Here's an odd one I ran across again...
After burning WAV audio file to CD, I just want to delete the old folder that held the files, but for some bizarre reason, Windows Explorer pops up the "You must have Administrator permissions to delete this folder", but even if I tried to obtain said privileges (never mind that I'm logged on as an admin account anyway) or even run Explorer "as Administrator", it still won't delete the folder.
I figured out that all I had to do was go into the folder and delete the WAV files manually, and then I can delete the folder, but I don't understand why Windows wants to protect that file type....maybe one day I'll figure it out....but putting the workaround on my blog so I don't forget about it next time.
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Iphone 3GS and iOS 5 ... activation required? But my phone has been unactivated for 6 months!
Well I ran into an interesting scenario today. I have an old iPhone 3GS with a dead cell radio, so I've been using it as everything but a phone (since my temp phone, a Palm Pre Plus is just a couple ticks north of pure garbage, notwithstanding WebOS, which is sufficient), meaning it's an iPod Touch now. So today I thought it might be cool to go ahead and pop iOS 5 onto it....oops!
The installation seemed to go okay, but when powering up after the install, it wanted to activate the phone. There was no emergency dial screen, there was nothing but an activate now prompt (and in iTunes, it just said "iPhone" and "Activate"). Following the steps on the screen was futile..pick a language and location, wireless network, but no SIM installed, so that's where it stopped. Hmmm...did I just brick it?
I thought I was totally hosed because we've since left AT&T (my wife is sporting a brand new iPhone 4S with a crappy battery) for redder pastures with Verizon, when I remembered that I hadn't sold my wife's old 3GS on eBay yet. I popped the SIM card out of her old phone, put it into mine, and so even though the SIM was not active (just says NO SERVICE in the upper left), it allowed the "activation" of the iOS 5 install to proceed.
Well that was fun...NOT! Scary as all-get-out is what it was!
The installation seemed to go okay, but when powering up after the install, it wanted to activate the phone. There was no emergency dial screen, there was nothing but an activate now prompt (and in iTunes, it just said "iPhone" and "Activate"). Following the steps on the screen was futile..pick a language and location, wireless network, but no SIM installed, so that's where it stopped. Hmmm...did I just brick it?
I thought I was totally hosed because we've since left AT&T (my wife is sporting a brand new iPhone 4S with a crappy battery) for redder pastures with Verizon, when I remembered that I hadn't sold my wife's old 3GS on eBay yet. I popped the SIM card out of her old phone, put it into mine, and so even though the SIM was not active (just says NO SERVICE in the upper left), it allowed the "activation" of the iOS 5 install to proceed.
Well that was fun...NOT! Scary as all-get-out is what it was!
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
Firefox 7 rules, and I finally got my TouchPad ordered!
I installed Firefox 7 today, and in a word, it FLIES! It is so much quicker than any other version, ever, that it rivals Chrome in terms of speed....on all fronts...it launches faster, loads pages loads faster (cute, eh?), and is just much more responsive. Me likey!
...and HP employee TouchPad day finally arrived, and while it took me and everyone else in the US that works for HP way too long to get it done, I finally got my order confirmation through on my 32GB TouchPad. I can hardly wait for the fun to begin! Now to count down the days until it arrives (could be as much as 2 whole weeks...due to overwhelming demand).
...and HP employee TouchPad day finally arrived, and while it took me and everyone else in the US that works for HP way too long to get it done, I finally got my order confirmation through on my 32GB TouchPad. I can hardly wait for the fun to begin! Now to count down the days until it arrives (could be as much as 2 whole weeks...due to overwhelming demand).
Tuesday, June 28, 2011
Jamming to Replay, the new album from The Outfield
Available now from iTunes, June 28, is Replay, the latest album from The Outfield. It's got that classic album sound...soaring vocals from Tony, catchy pop hooks from John, and distinctive percussion provided by Alan. The trio is at the top of their game again, now if John can just lick cancer for a second time, maybe they'll cross the pond to the US and I (ok, we) can see them in concert for the first time since 1986.
In the meantime, winamp is just pumping out the tunes!
In the meantime, winamp is just pumping out the tunes!
Tuesday, June 14, 2011
Friday, May 13, 2011
My iPhone 3GS is now a 32Gb iPod Touch
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.
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.
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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