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RUSH: Folks, the next caller wants to try to help me through my dictation problem here on my iPhone 4S. I realize this is kind of like talking about golf to some of you. “Stick to the issues!” But, believe me, it\u2019s one of my passions here. So indulge me. This is Sean in Bloomington, Minnesota. What\u2019s up? What, what, what, what what\u2019s the story?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Basically the way Siri works is there\u2019s an activation ticket that gets sent to your phone every day. My guess is for some reason that\u2019s expired, and it\u2019s not getting renewed. The easiest thing you can do is go into Settings and then General and Siri and turn it off right there.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n
RUSH: You know, I thought about trying that, but when you try to turn Siri off it says, “We\u2019re gonna take your kids and a bunch of other stuff, and it may be awhile before you get \u2019em back if you do this. Are you SURE you want to turn it off?” (chuckling)<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah. It\u2019ll come right back on.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, I\u2019m gonna try that right now. You turn Siri off then shut down the phone?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yep. Turn the phone off then turn the phone back on.<\/p>\n
RUSH: And then turn Siri back on?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Turn Siri back on.<\/p>\n
RUSH: What do you do for a living?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I work with my father in a small business.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Related to computers?<\/p>\n
CALLER: No, it\u2019s just a hobby of mine on the side.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s me, too. Me, too. Did this happen to you?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yes, I\u2019ve had it happen a bunch of times. I\u2019ve actually built servers to do what Siri does, but it doesn\u2019t go through Apple.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, now that\u2019s fine for me. This is not that problem. Although Siri is working and it\u2019s the dictation that\u2019s not, it\u2019s all the same thing.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay that\u2019s fascinating. So you just figured this out on your own because it\u2019s a hobby of yours?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Really, when you turn it off you get a message: “If you do this, you\u2019re gonna lose everything Siri knows. It\u2019s gonna be a while before it all comes back.” And I thought, “Well, I\u2019ll try everything before I do that.” But, on your advice, I\u2019ll do it even as we speak in the next commercial break.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Sounds good.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Now, how Applized are you? You have an iPhone obviously, right?<\/p>\n
CALLER: Everything I own is Apple, practically.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah?<\/p>\n
CALLER: If they make it, I\u2019ve tinkered with it, Beta-ed it, anything you can imagine.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, you have an iPad?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I do have an iPad. My wife doesn\u2019t.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well… Ho! Wait. Do you have a new Retina 15-inch MacBook Pro?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I do not have one of the new MacBook Pros. I\u2019ve wanted them and looked at them and drooled over them in the stores but haven\u2019t had the cash to buy one.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, I\u2019ll tell you what. You stay on hold, and I will try your suggestion, and if it works I will send you a 15-inch MacBook Pro. I\u2019ve got three of them sitting in there. I\u2019ll send you one. You\u2019ll have it tomorrow if it works, if your idea works. Are you game to try that?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I am. I hope it works.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I bet you do. (laughing)<\/p>\n
CALLER: I have a couple other tricks that you could do, too, that aren\u2019t the number one fix.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Ohhhh, okay. All right. Well, I\u2019ll play. I\u2019ll play. So you hang on. This is Sean in Bloomington, Minnesota. You hang on. I\u2019ll try this during the break, and if it works, you get the MacBook. By the way, your drooling is very justified. This is the fastest computer they\u2019ve made. It\u2019s the best computer they\u2019ve made. The display will take you a while to grow into it, but there\u2019s nothing like it out there. Okay, Sean, hang on. Thanks for the tip. That makes sense. My Siri ticket has expired. My certificate\u2019s expired and I\u2019ve got to restart it. I\u2019ll try it. That sounds like it\u2019ll work.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s amazing. I mean literally what they\u2019ve done is stunning. This happens in split seconds. But I got a server problem here \u2019cause I\u2019m not getting anything back, and I don\u2019t know if what I\u2019m sending is getting to them. So now what do I do? Sean, I told him I\u2019d send him a new Retina display MacBook Pro 50 if it worked. Snerdley\u2019s being a hard guy. See, if I wanted to go the Obama route, I\u2019d say, “Oh, well, I\u2019ll give it to him anyway, even though that wasn\u2019t the deal.” But he said he had other ideas if this didn\u2019t work. So we\u2019ll maybe see if we can get back in touch with him.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay. So we\u2019re gonna try again. We\u2019re now back with Sean in Bloomington, Minnesota. Sean, I\u2019ve tried it three times to no avail. I don\u2019t know if you heard me say I\u2019m running Beta on this.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yep.<\/p>\n
RUSH: You heard that. Okay. I don\u2019t want to be too loud about that if you get my drift here, but I\u2019m running Beta. I\u2019m running Beta 3. It worked for two days and then stopped. I\u2019m running the same Beta on an iPad, no problems whatsoever. It\u2019s just this one phone that is the problemo.<\/p>\n
CALLER: I did look online a little bit while I was off when you were still on break and everything. There have been rumors from a couple people that I\u2019ve seen that are big names in the iPhone world that have said Siri on iPhones iOS Beta 3 doesn\u2019t work the first time when you install Beta 6. A lot of them have said if you restart and reinstall Beta 3, it should fix the problem.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Yeah, that\u2019s the last thing I was looking to do.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah.<\/p>\n
RUSH: That\u2019s a pain in the rear.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That was gonna be your last ditch. You wouldn\u2019t want to do that.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, it\u2019s a three-hour project to do that.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Yeah, exactly. But there\u2019s one other thing I had that I\u2019m praying will work \u2019cause I would love a MacBook Pro.<\/p>\n
RUSH: (laughing) What is it?<\/p>\n
CALLER: If you go into Settings and then General again, down at the bottom there\u2019s Reset. If you Reset Network Settings, it could just be there\u2019s something blocking the connection to Apple, and that resetting the network settings could free up that block.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, yes, yes. I could do that. I\u2019ll try it. I\u2019ll lose all my network passwords, but that doesn\u2019t matter, I\u2019ll have to restore them.<\/p>\n
CALLER: That\u2019s the only thing you\u2019ll lose is your Wi-Fi passwords that you entered.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Okay, I\u2019m doing that now. We\u2019ll see what happens. So, Sean, hang on here. Don\u2019t hang up. Can you hang on?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I can certainly hang on as long as you\u2019re willing to have me.<\/p>\n
RUSH: Well, it\u2019s not gonna be more than five or six minutes. I just have the rest of the show to do here.<\/p>\n
CALLER: (chuckling)<\/p>\n
RUSH: Just don\u2019t go away. We\u2019re gonna put you on hold, just hang on.<\/p>\n
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RUSH: Okay, Sean are you back? You there?<\/p>\n
CALLER: I am.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I reset the network settings, I reestablished the password for the local Wi-Fi network here, and still it doesn\u2019t work. However, since you eventually did tell me what will no doubt work, but that I had been putting off (and that is a clean reinstall of the damn thing), I\u2019m gonna send up the Retina MacBook Pro since you did know what it ultimately would take to fix this.<\/p>\n
CALLER: Well, thank you.<\/p>\n
RUSH: I just wish your first idea had worked. I hadn\u2019t thought of that. Well, I did think of it, but I thought it would be a hassle. It turned out not to be. Anyway, I appreciate your assistance. I\u2019m glad you took the effort. Here\u2019s a guy who recognized my passion and tried to help me. I like that. So, Sean, you\u2019ll have your 15-inch MacBook Pro Retina display via FedEx tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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