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iOS 4 on my iPhone 3G

sailor — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 12:59:15 +0000

I waited for a few days after iOS4 public availability to upgrade my 2-years old iPhone 3G. Having a need for some applications only available for jailbreaked phones, I used PwnageTool 4.01 to upgrade and jailbreak at the same time.

The restore of my custom IPS image in DFU mode failed with error 1600. To fix it, I had to create an “expert” image in PwnageTool and use 1000 Mb size for the root filesystem (tip from some forum). After this, the DFU restore worked. After reboot, no Swisscom GSM/3G service at all, I had to install Ultrasn0w from Cydia. Now it seem everything is working again.

Apple still doesn’t provide a week-view in their calendar. I impatiently wait for the CalDAV-enabled version of PocketInformant to get this feature.

a test from my iPhone

sailor — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 12:16:11 +0000

Blogpress is an iPhone app to post blog entries. With BTstack, a Bluetooth keyboard and a jailbroken iPhone, it’s quite usable for posting on the go.

iphone calendar color sync works

sailor — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:48:24 +0000

At least, Apple fixed an annoying issue : the calendar colors of iCal are replicated to the iphone calendar application. But I still miss a week view. Pocket Informant has their iphone version reviewed by Apple, and maybe 3.x will have it. Hope so.

Week view on iPhone calendar

sailor — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:09:16 +0000

Hey, Apple, one of the key reason I like my Macbook Pro and my iPhone is the calendar sync. But where the hell is the week view in the iPhone calendar ?
It’s missing so much that I’m willing to pay 10$ to the first third-party application delivering this feature. Either iTunes Store or jailbreak app. Wake up, Apple !

Upgrading my Macbook Pro disk

sailor — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:46:47 +0000

With iTunes storage used to sync and backup the iPhone, disk space was running low on my Macbook Pro 15″. I bought a Samsung SpinPoint M6 320 Go – 5400t/min. – 2.5″ – SATA disk to replace it and went ahead using this nice guide.

I had a hard time deciding between a Time Machine restore or a new install with selected restores, and select the later to get rid of 18 months of accumulated cruft on the box. I looks snappier at the login, so it was a good decision.

If you do something similar, use the backup/export of Addressbook and iCal to easily re-import them after re-installation. For iMail, I use IMAP so it was only a matter of re-configuring the mail server.

Now that my installation is done, I have about 200 Gb free space left on the disk, nice, as I carry all my pictures with me (iPhoto) and a bunch of songs in iTunes, mainly the ones I sync in the iPhone.

Edit : after using the Macbook Pro for a few hours, I noticed a frequent “tschh-clic” comming from my new disk. I guess it’s the head auto-parking, but not sure. Suggestions welcome. I disabled the disk power saving in the preferences, without any noticeable change.

iPhone Updated to 2.0.2 Day 7

sailor — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 20:23:24 +0000

Yes, despite the negative reports, I went on to 2.0.2 to try to get better 3G reception in my area. Swisscom says I should have 3G, and I don’t have it. Let’s see… still Egde only. I will have to run around the house to catch the good waves. The next step is to jailbreak it. I have yet to find a good reason (read app) to take this way.

iPhonePasswordManagement Day 6

sailor — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:03:44 +0000

On the Palm, I used Top Secret, with no desktop counterpart (I had no need for one). After a quick market check, I found SplashId, which has many interesting features :

multiple mobile platforms (not that I have any intention to ever use Windows Mobile, but Series 60 is nice to have)
sync to a desktop version
export and import for many other password managers, so it’s not a data silo.
it uses 256 bits Blowfish to protect my data. I trust Blowfish a lot, because it comes from Bruce Schneier and not from these Security Theater people.

And the best : you can sync to the desktop over wireless, by creating an ad-hoc wireless network. Much smarter than carrying a USB cable around. It just misses a Linux desktop, but I use Linux only on servers for now.

iPhoneSSH Day 5

sailor — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:53:56 +0000

Being a UNIX geek, I thought it would be cool to have a ssh client associated with the VPN client. I found it on http://www.instantcocoa.com/products/pTerm/, but so far, the app isn’t available outside the US :

Looks like SSH is still considered as a weapon by the security theater paranoids in the USA. In a post in the forum, the developer mention their effort to get through it. Hope they succeed rsn.

iPhoneTodo Day 4

sailor — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:48:47 +0000

I don’t know what Apple had in mind when they decided to exclude a To-Do application from the iPhone software set. That a big no-go for me, but luckily, third-party developers have stepped in.

I had a look at the Omnifocus, it includes an iPhone version, but the set is expensive for what it offer. So far, not many products are offering native iPhone apps and the associated sync. One worth watching is Things but the sync isn’t there yet. And I needed something right now.

I found a good combination by using the Toodledo web app and the Appigo Todo native app. I don’t like having my data in a silo on a free service, but Toodledo offers many export capabilities, so I’m able to run away in case. And there is even something for the hacker. I will play with this set for a while, and then decide whether I buy the 15$/year pro version. Sub-tasks is the big incentive, but I don’t know if I really need them.

I try to be a GTD-organized person, but I’m not really up to it yet.

iPhoneSyncFixed day 3

sailor — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 19:48:31 +0000

My iPhone 3G had really a bad time to get contacts from iTunes sync. I googled a lot, and tried a lot of cookbooks involving removing caches, shifting away syncservice directories, and even singing a little bit. And then, I went back to my UNIX roots, and thought about log files…

… and hop, /var/log/system.log exhibited an error everytime I tried to sync :

Aug 7 20:54:57 sliver [0x0-0x76076].com.apple.iTunes[998]: Created child to sync device with pid 1032... Aug 7 20:55:00 sliver AddressBookSync[1033]: AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x1df93a0 ' Aug 7 20:55:00 sliver com.apple.syncservices.SyncServer[965]: 2008-08-07 20:55:00.943 AddressBookSync[1033:10b] AddressBookSync (client id: com.apple.AddressBook) error: Exception running AddressBookSync: CoreData could not fulfill a fault for '0x1df93a0 ' Aug 7 20:55:05 sliver [0x0-0x76076].com.apple.iTunes[998]: Sending final status from child helper tool back to parent... Aug 7 20:55:10 sliver [0x0-0x76076].com.apple.iTunes[998]: MobileDevice: AMDeviceCopyValue: There was an error getting the value from lockdown

I then tried to narrow down the error, and came to a tool called Synchrospector, located in /Developer/Applications/Utilities/Syncrospector (get developer tools from here, ~ 1 Gb download). I could click around and produce the error quicker than the “Sync” button in iTunes.

I then tried to locate the UID above in the data, to not available. The only place I could find it was in a SQLite database located in ~/Application\ Support/AddressBook/AddressBook-v22.abcddb.

I started by exporting my addressbook (File / Export / AddressBook Archive) to a file, so I could restore it. I then deleted a bunch of addresses, synced, and repeated until the error were gone. And I found the error to be in a very usual addressbook entry. From the time I deleted it, I could again sync my iphone in iTunes and get all the desired contacts.

It looks like Apple need some more checking in its sync framework. And by the way, adding some usable info to the log file (like the contact ASCII data) would be extremely helpful for the poor guy having a corrupted record.