Dave Hakes' – Island Mode

The other day (Friday) I was showing the PSAV guys a few of the A/V programs on the iPhone and suddenly a few of them wouldn’t respond – they wouldn’t open…

This is not the same issue as before. Before, none of them would open.  This time it was only a few apps.   Anyway, when I got home I restarted the iPhone and everything went back to normal – thought I’d try that before spending the good part of my night restoring again…

Here’s an interesting observation:  This issue appears to happen when my iPhone come close to another iPhone (within a few feet).  Just an observation, but it appears to be the way it is right now…

So I decided to really take it down to three pages to see if that would help.  Time will tell…

Here’s my three pages now:

The answer to your question is, “Yes! I’m a total geek!”  I even organize my iPhone.  First page is the stuff I use constantly when not at work, second page is stuff I use just for work, and third page is all the stuff I may need (or just can’t get off my iPhone).  I wish I could get rid of a few of the apps that come with this thing.  Contacts, iTunes, Notes, SMS, and Stocks are just bogging me down.  I don’t use them and don’t need them.  The “Phone” app has the “Contacts” in it (which makes the app itself totally redundant), I would rather use “Voice Notes” than “Notes”, and I have had AT&T block text messaging for my phone (I use IM for free, why would I want to be charged for this?), so SMS is a wasted app.

I would rather have those 5 apps go away to make room for 5 apps I would use…

When I first got the iPhone, I hacked it and was able to get rid of a few of these apps, but an update brought them all back.  Anyway, before hacking it again I looked around and discovered that, with the new update, it would be ill advised to get rid of the programs cause it screws up the OS.  So, “HEY! Steve!  Let’s unscrew these dependencies and let us get rid of these apps, eh!”