Derrick’s Musings

My thoughts on a variety of topics

Entries Tagged ‘update’

‘Belongs To’ update

My Belongs To iPhone app has undergone some interface and functionality changes for version 1.2. The contact information is now displayed in a better, cleaner way and there is now a “Take Screenshot” button that allows one to capture the displayed contact information as an image to the camera roll which can then be displayed [...]

What iPhone 2.1 *doesn’t* fix

The iPhone 2.1 does fix a few things that users have been asking about (except for copy and paste, of course), but one thing it does not fix is the annoying “0xE80002E” problem, where you cannot install an update of an application to your iPhone. This is getting fairly annoying as it now happens to [...]

My first impression: iPhone 2.1

After updating my iPhone to v. 2.1, I first noticed that the graphic “E” to indicate being connected to the EDGE network has been inverted. It is now a solid white E against the black background or a solid blue E against the grayish background in most apps. Nothing else ground breaking on the home [...]

iPhone 2.1 update in the wild

It appears that all the predictions of a Friday release for the iPhone 2.1 update were correct. According to the Apple Software Update page, the update fixes or adds the following:

Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
Significantly better battery life for most users
Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and [...]

Annoying iPhone keyboard bug

Don’t get me wrong, I love my iPhone. But like any device, it does have its shortcomings (read: bugs). One of my chief complaints would have to be this annoying bug where the keyboard will type extremely slow. The “solution” to this problem is to hold the home button and force quit the application, but this [...]