Many people will be receiving gifts this holiday season as family and friends come together to celebrate all of life’s simple pleasures. But after presents have been unwrapped, holiday ham devoured, and eggnog downed at a feverish pace (don’t drink it all at once!), the grim reality of the holiday season eventually sets in– a lot of products have problems.
That new camera you received from grandma? Faulty lens. That Roku device you gave your kids? Can’t log in. And what about that iPhone 4s you purchased for dear ol’ dad? Low battery life. Problems and problems as far as the eye can see.
Luckily for you, FixYa always has the solution.
Below you will find a list of some of this season’s hottest holiday gifts. But most importantly, you will find the solutions to the biggest problems that these devices are experiencing.
iPhone (All Versions): Battery Life Problem
Apple’s iPhone introduced the world to a new and improved smart phone, but battery life has begun to pay the price. Many owners continue to have issues even after the 5.0.1 OS update for the 4s was released. As two Fixya Experts point out however, the iPhone’s battery life can be drastically improved with just a few easy steps.
By going into settings and turning off location tracking, disabling data fetch/notifications, reducing screen brightness, turning Bluetooth off, and employing over 20 other quick and simple fixes you will see your iPhone battery life increase in no time. The full record of tips and tricks can be found here. Give it a read and make sure your iPhone’s battery lasts as long as it was intended to.
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Since the release of the iPhone 4S and iOS 5, complaints about battery life have been spreading like wildfire in Apple’s own forums and across the web. Apple has finally acknowledged the problem and says that software bugs in iOS 5 are to blame.
Now that the problem has been narrowed down to the operating system, Apple has finally come forward with the news that a software update will be coming in a few weeks to address these issues.
This is great news for folks that have been experiencing battery life issues after upgrading to iOS 5.
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BlackBerry is facing fallout from their biggest outage in years. The trouble started Monday in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and Africa, with RIM citing the failure of a crucial link in their infrastructure, as well as the failure of an attempted backup. As of today, the outage has spread to North America, without explanation from RIM.
This just adds to the challenges being faced by the company. iPhones and Android-based phones are cutting into RIM’s share of the US market and RIM’s US revenue dropped 50% last quarter. If RIM can’t deliver on reliability they face losing even more of their market share to competitors.
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If you thought not being able to play Portal 2 with your friends online was bad, things have just gotten a lot worse.
According to the Sony PlayStation blog, “certain PlayStation Network and Qriocity service user account information was compromised in connection with an illegal and unauthorized intrusion”.
Speaking plainly, hackers have likely obtained personal details for all users registered on PSN, including “name, address (city, state, zip), country, email address, birthdate, PlayStation Network/Qriocity password and login, and handle/PSN online ID.” Sony also states that it “cannot rule out the possibility” that credit card data may have also been captured.
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FixYa is receiving a major influx of questions from distraught gamers. The source of their angst? The Playstation Network is down, and may be offline for as long as the next couple of days. Those two days may seem like an eternity to gamers who are clamoring for answers as to how this happened.
Almost immediately, there was speculation that this was due to the network being hacked by activist group Anonymous, who has been protesting Playstation and had threatened that larger attacks were yet to come. However, according to their posts on Operation Sony’s Facebook page, Anonymous was not responsible for the current outage.
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