SMS, Weather and Copy/Cut/Paste

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SMS, Weather and Copy/Cut/Paste

hello

i bought iPhone 3G some days ago at Moscow (Russia).
Since i use this gadget, i have 3 very important questions, there are:

1) i dont wish to display a new SMS in the popup window. how i can to disable this preview? i found only one way to disable this manner - by switching Password protection on. but i dont wish to enable password protection... any other ways to resolve this problem?

2) Yahoo weather always connects to the Internet when i use this feature. Even if i use it 5 minutes ago! Even if it have weekly(!) forecast! Very stupid. How to set this feature to update weather's forecast when i wish to update only?

3) Very very important question. For example: i have got a new email and wish to copy some text from it into the Calendar. This text can be an sender name, sender location, meeting location, meeting notes and so on. Anyone knows how to copy a text like this and paste it into another app? (in Notes too)

thank you

Asus G2Sg, Windows Vista

Posted on Oct 5, 2008 12:54 AM

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Lkk2lkk

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Oct 5, 2008 2:52 AM in response to Recidiv

1. You can not
2. you can not
3. You can not

Like you write .you bought a gadget (shoping tool) not a PDA or phone, You can not do much more tools you are used to.

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Recidiv Author

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Oct 5, 2008 3:31 AM in response to Lkk2lkk

sounds sadly........

i'll hope that Apple upgrades this gadget to normal functionality...
otherwise this phone will stay geeky-freak forever 🙂

thank you

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Tamara

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Oct 5, 2008 4:32 AM in response to Lkk2lkk

How do you figure that it's not a phone? Mine seems to do a very good job making and receiving phone calls.

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roaminggnome

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Oct 5, 2008 10:22 AM in response to Recidiv

You probably should do a little more research BEFORE you make a purchase. This way you would know what the iphone can and can't do, before you made the decision to buy it.

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Oct 5, 2008 10:54 AM in response to roaminggnome

Which is fine advice, but does not touch on the fact that Apple's advertising stresses how cutting-edge the iPhone is. Buyers expect a cutting-edge phone to have basic functions, like MMS, video, applying custom tones to alerts, cut-and-paste, apps running in the background, etc. After all, cheap pay-as-you-go phones have all/most of these features. I did a lot of reading before I bought my 3G- in fact, I did not buy the 1st gen. because of the inability to apply custom ringtones. I like my new phone a lot, but my RAZR had video, MMS, custom alert tones, short cuts, etc. The iPhone does not. If Apple advertised (mass-marketed) a bit more honestly (i.e., we are selling you a phone which is good but can't do things other phones or PDAs can do), our OP would not have gotten sucked in so easily. There may be a time when advertising is more honest, but I don't expect that to happen in my lifetime.

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roaminggnome

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Oct 5, 2008 1:16 PM in response to The Dude Abides

" I did not buy the 1st gen. because of the inability to apply custom ringtones"

The first generation did and does have the ability to apply custom ringtones.

I agree that people seem to believe that because the iphone has many great new "cutting edge" features that it also replicated all of the current cell phone technology. The iphone is not a cell phone with an ipod welded to it, and a web browser glued on, it is an entirely different device. It does not exactly replicate cell phones, ipods, web browsers, PDA's,etc. I think people assume it does everything that all of the other devices do, which is just not true.

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Tamara

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Oct 5, 2008 1:25 PM in response to The Dude Abides

The Dude Abides wrote:
If Apple advertised (mass-marketed) a bit more honestly (i.e., we are selling you a phone which is good but can't do things other phones or PDAs can do), our OP would not have gotten sucked in so easily.

Apple didn't do anything dishonest in their advertising. They advertised exactly what the phone could do. The OP made an assumption without doing research.

I had a Razr for 3 days and took it back. It was the worst engineered piece of junk I've ever tried to use. It did not do anything well including basic things like decent call quality.

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Oct 5, 2008 1:46 PM in response to Recidiv

1) i dont wish to display a new SMS in the popup window. how i can to disable this preview? i found only one way to disable this manner - by switching Password protection on. but i dont wish to enable password protection... any other ways to resolve this problem?

I suggest that you reconsider enabling a Passcode Lock for your iPhone. If not and your iPhone is lost or stolen, everything on your iPhone will be available to anyone that accesses it.

2) Yahoo weather always connects to the Internet when i use this feature. Even if i use it 5 minutes ago! Even if it have weekly(!) forecast! Very stupid. How to set this feature to update weather's forecast when i wish to update only?

Unless you don't have an unlimited data plan, I'm not sure what difference this makes. Even if you don't have an unlimited data plan with your provider, the amount of data required and downloaded with this when updating is minimal. I've re-selected the Weather app within 5-10 minutes and the current weather or temperature has changed slightly, which is what is being updated for the most part.

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Oct 5, 2008 2:11 PM in response to roaminggnome

A bit misleading. You could apply custom ringtones if you bought music from Apple, put it in your iTunes, and then created it that way. Or if you jailbroke your phone. I preferred to use my own purchased music and not have to re-buy it, and I had no wish to jailbreak my phone- then or now, which would give me most of the features I want. Nice spin on the facts.

I did NOT say Apple is misleading in their advertising. I said (very clearly) that advertising puts the best face on things. And, of course, an ad says what a thing can DO, not what it does NOT do. Apple says that the phone is cutting edge. Of course people, if they do not research it, will believe it will walk on water. Nice spin on my meaning.

