Iphone 3gs / 4 / 4s battery life very short or multiple ring tones for messages

  • November 2, 2011 5:22 pm

Well its been a short while since the Ios 5 has been released and there have been a number of issues surrounding the update, although the update is in general very welcome and provides some much needed and useful features, there have been some issues. 2 that i have personally come across are thankfully both fixed in the same method.
1. a stuttering message tone on receipt of text message or notification.
2 extremely short battery life on the iphone 4s (less than 12 hours on standby).

turns out that the ios5 that runs on iphone 4s is slightly different to that of the iphone 4 and iphone 3gs each phone containing different firmware as well so if you get a new iphone and restore it from the old iphones back up you end up confusing it basicly.

The FIX:
to fix this isnt as bad as it first seems.
1. Firstly open itunes and goto edit and preferences, click on the devices tab and jsut have a mental note of your last back up.
2. now plug in your iphone and right click it ( from the left coloumn and run a fresh back up.
3. go back to preferences and make a note of the time/date of the back up you just ran.
4. delete all previous back ups leaving just the new one.
5. Right click on the iphone again and choose restore.
6. When prompted YOU MUST CHOOSE SET UP IPHONE AS NEW PHONE. (very important ) else this fix wont work.
7. Once the restore has completed and the phone is set up as new ( you may need to change the name of the phone) you can then restore from the back up you made earlier.
8. during the restore the phone will make a new back up . its very important that you dont use this one as the back up and use the earlier one.
9. restart phone and you should now have inscreased battery life and text alerts that sound normal.

hope you found this helpful.
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UPDATE 07/11/2011
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while this works on some phones it appears that it doesnt work on all, but its worth a shot right? this is damn annoying New MR apple!


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UPDATE 11/11/2011
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AN UPDATE FOR iOS5 HAS BEEN MADE AVAILABLE TO DOWNLOAD AND SO FAR THIS APPEARS TO FIX VARIOUS ISSUES AS DESCRIBED ABOVE

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UPDATE 1/12/2011
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Go to general and settings in the sound options turn off vibrate, ( you can leave vibrate for silent to “on”)
this may help im currently testing this with some sucesss.

please leave a comment below if any of this helped you.

Beware of phone calls saying they are calling to help with broadband issue

  • November 2, 2011 5:06 pm

Just a warning that the cold phone calls from microsoft, saying your pc has an error, have changed theier tactics recently and although still trying the old one they are now calling to “help you with a broadband issue” ….. i mean who doesnt have a braodband issue right?
slightly easier to fall for. if you have an issue with your broadband speed do a test at speedtest.net and then call your braidband supplier.

NEVER allow someone remote access to your pc no matter who they are or unless you personally know them and have asked them do do so or unless you call them and they are from a reputalble company, if in doubt check with me 07599 279 796.


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phone calls from microsoft claiming your comuter has reported a virus

  • November 2, 2011 5:01 pm

Last week i received a number of calls from a supposed microsft call center, the caller was of eastern/Asian origin and claimed to be from Microsoft and that he was calling becasue my computer had reported an error to microsoft, the caller tried every trick in the book to get access to my computer but as i knew what he was trying to do my aim was to waste thier time and wind him up…..
eventually i told him that i knew he was a scammer and told him that he was stupid if he thought i would fall for suc ha trick and hung up.

he promptly called back and said “same to you ” and swore at me !

NEVER allow someone remote access to your pc no matter who they are or unless you personally know them and have asked them do do so or unless you call them and they are from a reputalble company, if in doubt check with me 07599 279 796.


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