Apple USB power adapter MB707ZM/A fried and burned my iPhone sync cable too.
Last night my Apple USB power adapter that I use to charge my iPhone 3GS got completely fried.
I noticed that the charger was getting really hot while in use but as other products that turn quite hot I didn't paid attention to it.
Well, I can recommend to NOT charge your iPhone with this new charger at night. Glad we have 10A fuses in our house for the sleeping room so that the fuse switched off quite fast, not to imagine what could happen if it would remain on.
This morning I thought to call T-Mobile and tell the story to get a new charger and a new charger/sync cable since both are burned.
In my opinion this could be handled quite fast, same like Apple did before with repairs, they ship me a new one. If the broken one seems not to be broken or is broken as result of my own stupidity they charge me the new one and ship me my old product back.
Too bad you have to wait 4 weeks for T-mobile's repairing process to return you a new charger. So I think I'll just buy a new charger and cable in the local store so I can use my iPhone normally without having to worry about the battery.
This is what the charger looks like normally:
Now this charger is really fried so I don't think they would even try to put it into a power socket (at least, I wouldn't).
The sync cable seems to be repairable but I don't trust products that are burned. We'll see what the'll make of that.
This is what it looks like after it got fried:
Bad service of T-mobile for a 1 month old charger to not directly replace it but let someone wait 4 weeks.
Situations like this really makes me think of jailbrake my iPhone and go to an other provider. I think as a provider you should do better if someone is a client for over 10 years already and even has multiple accounts.
Seems like that doesn't matter at all... Your just a number...
[14-08-2010, UPDATE: Got a new adapter]
After I shipped out it took some days, which is normal. Suddenly Solid Vision called me to ask my IMEI number of my phone, they couldn't find the warranty information without it since I have multiple iPhones registered on my name. Not even a half week later they shipped me a fresh and new adapter. Nice work guys!
iPhone OS 4 folders, with a lot new features
Some people mailed me to show a bit how the folders work on iPhone OS 4.
Its actually quite simple to work with, we already know how to move the icons between pages. To create a folder you just have to drag your icon upon another icon and it will automatically create a folder with the nearest matching category name of the application.
Lets say you move two game icons upon each other the name of the folder would be Games.
Now another nice feature is the notification system.
When a application has a notification pending you will see a attention sign on the folder icon. When you tap the folder you will see the opened folder with the application (or multiple applications) having a notification.
In the following image you see how a notification looks:
In this image I tapped on the folder so I can see which application has a notification. The AppStore in my case.
After I opened the AppStore and gave the command to upgrade the applications you will be returned to the springboard.
You can see the updating progress on the folder and if you tap it you can see it of the application.
As you can see, it is quite simple to work with.
As soon as the new iPhone OS 4 will be released I hope you will enjoy this feature too.
Easy rating in iTunes with ‘I Love Stars’ in your extra menu
You ever wanted to have your iTunes song rating to be a bit more accessable ?
Well, use this plugin! You get a nice tool at your extramenu where you can easy rank your songs how you like without having to click 3 times to get the job done 
See a preview here:
How to restore your iPhone when its bricked with DFU mode
Here are some simple steps I use to restore friends their iPhones.
- Connect your iPhone to your computer.
- Turn of your iPhone by holding the power button
- Wait for your iPhone to completely shutdown
- Hold POWER and HOME for 10 seconds
- Release POWER but keep holding HOME
- iTunes should now detect your iPhone in DFU mode
Note, in case you do a redsn0w jailbreak, you might need to disconnect press power and reconnect the iPhone to make it work (do this quickly).
How to fix USB sticks that may damage or destroy your computer
In this 'tutorial' I'll show you how to fix a unsafe USB stick that can really damage your computer.
The problem with these USB sticks is the iron plate on the back, when you put it into the USB port the other way around you create a short circuit on the motherboard. New computers detect this and give an alert or instant power off.
Old computers simply start to have a little barbecue fire inside... Which might not be what to expect from a USB stick.
First we have the normal USB stick, nothing special...
Lets bend the iron plate a bit for so we can grab it...
This will result in the following.
Then bend the plate over the whole width of the USB stick like this.
The USB flash chip is now lose from the slide tray.
Pull out the USB flash chip.
