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i dont want me angry birds deleted took me ages to get 3 stars on every level on birds,seasons,rio

If you're happy with the way it is then I'd wait for the next update and do it then, you'll appreciate it more. There'll also be more JB options then I imagine.

Tethered annoys me.

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Hello MacBook Air!!!

Well I've been to the Apple Store in Liverpool tonight after booking an appointment with one of their "Genius Bar" team.

Managed to "brick" a 3GS whilst updating it to IOS 5, turns out I'm not the only one, the guy next to me had done the same thing.

Up until a few days ago Apple were swapping out the phones if you complained enough, today they've had a memo through telling them to "escalate" any problems of this nature as Apple want to try and sort it out on the next update.

First guy wasn't too happy to have to leave with his non-functioning iPhone and wait for a phone call, luckily for me my phone had already been replaced for a another fault within the last 90 days so I wanted it changing under that policy as it had gone faulty within that time (I did ask nicely, I'm good like that). The only problem was that although the IMEI could be seen on the sim tray they couldn't match it on the screen as it wouldn't link to the PC, wouldn't activate and you couldn't get the apps up.

Apple being Apple when I said I'd find a way round it left me with a laptop, a lead, and said go for it..... took me 2 hrs (they had actually closed by the time I'd done, I think they were about to throw me out, or offer me a job).

End result they swapped the phone over, but after being there for that long it seems that it's not a rare problem, and for some reason EVERY SINGLE PHONE that it had happened to was on Orange (except mine, which was on Three, but when they traced it back to the original phone turned out mine was unlocked and was originally on..... Orange).

So, bit of a warning to anyone who had an iPhone on Orange (or it used to be on Orange), for some reason they seem very susceptible to becoming paperweights when you update them, oh, and if you've jail-broken your iPhone, it seems that you WILL brick it if you try and update it, so just incase you do, before you start, TinyUmbrella, make a copy and then restore it

so if i want a new 3gs, i should deffo upgrade to iso 5, interesting , might try that with my other iphone

Up until a few days ago, yes, at the moment, no, they take all your details and send them off with the advice to you that you should keep trying to update the phone.

That only came through today in a memo, so in the next week the story might change.

The only reason that mine was swapped is because they'd already done it on the 17th Aug and when they give you another phone it has an automatic 90 day warranty on it. The problem with mine was caused because for some unknown reason the IMEI sticker inside the phone had vanished (it wasn't me) and they couldn't check the IMEI on the phone as it wouldn't let you go that far (hence 2hrs of hacking the hell out of it to make it show it).

Hey doc, my phone was jailbroken and I had no problems updating or does it only apply to the 3GS?

Nice write up btw, thanks for letting everyone know, I'd be fuming if that had happened to moi.

From talking to a few of the staff it seems that 3GS on Orange are the main problem. I won't say that's the only one, but they're the ones they've seen so fair.

The jailbreak update problem seems to depend on how you've done it due to the way the new IOS writes to the baseband.

Always better if people know before and prepare

"I got ya" takes a photograph of the person who has your phone automatically and discreetly when they enter the wrong lock code.
It then sends the photograph along with the exact gps coordination to your email address. It also prevents certain or all data from being read and prevents the phone from being switched off. (it tricks the thief into thinking they guessed the code right). You also set a message to be displayed when a wrong code is entered.

Can we have a link for this can't find it on app store :-(

Sorry Sean didn`t realise it was for jailbroken iphones.

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Surely the camera is on the wrong side, it might get a picture of their shoes if your lucky????

The iphone 4 is the only one it works with taking a photo as its got the front facing camera, the other iphones it just give the GPS location only.

class app that is , just installed it myself, didnt get the version of cydia , got the free cracked one from sinful iphone repo

Okay, NOT happy, just found a MAJOR security flaw in IOS 5

I picked up a replacement handset from Apple last week and was going to give it to my daughter, the handset was locked to O2 so I activated the handset, made a few calls to register it on their system then called O2 to get it unlocked.

I then put an old Voda sim in it so I could unlock it by connecting it to iTunes, it wasn't through so put it to one side, and forgot.

Last night (a week after my sim card was removed) the phone started beeping, I thought it was a flat battery, I looked at it and saw I had a load of iMessages, I was just about to delete them as the sim was just a random old one I picked up when I recognised one of the numbers, these were all messages meant for me, some had been sent that day.

It seems that the iPhone had stored MY phone number in its iMessage settings and was retrieving all my messages.

I haven't set up the phone, it has no settings installed it has just stored the number from me putting the sim in, and that's it, it gets all my messages...