Ok, after this, I guess I'm done with this subject here. My husband and I just discovered something which some of us need to know about. Apparently, the phone needs light to do this because I guess it's using the camera next to your face to know it's up there. After Kevin's suggestion, we cleaned the ear thing and also the camera lens. Then we did a test with screen curtain on. Guess what, if the light is low (which of course yours truly would never know about), then it doesn't work. My husband, after we turned screen curtain on, went into a dark place. It didn't work in the dark place, but did in the light. So, I guess you can, if you don't want it to work, just turn screen curtain on. If you do want it to work, turn it off so it can get some light from the screen.
Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Dec 20, 2011, at 4:28 AM, Scott Howell <scottn3...@gmail.com> wrote: > WOw! I honestly don't get it either. I have had very good luck with Apple > Care and pretty good luck with the folks in the store. Personally you can > call it what you will, but I'm thrilled with 98% of the features, experience, > and so forth with the APple products I own. I of course understand that all > is not perfect, but let me make some observations here that are based on > experience. > 1. SOme of the problems people encounter are of their own making. In other > words they simply have not learned how to use a feature or do not understand > some aspect of the product. Hey not a negative statement, but instead just > fact. SOmetimes this is just a result of not having read any information and > only basing assumptions on what they have read on an e-mail list, which are > not the only source of information. > 2. Third-party apps can cause problems and may impact operations of the > device. In fact several applications that are installed can mess things up. > WHy? Hell who knows, but it simply is possible. I have seen this with folks > who could not get the screen curtain to activate when VO was turned on, poor > battery life, and so forth. Hey, Apple does the best it can to ensure apps do > not cause problems, but reality is that you can have the perfect storm on > your device. > 3. User error. Yes people do make mistakes and that is apparent by some of > the questions I have seen posted here and on the VI Phone list. Hey it is ok > to be wrong and ok to make mistakes. However, it helps to have read the > manual and understand how features work and what could affect the operation > of a feature. I realize thread is more about the speakerphone; however, this > applies across the board. > > Now as far as the speakerphone I may be recalling incorrectly, but it seems > to me that you can toggle the speakerphone such that removing it from your > face will keep the call on the earpiece and not the speakerphone. Of course > I'd also ask the question if the phone is in a case and perhaps the proximity > sensor is being blocked. Lots of possibilities. Oh and one final note, the > APple Care folks are not actually APple employees unless something has > changed recently. THey actually work for a vendor that provides support > services. I only found that out because I had a chat with one of the support > folks and he said something he probably should not have said and I got him to > tell me. :) > > On Dec 19, 2011, at 8:22 PM, James Mannion wrote: > >> I have never heard of or experienced this change. Taking it away from -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