Oh, and I loved my V3 RAZR. Was well-engineered, and did everything I wanted (fully-modded from firmware to software) for two years. My V3xx I didn't like so much, but it did work.

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Oct 5, 2008 2:22 PM in response to The Dude Abides

A bit misleading. You could apply custom ringtones if you bought music from Apple, put it in your iTunes, and then created it that way. Or if you jailbroke your phone. I preferred to use my own purchased music and not have to re-buy it, and I had no wish to jailbreak my phone- then or now, which would give me most of the features I want. Nice spin on the facts.

Not true. There is no spin on the facts with this and although jailbreaking was required initially for this, not true for some time now - almost a year.

Since you have a Mac and if you have the latest version of GarageBand included with iLife 08, you could have used GarageBand to create custom ringtones for the first generation iPhone from music in your iTunes library that does not include DRM protection such as music imported into your iTunes library from a music CD, and the same applies to the iPhone 3G.

This link includes a number of methods (but not all) for creating ringtones for the first generation iPhone and with the iPhone 3G.

http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/01/02/guide-the-many-methods-for-using-custom-ip hone-ringtones/

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Recidiv Author

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Oct 5, 2008 2:37 PM in response to Allan Sampson

that's right, but...

1) if iphone was stolen, its password protection will be hacked within 5-10 minutes... otherwords, password protection does not protect you from stealing your iphone. and, generally, you have not ability to get your phone back...
there are more smartly to call to service provider to block the SIM asap.

2) the question is not in the data plan. i can pay for mobile service so much as i needed. the question is that i see an incorrect weather app implementation. i dont like that this app updating every time when i use it. more smartly will be to suggest me to update forecasts (for example after 4 hours from last update) and to suggest me a feature to update forecasts using time plan (every hour, every 2 hours, every 4 hours, and so on)...

well, Apple advertise this gadget as cutting-edge technology device, more powerful GUI and excellent mobile internet browser.
i agree, that GUI is excellent (the one and only of my decision to buy this phone), that web-browsing is more comfortable. but - i wish to use a lot of features i expecting, like custom ringtones, copy-paste, video/voice recording, reading books etc... like in any other cellphone that is not so "cutting-edge" 🙂

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Answer 12

Oct 5, 2008 2:49 PM in response to The Dude Abides

I love this: "After all, cheap pay-as-you-go phones have all/most of these features" but NONE of them have a whinge user-forum where you can complain about what they won't do that the iPhone will do, do they????

Half of the issues users encounter are network-operator related and are nothing to do with the iPhone and most of the rest are about users who have NOT read the manual! Even the oft-bemoaned MMS is SOOOOOOO misunderstood if users realise that full email is of much more use for all practical purposes (as long as the receiver of email has the same advanced capabilities as the sender and not ONLY MMS!).

As far as 'advertising' is concerned, having used my iPhone without problem OR disappointment I can only voice personal concerns about the level of EXPECTATION versus REALITY for many customers of networks rather than of Apple. Many networks appear to have oversold their network capabilities and coverage while Apple have not (in my opinion and experience) oversold the capabilities of the iPhone!

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Answer 13

Oct 5, 2008 2:50 PM in response to Recidiv

1) if iphone was stolen, its password protection will be hacked within 5-10 minutes...

Really?

Do you have a link that supports this statement or someone that was able to hack the 4 digit passcode in 5-10 minutes?

And with firmware update 2.0 at Settings > General > Passcode Lock, there is an Erase Data option. When turned on with a passcode lock, all data on the iPhone will be erased after 10 failed passcode attempts.

Someone would have to be very good to get this within 10 failed attempts, or you used something dumb for the passcode such as 0000 or 1234.

i agree, that GUI is excellent (the one and only of my decision to buy this phone), that web-browsing is more comfortable. but - i wish to use a lot of features i expecting, like custom ringtones,

There are several ways to create custom ringtones from non-DRM protected content, such as from music imported into your iTunes library from a music CD, and some have been available for nearly a year.

http://www.iphoneatlas.com/2008/01/02/guide-the-many-methods-for-using-custom-ip hone-ringtones/

And there are 3rd party voice recording applications available via the iTunes App Store which are inexpensive.

For the rest, you can use this link to provide Apple your feedback since providing it here over and over again to fellow users won't accomplish anything. Providing Apple your feedback about a requested feature may not accomplish anything either, but at least the appropriate personnel will have read it.

http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

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Recidiv Author

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Oct 5, 2008 2:54 PM in response to Allan Sampson

Allan Sampson wrote:

1) if iphone was stolen, its password protection will be hacked within 5-10 minutes...

Really?

Do you have a link that supports this statement or someone that was able to hack the 4 digit passcode in 5-10 minutes?

in Russia - yes.
really known cases, when a stolen cellphone (in Moscow) was found after 3-4 hours absolutely cleaned up and selling as second-hand.

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Recidiv Author

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Oct 5, 2008 3:03 PM in response to Allan Sampson

Allan Sampson wrote:

There are several ways to create custom ringtones from non-DRM protected content, such as from music imported into your iTunes library from a music CD, and some have been available for nearly a year.

i know about it.
but what i should to do, when no music i like in the iTunes library???
for example, i like LineAge2 game and i have some songs (published on the copmoser site) and i wish to use these songs as my ringtone??
please, mark, that i'm a MS Windows user, not Mac. or you suggest me to buy new Mac for creating ringtones using GarrageBand? (i even dont know what is it) 🙂

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