I got my rejection letter from Apple’s iPhone Developer Program today. It’s not explicitly a rejection letter, more of a “Thanks for applying, maybe we’ll approve you later”. I guess I’ll be waiting on the hacked 1.2 release before being able to test anything. I knew it was a long shot, but I was hoping they’d let me in as an individual.
I’m playing around with the iPhone SDK, and according to the instructions here, you can’t run apps you develop on an iPhone unless you have a developer certificate. I gave it a try anyways, and while XCode recognizes the device, it won’t actually deploy to it.
Since my phone is jailbroken, I attempted to build, copy, and run the HelloWorldClassic sample app on my phone. I did this by ssh’ing into the phone and placing the built app in /Applications then turning off and on the phone. The interesting thing is that the app starts and loads the background, and widgets. It does not set the text in the widgets though before it quits. I have no idea why this is. I wonder if anyone has tried this with a jailbroken 1.4 iPhone (mine is running 1.3). I guess I’ll give 1.4 a try tomorrow.
I guess people are having a lot of trouble getting these now. This iPhone auction just ended for $780 + $26.60 shipping.
Update: As Roja points out in the comments. Holding the top button + the home button will fully reset a frozen phone. I usually try the home button first, then the top button, and finally both together.
About this iPhone freeze during sync. I’ve seen it manifest in 2 ways, the first case the iPhone will be locked up at the very end of the sync with perhaps a black screen. You then can try to hold the “Home” button for several seconds. That probably won’t work so you need to hold the button on the top for several seconds and turn it off and on.
In the second case, the iPhone will just reset itself in the middle of a sync. You don’t need to do anything as the iPhone will just reconnect itself after reboot. Once it’s done, just hit the sync button and it’ll continue where it left off.
Walt’s got the goods on some updates in his iPhone Q&A column :
He also mentions that the battery is covered in the one-year warranty period, which reminds me to mark my calendars, “June 29th 2008 – iPhone Warranty Expires”.
I’d like an update so that the iPhone doesn’t lock up or freeze during large syncs. This has me twice so far.
p.s. – Because of the wonderful display, I’m now obsessed with having album art for every song on my iPhone. I spent part of yesterday writing a python script for automatically finding and tagging mp3′s with album art from Amazon Web Services. I know there are programs to do this, but none were quite right for me (throwing 260 files at the program and have them auto-tagged with the correct images). Also, I wanted to learn Python, which was the bigger reason for writing it. : ) I’ll clean it up and upload it when I get a little more time on it.