I HATE APPLE

as far as I'm aware, all iPhone 4S phones worldwide are the same (model A1387) except those sold in China which are A1431. The MD235DN/A designates a 16MB black phone sold in Austria, Germany, or the Netherlands. These are apparently sold SIM-locked so you may have to have your carrier unlock it for international use (or hack it yourself using methods available online).

more T-Mobile iPhone compatibility info here.

right about "world phone" def.

whoa, thanks for the model numbers.

sounds like i'm good to go.

i'm not an expert at this stuff, but it seems so.

just be sure you're in an area where t-mobile has made the switch (mostly big or mid-sized cities) or else you'll be on EDGE (in both senses!)

i'll be in new york so it should be ok. thanks!

yeah NYC and surrounding is one of their most updated areas

the T-Mobile-tweaked iPhone 5 referenced upthread BTW is so it can get 3.5G in other US areas that are still 1700GHz. Other iPhones will drop to slow 2G EDGE where they haven't refarmed their old towers to 1900GHz. You can still talk or text.

you'll need a software update from Apple to enable T-Mobile US LTE on the non-tweaked iPhone 5 A1428 (AT&T/most of world/GSM). The iPhone 5 A1429 (Verizon/Sprint/CDMA) can't do LTE on T-Mobile US at all.

do you know if i would i get better than EDGE on the t-mobile mvnos too?

according to that macrumors post, yes.

not sure if the visual voicemail works with MVNOs

Thanking you. I never listen to voicemail anyway so.

What are the ways to use facetime where it doesn't drop calls every 5 minutes

Man sues Apple because you can use their products to view porn.

Read the whole thing, but I'll share the punchline in advance:

UPDATE: Above the Law notes in an update that the lawyer-plaintiff in this case was put on "inactive status" by the Tennessee Supreme Court in 2011 due to "mental infirmity or illness."

https://twitter.com/UMAD/status/359080118787903488/photo/1

How do I add just a few songs or albums to my iPhone without going through an entire fucking 45 minute backup and sync process? GOOD LORD, APPLE

it shouldnt take 45 minutes for your phone to backup and sync every single time!

Switch to manual syncing? In that way, the sync process only starts when you click 'sync now'.

..and yeah 45mins is pretty outrageous

Is that the setting in the Music section under iPhone in iTunes bcz I already have that set to sync only selected songs instead of syncing my entire library automatically. Or is that something different? Maybe it's not actually 45 every time but its still like 20 or 30 whereas moving 300mb of music to another device really ought to take like 5 tops

No it's not in the Music section, IIRC (iPhone & laptop not at hand) that button is available on the screen (bottom right..?) you get when you click on your iPhone in the left column after you've plugged it into your computer

one thing that may help is changing your backup setting to "backup to icloud" which will just do it automatically in the background whenever youre connected to wifi, and so wont spend any time backing up when you sync. but 20-30 minutes for a regular backup/sync is still way too long

yeah I backup to my computer (not icloud) and it takes me 10 seconds to sync, even when i add new music or apps. i think something's wrong

icloud is the way of the future

*barfs*

icould doesn't do a full backup fuck icloud

presumably you're also and already backing up your media library on your computer, tho

(you can also turn out auto icloud backups and still do manual itunes backups)

AT&T says I'm at 65% of my data plan that started on 10/7

I had jury duty from 10/1 to 10/4 and my phone was turned off and sitting in a box p much all day for 4 days

How and why could this be happening?

Sorry, that started on 10/1 I mean

what kind of phone? my (android) phone will tell me what's using the data.

my guess = auto updates.

good call

I don't think I have that enabled though

nope it is def disabled

it is an iPhone 4

have you replaced the battery? My old iPhone 4 doesn't keep a charge nearly as long as it used to. They don't last forever of course.

Stevie, im not sure if it was this but something i found out when i was overseas (the only time im on a limited data plan where my nphone is concerned) is that if you text or email a pic the data usage is whatever data sending that pic is x how many people you sent it too. I tripled my o/s plan in no time doing this.

grammar typos sorry etc

is it possible to mount a network drive onto an ipad?

mounting a drive is kind of an alien concept as far as an ipad goes, but if you just want to access files on network drives, sure

assume you're talking about a windows network at work? there are file browser apps that will connect to your work network via VPN, but your IT staff will prolly have to be on board to help you get it configured initially

I haven't played around with this in a couple years, I usually just use remote desktop connection software to access files at work (that way you get access to the programs that run them as well), but I think the one I was using had the creative name "file browser"

Ah thanks.. well I'm considering getting an ipad and so wondered how feasible it is to get the barebone 16gb version and just leave the bulk of media etc on a NAS at home?

It would be good if it could work with that as regular storage and spps can save to it or something.. this sounds maybe more tricky than I imagine though from what you said!

oh, if you're just looking to connect to your home computer, there are apps that can do that. ignition is one. I'm not sure if it'll let you file transfer, but you can connect remotely and use your machine from the ipad.

but if you're looking to keep music and movies at home and stream them to the ipad, that's not really workable

can't you run a server and use VLC on iPad?

Or run iTunes

AT&T says I'm at 65% of my data plan that started on 10/1
I had jury duty from 10/1 to 10/4 and my phone was turned off and sitting in a box p much all day for 4 days
How and why could this be happening?

― Stevie D(eux), Monday, October 7, 2013 9:30 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what kind of phone? my (android) phone will tell me what's using the data.
my guess = auto updates.

― koogs, Monday, October 7, 2013 9:42 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good call

― Nhex, Monday, October 7, 2013 9:49 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

There is a setting (in Settings --> iTunes and App Store) to only use wi-fi for auto app updates. Good so far. But the same switch also turns off cellular for iTunes Radio at the same time. WTF? I can wait until I'm in a wifi hotspot to update apps, but most of the time I'd want to use iTunes radio I'm in a car, walking, or on public transportation where wi-fi isn't available. Those should be two seperate settings.

this upgrade to mavericks did not go very smoothly /:

Noticing more and more lag with iOS7 on my old iPhone 4. I can open up the Messaging app and type out three words before they start actually appearing on the screen, and I'm a slow iPhone typer. It sucks because I would actually like to upgrade but probably shouldn't spend the money but my phone is getting increasingly frustrating.

if you haven't done the update from this week... do it. My wife's 4 was super laggy, and the update seems to have fixed much of it.

I want a fucking iPhone 5S but I don't want a fucking broken gyroscope; did they fucking fix that yet?

nobody knows what you're talking about

Looks like they did with software: http://isource.com/2013/10/23/ios-7-0-3-sensor-fix/

oh ah cool!

except him

if you can afford it, it doesn't hurt to upgrade yr hardware at least every two years or so