A little while back I had an issue when trying to sync my iPhone with my mac. Any calendar entries made inside iCal would sync across fine to the iPhone, but when done the other way the new entries wouldn’t appear in iCal.

I went through various solutions last time and the only way to make it work again was to reset the iPhone and re-sync everything. This morning I had the exact same problem and didn’t particularly fancy having to reset my phone again and go through the rigours of setting it up how I liked it again.

I came across many posts detailing different fixes but none of them seemed to work for me. I tried resetting the sync history using the button in iSync preferences, but a restart later and I still had the problem. Looking at the Apple support document for resetting the SyncServices folder showed another way to reset the information. Open terminal, copy and paste and then hit enter:

/System/Library/Frameworks/SyncServices.framework/Versions/A/Resources/resetsync.pl full

When re-opening iTunes and the iPhone plugged in you’ll initially see no calendars, no email accounts and no address book groups. Select the options you want to sync again then click sync and that information should re-appear.

I have no idea why the calendars stopped syncing correctly, but I did notice that some old calendars that have been deleted still showed under the sync list. They weren’t being synced, but could have been a contributor to the problems I’ve had.

I’ve found a massive flaw with the iPhone. It doesn’t sync email certificates held in the Mac OS X keychain to the iPhone.

Whilst this isn’t initially a problem if you just use it to sign emails as being from you, it poses a problem if someone else also uses an email certificate enabling you to encrypt emails.
The email ends up encrypted and the iPhone has no way to decrypt it because it doesn’t possess any of the certificates that Mail does. I’ve filed an enhancement request with Apple, let’s hope someone picks up on it.

I had to restore my iPhone the other day and it’s relearning how i write and spell things. It managed to write the following by mistake.

That is a very bad mistake to make!

I like my iPhone, but I don’t think I’d jump on to train tracks to retrieve it!

Rezvani, a tourist visiting NYC, apparently dropped his iPhone onto the tracks while snapping some pictures. Rezvani leapt onto the rails and retrieved his iPhone. He somehow managed to get back up onto the subway platform before either he or his iPhone were crushed.

As much as I like my iPhone, there are some things about it that annoy me. Here’s what I can come up with so far.

1. I can’t send a group text message. Annoying when trying to arrange things with multiple people at once.
2. I have to email pictures, I can’t MMS them to anyone. Slightly irritating as a lot of people don’t have email on their phones.
3. After receiving a call, I’m transferred to the Phone menu with a list of my contacts. Why that’s Apple?! I was writing a text message, why can’t you put me back on that screen?
4. When in the Mail screen viewing an email, it’s not possible to turn the iPhone and get a landscape view of the email (good for long sentences, etc)
5. Why when docked does the phone still vibrate?
6. It’s not particularly easy to sync photos OFF the phone.
7. I love the dashboard, but not everyone is a stock market wizard. Let me move things around and take icons out.
8. When EDGE data is not present the internet/email is slow. Very very slow.

Feel free to add your own in the comments.