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Re: Cleaning out iPhone ports
On Jul 19, 2023, at 12:43, Ben Rosenthal <ben@...> wrote:
I have not used that gunk. My recommendation for cleaning iPhone ports is PurePort (). The company also makes AirSquares, which are good for removing earwax and such from earbuds.
Thanks, Ben. ?Let’s see what other ideas folks suggest.
I think the key to PurePort may be the liquid they place on the end of the tool. ?It looks like the lint, etc., stick to it when withdrawn.
Bob
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“They say the Lord?answers all our?prayers, it’s just that?sometimes he?answers no.”
- Amor Towles
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Re: Cleaning out iPhone ports
I have not used that gunk. My recommendation for cleaning iPhone ports is PurePort (). The company also makes AirSquares, which are good for removing earwax and such from earbuds.
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On Jul 19, 2023, at 09:37, Bob Gerard <rowerbob@...> wrote:
? I bought this?Wireless Digital Microscope Handheld USB HD Inspection Camera 50x-1000x Magnification with Stand Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy, Android, Mac, Windows Computer…
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…to check the finished edged produced by different stones when I sharpen knives (another service I provide to members of the aging-in-place community where I volunteer).
Showing it to the daughter and granddaughter who are here on a visit, they got the bright idea to look into the charging and speaker ports of our iPhones. ?OMG! ?They were full of what I presume to be pocket lint.
We were able to clean out the charging port with a pointed wooden toothpick, a tiny brush, and compressed air.
It turned out to be impossible to clean out the speaker ports: ?they are just too tiny.
However - reason for this email - I remember seeing something like a special-purpose “putty” which you could gently push into those ports and when you pulled it back out, out came all the gunk;
Have any of you ever used this stuff? ?Anyone know what it’s called? ?
I found this…
…but the demos don’t show it being used on anything as tiny as those iPhone speaker phones.
Free advice? ?Maybe you don’t want to inspect your iPhone ports too closely. ??
Bob
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“They say the Lord?answers all our?prayers, it’s just that?sometimes he?answers no.”
- Amor Towles
Cleaning out iPhone ports
I bought this?Wireless Digital Microscope Handheld USB HD Inspection Camera 50x-1000x Magnification with Stand Compatible with iPhone, iPad, Samsung Galaxy, Android, Mac, Windows Computer…
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…to check the finished edged produced by different stones when I sharpen knives (another service I provide to members of the aging-in-place community where I volunteer).
Showing it to the daughter and granddaughter who are here on a visit, they got the bright idea to look into the charging and speaker ports of our iPhones. ?OMG! ?They were full of what I presume to be pocket lint.
We were able to clean out the charging port with a pointed wooden toothpick, a tiny brush, and compressed air.
It turned out to be impossible to clean out the speaker ports: ?they are just too tiny.
However - reason for this email - I remember seeing something like a special-purpose “putty” which you could gently push into those ports and when you pulled it back out, out came all the gunk;
Have any of you ever used this stuff? ?Anyone know what it’s called? ?
I found this…
…but the demos don’t show it being used on anything as tiny as those iPhone speaker phones.
Free advice? ?Maybe you don’t want to inspect your iPhone ports too closely. ??
Bob
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“They say the Lord?answers all our?prayers, it’s just that?sometimes he?answers no.”
- Amor Towles
Re: Another senior with problems.
Question for Randy Singer.
I saved your instructions for a clean install which were dated Jan 4, 2018.
They began:
I HIGHLY recommend a clean install and not an install-in-place. Here are instructions: This is different than what most of the articles on the Web suggest doing. It requires that you have a clone external backup of your internal hard drive. But you should probably have one of those in any case. (I can explain why in detail, if you like.)
My pal having the problem has a?MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), a TM backup but no clone.
Do your requirements that he have an external clone in order to follow those instructions still apply?
Many thanks.
Bob
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“They say the Lord?answers all our?prayers, it’s just that?sometimes he?answers no.”
- Amor Towles
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Re: Another senior with problems.
