The iPhone User Guide

After visiting the Genius Bar at the Apple Store, we’ve learnt that it’s not uncommon for the iPhone to not be able to shut down and start up again without using the restore in iTunes.

Users have found the iPhone 3G to slow down to a snails pace, so they attempt to restart the iPhone 3G. It shuts down quickly, but will never start up again, all users are getting is just the Apple Logo.

This is a known bug, and sadly the only solution at the moment is to have your Mac or PC nearby so you can Restore the iPhone by holding down the Home Button whilst connecting it to iTunes. This of course will lose any data / photos / SMS etc that have not been backed up.

Hopefully, a software update will cure this very shortly.

Our Suggestion: Do NOT install more than two ‘pages’ of apps. This reduces the load on the iPhone and we’ve found this stops the phone from crashing so much.

UPDATE: 2.0.2 now FIXES THIS PROBLEM.

Brando are already offering replacement screens for your iPhone 3G along with the device to open your iPhone and DIY.

Good luck with that! It’s funny to see that part of the iPhone opening kit includes a Guitar pick!!!!

Replacement iPhone 3G Screen - $85

iPhone 3G Opening Kit - $10.50

Continuing on with the complaints about the long backup process every time you sync your iPhone, here is yet another little trick that should help to cut that time down a bit, and thankfully this suggestion will not involve turning off the backup process.

Thanks to a nice forum posting over on theHowardForums, you can now cut that sync time down and still be prepared should something unfortunate happen to your iPhone that forces you to have it replaced.
The process is simple and it involves turning off the ability to send diagnostic data to Apple.

With just a few easy steps you should be left with sync times that are much more manageable, of course this will not help if you add a bunch of new media or the first sync after you add some new apps, however regular or routine syncing should be much more pleasant.

After connecting your iPhone to your computer;

1. Uncheck the check mark from the “Automatically sync when this iPhone is connected” option in iTunes.

2. Unplug your iPhone and then plug it back in

3. Once iTunes launches again, right click on its name in the devices menu (on the left) and from menu choose “Reset Warnings”

4. Then click Sync in the bottom right hand corner

5. You will then receive a pop-up (see image below). Simply uncheck the “Do not ask me again” box

6. Now you can go back and re-apply the check to the “Automatically sync” option that you removed in Step #1

Via iPhoneFreak

Available from Hong Kong now is a little device which sits in your iPhone port, and charges your iPhone back to full capacity, so even if you are no where near a power port, you’ll still be able to stay connected on the road.

Available now for the bargain price of $25. We’ve not tested it, so don’t blame us if your iPhone explodes.

Get it here

Right click and Save to your desktop, or on iPhone 2.0, simply hold down your finger over the image and save the image to your iPhone Gallery.

iPhone Wallpaper from Cycne