[SeaPea]

Originally Posted by freyes01

Have you tried to sync outlook calendar?

7.7 didn't sync cal with OL 2003/2007

I have the same problem before; Search the web and learn the tricks to solve it.

Essentially, just delete all your recurring events first; erase sync history; and do the sync again. Then add your recurring events back. Then it will sync everything.

You can preserve your recurring before doing these, by exporting to another file first; restoring it later.

[WillyDavidK]

Hey fairy guy, why don't you actually give some actual examples or specific reasons that the iphone is so crappy - okay, we get it, WM has been out for a long time. That does NOT necessarily make it a better os. I happen to have used a Nokia 2125 running WM for almost a year, and it was the worst, most unreliable phone i have ever had - ActiveSync is extremely inconvenient, and windows mobile is a joke. You still have an extremely watered down 'mobile' internet, and a very limited array of applications. Also, windows is the least open, and most proprietary operating system available, even OS X (which iphone is running) is built on the fairly open unix platform, and there are countless GPL applications in circulation specifically for macs - Apple even included X11 support with the operating system! Even iTunes is phasing out the DRM protection on their music. The primary reason for the AppStore and limit to signed code on the iPhone is for the protection of the average consumer - Look at how many buggy and, let's be honest, poorly written apps are in the official store! Imagine if there was no quality control, how many soccer moms and average users with no interest in hacking their phone would be coming in with bizarre problems. The overall customer satisfaction would plummet. It is not hard to jailbreak your phone if you wish, and there are ample resources to do so, but I for one am glad Apple cares about their consumer.

Sorry about the off-topic bickering, but this needed to be said.

Anyways, I am interested in jailbreaking, which I haven't yet done on my iPhone 3G 5A347, so perhaps I will be the first to do this (or attempt to do this) under 7.7.1. I am on OS X 10.5.4.
But first of all, can anyone give me a comprehensive list of pros and cons to jailbreaking, or refer me to a good source on the matter? I would love to have ssh, vnc (that actually works),mobile console, file browsers, emulators, etc on my phone, but I just haven't seen enough out there yet to actually compel me to risk it. Any more info would be greatly appreciated. If you prefer to contact me directly my email is willydavidk@gmail.com.

Thanks!
-David

[sagacious1]

My unlocked/jailbroken 2G will not sync with this new 7.7.1 version of iTunes. Anyone else experiencing this problem?

[fbords]

Originally Posted by VPxPrettyBoy

still got my custom ringtones

I just got my first gen iphone and started with 7.7.1 so i dont have any existing ringtones. How do i trick itunes into letting me make them with 7.7.1 (winpwn2.0.1)? I've tried a ton of tutorials, but they're all for 7.4.

[WillyDavidK]

if you have a mac, you can use garageband to create ringtones that will sync even on a regular 'locked' iPhone

[fbords]

what if all you got Is a pc?

[WillyDavidK]

as far as I know, for the time being your only other options are to load them by jailbreaking (plenty of info here on it, but personally I don't have any experience with it) or to see if your pc can run OSx86. I guess you could also buy ringtones through iTunes >_<

[tattoojack]

Originally Posted by WillyDavidK

as far as I know, for the time being your only other options are to load them by jailbreaking (plenty of info here on it, but personally I don't have any experience with it) or to see if your pc can run OSx86. I guess you could also buy ringtones through iTunes >_<

yeah itunes has had ringtones since bout 7.5 i think.

[fbords]

Originally Posted by tattoojack

yeah itunes has had ringtones since bout 7.5 i think.

cool...but how do you create them using 2.0 and iTunes 7.7.1?

[WillyDavidK]

you can probably just clip the files down to the length you want, and transfer them onto your phone using SFTP (see the guides section) into the ringtones folder.

EDIT: Actually, come to think of it, have you even taken the time to check the guides section at all? There are multiple guides for installing ringtones from windows.

[KrakaJap]

Here's one I cannot seem to find an answer to... I have the latest iTunes and iPod firmware installed, a few cracked apps and a few paid apps. I've restored my iPod about 5 times now and each time I go to put the cracked apps on (ipa method), it works fine for about a day then my paid apps stop working. They simply crash the second I try to run them. I would have though the cracked apps would stop working but they continue to run just fine. Only the paid apps crash. Anyone have any ideas?

I even tried downgrading iTunes and the problem still exists. The only thing I can think of is that the paid apps are now checking the MobileInstallation.framework file and if it does not match up, the app dies.

[461am]

Originally Posted by fbords

cool...but how do you create them using 2.0 and iTunes 7.7.1?

The old method still works, whereby you take a song from itunes, right click it, go to 'get info', adjust the start/stop time to between 25 seconds of each other, convert to aac, move to desktop, change format of the file to m4r, then add into itunes. Just be sure to remove the start/stop times on the original songs after you're done.

[quilty]

Originally Posted by 461am

The old method still works, whereby you take a song from itunes, right click it, go to 'get info', adjust the start/stop time to between 25 seconds of each other, convert to aac, move to desktop, change format of the file to m4r, then add into itunes. Just be sure to remove the start/stop times on the original songs after you're done.

assuming you've purchased the song from itunes...:/

[461am]

Originally Posted by quilty

assuming you've purchased the song from itunes...:/

Of course not. I've yet to buy a song from itunes.
Perhaps I wasn't clear. I didn't mean an itunes-store bought song, I meant from your own library on itunes.