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Re: My Experience with Xbox Support

Ben Gillam — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:30:41 -0000

I know, it's crazy but that seems to be the only way, I would recommend kicking up as much of a stink as possible with Xbox support and explain that when you made the account you didn't get the choice in the same way that hotmail didn't give the d.o.b field to start with - you should hopefully get some compensation
Really they need to enable the date to be changed, maybe just have it that telephone support need to make the change and will ask for details of card holder and card itself which a "minor" wouldn't have access to so wouldn't be able to make themselves older.
Still drives me mad that this is actually only to do with ea not being able to collect data from minors, why do ea need the info! Really just allow play and lose the extra info which is purely for statistics and marketing

Re: My Experience with Xbox Support

Chris — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 17:06:34 -0000

A similar thing happened to me. Whilst I am able to queue downloads okay, I'm currently unable to play Battlefield 3 online.

I had an automated response back from EA to say that the account must have an age of 13 or greater and the support I received through XBOX online support basically said the same as in your post - i.e. the age is set in stone and can't be changed.

I first created my account in 2004 on the old XBOX which was later transferred to a 360 in 2005. It seems bizarre to me that I must now lose six years of gaming saves, friends and achievements plus my gamertag I've had for seven years just to play an EA game.

Re: Fix iTunes Always Wanting to Restore or set up as new iPhone / iPod

Dick — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 14:30:03 -0000

Worked like a champ 12/29/11

Re: How to downgrade iTunes 10.5 Beta to 10.3.x

Ben Gillam — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 02:31:28 -0000

Do you get anything in that folder? Might be worth trying a file search for the .itl file.
Sent from my iPad

Re: How to downgrade iTunes 10.5 Beta to 10.3.x

Dolphin64_95 — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 18:18:30 -0000

ok so the .itl doesnt show up on my files? so how do i rename it?

Re: Sony Vaio function keys and Windows 7

Peter — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 05:31:17 -0000

worked perfectly on my sony vaio vgn-c2z/b. Thanks a lot! A couple of my devices were disabled in the device manager i noticed afterwards and i just enabled them again. Whether that was after this specifically i cant say.

Re: Sony Vaio function keys and Windows 7

wecanhelp — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 22:18:53 -0000

Whoa, and then it all starts to tumble into place!
SD card reader found here: http://www.downloadwindowsdriv...
I used the latest driver there against an entry in Device Manager that began SD Host Controller.

Armed with that success I began to look for a driver for the Base System Device that I figured must be the Sony MS controller. The driver that worked was on this page:
http://www.downloadwindowsdriv...
I used the latest driver there 6.03.00.0061.

So now my card reader is working! Hope this helps others.

Regards,

helpcomputing
www.helpcomputing.net

Re: Sony Vaio function keys and Windows 7

helpcomputing — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:33:33 -0000

Sweeeeet! The process worked for my TT21JN. But didn't activate my built-in card reader :-(
The search goes on.
Just thought I'd say that the Sony website for the TT21JN has the DLL (drivers) listed separately. But Windows 7 had most of those down. Still, I downloaded those that seemed like I might need them, like the chipset drivers and the memory card reader drivers and installed them where I could. And followed Ben's order.

And now my front panel works!

Cheers Ben!

Re: Sony Vaio function keys and Windows 7

Ben Gillam — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 15:35:25 -0000

Thanks for the tip hopefully it will come in useful for others :)

Re: Sony Vaio function keys and Windows 7

Zenlim22 — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:42:29 -0000

In your 'Start' menu click on 'Run' and type in services.msc
You'll see a long list called Services (Local), click on the name parameter to have them sorted alphabetically.
Find the one called VAIO Event Service. Double click this and ensure that for Startup Type it says 'automatic', if it does not, change it to 'automatic' and click 'apply'.
Then be sure below that, that the Service Status says 'Started'.

Re: Sony Vaio function keys and Windows 7

Zenlim22 — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 14:38:41 -0000

Re: How to: Sync Firefox bookmarks with Mobileme for Windows (iPhone)

Ben Gillam — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 01:05:12 -0000

Yes thats the sad truth, it's just a pain really because IE technically is a competing browser on windows and they let people use that!

Re: How to: Sync Firefox bookmarks with Mobileme for Windows (iPhone)

GPSJane — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 17:44:56 -0000

Thanks I will use it.

Unfortunatley Apple probably won't "come to their senses" seeing as they have a competing product and firefox and Apple definelty don't see eye to eye. I don't see any collaboration in the near future.

Re: Sony Vaio function keys and Windows 7

Jon — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 12:45:54 -0000

Worked !! =) Sony Vaio VGN-NS20E

Re: iPhone GPRS / 3G / MMS / Voicemail Settings for all UK Networks

Ben Gillam — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:48:26 -0000

can you go into Settings->Mail Contacts & Calendars and into your gmail account, then into outgoing server, then click smtp.gmail.com which should be your primary server, this should tell you what settings it is using, can you post them here, apart from obviously the username and password! :)

What about incomming is that working?

