Hi all, one of my colleagues had a very funny "vendor lock-in" on an iPhone. It was completely frozen, just a pretty brick (with his girlfriend's picture on it, and 7:14, the time when it stopped working, like on an old broken watch) - and there was no reset button, no switch-off, and being different as Apple is, you cannot remove the battery either. Thankfully an iPhone does not last that long without charging. So after few hours the battery went flat and he could use it again. Regards Peter
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Peter Ross wrote:
Hi all,
one of my colleagues had a very funny "vendor lock-in" on an iPhone.
It was completely frozen, just a pretty brick (with his girlfriend's picture on it, and 7:14, the time when it stopped working, like on an old broken watch) - and there was no reset button, no switch-off, and being different as Apple is, you cannot remove the battery either.
Thankfully an iPhone does not last that long without charging. So after few hours the battery went flat and he could use it again.
I was curious about this, because I wanted another excuse to laugh at iphones and the hipsters who use them: "haw, your iphone doesn't have a reset button or screws to disassemble it because that would ruin the sleek curves". But alas, a simple google search reveals there are probably ways around it: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/07/18/iphone-troubleshooting-how-to-restart-quit-fr... But, being software operated (unless there's a really neat timer circuit linking the home and off buttons with the reset pin on the CPU), it's prone to failure too. -- Tim Connors Television: A medium. So called because it is neither rare nor well done. --Ernie Kovacs
Quoting "Tim Connors" <tim.w.connors@gmail.com>:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Peter Ross wrote:
Hi all,
one of my colleagues had a very funny "vendor lock-in" on an iPhone.
It was completely frozen, just a pretty brick (with his girlfriend's picture on it, and 7:14, the time when it stopped working, like on an old broken watch) - and there was no reset button, no switch-off, and being different as Apple is, you cannot remove the battery either.
Thankfully an iPhone does not last that long without charging. So after few hours the battery went flat and he could use it again.
I was curious about this, because I wanted another excuse to laugh at iphones and the hipsters who use them: "haw, your iphone doesn't have a reset button or screws to disassemble it because that would ruin the sleek curves".
But alas, a simple google search reveals there are probably ways around it: http://www.tuaw.com/2007/07/18/iphone-troubleshooting-how-to-restart-quit-fr...
Try googling with a frozen phone;-) Cheers Peter
Tim Connors <tim.w.connors@gmail.com> wrote:
I was curious about this, because I wanted another excuse to laugh at iphones and the hipsters who use them: "haw, your iphone doesn't have a reset button or screws to disassemble it because that would ruin the sleek curves".
The optimistic assumption is that the operating system won't crash. Perhaps it has a microkernel. (They're supposed to be extremely reliable if properly written and verified). I prefer hardware with a reset button or disassembly options.
On 23/09/2011, at 16:39, Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote:
Tim Connors <tim.w.connors@gmail.com> wrote:
I was curious about this, because I wanted another excuse to laugh at iphones and the hipsters who use them: "haw, your iphone doesn't have a reset button or screws to disassemble it because that would ruin the sleek curves".
The optimistic assumption is that the operating system won't crash. Perhaps it has a microkernel. (They're supposed to be extremely reliable if properly written and verified).
I prefer hardware with a reset button or disassembly options.
I'm not sure of mechanics if it, but it does work even when there is no OS loaded on the device. if an OS reflashing fails, for example, you can use the same mechanism to boot it to DFU mode while it receives a new OS image
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