23 Sep
2011
23 Sep
'11
4:01 p.m.
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
23 Sep
23 Sep
4:11 p.m.
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-f…
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
4:29 p.m.
Quoting "Tim Connors" <tim.w.connors(a)gmail.com>om>:
On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Peter Ross wrote:
Try googling with a frozen phone;-)
Cheers
Peter
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-f…
4:39 p.m.
Tim Connors <tim.w.connors(a)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.
4:46 p.m.
On 23/09/2011, at 16:39, Jason White <jason(a)jasonjgw.net> wrote:
Tim Connors <tim.w.connors(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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
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.
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