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iPhone users report Voice Memo, Photos database problems
A number of iPhone users are reporting problems with the playback and syncing of Voice Memo files, as well as the access and syncing of photos taken with the iPhone’s camera. In an Apple support discussions thread, several users claim to have made recordings which are visible on the device, but are unable to be played back—while the play icon changes to a pause button, indicating the file is being played back, the slider never moves, nor does any sound come out. In some cases users were able to sync their phones and retrieve the message(s), but in others the sync removed the files from the phone entirely. Interestingly, an iLounge editor came across a similar problem with the iPhone’s Photos application, in that the phone suddenly acted as if no photos were stored on the device, and would take pictures but claim it was empty. After importing the photos into iPhoto, the app began to have trouble finding specific images, and the import did not help fix the problem on the iPhone. Another bug makes the Camera shutter button unresponsive and unable to take pictures. It is possible that these issues are unrelated, however, it is also possible that a bug in the way iPhone OS 3.0 handles saving files to its media databases may be to blame. [via MacNN]
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I’ve had all sorts of problems with Voice Memos.
Memos are synchronized twice in my iTunes, so I always have to delete the second copy.
That “non-playing” issue has also been present on my phone, although the file appeared correct on iTunes.
And last, I have seen an incredible amount of people complaining about an error 13019 when synchronizing. I was able to track it down to a faulty Voice Note, so I stopped synchronizing them back to the device
Posted by Korpil on July 13, 2009 at 11:36 AM (PDT)
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I tried out the voice memo for a couple of short tests and it worked OK, but a 20 minute recording stalled it out. I can’t email it as it says it is too large and I can’t play it back, I just get the spinning beachball.
I hope they’ll fix the issues as this crippled functionality is not consistent with the other native apps.
Posted by RCB on July 14, 2009 at 12:16 PM (PDT)
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I have a 2:42 voice memo I really want to get onto my Win XP laptop. I can play it fine on the iphone, but it WILL NOT sync via itunes. Any good ideas how to extract it without having to jailbreak the phone ?
Posted by Mark on July 28, 2009 at 11:10 AM (PDT)
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When I first tried voice memo playback it worked. Now there are 10 voice memos stacked up and none will replay.
Posted by Steve Sovern on September 10, 2009 at 8:52 AM (PDT)