Re: iPhone Problems - Unresponsive Screen During and Immediately After Calls

[James Devenish]

Hi,

Presumably "proximity sensor" refers to the phone's ability to detect
the difference between when it (the touch screen) is pressed against
your ear versus when you have finished.

James.

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Re: iPhone Problems - Unresponsive Screen During and Immediately After Calls

[Rob Findlay]

When mine gets really hot after a long call the screen becomes  
unresponsive i.e I can't answer calls or unlock the screen. Really  
really annoying!


On 27/02/2009, at 6:12 AM, Adam Lippiatt wrote:


Hi all

Just wondering if anyone has experienced their iPhone screen locking  
up (staying black) during or immediately after calls?  As you can  
imagine, it can be quite frustrating.  Software has been restored  
after a return to the provider (guy I dropped it off to said 'ah,  
the "proximity sensor" has failed' - service people could not  
replicate the problem, also noting 'what is this proximity sensor  
customer is talking about').  I will take it back again today, but I  
was just wondering if anyone else had come across this problem  
(googled, seen reports of some screen problems, but this is a bit  
different as far as I can tell).


Thanks

Adam


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Re: iPhone Problems - Unresponsive Screen During and Immediately After Calls

[Peter Hinchliffe]

On 27/02/2009, at 6:12 AM, Adam Lippiatt wrote:


Hi all

Just wondering if anyone has experienced their iPhone screen locking  
up (staying black) during or immediately after calls?  As you can  
imagine, it can be quite frustrating.  Software has been restored  
after a return to the provider (guy I dropped it off to said 'ah,  
the "proximity sensor" has failed' - service people could not  
replicate the problem, also noting 'what is this proximity sensor  
customer is talking about').  I will take it back again today, but I  
was just wondering if anyone else had come across this problem  
(googled, seen reports of some screen problems, but this is a bit  
different as far as I can tell).


Thanks

Adam



This has happened a couple if times, but not to any degree that has  
caused major problems. The first time I fixed it with a simple Reset.  
The other times have just fixed themselves in a few minutes.


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iPhone Problems - Unresponsive Screen During and Immediately After Calls

[Adam Lippiatt]

Hi all

Just wondering if anyone has experienced their iPhone screen locking  
up (staying black) during or immediately after calls?  As you can  
imagine, it can be quite frustrating.  Software has been restored  
after a return to the provider (guy I dropped it off to said 'ah, the  
"proximity sensor" has failed' - service people could not replicate  
the problem, also noting 'what is this proximity sensor customer is  
talking about').  I will take it back again today, but I was just  
wondering if anyone else had come across this problem (googled, seen  
reports of some screen problems, but this is a bit different as far as  
I can tell).


Thanks

Adam


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adam.lippi...@optusnet.com.au
0402 301 706





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Re: Webcam wanted

[Martin Hill]

Bob, the Logitech website says the more expensive Quickcam Vision Pro  
for Mac is compatible with 800Mhz G4 Macs and above. I haven't used  
this model of Quickcam so can't comment.


However, Last night I tried one of our cheaper Quickcam Pro 9000  
webcams on an 800Mhz lampshade G4 iMac with 768mbs of RAM as well as  
on a 700Mhz G4 iMac (both running OS X 10.4.11) and the video showed  
up fine in iChat albeit only at a low frame rate. When I did a test  
recording using the 320x240 LAN default setting in Quicktime  
Broadcaster it only managed to capture at 5 frames per second.  Not  
reall surprising considering that iMac only has USB v1.1 and a slow  
CPU and it is trying to capture a pretty high rez source and compress  
it on the fly with H.264.


I also tried the Pro 9000 on a 1.25Ghz G4 PowerBook with 1GB of RAM  
(which I'm pretty sure has USB 2.0 ports) running 10.5.5 and it worked  
ok in iChat though it again had a fairly low frame rate.  All the  
other Macs I've successfully run the webcams on definitely have USB  
v2.0 ports.  My MacBook Pro gets great frame rates out of the webcam  
as do the 10 Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Minis we run QuickCam Pro 9000  
webcams on for lecture capture.


Now I've read many sources that indicate the more expensive "Mac-only"  
Quickcam Vision Pro for Mac is exactly the same hardware as the "PC- 
only" Quickcam Pro 9000 differing only in colour of the plastic and  
the LED light and the fact that the latter ships with PC software  
while the Vision Pro for Mac ships with no software at all.


Make of this what you will, but if you only have USB v1 on your older  
Mac your frame rates will probably suffer with any higher resolution  
webcam like the Pro. Has anyone had a different experience?


-Mart

Sent from my iPhone

On 24/02/2009, at 10:57 PM, Robert Howells   
wrote:




On 24/02/2009, at 8:33 PM, Martin Hill wrote:

If you get a UVC (USB Video Class) compliant webcam then it will  
work with most Mac software including  iChat post OS X v10.4.9  
without needing extra drivers installed.


We use Logitech Quickcam Pro 9000 webcams on our Macs and PCs at  
Curtin as they have far better low light capability and far higher  
resolution than any other webcam I've tried. (I have bought 40 for  
use at Curtin so far with more on the way).


It can capture full motion video at up to 970x720 resolution (the  
external Apple iSight webcam is only 640x480) and native 2  
megapixel stills as well.  The lens is auto focusing Carl Zeiss  
glass optics.


The built-in microphone is also amazingly good so much so that we  
are using them mounted on lecterns in smaller classrooms to record  
the audio and talking head video for lectures.   The mic  
automatically appears as a USB audio source when plugged into a Mac  
or PC.


There is a Mac version of this webcam but the PC version works just  
as well on a Mac and costs less.



Martin

Does that apply to PPC as well as Intel Macs ?

Thanks

Bob







We've bought them for around $100.

-Mart

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On 22/02/2009, at 6:11 PM, John Daniels   
wrote:



Hi all
I'm in need of a camera for my table lamp iMac at an affordable  
price.
I see in MacWorld magazine a "aGent V4 webcam" advertised for  
$84.95.
Does anyone have any experience of this webcam or have an isight  
for sale?

Cheers
John


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