iStuff for Dummies... like me!

This week I did the much dreaded upgrade and move to iCloud, it went smoother than I expected on my computer, but not so well on my noniphone phone. As soon as the upgrade was done the email on my android evo shift went down, and if you are like me are you are all too reliant on your email so this was a disaster of epic proportion ;) 

So I did what I always do when I cant figure out how to do something I googled it. Normally this works like a charm, but this time all I found were people with the same problem and no idea how to fix it. Some had even been to their phone providers stores with no luck.  Finally after searching and searching I found a link to apples response,  if it had been worded better google would have pooped it up, you can find that here. However this didn't work on my phone so back to google I went, I finally found this brilliant blogger and he had a tutorial on how to make my phone work again. Thanks so much, Santosh! You are a life saver!  (find his tutorial here). 

Of course this didn't work at first for me either so after several tries and combinations I decided to go thru the comments. He was nice enough to respond helpfully to all of his comments {something I am guilty of not doing!}. About half way down I found a great tip, for some reason if you sign into your apple account and change your password and then set it up, following his instructions, it works. So I thought what the hell it can't hurt so I changed my password and viola it worked!!!!! Thanks so much Santosh you rock!

For some reason like having to upgrade to iCloud wasn't stressful enough the night before my cross country trip to Florida, I decided to buy and set up an iPad. I figured hey the iPad 3 was just released so the iPad 2 should be on sale as cheap as its going to get and sure enough the exchange and them $100 off plus I had a 5% off coupon and a $100 gift card. 

So far I really like my iPad. I do suggest buying the 3G one if you can afford it. You don't have to have To set it up and the data plans start at $14.99 and their is no contract, it's month to month. (disclaimer- please read or ask when you sign up to make sure yours works the same way.) My only problems so far was that the contacts and twitter will not open, when I try to open them they pop up for half a second and close back down. (yes I tried the basic reset) I also googled this problem, many were experiencing the same problem but no one seemed to know how to fix it. 

I thought I would have to head to the Mac store when I got back to Cali, but luckily Google saved me again.  I found this helpful apple discussion here.  I plugged my iPad into my computer and backed it up in iTunes, then I hit the reset button on iTunes to completely wipe clean my iPad. This would have been more nerve racking, but I'd only had it a week so not much to loose. I had to erase all the data, apps and settings on the iPad and then set it up like a new iPad, do not use the automatic backup or it will not fix it. Trust me I tried that first! I then reinstalled all the apps and movies from iTunes on my computer and my iPad works great and I didn't loose anything that as on there!

                                        Do you have a iPad? Have you had any problems? 

XOXO,

Annie