I guess I must have let the battery on the iPhone completely discharge, as I found it motionless and unresponsive last night on my desk. Plugged it in, still nothing — won’t start up. Left it charging overnight, still no luck. Followed the reset procedure:
- Hold down power and home buttons together until the Apple logo appears
And it came back to life. The battery was empty, plugged in, now it’s charging. It’s a relief, weird behavior, though, I think. I’ve let the battery on the other phones I’ve had over the years (Nokia, BlackBerry, Sony, Siemens, etc, etc) drain completely lots of times. Plugging in the charger always just let me start them up again with no issues.
This is a (long overdue) follow up on my ancient post on how to setup a Nokia E62 as a bluetooth modem on a Windows laptop. It’s been a couple of years now since I’ve purged the Winblows partition from my Dell Inspiron 1501 and it’s been happily running Ubuntu using the E62 to get to the Internets. Just got a Dell Mini 10 for work, so might as well post the steps while they’re still fresh in memory (my RAM gets regularly purged, as it turns out).
This had been working without any problems for months, but this afternoon got an error while trying to connect to the Internet using my Nokia E62 as a Bluetooth modem on a Dell Inspiron E1505 running Ubuntu 8.10. Attempting to establish a dial up connection returned a rude error.
Laptops are a great productivity tool, but without an Internet connection, they’re a great deal less useful. This little article is about accessing the Internet from practically anywhere (well, anywhere you get a cellular signal, which is practically anywhere these days) through your cell phone on your Windows laptop (Linux how-to coming soon)…