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MobileMail Crashing

Thursday, February 28th, 2008

Quick tip I found on the hackint0sh forums about an issue with MobileMail crashing on a Jailbroken 1.1.4 iPhone.

Forum member Bobhope:
chown -R mobile:mobile /private/var/mobile/

Run that, will solve the problem with mail and iTunes Sync crashing.

Edit: I’ve recently found 2 new things regarding this issue. One, recently I have been unable to receive mail through MobileMail. iPhone appeared to download the mail, but wouldn’t display. This seemed to be the exact same permission issue, as with a lot of other apps that seemingly would not save anything. I’m not sure if this is due to iLiberty, but it appears there is a fix in the payload repo. Instead, I ran the above command, which brings me to number 2. Previously I did not need to run the command under root, I just ran ran it as displayed above, and it worked. For some reason it’s not working now, so I had to run su first, and input the root password.

su <enter>
<enter root password, should be alpine unless you’ve changed it>
chown -R mobile:mobile /private/var/mobile/

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iPhone vs Semi, Round 1

Sunday, February 3rd, 2008

Read Mike’s story a few comments down.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mikebeauchamp/2215285685/in/photostream/

To sum it up, iPhone wins.

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Garmin Nuvifone

Thursday, January 31st, 2008

Going to jump in with a quick post on Garmin’s latest announcement on their new phone.

I’m a happy owner of an iPhone, but when talking to a friend yesterday and the topic of smart phones came up, I struggled to recommend anything else other then the Treo he already owns.

Well, now I may have a new recommendation for him.

The Garmin Nuvifone has a clean exterior look to it, same form factor as the iPhone (at least it looks that way, of course I haven’t seen one of these yet), the phone app looks similar to the iphone, and seems that it has a full web browser on board. Direct compitition with the iPhone? Yes.

A few things pop into mind right off the hop. I’ve never owned a Garmin GPS device, so bare with me if they already tackled these;

1) Does it play music? I hate to say it, but after the iPhone, I wouldn’t consider owning a phone that doesn’t play music.

2) What engine is the browser going to be based on? I’m dreading that 2008 is going to be the start of a mobile browser war. IE, Safari, what’s next?

3) Will it support flash?
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No, I’m kidding.

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I Can Has iPhone Now

Monday, September 24th, 2007

Yep, i definitely have an iphone now, and let me say it is better then i could have thought, that seems to be the general opinion on it with anyone that cares even slightly. I’m typing on it right now using wifi (no expensive edge for me, yet), so as awesome as it is (and typing is awesome), I’m still making it short.

I’ve bought a few more domain names, hopefully I’ll get around to making use if them. I had an idea for a completely new, less personal blog that I’d like to get off the ground, so look for that in the coming months. Also now that I have an iPhone, I’d like to start making some apps for it. Probably just “Web 2.0″ apps, but who knows, maybe I’ll actually use that Xcode that is taking up so much space on my iBook.

That’s all for now, more bandwagon later…

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iPhone Unlock Progress

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007

If anyone out there has really hated living in Canada for the past week and a half, then this is the site for you. The Americans get iPhone, so why shouldn’t we? Well, time will bring it to us, courtesy of these guys. Keep up to date with iPhones unlocking progress here.

As soon as it’s unlocked and I can be assured it wont be fubared come Apple’s first Software Update, I’m buying my own iPhone and switching to Rogers. Sorry TELUS.

Actually, I’m not sorry.

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