IPhone :: Did Genius Bar Brick My 4 With 3rd Party Unlock App
May 8, 2012
US Apple Employee took my Japan iPhone, tried to unlock my iPhone by installing an app called "unlockit.co.nz", put my AT&T sim card in, read FAILED, and said it didn't work. He reassured me that my Japan iPhone will still work when I go back there, but I have no reassurance now. Did they mess up my iPhone and not taking responsiblity for it? Do Apple employees typically install sketchy 3rd party unlock apps that change APNs?
I went into the Apple Store today with both my US iPhone 4 (16 GB Black) and my Japan iPhone 4 (16 GB Black). My US iPhone was having issues with its bluetooth and home button is sticking a lot. He couldn't replace it since it was out of warranty and suggested that I find a 3rd party repair shop or look on Craigslist.
My Japan iPhone 4 is still under warranty and suffers from one spot on the screen being exceptionally bright. He said he could replace my Japan iPhone with a US AT&T iPhone. I told him, I'm not sure if that would be smart since my Japanese Softbank SIM card may not work anymore in an AT&T iPhone. He explained to me how unlocking works and said he can easily set it up for me. He took my Japanese iPhone, went to some site, installed a program, did a few things, and took my AT&T SIM Card out and put it into my " newly unlocked" Japan iPhone. The phone kept saying SIM Failed and he restarted it, and it still didn't work. He put my AT&T SIM card back into my US iPhone and thankfully, it still read my SIM Card.
He offered to exchange my Japan iPhone for a US iPhone 4, and suggested that I call AT&T to have them unlock my phone for me. He said they would do it, if I was out of contract with AT&T, but I wasn't, so I went home back at status quo, or so I thought.
I looked at my Japan iPhone again, and noticed that there was an app called, "unlockit.co.nz". It opens up Safari and pulls up something called APN Changer. Upon closer inspection, it's the same app/site the Apple Tech pulled up when I was at the store. I'm a bit leary about odd apps, especially apps that originated from the domain co.nz. I googled the site and looked it up, and it seems a bit odd.
Now, I don't know what this program exactly does, but I'm a bit annoyed that I don't know what app the Apple Employee installed and what it exactly did. I have no assurance that my Japan iPhone will work in Japan now after he installed this app and did something. Is it the Apple policy to go and install 3rd party apps? Will my Japan iPhone still be good when I go back or am I going to land in Japan and spend the first few hours at an Apple store trying to get my phone replaced/fixed?
I always have the iPhone App Store Genius recommendations turned on by default. Always worked fine until today, when I got the message "You do not currently have any recommendations". Strange, as I have 5 pages of apps. Logged into my account, turned Genius off, turned it back on again, agreed to terms and conditions etc, but the Genius recommendations page is still empty. Anyone else ever had this?
A Genius deleted and lost my iphone data right in front of me. I went Willowbend apple store in Carrollton Texas had a problem with my internet, so I scheduled an appointment with the genius bar, they switched me out a new iphone and then before checking if all my data transfered to new phone a "genius" with a new york accent deleted my old phones data . I lost half my photos all my contacts messages from march, notes and who knows what else i'll realize has been lost.
I fell in love with ‘Corby’ at first sight because of its unique and refreshing color. I’ve used it for a week now and quite satisfied. Putting all things aside, I enjoy the stare of passers-by when I take out the phone. They will comment on the design and compliment the phone. I bought a yellow one which stands out dramatically in contrast to the black handset.
A few features that are different from existing touch screen phones. First, you can do zooming with only one finger. If you place your finger on the image and move it up and down, the zooming changes. Another feature I find really convenient is the access to Facebook and Twitter with widget. I had envied friends with iPhone because they could do Twitter anywhere and anytime. Well, now I can use Twitter 24-7!.......
I have an iPhone 4S. Long ago, I experimented with the "genius" feature on an ipad to see whether I could find useful apps. (Answer: Not really.) But this caused the Genius feature to add a "Genius" playlist to my iPhone. This playlist does not appear in iTunes, only on the phone, and I can't remove it. If I click on it, it says "choose a song to create a Genius Playlist", so I guess maybe it's not ACTUALLY a playlist, just a button. But the net result is, if the iPhone has just been turned on and I connect it to something, it plays random junk rather than any of my playlists. So is there any way to make that "feature" go away? Yes, I have already turned off Genius and Match.
I have been playing the same game of BrickBreaker for 2 months and would like to see how far I can go (so far 2,000,000 points and 462 lives). I know that if I download a new version of the OS (as I was recently prompted to do) and reboot the phone I will lose the game. Is there some way to save it so I don't lose the score when I download and reboot?
I don't know what went wrong with the adb update, but now I can't do anything. I can just enter in recovery mode and download mode.
The phone goes in bootloop (It can just load the first booting screen where there is the Samsung s6 logo) and when I try to do the manual update from external sd or adb etc... It says that is disabled. The device was rooted before the 5.1.1 android update.
