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I don't have an Air 2, and it annoyed me that they removed it, but I also realized I have it on mute 99% of the time, anyway, so having to swipe to turn sound on and off wouldn't be a big deal to me. If they remove it from the iPhone, that will annoy me.
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So I'm new to iPads and the OP is woefully out of date. I want to get an iOS tablet as a gift for someone who likes her previous generation iPhone but resorts to a lovely old 1024x768 HP laptop when at home because of display size. The Apple store has the 32GB WiFi Mini 2 for $350. Given that her eyes are fine and she has no conceivable use for apple pay is there any reason not to go with this? I assume that the 16GB model is insufficient or I'd get a refurbished one. As much as the Air 2 looks like an amazing device it also costs a fortune and $350 is pretty close to as much as I'd like to spend. Edit: Also, how often does the refurb site restock? Loucks fucked around with this message at 20:39 on Dec 28, 2014 |
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Dec 28, 2014 20:00
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Photo Stream has disappeared from Photos.app. I remember getting a pop up either on my iPad or my iPhone about a beta iCloud photo thing and since then, Photo Stream has vanished. Anyway I can get it back?
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Loucks posted:Edit: Also, how often does the refurb site restock?
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Roobsa posted:Photo Stream has disappeared from Photos.app. I remember getting a pop up either on my iPad or my iPhone about a beta iCloud photo thing and since then, Photo Stream has vanished. Anyway I can get it back? Nope, once you turn on iCloud photo it's gone.
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Star War Sex Parrot posted:It's pretty much random, but very frequent. The 32GB Mini 2 is a great buy. Depending on how soon your purchase will be, if you're considering a refurb you might try to wait a few weeks to see how Mini 3 and Air 2 refurbs change the existing pricing. They should arrive by the end of January based on past events. Thanks for the advice. Annoyingly the suggestion was made less than two weeks before the day, so I have basically no time to watch the refurb site. Here's hoping they get some 32GB Mini 2s in the next few days!
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Dec 28, 2014 22:47
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e.pilot posted:Nope, once you turn on iCloud photo it's gone. Can it turn it on on both devices? Would that solve it? I've only had the pop up on one of my devices but I can't for the life of me remember which one.
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Roobsa posted:Can it turn it on on both devices? Would that solve it? Yeah, iCloud photo will work the same way basically as photostream, just a bit more permanent than photostream was. Not sure if turning it off will bring back photostream functionality, pics from photostream are definitely gone though.
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Aaaaand the refurb site is restocked! Ordered a 32GB Mini 2 with 1% off through eBates. Thanks for the help, iPad thread. Do they ever get those out more quickly than the 5-7 business day window listed on the site?
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Sometimes, yeah. The listed time is always the worst case scenario.
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My ipad keeps losing the wifi connection (the icon is still there, but there's no actual connection). How do I fix it? Google shows me some stuff that doesn't seem to properly fix it.
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Xabi posted:My ipad keeps losing the wifi connection (the icon is still there, but there's no actual connection). How do I fix it? Google shows me some stuff that doesn't seem to properly fix it. Do you have access to the router? Does rebooting the router work? I get this now and then with my iDevices. If t was juuuust a little more frequent, I'd start looking into a new router. But I could use an upgrade anyway.
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Well I shouldn't have to buy a new router just because there's something hosed wrt ipads and ios8 and whatnot. Surely Apple's advice to all the people with these problems isn't "get a new router"? It's not a huge problem but still kind of irritating.
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Is your router firmware up to date? I had that problem and it just needed an update.
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Xabi posted:Well I shouldn't have to buy a new router just because there's something hosed wrt ipads and ios8 and whatnot. Surely Apple's advice to all the people with these problems isn't "get a new router"? It's not a huge problem but still kind of irritating. Routers wear out too and need replacing every so often.
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Xabi posted:My ipad keeps losing the wifi connection (the icon is still there, but there's no actual connection). How do I fix it? Google shows me some stuff that doesn't seem to properly fix it. Try doing a "reset network settings" on your iOS device. It fixed some connectivity issues that I had with WiFi at work. e: Keep in mind that this will wipe all saved access points + credentials on your device. shodanjr_gr fucked around with this message at 15:52 on Jan 2, 2015 |
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tuyop posted:Routers wear out too and need replacing every so often. What? Explain how routers "wear out."
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Xabi posted:My ipad keeps losing the wifi connection (the icon is still there, but there's no actual connection). How do I fix it? Google shows me some stuff that doesn't seem to properly fix it. I've read that a lot of people have this issue too so it's probably not the router. If you're jail broken get the wifried tweak.
