IPhone 3G
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Manufacturer Information
Apple, Inc.
Address
- Street
- City State ZIP
Telephone Numbers
Website
Model
Kiet
Jill
Serial Number
Kiet
Jill
Owner's Manual
Purchase History
Purchased From
Apple Store - Bridgeport Village
Purchase Date
Kiet
July 12, 2008
Jill
August 1, 2008
Features
Technical Details
Applications
Kiet
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Jill
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Warranty
Kiet
Three (3) years with AppleCare
Jill
One (1) year
Issues
Erratic 3G Service
How to Tell Your iPhone to Stop Opening iPhoto (or any other application) When Connected to Your Computer
- Open Image Capture application
- Go to Preferences
- Under the General tab, change the option for “When a camera is connected…” to No Application instead of iPhoto or any other application.
How to Sync Your iPhone Across Multiple Computers
In order to conserve space on my laptop, I stopped storing my media (music and video) on my laptop. Also, I wanted to consolidate our media at a single location, our Mac mini. Our iPhones would all draw from this shared well. However, all my other iPhone information was maintain on my laptop. I wanted to pull my personal information (calendars, contacts, settings, etc.) from my laptop and my media from my Mac mini.
Connecting iPhone to Mac mini
When you connect your iPhone to the Mac mini for the first time, don’t worry about wiping out the information on your iPhone. Nothing is selected for syncing by default. That is, no contacts, calendars, music, video, or any other data will be selected in iTunes, so there will be no automatic syncing and no potential loss of data on either your iPhone or the computer.
If you click the Sync button, however, an initial sync does occur. Unlike with most iPods, no warning advises against this. Happily, it is still the case that no data are lost on either the iPhone or the secondary computer. All that happens is that an iPhone Backup file is created.
However, if you enable any of the checkboxes in the Info, Music, Photos, Podcasts, or Video tabs, the Apply button appears. If you click Apply, you do typically get a warning message. The exact content of the message, and what will happen if a sync occurs, varies depending upon what you selected. [Note: Although there are minor differences in the user interfaces, the iPhone and the iPod touch behave very similarly here.]
If you enable syncing of music or video content (assuming you have previously synced music or video to your iPhone via the first computer), you get a message, warning that your iPhone is synced with another iTunes library, and asks you if you want to erase the old iTunes library from your iPhone.
If you continue with the sync, it will erase all the iTunes-specific content on your iPhone, replacing it with the content from the secondary computer (our Mac mini), but leaving photos and info content (contacts, calendars, Mail accounts, and bookmarks) intact, despite the use of the word “erase” in the message. Any settings changes you made on the iPhone should remain intact as well.
If your iPhone contains songs purchased from the iTunes Music Store and you connect to a secondary computer that is authorized to play music from your account, the message includes an additional button to “Transfer Purchases.” See this Apple article for details.
Oddly, at least on recent iterations of the iPhone software, the above warning message does not appear when you attempt to sync podcasts from the secondary computer—even though podcasts are also part of an iTunes library. Instead, either no message appears or a message appears that states that only podcasts will be affected by your sync. In either case, if you go ahead and sync, you’ll get the same result: the newly selected podcast(s) replace the podcasts currently on your iPhone—while the music and video media on your iPhone remain unchanged and intact. I am not sure why podcasts are an exception here, but they are.
