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you think that will fix it?

if so yes please.

need for backup phone anyhow, after i get new one.

Figured out how to get maximum battery largeness on me desire

Have now got widgets on the home screen for wifi/data/gps. Switch them on and off as i need them

Been doing this for a couple of weeks now. 2-3 days average battery life

Winning

SO you switch off data at night?

i switch to no data and only 2g at night. battery hardly drains at all.

JAMESSSS wrote:SO you switch off data at night?

Well yeah. A better way to put it would be that I ALWAYS have data switched off, and just switch it on when I wanna browse teh webz or use maps

No need for juicer whatsit apps n ting. Just switch data/wifi/gps on and off as i need......they only take a second or two to fire up, and the switches are on me home screen for super quick access

Best

those on plans for iphone 4 - who is best, who are you with?
telsra or optus?

vodaphone is not even getting a look in.

optus... best of a bad bunch...

do no go with 3 (shit coverage and service) or telstra (too expensive)

its optus vs telstra right now.

and im hearing a lot of crap about optus and good things about telstra, apart from yes, more expensive.

hrmmm

what crap things exactly?

theres 50 comments on my FB post. but tbh its about 60 % telstra and 40% optus.

atm its

optus - $59 cap with $700 calls and 2gb data + insuanrce if you want it.

Telstra - $59 cap + $10 per month handset with $550 calls and 1.5 gb data and no insurance option.

so yeah, on paper optus way more appealing. but lots of ppl saying optus cust service = crap and coverage also crap.

never had an issue with coverage tbh... insurance is gold (have used twice now )

ALL customer service for big companies like this is crap.

edit - went with telstra.

contact got me first 5 months free!

WIN!

still want you to fix the old phone though dan!

telstra is premium... most dont need the extra they offer... sure its nice to have but what optus offers is well good enough for most, i.e. coverage is sweet in built up areas, cust serv is at least par with other telcos and they are cheaper...

Posted about this the other day, then thought i had it figured out, hence the deleted post above.......still stuck though

Anyone tried to cache google maps on android? Been running into trouble in remote areas where i can't get a good data/internet connection. Gps works fine ie- i can see the blue arrow changing direction as i move around, but because i can't connect to the web, the arrow appears on a blank grid instead of a map, rendering it useless. Obviously the maps are stored online, which is no use to me if i can't access them, so.......how do i cache the maps for say victoria or australia to my phone so i can just bring them up on the fly?

^^ I been wondering that too (for iphone)

there's some 3rd party open source maps that load from sd i think. cant recall the name.

deviant wrote:^^ I been wondering that too (for iphone)

Try Navfree. It's free and pretty decent and stores the maps on the phone.
http://www.navmii.com/navfree/?country=GB

erm dan - dont think my phone is fixed tbh!

its gone from 85% to 40% in 2 hours and i havent touched it.

ghetto kitty wrote:erm dan - dont think my phone is fixed tbh!

its gone from 85% to 40% in 2 hours and i havent touched it.

HOw many of your apps are open but running in background?
I have this problem with Scott's all the time that we forget to actually close the apps and it drains the battery by the time we remember to close them every single app on the phone is open and takes ages to close them all

brand new battery is brand new....

hmmm

Has anyone ever bought an iPhone from OS that's locked on one of their telcos and had it unlocked here? Just wanna see how much it's gonna cost me to get it unlocked legit.

the telco is the only one who can do legit unlocking.

Hmmm... So optus can't do it? Only AT&T?

yeah. you can always do dodgy unlocking, but the only people who can properly unlock the phone are the ones who locked it in the first place.

Ok cheers mate. Jailbreak it is then!

deviant wrote:brand new battery is brand new....

hmmm

so my phone worked while os.

the funny thing was, even with full charge, once every few days (or a few times a day) it would just die, and then when i switched it back on it had reset the date to january 1st 1970.
i would then get a calendar reminder for EVERY event since then
(like - i was born hahaha)

i tried to put it back to the same date, it would die again. eventually i decided that 1970 it was and then it died a lot less often, but still now n then. happened with both thai and lao sim cards in it.

wierd huh?

Lol

Welcome back!

was funny after a while.



hai!

well, that happened to me when I switched it back on after swapping the batteries. Was fairly annoying trying to clear all those calendar reminders lol. Sounds to me like the battery is disconnecting itself randomly... Maybe the glue I used isn't strong enough and it's wobbling around in there... poo to that

oh! hahaha. yes mega annoying.

worth giving to you to reglue?

ghetto kitty wrote:oh! hahaha. yes mega annoying.

worth giving to you to reglue?

maybe..... can't hurt

nice one.

Switched from vodabone to telstra yesterday

Data connection is soooo much faster and more reliable. No doubt phone coverage will be heaps better too. Prepaid prices are pretty much the same, if anything better on telstra

Can't wait to get up in the hills and actually be able to pull up a google map. Haha shock horror

Telstra was awesome -> now a million people have switched and Melbourne CBD 9-5 data speeds are death.

Ah right hadn't realised that

Tbh the deciding factor in changing providers was the piss poor vodafone coverage in remote areas

Hopefully the issue you've mentioned doesn't affect me too much

So far so good

It still works, so I guess that is a one up on Vodafone!

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sec ... 1i47n.html

on smartphone hacking

beatup?

Ha read this just after completing a netbank transfer on my android phone.

Pretty much the only wifi connection i use is our home internet. When out in public i use my provider's data connection. From what's written in the article, seems as though that's a good way to mitigate the risks. Maybe teh nerds can give a bit more insight on this.

Since i've had the phone i haven't really gone nuts downloading apps. Must say though that a few of the games i've had a muck around with have looked as though they were riddled with aids. Promptly deleted they were.

One thing that has pissed me off is android's insistence on syncing with a gmail account, and the auto remembering of my hotmail account. Tbh i don't really know if it makes a difference or not, but i'd feel much safer entering my password every time, as opposed to it just remembering me.

dude just switch to gmail.

rule to fwd all hotmail to gmail. setup access for gmail account to send as hotmail account. problem solved.

having reverted to an old brick for the last few days, i have a new love for my ipone. yes it's the 1st gen and slow and i can't put music on it and the battery life is comparatively shit, but it has stuff on it that is useful! it has however, made me realise how much simpler life was before camera phones, facebook/email/innernet 24/7, apps for everything and commuting distractions.

I don't know why people are so disappointed given that Apples hardware scheme has their biggest upgrades pegged for every second year.

True, but the 3Gs was a far bigger improvement from the 3G than this

camera looks pretty deec though - i wasn't going to upgrade at all, but it's got me seriously consdering it now

the iphone4 camera is pretty good anyways, it's just the flash that sux

the flash is rubbish and the sensor falls apart pretty dramatically in extremes of light (too much or too little ... geddit). anyhow having the ir filter and a more sensitive sensor would be fantastic.

fooishbar wrote:

+1