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How to Fix Freezing, Unresponsive iPhone

More iPhone drama. After updating my iPhone to 3.1, I started experiencing a freezing iPhone every so often. It really does freeze, by the way. No attempt to hold any button will bring it back. The iPhone becomes completey inresponsive with a silent, black screen. The good news: there’s a way to get the phone [...]

How to Fix a Hanging, Failed or Incomplete iPhone Software Update (aka Your Phone is a Brick)

My Last iPhone Software Update Drama Four months ago, my wife bought me an iPhone. During a Software Update, the iPhone decided to stop the installation at around 70-80% and hang. I unplugged the device after 2 hours of hanging and tried to restore my backup. It didn’t work. Each restore operation also failed/hung around [...]

Our Cheap Trinidad and Tobago Long Distance Provider ($0.13/min)

We have family in Trinidad and Tobago. Chaguanas to be exact. They have both landlines and Trinidad cellphones. For a long time, we’ve been using AT&T’s Long Distance to call Trinidad and Tobago for $0.34/min. I finally got tired of the $200+ phone bills and started looking around for Long Distance providers that would offer [...]

Motorola Ming: Cingular Wireless Settings for MMS and MediaNET

Go to the setup setting from the Menu > Data Networks > click on the tab with the three bars to make a “new” network, then put this in: Profile Name: Cingular GPRS setting: APN: wap.cingular User Name: WAP @ CINGULARGPRS.COM Password: CINGULAR1 (ALL UPPERCASE) Time Out: Off Primary Gateway IP: 66.209.11.61 Port: 9201 Secondary [...]

Motorola Ming: Where Do Download Games and Software?

You can get software, games, applications and more for the Motorola Ming A1220 from GetJar