Well, the cell radio inside my 23-month old iPhone 3GS has finally failed, after 2+ months of increasingly erratic behavior. This effectively turns my iPhone into an iPod Touch, which is fine, since everything else, including the Wi-Fi, on the unit still works just fine. I did not purchase an Apple Care package for it, since you don't expect a $300 phone to completely fail within 2 years, so there are no repair options available Since I have a Blue Mikey 2.0 microphone attachment for exceptional recording, I'll be holding onto this unit for the foreseeable future.
I popped the SIM card out, and it still turns on and brings up the home screen, so I suspect I'm not going to have to do anything else to it to keep using it as an iPod.
I am, however, relegated to trying to get my old Motorola flip phone back in service...assuming the batter will hold a charge. If not, I'm off to eBay to pick up an old used phone to hold me over till upgrade time arrives. I AM NOT looking forward to texting on an old numeric keypad once again!
We are moving to Verizon from AT&T, since they now have the iPhone, and our contract is up in only 5 more weeks, but I don't want to settle for the iPhone 4 when the 5 is rumored to be available no later than September. My wife's 3GS is still going strong...well as strong as can be had on the AT&T network. So we will, most likely, be waiting until the iPhone 5 is available before making the move to Verizon. I'm eyeing either a 4G Android handset (Thunderbolt), the HP Pre 3 running Web OS, or the iPhone 5. I haven't decided, but after 4 years of iPhone life, I'm ready to look at different options.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Thursday, May 5, 2011
iTunes decided to stop recognizing my iPhone after the 10.2.2 version update....here's how to fix it
Well, hopefully Apple monitors the Discussion Forums because more than a few of us have experienced a rather hopeless situation where, following the update to iTunes version 10.2.2, it decides to stop recognizing the iPhone.
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit, and my iPhone 3GS is on 4.3.2. I accepted the "recommended" update one time recently when I ran iTunes, and the next time I tried to sync my iPhone, iTunes did not recognize it. I was able to pull the pictures off it, no problem, but could not do anything with it in iTunes.
Thankfully there is a solution, albiet not a very straightforward one. If you have updated iTunes to version 10.2.2 (or even 10.2.1 apparently) and your iPhone 3G, 3GS, or 4 no longer shows up when you connect it to your computer, here's what you can do to fix it. The steps are outlined (kind of) in this Apple discussion forum post. I followed the instructions there, but ended up with an error that there is already a newer version of AppleMobileDeviceSupport installed, so I had to improvise a bit. Here are those steps:
1. Uninstall all Apple applications through the Control Panel. My list included iTunes, Bonjour, and Apple Application Support, and Apple Mobile Device Support (AMDS). For some reason, AMDS was not listed in mine, and yet, he is the problem.
2. Reboot your computer
3. Download the latest version of iTunes, 10.2.2 (at the time of this post) from Apple, making sure to select the correct installer, 32-bit or 64-bit, for your Windows version.
4. Download iTunes version 10.0.1 (all versions between these 2 seems to have the same version of AMDS) from Old Apps
5. Download UniExtract from Legroom Software
6. Install UniExtract
7. Right-click each (one at a time, of course) of the iTunes programs you downloaded, and select "UniExtract to SubDir". This will create 2 new folders, named the same as the program name, containing the individually extracted installation packages.
8. Go to the new folder for version 1022 and delete file AppleMobileDeviceSupport64.msi (if you are using a 32-bit version of windows, the filename will probably be AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi)
9. Go to the new folder for version 1001 and COPY file AppleMobileDeviceSupport64.msi to the folder for version 1022.
10. Now that the AMDS package has been replaced, it's time to reinstall iTunes v10.2.2.
11. Go back to the new folder for version 10.2.2 and double-click iTunes.msi (or iTunes64.msi). Install as usual.
That should do it. When I did this, even though I had already been on version 10.2.2 for a couple of weeks, the first time it ran, it did a database conversion, further proving that the automatic update process was incomplete from before.
So, it remains to be seen if further updates to iTunes will fix this problem, or if some of us will be left out in the cold, required to manually replace the AMDS package each time before updating to the newest version of iTunes. Only time will tell.
Many thanks to Apple Forum member "ra1larson" for figuring all of this out and sharing with the rest of us how to work around Apple's software pitfalls.
I'm running Windows 7 64-bit, and my iPhone 3GS is on 4.3.2. I accepted the "recommended" update one time recently when I ran iTunes, and the next time I tried to sync my iPhone, iTunes did not recognize it. I was able to pull the pictures off it, no problem, but could not do anything with it in iTunes.
Thankfully there is a solution, albiet not a very straightforward one. If you have updated iTunes to version 10.2.2 (or even 10.2.1 apparently) and your iPhone 3G, 3GS, or 4 no longer shows up when you connect it to your computer, here's what you can do to fix it. The steps are outlined (kind of) in this Apple discussion forum post. I followed the instructions there, but ended up with an error that there is already a newer version of AppleMobileDeviceSupport installed, so I had to improvise a bit. Here are those steps:
1. Uninstall all Apple applications through the Control Panel. My list included iTunes, Bonjour, and Apple Application Support, and Apple Mobile Device Support (AMDS). For some reason, AMDS was not listed in mine, and yet, he is the problem.
2. Reboot your computer
3. Download the latest version of iTunes, 10.2.2 (at the time of this post) from Apple, making sure to select the correct installer, 32-bit or 64-bit, for your Windows version.
4. Download iTunes version 10.0.1 (all versions between these 2 seems to have the same version of AMDS) from Old Apps
5. Download UniExtract from Legroom Software
6. Install UniExtract
7. Right-click each (one at a time, of course) of the iTunes programs you downloaded, and select "UniExtract to SubDir". This will create 2 new folders, named the same as the program name, containing the individually extracted installation packages.
8. Go to the new folder for version 1022 and delete file AppleMobileDeviceSupport64.msi (if you are using a 32-bit version of windows, the filename will probably be AppleMobileDeviceSupport.msi)
9. Go to the new folder for version 1001 and COPY file AppleMobileDeviceSupport64.msi to the folder for version 1022.
10. Now that the AMDS package has been replaced, it's time to reinstall iTunes v10.2.2.
11. Go back to the new folder for version 10.2.2 and double-click iTunes.msi (or iTunes64.msi). Install as usual.
That should do it. When I did this, even though I had already been on version 10.2.2 for a couple of weeks, the first time it ran, it did a database conversion, further proving that the automatic update process was incomplete from before.
So, it remains to be seen if further updates to iTunes will fix this problem, or if some of us will be left out in the cold, required to manually replace the AMDS package each time before updating to the newest version of iTunes. Only time will tell.
Many thanks to Apple Forum member "ra1larson" for figuring all of this out and sharing with the rest of us how to work around Apple's software pitfalls.
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