iOS4 is CRAP on my iPod Touch.
Well battery life anyway. Went from 100% to less than 20% in 8 hours, less 10 minutes of checking mail and App store. Wifi was left "on" while sleeping.
The original OS version 2 was way way better. I could leave the thing alone without worrying about battery life. Wifi was also more robust. Now even in line of sight of the transmitter, the reception would drop to 1 curve at times.
I can imagine what the Great Steve's response: "Don't leave Wifi on."
Monday, June 28, 2010
Saturday, June 26, 2010
iOS4 Impressions
First Impressions
It starts up with a subtle difference, the icons fades in with a flourish and the dock now looks like its desktop cousin. The faux 3-D look didn't work for me in OSX and still does not work for me here. No big deal, just unnecessary and unappealing.
WTF 1 Hmmm where is the wallpaper? Oh right I have got a fossil of a device, wallpaper will just ruin the opening flourish.
Folders. It's a good thing, long overdue. Much easier to look for apps.
Mail. Electronic missives are now arranged in threads like Gmail, eases searching.
Airplane Mode. Curious setting at first, but now I realise it ties into WTF 2.
Battery life sucks. Strangely the juice drains out when the iPod is sleeping. It went from less than half full to barely quarter full in matter of 3 hours. Now putting it in airplane mode in case it keeps connecting through wifi while sleeping.
It starts up with a subtle difference, the icons fades in with a flourish and the dock now looks like its desktop cousin. The faux 3-D look didn't work for me in OSX and still does not work for me here. No big deal, just unnecessary and unappealing.
WTF 1 Hmmm where is the wallpaper? Oh right I have got a fossil of a device, wallpaper will just ruin the opening flourish.
Folders. It's a good thing, long overdue. Much easier to look for apps.
Mail. Electronic missives are now arranged in threads like Gmail, eases searching.
Airplane Mode. Curious setting at first, but now I realise it ties into WTF 2.
Battery life sucks. Strangely the juice drains out when the iPod is sleeping. It went from less than half full to barely quarter full in matter of 3 hours. Now putting it in airplane mode in case it keeps connecting through wifi while sleeping.
iOS4
A new spanking operating system for all the i-mobile devices. Unfortunately my singular i-device is not so spanking new, so I won't enjoy all that goodness it promises.
First step. Upgrading.
Now one would think updating, means clicking "Update" and just waiting for the deed to be done. Well technically it is just like that, except the process seem to stop at "wait", and wait and wait and wait.
I hate iTunes actually, yes hate, it doesn't like me either, but frankly there is NO other choice. So I plugged in my second generation iPod Touch to iMac and to iTunes. Faithfully I sync-ed the device, backed up, downloaded the new OS and clicked Update.
Backing up iPod. Hey I just did that.
Wait wait wait wa...it w...a....i....t....w..........a...............i......................t
Anticipated this wait after reading everyone else's attempt to upgrade.
Clicked Stop. Clicked backup from options menu. Done. Click Update.
Backing up iPod. What the F!!!. Wait.wait.wait.wait.wa....i..............t
On the phone with my personal hacker. (No, I don't jailbreak, the good boy I am)
Do a restore. Restore? doesn't that just puts the old stuff back? Do a restore. Yes Sir.
Restoring. The restoration process apparently wipes out your i-device and puts the latest OS available in iTunes on your machine. Then you have the luxury of putting everything precious back or starting fresh.
One would think that logically restoring means the device is not working and lets go back to when it was working. Apparently iTunes logic is different.
Restoring data. Time to completion 4 minutes. 10 minutes. 12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19.... WTF. Shouldn't it be counting down?
Time to completion About an hour. How clever, basically saying "Don't bother staring, come later. MUCH later".
Finally it restored the device, and re-synced all the apps and stuff. Hey, got my iPod back, washed and buffed. And it took about an hour, a bit more than an hour.
It now works.
Moral of the story: Update updates not. Restore restores update. It just works.
First step. Upgrading.
Now one would think updating, means clicking "Update" and just waiting for the deed to be done. Well technically it is just like that, except the process seem to stop at "wait", and wait and wait and wait.
I hate iTunes actually, yes hate, it doesn't like me either, but frankly there is NO other choice. So I plugged in my second generation iPod Touch to iMac and to iTunes. Faithfully I sync-ed the device, backed up, downloaded the new OS and clicked Update.
Backing up iPod. Hey I just did that.
Wait wait wait wa...it w...a....i....t....w..........a...............i......................t
Anticipated this wait after reading everyone else's attempt to upgrade.
Clicked Stop. Clicked backup from options menu. Done. Click Update.
Backing up iPod. What the F!!!. Wait.wait.wait.wait.wa....i..............t
On the phone with my personal hacker. (No, I don't jailbreak, the good boy I am)
Do a restore. Restore? doesn't that just puts the old stuff back? Do a restore. Yes Sir.
Restoring. The restoration process apparently wipes out your i-device and puts the latest OS available in iTunes on your machine. Then you have the luxury of putting everything precious back or starting fresh.
One would think that logically restoring means the device is not working and lets go back to when it was working. Apparently iTunes logic is different.
Restoring data. Time to completion 4 minutes. 10 minutes. 12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19.... WTF. Shouldn't it be counting down?
Time to completion About an hour. How clever, basically saying "Don't bother staring, come later. MUCH later".
Finally it restored the device, and re-synced all the apps and stuff. Hey, got my iPod back, washed and buffed. And it took about an hour, a bit more than an hour.
It now works.
Moral of the story: Update updates not. Restore restores update. It just works.
Apple Cart
Ok. Starting a new blog to speak about my experiences with magical and revolutionary products from the land of the half eaten fruit.
No. I don't hate them, otherwise I would not have donated money to the retirement fund of the Great Steve.
What bugs me is despite being a complete monopoly over Apple products, from software to hardware, they can screw up so badly sometimes. Its all that "What the f" moments that prompted this ranting blog. Plus the arrogance with which they promote their products. Watch some of their promotional videos, they truly believe what they say, though sometimes looking like characters in a George Romero movie. The ones without lines.
So let us start.
No. I don't hate them, otherwise I would not have donated money to the retirement fund of the Great Steve.
What bugs me is despite being a complete monopoly over Apple products, from software to hardware, they can screw up so badly sometimes. Its all that "What the f" moments that prompted this ranting blog. Plus the arrogance with which they promote their products. Watch some of their promotional videos, they truly believe what they say, though sometimes looking like characters in a George Romero movie. The ones without lines.
So let us start.
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