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General app and operation questions

gordol

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As many people new to IOS, I am coming from Android. I purchased an iPad a couple of months ago and got Apple TV. All of my kids have iPhones and so I reluctantly decided to try an iphone also. My thought process was it would be nice to use iTunes for all devices. I know that both fanboys on both sides love to trash each other. I will admit I love my Galaxy S3 but really want to try to learn to at least enjoy having an iphone.
I have had the phone for two days now and have spent some time trying to research my questions but need some help on a few things please.
1.) I have looked up a few apps for making an icon on my home screen that will direct dial a contact. I tried a couple of free ones but both of them actually open up Safari for a brief moment. Does anyone know of an app that just opens the dialer directly and dials? I don’t mind paying for apps if they work, which brings me to my next 2 questions….
None that I am aware of. I use the Favorites tab in the Phone app for such quick-dial numbers.
2.) In the Android Market, you have a 15 minute window to refund the app, is this possible in iTunes?
No.
3.) Is there a way in iTunes to organize the search results in the app store by ratings, most popular, price, etc?
I wish.
4.) I can’t find a profile app for the iphone. I had one that would allow me to set up profile like Work, Home, Car, etc. Within these profiles I could choose to turn off wifi, BT, data, and choose Vibration or how loud notifications, ringtone etc would be. Please tell me there is an app like this for the iphone. I tried searching in iTunes but found nothing. I am hoping I just didn’t use the correct search.
I do not believe the iPhone has this, at least not natively.
5.) iMessaging……if I understand this correctly, this uses data when sending to another iphone. Is it using data when sending to a non iphone user?
iMessage is for Apple products only. Which makes it, IMO, about as useless as Blackberry Messenger. Tits-on-a-bull useless.
6.) Is there a way to snooze a calendar reminder?
I've never tried it. However, with several third-party calendar apps you can set your calendar entries to have multiple alerts.
7.) Is there a way to get the native email app to retrieve my Gmail as soon as it arrives? The Gmail app does this but I don’t like it because it is clumsy when you have 2 accounts set up.
Set it to Push instead of Fetch. This may only be available if you have it set as an Exchange account, though. And with Google's recent service changes, I do not know if a pre-existing account can set as an Exchange account on a new non-Android device.

If you can find what you want to get the iPhone to do what you want or if you can re-train yourself to work with what it does, then welcome. But if not... not all phones are for everyone. I like both iOS and Android, I've used them both. I am back with iPhone after a four year absense because for me it has a killer feature missing from all others: Media management. With my music library, I have never been able to find a media management system that works as well as iTunes, and the only platform I could find that works with iTunes is iOS. My last phone was a Droid X, which I had for more than two years. The only phone in my history that I had longer was the classic Motorola StarTac.
 

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1.) I have looked up a few apps for making an icon on my home screen that will direct dial a contact. I tried a couple of free ones but both of them actually open up Safari for a brief moment. Does anyone know of an app that just opens the dialer directly and dials? I don?t mind paying for apps if they work, which brings me to my next 2 questions?.

Touch icon works fine for making icons for just about anything you can think of . I have direct dialing to members of my family with their picture .
 

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1.) I have looked up a few apps for making an icon on my home screen that will direct dial a contact. I tried a couple of free ones but both of them actually open up Safari for a brief moment. Does anyone know of an app that just opens the dialer directly and dials? I don’t mind paying for apps if they work, which brings me to my next 2 questions….

Touch icon works fine for making icons for just about anything you can think of . I have direct dialing to members of my family with their picture .

All the ones that start from your home screen are shortcuts to Safari, and not the phone dialer. Why not look at a dialer replacement like ContactsXL, which will allow you to photo dial from the app. See my review here.
 

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All the ones that start from your home screen are shortcuts to Safari, and not the phone dialer. Why not look at a dialer replacement like ContactsXL, which will allow you to photo dial from the app. See my review here.

This is good ! I'm trying out the free version now. Thank you ;-)))
 

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I can't believe I typed "COUCH", I knew I was tired but holy sh*t, not that tired.
I have given my Galaxy S3 to a family member and staying with the iPhone. I just needed to give it time and learn what I can and can not do.

There is one feature that I can't find and I am guessing its just not an IOS option. That is to control the volume of notifications individually. In other words, to set the ringer to one level, iMessage to one level, etc etc. I have not looked for any software yet, just assuming it would be a "you have to Jailbreak it" kind of thing.

Thanks again for everyone's help and input.
Deano
 

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