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iPhone 4 Dock Disconnecting and Podcasts app on iOS 7.1.2

Down the rabbit hole again trying to revive an old iPhone 4 to pull Podcast duty for the kids. Problem: The charging cable and dock on my Logitech S715i speaker keeps disconnecting. Wiggling the phone around seems to help but it won’t stay charging. Solution: Clean out the charging port. Years of old sticky pocket […]

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Capture iPhone network traffic with tcpdump and WireShark

1. Jailbreak iPhone2. Install tcpdump from Cydia (manpage)3. Install OpenSSH from Cydia4. Install WireShark on your local machine (wireshark docs)5. Connect iPhone to same network as local6. WireShark -> SSH Remote Capture7. Remote address: IP of your iPhone8. Remote port: 229. Username: root10. Password: alpine11. Remote Interface: <make this blank>12. Remote Capture Command: 13. Remote […]

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Increase Windows Phone 10 Swap File Size on Lumia 640

For the past few months my Lumia 640 (running WP10) has had a bunch of issues that made it tough to use as my daily driver. Increasing available swap file size to 768mb has fixed the worst of these issues. Issues Fixed General share screen failures (attaching photos to MMS was my big one, sharing […]

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Quickbooks 2014 and Windows 10

Not sure when it started (some Windows update after 1709?), but Windows 10 broke this old version of Quickbooks. I started getting the following error when launching QB: “You do not have sufficient permissions to delete files in the specified Folder. To use QuickBooks in multi-user environment, you must have read/write access and create/delete rights […]

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[FIXED] iOS7 Connect to iTunes to use Push Notifications

After finally updating my iPhone 4 to IOS7 (7.0.4), I noticed I began to get an error message when opening certain apps: Connect to iTunes to use Push Notifications.  “App Name” notifications may include alerts, sounds and icon badges. I tried a bunch of things to fix it: Connecting to iTunes (duh) and syncing Logging […]