Changing default camera to front-facing?
Greetings, Earlier this week I learned two valuable lessons. Specifically, my guide dog needs to practice providing sufficient clearance for drop-offs. Consequently, being submerged in a pool is not conducive to the optimum functionality of an iPhone 4S. Actually, the latter was insightful, but now I have the personal experience to prove it. I removed my phone from the otterbox defender and sucked water out of the headphone, speaker, and microphone openings. The case protected the power button, USB connector, and volume buttons and switch on the left side, so it could have been a lot worse. The phone was mostly working, but I decided to turn it off and pack it in rice for 24 hours anyway. It appeared that my phone survived its little swim unscathed until I attempted to use the LookTell money reader app and nothing happened regardless of the lighting or bill placed in front of it. I then tried light detector and discovered that no sound was emitted. I then launched the camera app and it crashed when I attempted to take a picture or toggle to the front-facing camera. I actually had not thought to provide suction on the camera aperture area at the time. I packed it in rice again last night, to no avail. I can still make face-time calls, hence only one camera is certifiably FUBAR. My thought was that if I could change the default camera it might still be possible to use apps that depend on that hardware and put off having to use one of my two allowed damage replacements under Applecare. I explored settings, and Google, but have not discovered a way to do this other than within the camera app itself which does not appear to be an option. I thought I'd ask here if anyone can offer a suggestion before I suck it up and visit the Apple store. TIA and best regards. Geoff --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: Changing default camera to front-facing?
I dunno if there's a way to do this. I would write to the apple comunity forums and see what they say and post back here with any findings. Good luck. On Mar 24, 2012, at 11:24 AM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Greetings, Earlier this week I learned two valuable lessons. Specifically, my guide dog needs to practice providing sufficient clearance for drop-offs. Consequently, being submerged in a pool is not conducive to the optimum functionality of an iPhone 4S. Actually, the latter was insightful, but now I have the personal experience to prove it. I removed my phone from the otterbox defender and sucked water out of the headphone, speaker, and microphone openings. The case protected the power button, USB connector, and volume buttons and switch on the left side, so it could have been a lot worse. The phone was mostly working, but I decided to turn it off and pack it in rice for 24 hours anyway. It appeared that my phone survived its little swim unscathed until I attempted to use the LookTell money reader app and nothing happened regardless of the lighting or bill placed in front of it. I then tried light detector and discovered that no sound was emitted. I then launched the camera app and it crashed when I attempted to take a picture or toggle to the front-facing camera. I actually had not thought to provide suction on the camera aperture area at the time. I packed it in rice again last night, to no avail. I can still make face-time calls, hence only one camera is certifiably FUBAR. My thought was that if I could change the default camera it might still be possible to use apps that depend on that hardware and put off having to use one of my two allowed damage replacements under Applecare. I explored settings, and Google, but have not discovered a way to do this other than within the camera app itself which does not appear to be an option. I thought I'd ask here if anyone can offer a suggestion before I suck it up and visit the Apple store. TIA and best regards. Geoff --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/ --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
Re: Changing default camera to front-facing?
Serious bummer, Geoff. I wonder if one of Apple's i-Device configuration utilities would let you tweak this. I haven't put my hands on them, but I know Apple has a free utility called Apple Configurator in the Mac App store. I think it's designed to allow corporate IT shops to configure and manage fleets of IOS devices, and it supposedly provides the ability to touch some settings that aren't normally available through the standard IOS interface. Googling that tool also returned an iPhone-specific configuration utility from Apple. I don't know much about either of these tools or if they're VO friendly, but thought I'd mention them. Also, I haven't spent any time exploring the trove of utilities for jailbroken devices, but maybe the JB community has something available. Good luck, Bryan On Mar 24, 2012, at 2:24 PM, Geoff Waaler wrote: Earlier this week I learned two valuable lessons. Specifically, my guide dog needs to practice providing sufficient clearance for drop-offs. Consequently, being submerged in a pool is not conducive to the optimum functionality of an iPhone 4S. Actually, the latter was --- Mac Access At Mac Access Dot Net --- To reply to this post, please address your message to mac-access@mac-access.net You can find an archive of all messages postedto the Mac-Access forum at either the list's own dedicated web archive: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/pipermail/mac-access/index.html or at the public Mail Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/. Subscribe to the list's RSS feed from: http://www.mail-archive.com/mac-access@mac-access.net/maillist.xml The Mac-Access mailing list is guaranteed malware, spyware, Trojan, virus and worm-free! Please remember to update your membership options periodically by visiting the list website at: http://mail.tft-bbs.co.uk/mailman/listinfo/mac-access/options/
