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If I had a penny for every time I've been playing COD and thought "Damn it! If I could only update my status, or send out a tweet"... #xbox360update
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New tactic -- unfriend your opponent and right before the kill, friend them back.
[pop-up] You have one new friend request. Would you like to see it now?
GAAAAA, kill shot. #xbox360update
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It's particularly annoying if you like to listen to music while using apps that pause whatevers playing on startup.
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@BlueGeek: Yes, exactly. And I've been 1. using the Apple discussion forums to complain (along with several others, most notably 1G iPod touch users who don't have volume controls on the device *at all*) and 2. using Apple's request form to tell them to revert to the previous featureset. I also sent a rather curt email to Steve Jobs and Paul Schiller because it angers me so much. I've been fighting for a universal app sound override Settings option since September 2008.
To @EBone, @kazinstrife (and even my new friend Spinny who can't see his own comment yet): Before firmware v3.1, if you double tapped the home button while an app was running, you'd get a pop-up of the iPod controls. If you double-tap now and fix it in the Settings menu, it exits OUT of the app and takes you to the music app. Not what I'm looking for.
See the YouTube video above for an explanation.
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Also, all new ipods touches (g3 i know, not sure of the 8 gig), and iPhones come with the headphone with mic and volume controls.
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The problem for me is when I am running a game and want to at least have control of my music. If the game is running and the game is set to automatically turn off my music, I have no way of getting the music app again via double-tapping. And that issue is even worse for people who are running 1st gen touches because they have no access to volume control at *all*.
It's a real shame that Apple doesn't care to address this and even removed its functionality with the 3.x firmware.
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Make sure Settings - General - Home has "iPod" selected and "iPod Controls" set to On.
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For me it's a double tap while the iPhone is still locked. That always brings up basic iPod controls for me no matter what's happening (or not happening) on my iPhone. Just previos/play/pause/next and, if something's playing, the basic track info.
This even works when I'm in, say, Tap Tap Revenge.
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I was about to send this above reply when I decided to verify. It does work when I'm in the menu of Tap Tap Revenge, but not during gameplay. However, although TTR took control of the audio, once I exited to the TTR menu out of the gameplay screen, I could then lock, double-tap home, and click play once again.
So the only time this doesn't work is when a game is actively taking over the audio. It works fine once a game lets go, sometimes without exiting the app, and you don't have to re-open the iPod app to get it to work after something else has stopped your playback. #iphoneos312
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From a full charge with minimal use (1 hour music, checking mail every 15 mins, 1 or 2 short phone calls) it said I was at 12% after only 4 hours. I Plugged it in to charge and it suddenly jumped to 63% and was fine the rest of the day. This keeps happening and I'm hoping this update fixes it.
I had the no wake once as well.
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Just got back from the apple store with new phone. Hope there are no problems with this one. #iphoneos312
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I've been having the "cannot wake" now and then ever since. I'd been girding my loins for another session with their tech support line.
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2 of my friends will come to tell me they briked their jailbrake iphone. and they will come with 999 of their friends who also got stuck and want me to fix it up.
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