Code Slingin

I ran into an interesting problem today.  My iPhone (version 1) got stuck in headphone mode.  I couldn’t recognize that calls had come through, voice mail was nothing but air, and I couldn’t make calls (or hear that I was indeed connected).

I rebooted several times, went to the apple support site, and couldn’t find a single thing.  So, I turned to Google…

Surprisingly enough, there were thousands of hits!  I started from the top, clicked on the first one, and the incantations I had to go through didn’t help.  I started to work my way down the list which had various modifcations to the same original incantations, chants, mumble, mumble with no luck.  So, I did a reset.

That’s all I needed a simple reset.  I suppose I should have thought about that first, but I was convinced that that wouldn’t work.  It’s a good reminder that the simplest approach is generally the best.

James Hawes Tech, iPhone iPhone

Every-so-often I find that Eclipse simply begins to “act funny”.  Searches on the internet will produce many reasons why; the most common is associated with all the meta data that Eclipse stores and uses.  One of the more practical, and easiest solutions (let alone produces the best results), is to run a clean on Eclipse.

On windows:

1. Open a command prompt
2. Navigate to your eclipse.exe location
3. run eclipse -clean

On mac/unix:

1. Open a terminal window
2. Navigation to your Eclipse installation
3. run eclipse -clean

James Hawes How-To, Tools Development, Eclipse, Java