Does internet work in safari? depends wether you may have a general problem or its just linked to gmail itself. If you post back some more info i'll see if i can help.

Cheers

Ben

Re: Sony Vaio function keys and Windows 7

Ben Gillam — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:45:25 -0000

for me i uninstalled everything i could then started in the order posted above. what model of laptop do you have? Im surprised there are no windows 7 drivers yet, most of the reasonably modern laptops appeared to get upgrades of drivers.

As for fingerprint scanner, the link at the bottom with the upek software should help thats what i used, although i think the sense was actually found properly by windows itself.

Some of the drivers you might be able to get awat with using the inf file in the folder of the driver if the setup.exe doesnt work, but this can get tricky so tread carefully.

If you can let me know what model laptop you have i'll have a see what i can find out

Re: Sony Vaio function keys and Windows 7

Ben Gillam — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:38:50 -0000

Hi sorry for the slow response I have been busy.

If you install the mouse/touchpad driver you should get an app in control panel somewhere to configure the touchpad/joystick(nipple thing in keyboard) i found on my BX series that it was the joystick mouse that casused the jumps.

if that doesnt help you can disable tapping whilst typing in the mouse options.

Im sure i read about a little freeware app or script which got around the problem but I cant for the life of me remember whwre i found it, i'll post if i do find it.

Re: iPhone GPRS / 3G / MMS / Voicemail Settings for all UK Networks

Ben Gillam — Tue, 11 May 2010 15:26:29 -0000

Ok if you can try the following. (Before you start make a note of your current settings just incase these dont work, obviously i cant garuntee these will work but my researched as pointed me at he below)

APN: goto.virginmobile.uk
Username: user
Password (blank)
Visual Voicemail – Not currently supported on Virgin Mobile

APN: N/A
Username: N/A
Password: N/A

MMS

APN: goto.virginmobile.uk
Username: (user
Password: (blank)
MMSC: http://mms.virginmobile.co.uk:8002
MMS Proxy: 193.30.166.001:8080
MMS Max Message Size: 307200
MMS UA Prof URL: (blank)

-

You'll need to make sure Virgin have MMS switched on on your account.

If you can give these a go and let me know how you get on, if they work i'll add them to the main post above.

Im really sorry it took me so long to get back to you on this, Been crazy busy at work latley (hence lack of updates on the blog) and by the time I get home i forget lol!.

Cheers

Ben

Re: iPhone GPRS / 3G / MMS / Voicemail Settings for all UK Networks

dondon220 — Tue, 11 May 2010 06:11:09 -0000

why can't I send and receive emails on my o2 iphone? it use to work fine but recently it keeps saying 'the connection to the outgoing server "smtp.gmail.com" failed. Additional outgoing Mail Servers can be configured in Settings:Mail, contacts and calendars.' I have tried all of these! please advice much appreciated :) ??

Re: Sony Vaio function keys and Windows 7

Narelle — Sat, 08 May 2010 10:19:07 -0000

How (and what) do I uninstall in order to re-install in the correct order? (The problems are the function keys- volume and brightness, and the internal microphone and DVD hardware buttons, and fingerprint scanner. So far everything else seems ok.) I haven't been able to install some drivers or utilities (as in the list at step 5) because the 'wise installation' checks my system and refuses to install as it is windows 7 not vista.

Re: iPhone GPRS / 3G / MMS / Voicemail Settings for all UK Networks

Peter — Tue, 04 May 2010 06:23:39 -0000

Thanks Ben, any help would be great!

Re: iPhone GPRS / 3G / MMS / Voicemail Settings for all UK Networks

Ben Gillam — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 03:23:37 -0000

Good question! I will try and look into that for you today!

Re: iPhone GPRS / 3G / MMS / Voicemail Settings for all UK Networks

Peter — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 02:51:24 -0000

Does Anyone happen to know the mms settings for virginmobile on the iphone?

Re: My 2¢ on 3D Cinema

Christine Morris — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 05:15:52 -0000

I still haven't seen this in 3D but have heard the same thing about it's really the depth that is impressive. The glasses are still the real drawback and I can see that this will be the reason it might still not take off. I did go to a convention (a few years back) and they had TVs with special grills in them so that it actually 3Ds it for you - NO GLASSES. It was incredible as you would just walk past and suddenly see a 3D can of coke spinning.

Of course you still need to be at 15 degree angles to see it, and you need to be able to see from both eyes. Might be the future though....

Re: My 2¢ on 3D Cinema

Ben Gillam — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 07:27:30 -0000

interesting idea but i think the depth effect comes from the closeness of the lenses to the face, at least thats I reckon it must work