Without being jailbroken, of course (still reluctant do to that to mine just yet)
I wish I could turn off the 10% and 20% battery warning messages that interrupt whatever you are doing. The battery icon in the corner is visible and seen often enough to make those messages somewhat redundant.
And sometimes they perform an ironic inconvenience - in other words, sometimes I want to deliberately drain the battery so that I can give the thing a full charge, and do it before I go home. So i’ll leave a movie running with the sound turned down.
But those message come up, and then un-responded to they put the phone to sleep, so my plan of draining the battery with a movie is scuppered.
I wish I could turn off multi-tasking. It is more of an inconvenience than a feature - I don’t actually need the things I’ve just used to still be running. So I keep having to manually shut everything off. They should at least implement some sort of close all running apps feature.
I want a your-phone-is-about-to-switch-off audible alarm. If my phone goes off in the night I won’t know it’s happened. Someone tries to call me in the morning - my phone is off. I’m on-call so it could be an important call.
If the phone went ‘blingly blingly bop’ JUST before it switched off, I would hear it, and plug it in to charge.
You can turn that off by turning on the portrait lock.
Or rather you can force the phone not to go into that mode. But I agree with you. I don’t see the point of it.
To portrait lock your phone, double tap the home key to bring up the running apps, then swipe to the right, then click on the button with a circle with an arrow on the end of it, and a padlock in the middle.
I’d like to turn off cover flow specifically, without having to totally disable portrait mode!
Also, I’d like to be able to shut down an app while it’s still up on the screen - if it is possible then please inform me. I hate hitting the home button a couple times to minimize the app, bring up the “taskbar,” then hold down on the icon to get it into closing mode, and finally click the corner to close.
On the subject of portrait lock (Feret Herder I think you meant ‘disable landscape’) I’d like the option of landscape lock.
But it’s not that much of a bother. The reason I’d like landscape lock is so that I can be watching movies/tv in bed, I’m in landscape mode (in other words I’m lying down) so To watch the movie in landscape mode the phone is physically upright, so it shows the movie in portrait mode.
You have to turn the phone around until it’s upside down and the movie stays in landscape mode.
I wish it had a notification system like Android. But I would settle for a sound on/sound off icon in the top bar. I can’t see the physical switch in dark places, like the movie theater.
The other day, it was down to 14 percent. I didn’t want to wait for it to fully drain so I decided this one time I’ll plug it in before it’s all gone. Charged it up to 100%.
That 100% charge lasted about 3 hours. (About as long as a 14% charge would normally last!!) Thus reinforcing my suspicion that I should be doing full charges from fully drained.
Plus, I’ve read MANY articles that claim no memory effect, and no problem charing when not fully discharged. I’m still not convinced. On all the devices I’ve owned with lithium ion batteries the worst performance has come when I’ve behaved ‘casually’ with the charging - i.e. plugging it in when it’s at 50 percent.
I just want email folders on the phone in case I don’t have an IMAP account. And I want to be able to stop the email software from checking in case it turns on.
My iPod Touch is jailbroken, and the one thing I really want and have never been able to find is a network browser. I want to be able to look at my network resources and open the files, assuming it is a file my iPod Touch knows how to open.
On the subject of Batteries, I can’t believe this only just occured to me.
I would like the ability to replace the battery! I hate the tactical way that the battery is built in, so when someone’s ithing battery is performing badly they are more or less forced to replace the entire device.
I just want a comprehensive call/text log. Who texted me at 2am? Who did I call when I was drunk last Saturday night? How long was that call to my sister?
I can comprehend Apple’s reasons with the iPhone, but locking down the iPod Touch is just assholishness. It is my damn property! AT&T bought no part of it!
It seems Apple does recommend occasionally running the battery down:[
](Batteries - Maximizing Performance - Apple)I agree there should be a way to close all the “open” applications, but if I understand what they are actually doing with their “multi-tasking,” those apps aren’t really open in the way you might think. That is, they exist in the dock, but they aren’t really running in the same sense that a minimized application in Windows is, for instance. I think. Still bugs me that they’re all still there, though.
There is no need to close applications on the iPhone. For normal applications, when you leave the application, even if it is still in the app switcher, it is no longer running - it is suspended, and removing it from the app switcher does nothing more than remove it from the app switcher.
The exceptions are applications that are specifically designed to run in the background (e.g Pandora, Skype), but you would know if you were using one of those. Ordinary applications, that only do useful things when you are actively using them - there is no point to removing them from the app switcher (unless you don’t like the clutter).
The iPhone is not a computer, you don’t need to do maintenance on it. It can take care of itself. Just use it.