Yesterday, I downloaded RjDj, which is a really interesting iPhone app that augments aural reality by sampling sounds and using them in a sort of real-time soundtrack played back via the headphone jack. The problem was that the application crashed upon launch (it’s affecting many users). Here’s the fix, which worked for me (posted by a user on RjDj’s website):

1. Delete the RjDj application from iTunes
2. Delete the RjDj application from iPhone
3. Hard reset iPhone (hold the sleep/wake button and home button down at the same time until the screen goes dark and the white Apple logo appears)
4. Quit and restart iTunes
5. Re-download the RjDj application in iTunes
6. Plug iPhone in and sync

Unfortunately, I am suffering from the low volume problem now, which makes the app essentially useless. The sound volume is so low that you basically cannot hear anything. I hope they fix it.

I continue to have 10-15 second freezes on my iPhone when I bring up the contacts list in attempts to make calls. It is really quite infuriating. Why can other phones handle hundreds of contacts without locking their users out?

To make me feel better, I’ve decided to collect iPhone fail screens.

what good is 5 bars of coverage if you can’t make a call?

I had a ton of failed calls when I was down in San Diego (as you might remember from my torrent of angry tweets), but that was before firmware 2.0, and I was unable to screenshot the fail screen even when using the jailbroken screenshot app.

UPDATE: At the moment, my iPhone doesn’t show up in iTunes when I plug it in. My Apple Bluetooth headset also now refuses to pair with anything. Massive Apple failure.

UPDATE: I reinstalled iTunes 7.7.1, and it works again.

There should be a standard icon to augment buttons and links in the iPhone interface for “this will close the current app and open a link in Safari” I don’t know how many times I’ve opened an app and clicked on something to see what it does, only to be taken to Safari. In most cases, I wouldn’t have tapped the link / button if I had known that it would do that.

To add to the iPhone blog mayhem, I thought I’d write down some thoughts about my first week using iPhone’s firmware v2.0. I’m using 2.0 on the original iPhone; I have driven by Apple and AT&T stores numerous times in futile attempts to procure a 3G model, but I’m simply unwilling to wait in line to get a phone. I did, however, get a chance to play with Kenny’s phone while I was in Oregon, and it is indeed much faster in side-by-side tests when compared to my EDGE model (although Kenny complained about battery life on 3G and also said that subjectively, it didn’t feel very fast). (read more »)

Here are the iPhone firmware 2.0 applications that I have installed and think are useful.

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A friend gave me a tip today about how to take a screenshot on any iPhone running firmware 2.0. Press the sleep and home buttons simultaneously. The screen will flash white, and a screenshot will be saved into your Camera Roll as a .png image. (read more »)