{"id":51,"date":"2009-09-11T16:29:08","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T21:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=51"},"modified":"2009-09-12T10:52:52","modified_gmt":"2009-09-12T15:52:52","slug":"dont-brick-my-iphone-i-must-just-throw-it-at-you-microsoft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/?p=51","title":{"rendered":"Don’t brick my iPhone: I might just throw it at you"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wow !\u00a0 The mysterious and annoying RDC problem on my laptop took a dangerous turn yesterday.\u00a0 The problem has to do with the power setting properties sometimes mutating, when I bring my Windows XP Media Center laptop out of hibernation, and connect to it via RDC.\u00a0 The original problem is described in this post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Apple released the new 3.1 O\/S for the iPhone.\u00a0 Having a very busy week, I decided to start downloading the software and the firmware installation after I was setup at work.\u00a0 I was not going to stay up for the buzz of the new Apple release.\u00a0 So I setup everything in the morning, and I was able to launch the whole process via RDC on the laptop, switch back to my “work”-station, and be productive while the upgrade process ran automagically.<\/p>\n

After 15-minutes, I got up to take a break and, while on it, had this sudden feeling of dread come over me.\u00a0 I had not verified that the standby and hibernation timeouts were still set to “never” after I connected via RDC.\u00a0 So I hurried back to my desk and checked.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, the settings had mutated to 20 minute standby, and 30 minute hibernation for external power.\u00a0 D*!@mn 1t\u00a0 !!\u00a0 As I discovered this, the iPhone was displaying the Apple logo, with a progress bar under it just starting to fill.\u00a0 I obviously came back in time.\u00a0 Had the laptop gone into standby and hibernation, it would have screwed the firmware load, and I would have been on the phone with Apple support (at a minimum) to get this fixed.<\/p>\n

I still have seen no information on this problem with mutating standby and hibernation settings, and I got a very ugly taste of what damage it can potentially do.\u00a0 Microsoft… find this and fix this !!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow !\u00a0 The mysterious and annoying RDC problem on my laptop took a dangerous turn yesterday.\u00a0 The problem has to do with the power setting properties sometimes mutating, when I bring my Windows XP Media Center laptop out of hibernation, and connect to it via RDC.\u00a0 The original problem is described in this post. Apple […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technologynetworking","category-technologythoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bitsofgenius.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}