On Jul 19, 2023, at 08:56, Bob Gerard <Rowerbob@...> wrote:
Later today, when I am at my other computer, I will send the URLs for anyone who may be interested.?
Here are the links to those troubleshooting pages that my pal and I are exploring in an effort to diagnose the problems with his computer :
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Bob
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“They say the Lord?answers all our?prayers, it’s just that?sometimes he?answers no.”
- Amor Towles
Re: Another senior with problems.
On Jul 18, 2023, at 11:41 PM, maclists < maclists@...> wrote:
I don't see any URLs in your post. Just those strange characters with three lines that on first glance look like an equals sign. However there are four attachments with the ".webloc" extension.?
Sometimes I will highlight the URL in the address bar of a browser and drag and drop it to my desktop as a visual “nag” to go back to that site and finish reading something there. I did that with all the URLs to which ?I went seeking solutions to my friend’s problem.
I dragged and dropped those .weloc icons into the bod of the email I posted here but apparently that does not work. ?Later today, when I am at my other computer, I will send the URLs for anyone who may be interested.?
Definitely worthwhile, IMHO, to bookmark them for possible future use.
How did simply typing in a URL get converted from plain text in the mail body to a .webloc attachment? Strangely, your post also has an HTML part, but that just has completely blank lines between "for the record" and "I was considering"
Bob
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“ A man sees in the?world what he?carries in his heart.”
— Goethe,?Faust
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Re: Another senior with problems.
On Jul 19, 2023, at 12:11 AM, David Brostoff < davchbro@...> wrote:
On Jul 18, 2023, at 6:38 PM, Bob Gerard < rowerbob@...> wrote:
He has an SSD, not a HDD.
How full is the drive?
Thank you for those suggestions, David. The SSD is less than half full.
Has he run Disk First Aid?
Yes, but more importantly, he has run DriveDX which gave the SSD a perfectly clean bill of health. Also, is he running any antivirus software?
Absolutely not! ?One of the first things I do when a senior joins my Zoom sessions is convince them to remove any AV software they may be using.
I have asked him to download and run the free version of EtreCheck to see what that returns.
Bob
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“ A man sees in the?world what he?carries in his heart.”
— Goethe,?Faust
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Re: Another senior with problems.
On Jul 18, 2023, at 6:38 PM, Bob Gerard <rowerbob@...> wrote:
He has an SSD, not a HDD.
How full is the drive? Has he run Disk First Aid? Also, is he running any antivirus software? David
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Re: Another senior with problems.
Hello Bob,
I don't see any URLs in your post. Just those strange characters with three lines that on first glance look like an equals sign. However there are four attachments with the ".webloc" extension.
How did simply typing in a URL get converted from plain text in the mail body to a .webloc attachment? Strangely, your post also has an HTML part, but that just has completely blank lines between "for the record" and "I was considering"
AG
Wednesday, July 19, 2023, 3:38:47 AM, Bob Gerard rowerbob@... wrote:
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For the record, an in case anyone would like to save those troubleshooting URLs, here they are: ? ? ? ? I was considering
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Re: Another senior with problems.
To continue with this thread, he was finally able to run Rmember to check his RAM and it passed with flying colors.
So, he is stuck with that most perplexing of all situations: ?his computer is running slow, he has beachballs, and apps jump in the Dock multiple times before launching.
He has an SSD, not a HDD.
He simply does not have the patience to walk through every suggestion on Randy’s and other troubleshooting pages.
For the record, an in case anyone would like to save those troubleshooting URLs, here they are:
I was considering, since he has a TM backup, having erase his SSD, reinstall the most up-to-date macOS his 2013 can handle, and then - here’s my question - what should he migrate from his TM?
Welcome any suggestions, especially easy to accomplish ones.
Bob
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“They say the Lord?answers all our?prayers, it’s just that?sometimes he?answers no.”
- Amor Towles
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Re: Canon MF230 quit scanning
That is an even simpler fix. ?
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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On Jul 18, 2023, at 14:22, Dutch Junge <dutch@...> wrote:
?Figured it out. DOH ! I have the same printer in the basement and somehow it became the default printer/scanner. So it was scanning nothing.
