iHate my iPhone
On Xmas-eve-eve-eve, Emory and I went to town to get some final stocking stuffers, then we looked for ways to enjoy the beautiful sunny day. Emory was super keen to do some rock climbing, while I really wanted to go out kayaking. Emory climbed up every wall, then pulled himself up a hanging rope all the way to the roof, 12 metres up! Afterwards, we kayaked out to Oriental Bay, stopping to get some gelato at Kaffee Eis.
Sadly I won’t see my photos from Emory’s climbing. Or anything from the rest of the afternoon. The iPhone never saved any of the hundreds of photos I took. And I’m pissed. (The only reason I got some photos from kayaking is that I decided to use my K750, for fear of dropping the iPhone in the harbour.)
Googling around to figure out what happened I came across this post from Jeff Zeldman. It turns out that it’s a known bug. It seems that the problem occurs if you regularly delete photos off the camera. Wow. That’s fucked. And from what I can tell, Apple hasn’t been doing anything about it, let alone responding to people on their support forums. Note: This is happening to non-hacked phones.
In the forums people seemed to find a way to fix it. Albeit, a time consuming, painful fix. I used a variant of the fix and I thought things were sorted.
Nope. I lost heaps more photos today. This is a deal breaker for me and the iPhone. I’ll use it as an iPod and a web tablet. But I’m really devastated that it’s not the great 1.0 device I imagined it to be.
I’m really praying that the next update has a fix for the camera (and let’s me actually make calls). Jeff??!
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Jeffrey | January 22, 2008 @ 10:59 pm
I love the title of this blog
Don’t worry I bet the soft unlock will come soon and then 1.3 has been jail broken, maybe that will help
Philip | January 23, 2008 @ 8:41 am
Apparently not. I’m following that support forum thread and people are reporting the problem is still happening on 1.3.
I also ran into another extremely nasty problem with the camera. On my holiday I took well over 1000 photos on the iPhone. Unfortunately, when I copied those photos off the iPhone it only copied 999 and deleted the rest. Apparently, there’s a bug with the image numbering and Windows. I’m extrodinarily pissed off about that. I used my K750 as my primary camera (so I have another 2000 photos), but there were some irreplaceable images on the iPhone that I’m extremely sad were deleted.
Lesson: never delete photos off your iPhone until they have first been copied to the computer.
More important lesson: don’t use the camera on the iPhone. Which is a real shame.