Next, pull out the iron plate!
Tataah, no plate... Empty stick...
Another view of it.
You should have these parts now, if not, something went wrong.
The next thing we do is... Glue it!
Put some glue on the slider tray.
Place the flash chip back on the slider tray.
Which should result like this, and your done.
Now you know how to take apart this.
Resulting into this.
And this...
And then put it back together until you get this.
This project was sponsored by PersC.
Snow Leopard and Samba
I was searching for a way to get rid of my Finder problems...
I stumbled upon this blog post, this solved Finder crashes and hookups for me.
Thanks for this info!
~~~
I did a fresh install of Snow Leopard on my Macbook and soon realized my Samba shares were broken through finder - but still worked from the CLI.
Worse still once I tried to access the shares Finder would basically be dead, you'd need to Force Quit it to make it work again.
Eventually I reached for tcpdump and wireshark and found it's the pesky .DS_Store files again, seems my QNAP is denying access to them, Finder did not cope well with this.
A quick bit of hackery of my smb.conf solved it:
veto files = /.AppleDB/.AppleDouble/.AppleDesktop/.DS_Store/:2eDS_Store/Network Trash Folder/Temporary Items/TheVolumeSettingsFolder/.@__thumb/.@__desc/
delete veto files = yes
Once I got this removed and samba restarted my shares were working again in Snow Leopard. A bit annoying but not too hard in the end.
Copy/Move Time Machine disk backup to Time Capsule
Ok, how I write it it might sound simple, but of course, horrible things can go wrong and you could lose your data.
Don't take me responsible for losing any of your data, even if I say that the chance of losing it is low!
Ok, that was said... Are you scared yet?
What you need or what you should have if you want to follow this manual:
- USB/FireWire Time Machine backup
- Time Capsule who has enough disk space free
- Patience...
- A good copy program like SuperDuper! (which I used) or Carbon Copy Cloner
Here is my simple manual how I got it working to save my old backups on my Time Capsule from my Time Machine USB disk.
- Stop your Time Machine backup and disable the old disk in Time Machine
- Configure Time Machine to use the Time Capsule disk
- After Time Machine started its first backup, stop it after 1 minute or so
- Turn off Time Machine
- Mount the Sparse Image from your Time Capsule in Mac OS X from Finder
- Launch SuperDuper! and tell it to copy from your Old backup disk to the mounted Sparce Image
- Go get some thee...
- After its done, quit SuperDuper!
- Unmount the Sparce Image and unmount your old backup disk.
- Start Time Machine again and check if it pics up the Time Capsule correctly
This should be all to save your old backups on your new shiny Time Capsule.
Reason why you can't just copy the data from your old backup disk is the Sparse Image.
Its just the way how the Time Capsule stores your Time Machine data on the disk.
Good luck!
If you have any comments that might improve this manual, please let me know!
TomTom west europe… So far, I like it more than Navigon…
I don't know what it is, the software? The looks? The easy working with it?
So far I feel like TomTom works more easy for me than Navigon. This is my opinion of course...
If you are planning to buy Navigation on your iPhone, simply browse though the images and see if the interface matches what you would like to have. And google some about the software information, it really helps with making a choice!
Development tools for Snow Leopard version 3.2
As we all know as developers Snow Leopard has been released...
But how about the development kit ?
Well that is also downloadable at the well known location http://developer.apple.com/mac/
One thing I noticed with the whole Snow Leopard size... The OS took about 5.8GB less on my disk and the development kit DMG is about 300MB smaller than Leopard. So I think Apple not only cleaned up the OS but they cleaned the complete package
Which is... Good!
Got my Snow Leopard DVD today in the mail.
HURRAAY!!(@*#&!$( I GOT SNOW LEOPARD!!!
*over enthousiastic reaction*
Anyway, thanks for the fast delivery again Apple
There are 2 apple stickers included in the package, which is nice since my car is covered with those
These are for the back window, I'll upload those pics when they are on the car 
Here some pictures of what you get when you have ordered it online.
I installed Snow Leopard, it was busy for about 20 minutes and now I'm happy to work with a upgraded system without any problems.
All my Applications work without any difficulties and a bit faster as in Leopard, so it seems like Snow Leopard really improves the speed of things.
One happy customer for Apple here
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