Dutch
On Jul 18, 2023, at 5:01 PM, Dutch Junge <dutch@...> wrote:
All of a sudden my Canon MF230 has quit scanning. It goes thru all the motions and creates a file but the file is blank.
Yes I’ve got the paper to be scanned right side down which is the correct way for it to be scanned.
I’ve looked at support at Canon but can’t find anything to address this issue.
Dutch
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Re: Canon MF230 quit scanning
This may not will solve it, but does the copy feature work? Copy is made of two functions, copy and print. If copy works, then it is a software issue, try reinstalling the driver.
Brent
On my iPhone Xr
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On Jul 18, 2023, at 14:01, Dutch Junge <dutch@...> wrote:
?All of a sudden my Canon MF230 has quit scanning. It goes thru all the motions and creates a file but the file is blank.
Yes I’ve got the paper to be scanned right side down which is the correct way for it to be scanned.
I’ve looked at support at Canon but can’t find anything to address this issue.
Dutch
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Re: Another senior with problems.
Yes, it is good to know that, when working with other than recent hardware.?
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On Jul 18, 2023, at 11:28, Otto Nikolaus via groups.io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:
? From the website " Requirements- Mac OS X v.10.5 or later is required"
Otto
Is it a version that will run with his OS?
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Re: Canon MF230 quit scanning
Figured it out. DOH ! I have the same printer in the basement and somehow it became the default printer/scanner. So it was scanning nothing.
Dutch
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On Jul 18, 2023, at 5:01 PM, Dutch Junge <dutch@...> wrote:
All of a sudden my Canon MF230 has quit scanning. It goes thru all the motions and creates a file but the file is blank.
Yes I’ve got the paper to be scanned right side down which is the correct way for it to be scanned.
I’ve looked at support at Canon but can’t find anything to address this issue.
Dutch
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Canon MF230 quit scanning
All of a sudden my Canon MF230 has quit scanning. It goes thru all the motions and creates a file but the file is blank.
Yes I’ve got the paper to be scanned right side down which is the correct way for it to be scanned.
I’ve looked at support at Canon but can’t find anything to address this issue.
Dutch
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Re: Another senior with problems.
Mine is a mid-2012, the last one before the first Retina, also 2012. The battery in mine is easy to replace; I don’t know about the Retina.
I’ve just done a Retina Early 2015 13” MacBook Pro battery.
It’s glued into the case, so getting it out is not so easy, but not so difficult. OWC - ?- sell a kit that includes glue dissovling liquid, the necessary 2 screwdrivers, gloves and a new battery for $84 for my computer. Took me about an hour to replace it.
Here’s the page for my Early 2015 Retina MacBook Pro, and included there is a link to the instructions.
Roger
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Re: Another senior with problems.
Yes, I should’ve said that too.
Otto
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On 18 Jul 2023, at 18:50, Brent via groups.io <whodo678@...> wrote:
And resetting the RAM might correct that.
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Re: Another senior with problems.
Is it a version that will run with his OS?
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On Jul 18, 2023, at 03:30, Bob Gerard <rowerbob@...> wrote:
? On this question the thought struck me: ?the battery on this old 2012 MB Pro will no longer hold a charge and he has been running off the mains for some time.
Is it possible that this might be the source of his computer crash, beachballing, and general slowness?
He is going to run the RAM test this morning.
Wouldn’t you know it when he tried to open the .dmg file, he reported: ?
Got Rember.dmg but couldn’t open it — Apple could not verify dmg was free of malware. ?What to do? I sent him this:
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Bob
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“They say the Lord?answers all our?prayers, it’s just that?sometimes he?answers no.”
- Amor Towles
Re: Another senior with problems.
And resetting the RAM might correct that.?
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On Jul 17, 2023, at 14:21, Otto Nikolaus via groups.io <otto.nikolaus@...> wrote:
A wild guess: faulty RAM??
See if you can run Rember or memtest to check it. Worth eliminating in any case. <>
Otto
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