Genius playlist not appearing

Since the 5.0.1 iOS release, the Genius playlist function has disappeared from some iPhone owners iPhones. It is suspected that is is related to iTunes Match, however iTunes Match has not been turned on, on the device that is experiencing difficulties. The Genius playlist was available before the 5.0.1 software upgrade.

One chap thinks he has found a work around...

1) Select a song to play in Music (must be a song downloaded to the iPhone, not streamed)
2) Once it starts, close Music (home button)
3) Kill Music (app launcher)
4) Restart Music (will open to the song you had playing before)
5) Atomic symbol re-appears...

Another fix someone found whilst navigating the Apple Support communities is to turn off Match on the iPhone...

Also note;

- Apple does officially state this in the iTunes Help: "Note: If you subscribe to iTunes Match, Genius is turned off"
- Another user said; "I'm seeing the same thing. When I disabled Match on my phone this morning, the Genius functionality came back. Re-enabled Match, Genius disappeared. What a bummer."

So the Apple engineers are on the bug, Genius does not work if using iTunes Match and there are some potential workarounds, I do hope that helps. I'd love to hear if you're experienced something similar or found a workaround.

Location:Southend

Upgrading from iPhone 4 to 4S

Upgrading from iPhone 4 to 4S? There's a few questions you may have that Google and the Apple support site don't seem to answer. Here is a break down of the steps you may follow in order to do the upgrade;

1) Upgrade to the latest iTunes on your Mac or PC, it's a good idea to have the latest iTunes software to work with.

2) Do a full backup of the iPhone in iTunes, by connecting the phone using the appropriate cable and right clicking the iPhone icon, and clicking "backup now". Alternatively do an iCloud backup (I have not tested that approach).

3) Swap over the SIM from your 4 to your 4S before setting up the new phone. It's important to do this step first as the new phone won't be setup-able unless you complete this step upfront.

4) Once you connect your new 4S to iTunes you will be given the choice to restore from the backup you just did, go ahead and proceed! This is the right way and is the next stage to the procedure. Here we have to remain calm and patient. The onscreen prompts on iTunes and the iPhone indicate the progress. I found the first stage took no more than about 20 minutes to 1/2 hour.

5) Once rebooted and complete it will appear in iTunes once more and now be without all your apps, media and music. To sort this out you will want to kick off a sync if one hasn't already begun.

6) It's the next phase now, and one which can be left alone for an hour and a half or so, in order for all your content to be copied over. There is no user interaction required so why not take the opportunity to spend some time with your love ones?

TIP) Whilst syncing these days, a little circular arrowy rotating icon appears in the status bar, as the sync progresses in the background. That's right you can use your phone whilst the sync proceeds! Avoid disappointment of missing content and waiting for this to finish is advisable in my opinion.

7) Once the sync is complete, all is awesome, you are ready to go... Almost. Wifi and Twitter passwords will need to be re-entered. So will other logins for other apps, so bare with this, once over this final hurdle you are all set, welldone! Have a celebratory cup if tea.

One more thing) Where is Siri? Don't worry, go into your settings and you can activate your handy assistant with a few touches of the screen. DONE!

Enjoy your 4S you lucky so and so!

Location:UK

What's going on with the X Factor

What a strange week, after sillily booting off 2 contestants last week, they had to chuck out Frankie, mid-week, for drug taking... Thus leaving them with only 6 contestants with 7 weeks to go.

Okay I have 2 issues; firstly on Saturday they tried to cover up the Frankie thing, and say he decided to leave the competition... My second issue is that on voting Amelia back in, she was then immediately up for the public vote. I thought this was unfair, she should have a free week. It would have been embarrassing if she'd been back for only 1 night... Anyway she's staying in thankfully.

And what was the power cut technical difficulties about last night, and why did they not put up a message saying that. And who new the BT Tower had so much control over itv's live TV output. Publicity stunt?

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Post from Facebook, Twitter and Google+ simultaneously

Brilliant, I just got iStatus+ which allows you to post your status from Facebook, Twitter and Google+ simultaneously on your iOS device, and it works really well!


Download it now from the Appstore;
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/istatus-for-g-fb-and-twitter/id462309198?mt=8&ls=1

Enjoy!

All you can eat breakfast

This morning I had an all you can eat breakfast at Toby Carvery in Basildon's Festival Leisure Park. I'll give it 7 / 10. The restaurant is lovely and so are the staff - so there is good service. However the availability of the food, quality of the food and value for money weren't as good as I would have hoped.

When I went up they had nearly run out of plates. And a number of the things they had run out of or were running low on e.g. no fried eggs, tomatoes, running low on bacon and potato. But I guess I came at the wrong time, and they did quickly replenish most of the items.

The bacon was nice, but I would have preferred it to be less fatty and more crispy. The sausage was okay, fried egg was good, and so was the potato, hash brown, and beans and black pudding. However the scrambled egg was horrible. Overall the breakfast wasn't quite as nice as I would have liked it. For example the bacon and the fried eggs were very fatty. There doesn't appear to be a help yourself continental breakfast / cereal -  I would have loved some granola and yoghurt.

Then the value - I asked for both coffee and orange, thinking it would be inclusive in the price for the breakfast - well it wasn't. So above the basic price of the breakfast it ended up being quite expensive.

However the food is okay, some of it very nice. But with the really nice surroundings and service I think it would be a nice venue to take a group of mates for a cooked breakfast. I intend to eat there again. It isn't as good as the Grand Lux in the Venetian in Vegas though :-(

Tips on jetlag

Vegas is 7 hours behind us the UK during the summer... On getting to Vegas, we stayed awake until 18.00 when we went to bed. Which is 1.00am back home.

It seemed like a good idea, but I then woke up at 21.30 and every two hours afterwards until 3.30am when none of us could get back to sleep. So we had to wake up, and then stayed awake until 3.30am the next morning.

So mistake one was to go to bed at 18.00.... I think I should have stayed awake until 22.00 or later - 5.00am back home. Then I would have slept more appropriately....

Then for the next 4 days I stayed awake in the day and wasn't getting much sleep at night, then on Wednesday I crashed and ended up nappimg early evening, and then going to bed at 22.00 for 12 hours.

Tip 2 is to have an hours kip in the afternoon everday - which I did after Wednesday and I felt much better.

In coming back I changed my clock to UK time when I boarded the plane, so suddenly it was 1.00am, then I tried to sleep, and I slept on and off for the next 6-10 hours. So when I got to UK I stayed up for the rest of the day and got an early night.

Unfortunately I was at work the next day and had to be up at 7.00am. Tip 3 would be to have the day off after returning home, in order to get enough sleep for the rest of the week - as I couldn't wake up the rest of the week, after lying in the following weekend my sleeping patterns are back to normal, phew.


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