Rich`s Other Blog

Tonight, I decided to restore my (jailbroken) iPhone.  A few of the bits and bobs I`d installed were slowing the phone down to the point of it being annoying.  I`d fairly recently encrypted the backups iTunes insists on taking everytime you plug the phone in, and … well, I forgot the sodding password.  Or so I thought.

So for the last 3 hours, I sat and worked with my “password generator” (i.e. brain) thinking through the various combinations of stuff I use to come up with passwords, and tried every combination possible.  Each time, I was told that the password was wrong.  I must have gone through variations of 40-50 passwords and nothing worked.  Incorrect password.  Does not compute.  Negatory.  Zero zero zero one one one zero.

I shut down iTunes after a while.. plonked about on other stuff, then thought I`d have another bash.  And suddenly the phone`s restoring itself with no input.

Yes folks.. there is a really nasty bug in there somewhere that means even valid passwords aren`t making it through.  If I haven`t made clear in previous posts, I think iTunes is a bloody awful piece of software.
Christ.

As for this new iPad Apple have released… I can`t help think they`ve missed a trick there by sticking the iPhone / iPod Touch OS on there.  Roll on the new devices from Acer and so on – I won`t mention Asus as my personal experience of their hardware has been absolutely shocking.  A bit of competition and maybe Apple will stop locking the hell out of their devices.  Even Microsoft dropped the idea of limiting the number of simultaneous applications running from their cutdown versions of Windows.