{"id":3941,"date":"2013-05-30T09:43:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-30T16:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2013-05-30T09:43:29","modified_gmt":"2013-05-30T16:43:29","slug":"before-i-set-everything-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/30\/before-i-set-everything-on-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"before i set everything on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Minions! I&#8217;ve asked this at apple.com&#8217;s support fora, but I don&#8217;t expect an answer. Perhaps I should have them liquidated. Anyway, maybe you&#8217;ll know!<\/p>\n<p>iCal has stopped synching calendars correctly with my iPhone 3GS. This makes my phone <em>fucking useless<\/em>. Okay, not useless, because IM still works, but a whole hell of a lot less useful.<\/p>\n<p>I am syncing via iTunes, not via the cloud; I have the latest patches for Mountain Lion; I cannot upgrade the machine&#8217;s OS, because I need Rosetta. The iPhone is running the latest version of iOS Apple has pushed, but this began a couple of patches ago &#8211; I was holding off on the latest because of Reasons, and upgraded hoping the upgrade would fix it. It didn&#8217;t. I also have the latest version of iTunes for Mountain Lion.<\/p>\n<p>Symptoms:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No appointments made on the phone, in any calendar, make it into iCal. (I have five calendars that used to sync; all stopped at once.)\n<li>Old appointments made in iCal before this started happening still sync correctly from iCal to the phone.\n<li>New appointments made in iCal sometimes make it onto the phone, and sometimes do not. I haven&#8217;t been able to detect a pattern.\n<li>When new appointments made iCal do make it onto the phone, they are correct, except that there is always a second ghost appointment also created, only on the phone, called &#8220;New Event.&#8221; It will have the same time and date information as the actual appointment, and be listed as the correct calendar, but will contain none of the associated appointment data.<\/ul>\n<p><center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/solarbird.net\/Livejournal\/2013-05\/bogus-new-event.png\"><br \/><i>When an appointment does sync from iCal,<br \/>it looks like this.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I have tried:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upgrading phone to latest iOS version\n<li>Desyncing all calendars from phone, then resynching them.\n<li>Telling iTunes to overwrite all calendar data on sync. (I know this actually happened, because appointments I&#8217;d made on the phone which had not synched disappeared after overwrite was initiated.)\n<li>Resetting phone to factory and reapplying everything from scratch. (This was the most recent action, two weeks ago, was a huge pain.)<\/ul>\n<p>None of these resulted in any change in observed behaviour.<\/p>\n<p>What is new in the last few days is that until now, all iCal appointments had been making it to the phone, so as long as I made the appointments in iCal first, I could at least know of them while in the field. Alas, that is no longer the case.<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas? Because honestly, there is damned little more important when trying to invert the Earth&#8217;s Van Allan belt than calendars that <em>actually fucking work<\/em>. Well, okay, you need the reactor to power the kilotesla magnetic field generators. But <em>other than that<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey, Minions! I&#8217;ve asked this at apple.com&#8217;s support fora, but I don&#8217;t expect an answer. Perhaps I should have them liquidated. Anyway, maybe you&#8217;ll know! iCal has stopped synching calendars correctly with my iPhone 3GS. This makes my phone fucking useless. Okay, not useless, because IM still works, but a whole hell of a lot [&#038;hellip<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-touring-equipment-diy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crimeandtheforcesofevil.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}