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teraflame posted:I've read that a lot of people have this issue too so it's probably not the router. If you're jail broken get the wifried tweak. WiFried definitely works to fix the issue.
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BeanBandit posted:What? Explain how routers "wear out." The rubber on the networking belt gets thin and then snaps.
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Feenix posted:The rubber on the networking belt gets thin and then snaps. Tranny on my linksys blew last week, gotta take it to the shop
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Santas Ainol Elf posted:Tranny on my linksys blew last week, gotta take it to the shop we don't use hate words like tranny here, consider yourself reported and enjoy youre ban.
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BeanBandit posted:What? Explain how routers "wear out." Um. Electromigration?
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Erosion from cosmic radiation.
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bobfather posted:Um. Electromigration? wikipedia posted:In modern consumer electronic devices, ICs rarely fail due to electromigration effects. This is because proper semiconductor design practices incorporate the effects of electromigration into the IC's layout. Nearly all IC design houses use automated EDA tools to check and correct electromigration problems at the transistor layout-level. When operated within the manufacturer's specified temperature and voltage range, a properly designed IC device is more likely to fail from other (environmental) causes, such as cumulative damage from gamma-ray bombardment.  Unless you were joking, in which case... 
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BeanBandit posted:What? Explain how routers "wear out." I'm not an electrician, it just seems unlikely to me that a consumer electronic that spends its entire life turned on can last forever. I don't know why these things break after a few years, it just seems to me that they do. But hey, maybe your $45 linksys will continue to broadcast a wifi signal until the heat death of the universe, I don't even know.
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It is running out of electricity
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BeanBandit posted:What? Explain how routers "wear out." Well, if they are anything like the mountain of Netgear devices I've thrown in the bin over the past decade, it's failed RAM. Every single one of them.
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tuyop posted:Routers wear out too and need replacing every so often. This, it happens. It's rarely the iDevices.
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e.pilot posted:This, it happens. Except this time it probably is the iDevice. This is exactly what was happening to me (and others) on 8.0 a few months back. It didn't really resolve itself for me until the most recent update. I would stay linked on WiFi... other networked machinery worked fine, but my iPad and iPhone would stop being able to access internet until I rebooted (or Airplane mode'd, in some cases...)
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Also, just going to say, if you're still rocking an 8 year old 802.11g router, you should probably replace it. Wireless AC is pretty sweet.
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Feenix posted:Except this time it probably is the iDevice. This is exactly what was happening to me (and others) on 8.0 a few months back. It didn't really resolve itself for me until the most recent update. I would stay linked on WiFi... other networked machinery worked fine, but my iPad and iPhone would stop being able to access internet until I rebooted (or Airplane mode'd, in some cases...)
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BeanBandit posted:What? Explain how routers "wear out." Silicon rot, always rotate your cables every 500gb.
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My iPad 3 is on 7.1.2 Any downsides if I upgrade it to 8.1.2? Will it make it unusable?
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Vaz posted:My iPad 3 is on 7.1.2 Any downsides if I upgrade it to 8.1.2? Will it make it unusable? I recently did mine about a month ago and it's doing well, not at all slow like I thought it might be. No problems at all.
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Vaz posted:My iPad 3 is on 7.1.2 Any downsides if I upgrade it to 8.1.2? Will it make it unusable? Performance did degrade slightly on my old 3, but not unusably so. It felt closer to performance on 7.0 than 7.1.
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unlawfulsoup posted:Silicon rot, always rotate your cables every 500gb. There is a problem with solder called whiskering that became more of a thing once RoHS became the norm. Basically your devices might start to short themselves out as they age because they'll literally start sprouting growths. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whisker_(metallurgy) This is also one reason why any article complaining about "planned obsolescence" is pretty much whiny BS in the consumer electronics industry. No device is designed to last forever.
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I'm looking at getting an Air 2 on the weekend. Since the OP hasn't been updated for ages, are there any links within this thread that cover which Air 2 covers/protectors are worth buying?
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You Am I posted:I'm looking at getting an Air 2 on the weekend. Since the OP hasn't been updated for ages, are there any links within this thread that cover which Air 2 covers/protectors are worth buying? The Wirecutter does a good job reviewing iPad accessories.
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This is a fairly basic question, but Google isn't being particularly helpful. I'm using an iPad 4 on iOS 7.1.1, and whenever I capitalise the first letter of a word then delete the whole thing it remembers that the first letter was capitalised. So the sequence of keystrokes Shift-a-b-Backspace-Backspace-a-b gives the string "Ab", not "ab". This pisses me off every time I accidentally hit Shift instead of the first letter of a word. Is there any way to disable it without rooting? (I'd rather not turn off auto-capitalisation altogether since I quite like the way it capitalises the first letter of each sentence.)
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