Eddie On Everything

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Entries Tagged ‘errors’

iPhone Stuck on Apple Logo Screen, Error 1611

Egads, my 2G iPhone won’t turn on!
Well to be more accurate, it will turn on, but it will only show the Apple logo, and then turns off after 5-10 seconds.
I have no idea what caused this – I connected it to the charger one night, came back the next morning, and it had the problem. [...]

Chrome Crashing Immediately on Startup

Well this is a fine way to start the morning.
I grab my laptop, sit down in the front of the fireplace, open Chrome, crash.  Open Chrome again, crash.  And again, crash.
Ugh.
I did a little searching (in Firefox, not Chrome) and found that this is a pretty common problem as of late.  Here’s one [...]

How to Fix the iPod/iPhone “Download Error. Tap to retry” Error WITHOUT Using Your PC

It’s stuff like this, Steve. Stuff like this.
About a month ago, I used my iPhone to purchase a song from the iTunes store. Or, at least I tried to. My phone refused to download the song.
When I tried to download the song, I got a “Download Error. Tap to retry” [...]

Fixing the Chrome Error: “Could not create directory for unzipping”

I went to install a new extension in Google Chrome / Chromium and I was getting the error message “Could not create directory for unzipping.”
This doesn’t seem to be a permissions issue, as I have full rights on the PC I’m working on.
I found this thread in which some others report the same error.
The funny [...]

  

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