Yesterday was a real disappointment for me because as you can see from my previous post my iPhone totally crapped out on me when I synced it up to iTunes. It was stuck in “Recovery Mode” which locks up the iPhone making it completely useless. I read a lot of discussion boards about this problem and apparently many people have encountered this, not many mentioned any solutions, and some of the solutions didn’t even work for me and others. I even uninstalled iTunes and Quicktime from my laptop, although there are so many residue files that remain hidden even Registry Mechanic and CCleaner doesn’t find them. If I really wanted to I could have uninstalled it completely by going into the registry and deleting the entries manually, no thanks!

Around 3am this morning I decided to quick and came to accepting that I was going to return the iPhone today and just get a Blackberry Curve. I love my Blackberry Pearl, I still think its the best hand held ever. When Stephen woke up he suggested that I sync it up to his iTunes to see if it recovers, if not then it was definitely going back to T-Mobile. My husband is a savior his plan worked, his iTunes restored my iPhone and got it working. I like the iPhone but the problems I had with it will stick for a while, I never had any problems with the Blackberry so the iPhone has a lot to live up to.

Connecting to Wi-Fi was another issue. It found numerous Wi-Fi connections but when I tried to connect it to ours it wouldn’t join the network. I know I was entering the passwords correctly. At this point I was too frustrated to figure things out on my own again so I searched for discussion boards with the same problem. What do you know, many others had the same problem. One suggested changing the WPA settings from WPA2, on the modem. And even though the iPhone lists the network you still have to connect to it by setting it up manually by choosing “Other.” I looked at the modem’s settings and it was already on WPA2. I still added our network manually and instead of entering the password I had to enter the Pre-shared key (PSK).

So far I’m not very impressed with the iPhone, but I’m hoping that will change. Now that I am able to play with it and install new applications like WordPress. We’ll see how it holds up during my trip to the Philippines, I expect the WI-Fi to work there. We’ll see.