iPhone questions and help

Good questions.

I want to know about jailbreaking as well.

Come on, I know someone here must be an utimate iPhone wizard.

Why in gods name have they butchered the photo transfer process? There isn't even an option to keep full res when synching photos. What is this, 1999?

jailbreaking wont help with that, unless you want to use ssh which is mad slow and a pain in the ass.


apple wont let you use it as a flash drive...get a $5 flash drive.


photos can only be synced through itunes...or maybe with picasa and the google app. havent tried that.

the only things jailbreaking has allowed me to do that is special:

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install Backgrounder (can multitask apps)

hi I was real slow adapting to os x -- I liked managing my own files in os 9

with x the mac just kind of wanted to take over which raised up my stubborn resistance. for years I fought, trying to make the mac do things my way

finally I surrendered to the mac world and let it do its thing. having much more hard drive space has really helped. and backup drives. as a result I've got multiple photos, songs etc stored all over the place buried deep and tough to manage. it's frustrating but I haven't lost any data in years and years and years :-)

I'm trying some apps to get rid of duplicates :-)

now I know this doesn't answer your specific questions. I guess what I'm trying to say is when I did surrender and let mac do it's thing it freed me up to enjoy my computer instead of worrying so much. by the time iPhone came out I was surrendered -- and rather than carping too much about what it couldn't do I have instead enjoyed it immensely

the mac world isn't perfect but for me it's the best thing going. since surrendering I have very few problems. me trying to manipulate and make mac do things my way equals lost data. me surrendering equals redundancy but I can live with that :-)

hey as for photo res this is a cool era -- in the future we'll look back at these primitive photos and see them as charming and quaint -- kind of like pics from the 1800s or something. this era will pass as things continue to progress.

the iPhone is not a flash media storage device solely it is a computer and functions as a mac. I understand your frustration but as was pointed out flash storage devices are cheap. I use those for what they're good for and my iPhone for what it's good for.

I fully understand your frustration -- I repeat I've been much happier since I just surrendered and let mac do its thing.

peace rb

I too salivated over the iPhone and all its coolness, all the while overlooking its flaws. But they were there ... nagging me. Then, lo and behold comes the Droid from Google/Verizon. Everything the iPhone is and all that it isn't. The community is small right now, compared to the iPhone, but that's going to change swiftly over the next year. Honestly, now that I've had mine a few months, I PREFER it to every other device on which I work -- computer, laptop, iPhone, etc. I wish I could plug a keyboard and monitor into the thing and just run it.

Jailbreaking is kinda annoying. I did it to my ipod touch.

Sux that it wont really help you with ur issue,thats why i got 1 of those android phones the g1 to be exact allows you to do all kinda things like that&you can tweak it to do otherthings

What a pity iphone purchases don't come with a cooling off period, i've heard so much against them by people who regret buying them.

Go read here.
[link to www.noeman.org]
Its how I did my brother in laws, I on the other hand would never buy such a piece of shit.
That site has everything to unlock anything but if your not good at things like that then it probably wont help.

after you jailbreak it you can google iphonebrowser, it will let you do it. itunes must be installed.

Drag and drop (for windows) Windows 7 does not seem to play to nice with this app though.

Out of curiosity, what is "drag and drop"?

drag n drop's the lingo for how you move stuff around on a computer. u know you click a file, drag it to a folder or device, 'drop' it in by letting it go.

got it?

Oh ok, thanks! I don't have a computer. My Nokia can do all that though.

here ya go OP... XPlay 3 does what your looking for. makes your iphone, touch or pod appear like an extra drive on your system. open that drive and you can brows it's file structure just like windows folders...

here's the rundown...
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here's the download for the trial...
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3 things i REALLY dig about it

* once installed, there's no new software or browser to learn. it just detects your apple device and assigns it a drive letter like any other usb drive.

* it runs supper lite therefore FAST like a usb. since there's no browser or other software to navigate (like slow ass itunes) you won't even notice you installed it.

* did i say it's easy and FAST????

all you'll need is your iphone/pod usb cable.

(you do not have to uninstall itunes which is nice. you may want to change tunes from being the auto loading ware when the phone get detected.)

me, i have my pc set so only xplay loads when i plug in. most of the time i only plug in to charge. but i transfer junk more than dl stuff from tunes...

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ps- now you know why, in this cyber world filled with gigs and gigs of cheap and FREE storage solutions, the big propitiatory names get away with charging so damn much for an only slightly larger capacity variations of the same device.

once you add the drag n drop capability to your handheld, you can get a usb TERABYTE for less than $100 and move junk around for years before running out of space.

No, no trial, no pay.
Its free to do it here.
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Do not pay for things like that its retarded.

what's retarded is jailbreaking/voiding warr with experimental crap on a $500+ device to accomplish something a free or $29 computer software can do.

everybody i know that ever jailbroke (that didn't end up with a useless brick afterwords) always un-jailbreak within a few days anyway because a neato wallpaper's hardly a worthy trade for dependability and access to the legit stuff.

:dannyOMG:

Whatever!

The ultimate website with tutorials to jailbreak and unlock your iPhone
[link to www.iclarified.com]

if you go to iphone app store - you will find many apps to drag & drop to iphone

I jailbroke mine and I couldn't be more happy with it.
I can install anything for FREE plus other non official software like video recording and bluetooth able to communicate with other devices.
The GPS alone (Moblie Navigator) was VERY expensive and I got it for FREE.
Sucks to be you...