Daily Interesting iPhone News

If your iPhone suddenly stops taking a charge, but everything else keeps working, there may be a fix. I know someone with firsthand experience of just such an issue, and can offer advice that may solve your iPhone’s charging problem.

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In a welcome move, Apple’s iOS 5.1 update included, among other features, the return of Genius Mixes and Genius Playlist for subscribers to iTunes Match. At least, in theory. Initially, we—and many others, if Apple’s support discussions are any indication—found that the Genius features either didn’t work or didn’t even appear on our iOS devices after installing the 5.1 upgrade.

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iPhones that have been password-protected and have voice dialing deactivated can still make FaceTime video calls, as well as disclose basic information about a person’s list of contacts.

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If you’re a heavy Facebook user on your iPhone, you’ve probably noticed every now and then that comments are displayed wrong. For instance, when you’ve just uploaded a new picture, sometimes Facebook displays comments on it that were received for other ones, mixing content up.

Read more mashable.com

The Apple iPhone 4, like the iPhone 4S, has been flying off the shelves for months, but this hot gadget still has some kinks to work out: while on a flight over Australia on Nov. 25, one user’s iPhone became literally too hot to handle, glowing red and smoking before having a minor combustion.

Read more www.ibtimes.com

Some owners of Apple’s new iPhone 4S have been hit with SIM card error messages, even if they are connected to a CDMA carrier that does not use SIM cards.

Read more www.appleinsider.com

According to research carried out for my by an iPhone app developer, the battery issue that some iPhone 4 and 4S owners are experiencing is not, as some have suggested, related to the hardware.

Read more www.zdnet.com

It seems life for Sprint and its iPhone 4S introduction is not getting any better! For the first time ever, US carrier Sprint have been lucky enough to join that of Verizon and AT&T in retailing the popular phone, but since its official arrival on the 14th October, the carrier has experienced some problems, leading to frustrated customers.

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As someone who has been lucky enough to spend the last few months testing iOS 5 in various beta stages, it has to be said that the version we’re all currently enjoying has come a long way since the early days.

Read more www.idownloadblog.com

If you use an iPhone 4S, there might currently occur some problems with NAVIGON Premium 1.8:

•    Map display blurred
•    Schematic view blurred
•    Lane assistant blurred
•    Panorama View 3D does not work

Read more www.navigon.com

I have just upgraded to a new iPhone 4s from iPhone 3GS. when I plug my phone to the car via the USB port and select iPod from media, the iPod start playing with sound. Few minutes later, the sound disappear. When looking at the audio source in my iPhone, the audio source seems to be going through the bluetooth “My car” in the photo attached.

Read more www.matthewsvolvosite.com

I have seen other threads on these forums that have solutions to them but I cannot get them to work on my iPhone. I have the Car Kit for iPhone, and it worked perfectly well with my iPhone 4 under both iOS 4.3.5 and iOS 5.

Read more discussions.tomtom.com

Since upgrading my iPhone 4 to a 4S, my Mercedes BT cradle does not pair anymore. I have tried everything: resetting the 4s, new pairing, etc.

Read more discussions.apple.com

Apple Inc. denied Wednesday that it is tracking the location of its iPhone customers and said it plans to update the software on the device to fix “bugs” that did store location data.

Read More www.marketwatch.com

Apple has released the latest update to iOS 4, and TechCrunch reports that iOS 5 will be pushed back to the fall.

Launched on Friday, iOS 4.3.1 mostly fixes a few bugs here and there in the operating system for the iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch, and Apple TV, according to Apple. The update resolves connectivity issues when joining certain cellular networks and authenticating with some enterprise Web services.

Read More news.cnet.com

Some iPhone users woke up Sunday to find that the clocks on their devices botched the one-hour “spring forward” daylight-saving time change that had taken effect overnight.

Read More www.hollywoodreporter.com

Motor maker Toyota has warned Australian car dealers that iOS 4.1 devices can crash certain vehicles’ sound systems.

Toyota made the claim in a “technical newsflash”, local car site Drive reports. The warning covers eight types of Fujitsu Ten-made car stereo fitted to Yaris, Corolla, Kluger, Prado, LandCruiser, HiLux and Prius models sold during 2009 and 2010.

Read More www.reghardware.com

Some users have reported an issue in which iPhones are no longer recognized by Volvo iPod/iPhone integrated audio systems after the update to iOS 4.2. Users experiencing this problem may receive an error message indicating “USB not recognized.”

Read More appletoolbox.com

If you are an iPhone user, the chances are that you’re not up early enough to be reading this story.

And that’s because a similar bug that plagued antipodean iPhone users when their clocks changed in September has hit European users, albeit in the reverse manner.

Read More www.pocket-lint.com

If you’ve put a password lock on your new iPhone 4 or for that matter any iPhone with the latest iOS 4.1 firmware installed, then take note that it doesn’t stop intruders from accessing your phonebook contacts or photos.

Read More www.gizmocrunch.com