your information.

Remember to reset time zone support [ Settings->Mail, Contacts, Calendar scroll all the way down ] to your time zone. My calendar appointments kept changing times. It drove me nuts for a couple of days till I stumbled upon that setting.

If an activation screen pops up on iTunes while synching your old phone, just select ‘cancel’.

I love it.

The new phone gets a signal in the house which the old one would not. That’s a huge plus.

We are at the edge of a 3G network. If I stand out back on one leg and face north I get 3G. Otherwise a short walk down the street puts me in 3G. What a difference it makes. In the city 3G is everywhere and that’s when I need it most, when I’m not home.

So far battery life is fine. It was rough the first day, but I was playing with the phone a lot. It was better the second day. Today it is fine. Remember it takes about a week to properly break in the cell phone batteries so that they will hold a full charge.

The screen is fine. It does not appear yellow to me. It is crisper and brighter. In a million folks I guess you just can’t please them all.

The form is nice, the old phone feels clunky in my hands now.

The apps will get better. It took Palm a while to get some good applications. Palm never did give us gps before they vanished. This phone has gps which opens a whole new world of cool application possibilities. Windows Mobile has some great applications for their phones. Ours will be coming.

I am synching the old phone and the new with the same computer. I did give the old one a different name ( click on the name when the phone is hooked into iTunes and it will let you edit the name ).

The calendars got a bit confused at first when I synced both phones. I deleted the events in the old phone and told iTunes to over write the old phone calendar with the computer copy. That straightened everything out.

If you put your old phone in airplane mode and turn on wifi it will quick whining about not being able to activate.

If you’ve gotten a new phone number don’t forget to add it to the ‘Do not call list’.

I’m still wishing for a pdf reader that will let me store several pdfs on the iPhone. Other’n that all is right and wonderful.

The anti-glare screen covers (Power Support anti-glare screens ) you can buy at the Apple store do a great job of masking fingerprints. It makes the phone much easier to read outdoors as well.

If your contact list is slow loading and slow responding to your taps, try removing the Google application and shutting off and restarting your phone. It worked for me.