My iWood Experience

After a long, three week wait I was pleasantly suprised when my iWood for iPhone arrived.I’ll walk you through the opening, so you can feel like you’re actually there.  There was a small instruction manual and information package inside the box.  The case came put together with cardboard spacer in it.  The case connects and disconnects with magnets and tiny pieces of metal on the wood.  It fit nice and snug on my iPhone.  Sadly, there is an issue with the volume buttons and it would either get stuck pushing the volume up button, or not let me push the volume up button at all.  I emailed Miniot and anxiously awaiting a response.  In my efforts to try to adjust the tension on the volume toggle switch, I accidently skinned the button, but whatever.  If it were to at least work, I wouldn’t care about the skinned finish I caused. 

iPhone vibrating loud and loose- broken vibrate mechanism!

My brand new iPhone rang today and it sounded like something was loose, causing the vibration to be extremely loud and sounded like something was rattling. You could imagine my dismay when I touched all around my iPhone while it rang and noticed when I applied pressure towards the top of the iPhone, that the noise stopped and began again when I released. I am now on hold with AppleCare and will post more information as it becomes available.

Update @ 2:30 PM – Taking it for a “Genius” appointment tonight, I’ll also be bringing my Black Macbook with a flickering backlight and/or dimmer- should be fun!

Update @ 9:22 PM – Met with the Geniuses- apparently it’s a common problem with the vibrating mechanism. They ordered me a replacement and will swap my phone out for free. Also, they ordered a new inverter cable and inverter “board” for my Macbook to fix the flickering back light.

Update @ 11:38 PM Wednesday the 12th – iPhone replaced at another Apple store that had an 8GB in stock. It’s nice not to have vibration instead of buzzing.

Update @ 12:32 AM Monday the 17th – So, for all of those people who have stumbled onto this blog because of the weird rattling, vibration plastic iPhone noise, rest assured that Apple representatives know EXACTLY what this is. As soon as I told them my problem, they shook their heads, laughed and held the iPhone to their ear and shook it. It was only moments after that, when they grabbed another iPhone from the back and swapped ‘em out.

The brand new blog site

Due to the horrible SEO on my last site, and the shame of having Kevin’s web site show up before mine on google, I’ve decided to run a wordpress blog instead. This might actually motivate me to post more content. On a lighter note, I’ve posted my corporate biography from the AKT site.