Nexus on bootloop tried every method ,most of them . Flashing new factory image is also of no good. Cleared cache , factory reset and still on bootloop. On flashing lollipop factory image it gets stuck on boot loop and on flashing KitKat factory image or using any custom ROM like cyanogenmod it gets through boot but is unable to detect sim and apps like play store and camera keep crashing and refuses to open.
I downloaded CF-autoroot and followed these steps and now it is stuck on bootloop. I downloaded Odin 3.10.6 and right cf-auroroot version as well. URL..."When done, you should see “RESET!” on ODIN program and your S6/S6 Edge will reboot to show something like below. This is where CF-Auto Root roots your S6/S6 Edge."It never boots into recovery and it's immposible to manually boot to it as well. It just auto-reboot and stuck on "samsung powered by android."
I'm trying to download stock ROM from sammobile but its gonna take 4 hours ...
I've solved it with Samsung Kies firmware initialization but still no root ... Again tried and now it's rooted ...
Is the Motoactv capable of switching tracking modes in the same workout? If I go for a ride followed immediately by a run, do i have to stop, End Workout, then start a new run workout or is there a way to tell the device I have switched activities?
Word mole and brick breaker are missing ,I just got the phone today and they both disappeared after I downloaded an application to the downloads folder.
When I play; I notice a slight (but annoying lag) when I move the cursor to deflect the ball. The lag wither causes me to miss the ball or through it "off" my intended course for it. Obviously annoying when I work my way up to more advanced levels.
finesse, sch-r810 that will respond at all. i lost web and wap after flashing, called metropcs after a few weeks, and lost voice service moments after that. service could not be found, thought i'd just flash again. a problem occurred that left my phone with no filesystem (i assume), and now i dont think anything is seeing my phone (com ports inactive). ive tried the well knowns that google would offer, bitpim, qpst, qdxm, p2k, multiloader and others, as well as plenty of non-samsung software that i thought/hoped might work (unipst, optiflash, others). just this evening i downloaded sdk tools and weird 'unlock sim' 'secret zone' softwares, nothing.
i actually recorded the processes, both computer and phone screens (desktop capture+webcam). planned an upload to Internet, but would like a solution/tip to accompany the problem. thats why the cdma request, or any software that can access qualcomm chipsets, or similar/usable characteristic. my model seems replaced to have been by newer samsung phones, though if the internals are similar, i'd like to express that to others.
administrators: i did post this just a minute ago in the metropcs forum first, by mistake. ive got a thousand tabs open and didnt notice until after the 'submit', if youre going to remove one, do that one please. its not in a general place and i didnt quickly see how to delete. thanks.
I downloaded and installed on my original iPhone a 3rd party application. I now have an iPhone 4S, and wish to transfer that application and all it's data to my new phone.
I have recently bought a new iphone 4 and after a month or so of use, it began to drop calls or my voice wasn't heard by the person on the other end. I could hear them perfectly fine, but my voice was either very faint or not able to be heard.
I have restored my phone to factory settings, but doing this did not solve the problem. I live overseas and my provider is Vodaphone. It isn't a signal/carrier problem. Is this something that can be fixed by being serviced, or will I probably have to get a new phone all together? It's really frustrating, as I bought a factory unlocked phone to use in Turkey.
I can't open every applications except all the built-in appplcations (Calendar, Clock etc.), in other words, all third-party applications are crashed when I open them.
I use two accounts (A & B) to download apps, after I change my current account A to another one B, the applications which belongs to B are working, and I try to download a new app it's working too.
When I change account B back to A, B's apps are still working, however all A's applications still crashed. But I downloaded a new app using account A, it's working...
So what can I do about all my existing account A's applications?
I updated my 3g from 3.0 to 3.1.2 and none of my 3rd party apps will open. Ive tried restoring and redownloading the apps and they still crash. I can use my cracked apps but not my apple apps. Does anyone know how to fix this.
I have a 3g and I am JB with rock. Last night my phone would no longer launch any app store apps. All the apps when started immediately crash. All native apps as well as all JB apps work fine. I didnt install any new apps. I did update Rock but I cant remember if it was doing that before or after the Rock update. Any one know how to fix this without a restore. I sync my phone at work and a full restore is a PITA!
I woke up this morning and all but three of my apps are gone from my iPhone 4s. I immediately tried plugging into my syncing computer via USB but that doesn't seem to have worked. Where did all of my apps go?? How can I restore them?
For years now I've plugged my iPhone 3Gs into my Mac and downloaded the images and video from it into programs like Photomechanic, Adobe Lightroom, Image Capture, etc...
Sometime within the past 3 months this functionality has quit. None of the above programs "see" the iPhone. iTunes is the only program that agrees that the iPhone is actually plugged into the computer. Everything is up to date. Nothing has changed workflow wise.
I've read previous posts of this happening due to photos received from SMS and email or screen grabs. I've deleted those on my find that I could find and still no luck.
