The iPhone 3GS Come Down
3-4 days after I spend my hard earned money on the bleeding edge of technology I always enter a time verging on ‘buyers regret’. It isn’t so much that I regret the upgrade more that new hardware brings with it new problems.
Today was that very day, I face three new issues with the iPhone 3GS, one I have a work around for the other two remain unresolved :
1. iPhone Movies in iMovie
Recording video with the iPhone is great. No matter what way I hold the phone the video records perfectly. When I import the footage it plays without issue in Quicktime yet when I load up iMovie it indexes my iPhoto library and the video appears. Everything is perfect until you look at the preview window :
The problem here is that i am left handed. If I record footage with the phone in right hand mode there isn’t any issue. Quicktime forgives my lefthandedness why not iMovie ?
2. Find my iPhone
Having upgraded to the iPhone 3GS (Have I mentioned that yet). I find that my old 3G phone still appears in the ‘Find my iPhone’ page on MobileMe. I can’t see a way of easily removing this phone from the list.
3. Wifi
Probably the most annoying and perplexing problem to date. Here goes. The iPhone 3GS connects perfectly to my home router that uses WPA2 security. In work we also use WPA2, each time I try and connect and I enter the password and it fails to connect, re-asking for the password.
Two other 3G iPhone work perfectly. We changed the security to WPA1, both 3G phones connected yet the 3GS didn’t. We then changed the security again, this time to WEP. All three phones (including the 3GS) were able to connect.
The wireless is the most annoying of the issues as I really need wifi access at work. I can only assume there is some sort of issue with the iPhone and DLink rather than something wrong with the phone (given the phone works on a stack of other wireless networks).
Frustrating issues, I had mentally heralded the iPhone 3GS as the gold A class version of the iPhone but after today, (considering the cost) I am hoping for a fix very very soon.
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The inverted video is not surprising as iMovie doesn’t know about iPhone. You’re just holding a camera upside down. There is orientation and GPS data in the movie file!!!! Quicktime, OTOH, understands this.
Have you tried wiping your 3G? Or turning off Find My iPhone in it?
WiFi? I’ve not had this issue at all with the system, connecting to a mix of WEP, WPA, WPA2 networks. Something else might be up?
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DigMo Reply:
June 23rd, 2009 at 11:25 pm
Yes it is the fact QT can cope and also in iMovie the little timeline thumbnails are all correct it is on the top right window that is inverted. I tested it and if I video right handed it is fine. They will probably (hopefully) update iMovie to cope, I just thought it would have been included in the recent update given every other aspect of iMovie can cope.
As for wifi I have wiped the network settings and am going to have a fresh go tomorrow (day 3). We have gone through every setting possible and the other phones work, I think it is safe to say the phone isn’t broken when it connects to every other network but this one though ?
I just hate the frustrations that often come with new technology.
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Not sure about the newest version of iMovie but inverted footage could be rotated in 90 degree increments on the old version. I’d check the effects menu for that particular clip.
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DigMo Reply:
June 25th, 2009 at 11:41 am
Managed to solve the network problems with the DLINK device. It turns out WMM/QoS was turned on and didn’t like the iPhone. It seems the Quality of Service control wasn’t liking the iPhone. Good news it is solved though.
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