The iPhone Collective

[doconeill]

Outlook on iPhone? Isn't that like putting a trailer hitch on a Ferrari?

 

[heartsy77]

Ok since I am on Spring Break from Nursing School I have lots of time to fix my iphone. You guys helped me through the sync of my apps, I need instructions on how to change my theme! If some one could list them or PM I would be forever grateful!

 

[*NikkiBell*]

I just had the WEIRDEST thing happen! My phone rang and I slid the slider to answer and the screen went black and the Apple logo appeared. What does that mean?

Do you all reset your phone monthly? I read that you are supposed to do that, but wasn't sure.

 

[luke]

I just had the WEIRDEST thing happen! My phone rang and I slid the slider to answer and the screen went black and the Apple logo appeared. What does that mean?

I'm pretty sure that you're phone just crashed

 

[MM32830]

I just had the WEIRDEST thing happen! My phone rang and I slid the slider to answer and the screen went black and the Apple logo appeared. What does that mean?

Do you all reset your phone monthly? I read that you are supposed to do that, but wasn't sure.

Many have said to "reset" their phone on a regular basis but I never do. Now, I do have to shut it down twice a month (I fly for work once a month and have to shut down my phone) but even in the months that I don't I never seem to have problems.

Of course, it certainly doesn't hurt to reboot your phone whenever you think about it.




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[*NikkiBell*]

I'm pretty sure that you're phone just crashed

OMG! Is that bad?

 

[luke]

OMG! Is that bad?

Nope, just carry on as usual.

It may happen again, it may not, just one of those things

 

[Echo queen]

Do you have the same problem if you see the messages first on your iPhone? Meaning if you see the messages on the iPhone first, will you still be able to see them later on Outlook? If I see the message on my iphone first I can still see them on outlook, but it is just as if the messages have never been opened in outlook.

I am guessing you have your email in Outlook set up for access via a POP server. When you do that, messages will be downloaded to your email client to your local computer and then removed from the server. Messages won't be kept in sync. There is generally an option you can select to "leave messages on the server," but that's not ideal either, because then you have to delete the messages from your different email clients.

What you want is to use your email through an IMAP protocol. Did you say you have Yahoo? I am not sure what the settings are for Yahoo. I would suggest going to their website and searching for the settings to set up Yahoo with IMAP on Outlook. Yes yahoo.

IMAP is definitely a better way to go, because you can keep your email in sync across different email clients, create folders on one client that will appear on others, etc.

Yes, this is what I would like to do, keep it all in sync. Currently I check my mail through out the day and when I go home (on outlook)I have too delete messages all over again and I can't see my folders.

 

[sarahsar]

Yes, this is what I would like to do, keep it all in sync. Currently I check my mail through out the day and when I go home (on outlook)I have too delete messages all over again and I can't see my folders.

Yes, what you need is email that supports IMAP. On the iPhone, it appears like Yahoo must, since you are able to read mail on your phone first and then later on your desktop.

I just read a bit about Yahoo and IMAP - kind of a weird situation. According to this, Yahoo supports IMAP when the data is coming over a mobile network, but not otherwise. That is truly bizarre. It doesn't really make sense, because presumably your mail works over Wifi and not just AT&T?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100218081203AAaLtnY

I also found stuff saying that is not the case, and you may be able to get it to work on Outlook.

I tried searching around the Yahoo help site, and had no luck. The organization is confusing. Maybe someone else here who uses Yahoo can tell you a) if it will work and b) if so, what the settings are.

I can tell you that you can definitely do what you want to do with Gmail, AOL, MobileMe, and Microsoft Exchange. With Hotmail, it's not so simple, and requires a 3rd party email client on the iPhone (mBox Mail, which works well). Hotmail is a pain also depending on which desktop client you want to use, but can work with Outlook using a special plugin.

For a free IMAP solution, I would recommend Gmail. They support IMAP and the settings are easily found on their website.

 

[Cyrano]

DW has just joined the collective and upgraded on Orange to a 3G

 

[luke]

My DW got her iPhone about a year after me, after insisting she didn't want one. She can't put it down now!!

 

[Echo queen]

Yes, what you need is email that supports IMAP. On the iPhone, it appears like Yahoo must, since you are able to read mail on your phone first and then later on your desktop.

I just read a bit about Yahoo and IMAP - kind of a weird situation. According to this, Yahoo supports IMAP when the data is coming over a mobile network, but not otherwise. That is truly bizarre. It doesn't really make sense, because presumably your mail works over Wifi and not just AT&T?

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20100218081203AAaLtnY

I also found stuff saying that is not the case, and you may be able to get it to work on Outlook.

I tried searching around the Yahoo help site, and had no luck. The organization is confusing. Maybe someone else here who uses Yahoo can tell you a) if it will work and b) if so, what the settings are.

I can tell you that you can definitely do what you want to do with Gmail, AOL, MobileMe, and Microsoft Exchange. With Hotmail, it's not so simple, and requires a 3rd party email client on the iPhone (mBox Mail, which works well). Hotmail is a pain also depending on which desktop client you want to use, but can work with Outlook using a special plugin.

For a free IMAP solution, I would recommend Gmail. They support IMAP and the settings are easily found on their website.

Thanks Sara, I guess I will just continue to use yahoo on the phone and labtop/PC, everythings works well together and it is all synced together. I liked the onscreen layout of outlook, but I like to have all of messages availible all the time more.

 

[mjaclyn]

My Favorites!

