The iPhone Collective

[disneysteve]

Did you make sure you didn't accidentally hit the ringer on switch on the side of the iPhone? I have accidentally turned off my ringer so many times without knowing it

Yep. That's the one major design flaw of the iPhone. As I slip the phone into and out of my pocket, I often accidentally flip that switch.

 

[OKW Lover]

Keeping your phone on silent (vibrate) is really important in the parks. You won't hear it ringing - unless you're in a quiet attraction and then everybody will hear it. Bad Show.

 

[disneysteve]

I have a 3G and have not yet updated to OS4. I've actually tried to a couple of times but I can't seem to get it to work but I'm not sure why. I'm actually attempting to upgrade right now. I connect my phone and get the prompt that an update is available. I click that I want to download and install the new version. It downloads fine. Then it starts the backup process and that's as far as I get. Tonight, I started the back up about 70 minutes ago and so far, the progress bar has barely moved, maybe 1/16" is blue. At that rate, it would take a week to finish.

Does anyone have a clue what the problem might be?

I finally found a solution to this problem. I asked at the Apple store today. At first, I wasn't sure the guy understood what I was talking about, but what he suggested trying worked perfectly.

First, do a backup of your phone. Then do a restore. That will restore and update the phone to iOS4. Then do a restore from backup to get all of your apps and data back on your phone. Ta-dah! I now have iOS4 installed and it didn't take any insane amount of time (probably would have been even faster had I thought to get rid of my photos first).

 

[Schrute Farms]

I'm in the cult now. My company finally approved iPhones for company email and my iPhone 4 arrived on Friday.

One question- I am looking for an app that I can scan business cards that will then load it into my Outlook contacts. Any recomendations?

 

[Renysmom]

I'm in the cult now. My company finally approved iPhones for company email and my iPhone 4 arrived on Friday.

One question- I am looking for an app that I can scan business cards that will then load it into my Outlook contacts. Any recommendations?

We are using BC Reader at our office, it loads into Gmail contacts very well so I am going to assume it works well with Outlook.

 

[yitbos96bb]

Yep. That's the one major design flaw of the iPhone. As I slip the phone into and out of my pocket, I often accidentally flip that switch.

It's much harder to do on the iPhone 4, especially with a bumper.

 

[yitbos96bb]

We are using BC Reader at our office, it loads into Gmail contacts very well so I am going to assume it works well with Outlook.

If not, you could export the contacts.

 

[yitbos96bb]

I'm looking for a good Streaming DIsney Theme Park music app. Mouse World Radio seems to work off and on, Live365 wants you to pay so no DIS music (I really wish they'd go elsewhere... I have NEVER liked live 365) and I can't seem to find anything on Pandora.

Any recommendations?

 

[Chee Chick]

I had an iPhone app earlier this year called "Countdown to Disney" that would display the countdown to my WDW vacation with a random WDW picture. When I had to restore my phone a few months ago, I noticed it was gone. I can't find it in the App Store.... Perhaps Disney's attorney threatened them because they used the name "Disney" in their title?

Does anyone know of a good countdown app that I can use in its place? I really liked the WDW theming, but I guess I won't be able to find anything close to that.

Thanks!

I found one recently called WDW Countdown. I've only had it for a week and so far I really like it. It let's you pick your picture out of various attractions and resorts.

 

[Schrute Farms]

Anyone have any good recipe/cooking apps?

 

[dvcfamily41801]

Anyone have any good recipe/cooking apps?

My two favorites
Martha Stewart Everyday Food - I get a notification everyday at 3:35 with a recipe and ingredient list

Cooks County - really like this one. Videos, pictures, articles. If you are a member of the Cooks Country website, you can access more recipes.

Betty Crocker Cookbook
Big Oven
AllRecipes
Crock-Pot
Epicurious
McCormick Recipe Finder
Woman's Day Cooking Assistant
iFood Lite (Kraft)

 

[starwood]

I had an iPhone app earlier this year called "Countdown to Disney" that would display the countdown to my WDW vacation with a random WDW picture. When I had to restore my phone a few months ago, I noticed it was gone. I can't find it in the App Store.... Perhaps Disney's attorney threatened them because they used the name "Disney" in their title?

Does anyone know of a good countdown app that I can use in its place? I really liked the WDW theming, but I guess I won't be able to find anything close to that.

Thanks!

Did you check your itunes on the computer? It should still be there.

 

[Schrute Farms]

If I subscribe to a podcast on itunes on my computer, will my iphone automatically download new shows when they are available?

Or do I have to synch with my computer to get them?

 

[vikingfans]

Anyone have any good recipe/cooking apps?

I have the Betty Crocker app, but if you subscribe to the Taste of Home Newsletter, you will get a recipe a day, I use this site quite a lot.

 

[Luv2Camp]

We put wifi in our house, and we have two computers, my iPhone, my DS' iPhone, and my iPad on it. They're not all on the wifi at the same time. The most would be two of them. My iPhone is a 3GS, and my son's is a 4G. I put in the password for the wifi, and the "three little half-circles" displayed where the "E" for edge would have been. When my son put the password in on his phone, the "E" remained. Any ideas what we may be doing wrong? Thanks!

 

[disneysteve]

We put wifi in our house, and we have two computers, my iPhone, my DS' iPhone, and my iPad on it. They're not all on the wifi at the same time. The most would be two of them. My iPhone is a 3GS, and my son's is a 4G. I put in the password for the wifi, and the "three little half-circles" displayed where the "E" for edge would have been. When my son put the password in on his phone, the "E" remained. Any ideas what we may be doing wrong? Thanks!

Does he have WiFi turned on on his phone? Go to Settings>Wi-Fi and make sure it is on.

 

[disneysteve]

If I subscribe to a podcast on itunes on my computer, will my iphone automatically download new shows when they are available?

Or do I have to synch with my computer to get them?

They won't download automatically. I wish they would. I think I asked the same question many pages ago.

You don't have to sync to get them. You can download them right to the phone. That's what I do. You just have to do it manually for each podcast.

 

[Luv2Camp]

Does he have WiFi turned on on his phone? Go to Settings>Wi-Fi and make sure it is on.

Yes, the setting was turned "on", and the signal remained on Edge. His phone accepted the password, so I'm not sure what we're doing wrong. Any other ideas? Thanks!

Never mind! He got it working! He had to reset something and then do it again. We're all set now!

 

[dunbarfamily]

I'm SO glad I stumbled upon this thread! I'm a techno-newbie. We just upgraded from the cheapest phone we could get three years ago (read: free!) to the Iphone 4 when it was released. I was totally lost when I first got it, and honestly, I still am a little lost!

I'll go back and read some of the older posts and see what I can learn!!!

Thanks everyone!

 

[GAN]

Yes, the setting was turned "on", and the signal remained on Edge. His phone accepted the password, so I'm not sure what we're doing wrong. Any other ideas? Thanks!

Never mind! He got it working! He had to reset something and then do it again. We're all set now!

I've had similar issues in the past -sometimes one of us will be connected and the other not. I've found by resetting our router it fixes the connectivity issue(??).