Facebook
Twitter (Echofon)
All Recipes
Amazon.com (Be careful with this one, you can place an order with one click!)
Ebay
Fandango
WootWatch
Symptom MD
TWC
Shutterfly (upload IPhone photos directly to your shutterfly account!)
Google (LOVE voice search)
Starbucks Mobile Card (starbucks can scan your starbucks card right from your Iphone!!)
Ranch Rush
Doodle Jump
All my Disney Apps - WDW Dining, WDW Maps, WDW Times, MouseWait, DLP Walkee, Wait Times, Eticket

My 3 year old's favorites:
Peekaboo Barn
Curious George Let's Color
Sky Burger
Monkey Preschool Lunchbox
More Toast!
Cupcakes!
More Pizza!

 

[Sweetpeamd]

I'm looking for an app that I can use as a meal calendar (keep track of what I'm cooking each night of the wk) and also a grocery list planner (maybe one app for both?). Has anyone had any experiences with an app like that?

 

[denise]

didn't someone post a few dozen pages back about saving everything on a flash drive then loading it on a laptop?

Here is what I want to do...tell me if it can be done. Oh and how too.

I have itunes on my pc, I sync my touch to this pc. I got a cute little netbook for vacations and would love for all my songs, info to be there too. Just for emergency if I need to sync again while I am gone. I will be getting a iphone when the new one comes out. I will always use the home pc to sync to.

Is there a way to do this? I tried the shared feature on itunes but that is not it because as soon as I was off my network it was all gone. Went to the apple store tonight (better then tomorrow with all the crazy people, they already had the ropes up) She suggested I buy mobile me...and use that...
is there a cheaper way?

I thought I had read something but there are so many pages to go thru and I really don't know what I am looking for.
Any suggestions?

 

[doconeill]

If you are using iTunes on both, I've had no problem just copying the iTunes folder. However, if you have any DRM-protected songs, you will need to "authorize" the new computer, and you can only do that so many times.

If you are not using iTunes, it may depend on the format of the files and that they are not DRM-protected (at least I'm not aware of an iTunes DRM-compatible player). If they are MP3 files, they can be played by most anything. iTunes by default uses AAC format instead of MP3, although I think most things can play that format now as well.

 

[sarahsar]

didn't someone post a few dozen pages back about saving everything on a flash drive then loading it on a laptop?

Here is what I want to do...tell me if it can be done. Oh and how too.

I have itunes on my pc, I sync my touch to this pc. I got a cute little netbook for vacations and would love for all my songs, info to be there too. Just for emergency if I need to sync again while I am gone. I will be getting a iphone when the new one comes out. I will always use the home pc to sync to.

Is there a way to do this? I tried the shared feature on itunes but that is not it because as soon as I was off my network it was all gone. Went to the apple store tonight (better then tomorrow with all the crazy people, they already had the ropes up) She suggested I buy mobile me...and use that...
is there a cheaper way?

I thought I had read something but there are so many pages to go thru and I really don't know what I am looking for.
Any suggestions?

You can't sync the iPhone to more than one computer. It will erase things and start over with what's on the new computer.

To listen to iTunes content on more than one computer, copy your entire iTunes folder to the second computer and authorize it. You can authorize up to 5 machines. If you get rid of the computer and want to get another at some point, just de-authorize it. If you have a bunch of computers authorized and can't remember which ones to de-authorize, you can de-authorize them all at once. I think you can do that once a year.

The problem comes when you add new content to iTunes, and then you don't have it on your second computer. Currently there's no "cloud-based" way of dealing with that (there are rumors that there will be "iTunes-on-a-cloud at some point, but that's only at the rumor stage). You can copy the new content to the second computer on a song by song basis. You can also use the home networking feature of iTunes that you alluded to in your post. The trick is, when you bring up a song on your second computer, click that you want to copy it over, not just stream it from the first computer. That way it will be on your netbook and you can take it with you on the road, even when you're not on your home network.

Are there other types of content you're trying to keep in sync? If you are also trying to sync calendar/contacts, there is not a way to do that just by syncing the phone to two different computers (since you can't really do that). That's where a service like MobileMe comes in. It lets you enter your calendar/contacts on one computer and it will keep it synced to the web, any other computers you have set up with it, and your device. If you change something on one of those, it will all automagically be changed "in the cloud." It also keeps email in sync. MobileMe is Apple's version of this. You can get, I believe, 2 months free, and you can also get discounted copies of it at places like Amazon (see my link if you are interested - I have a review of it http://medgirl2001.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/mobileme-a-review/).

There are other ways to do that, though. If you have access to Microsoft Exchange services, like through work, it does the same thing. Google also has such services, but I can't speak personally as to how well it works, as I haven't tried it.

 

[denise]

thank you (both of you) for the answers and suggestions.

I don't care too much about the music as it will be on my pc when I get home. It is the calendar and contact info I don't want to have to wait until I get home to get.

Your blog was great...thanks...I will check out Amazon and see what they offer for MobileMe. I will probably wait until I get my iphone to figure this all out. So much to learn...

 

[Sphyrna]

Also keep in mind that if you copy your iTunes folder from your PC to your netbook, it has to be in the same exact location. I forgot about that when I copied things to my new PC. My new PC has a second hard drive where I keep all my data. So instead of C:\...iTunes it's now D:\...iTunes. So now my iTunes shows the list of my music but when I try to play it I get an error that it can't locate the track. Have to redo it, but just haven't taken the time to do so. Most likely this won't be an issue for you, but wanted to mention it in case someone else reads this.

 

[Sphyrna]

Tomorrow Apple is holding an iPhone OS 4.0 event tomorrow. Any predictions of what 4.0 will bring? and when?