When software updates go bad

On the other hand, Tomtom should be congratulated on still providing updates on a product that is over 7 years old when other companies let us down so badly.

I hope they continue to provide updates for many more years on a product that works very well most of the time.

When they have an update, I just wish you could still update satellite positions and know you need to update it properly next time. I only use my satnav occasionally so it only gets updated when I am about to use it and it is a real pain when things go wrong or it can take a very long time to locate the satellites if I don’t update it.

To be fair iPhones have moved on a great deal since the 4S, and putting the latest iOS on a machine that old (in technology terms) was never going to work terribly well. Additionally, when you say it was in mint condition, it may well have a nice appearance, but if it had the original battery then it will have seen a great deal of use – and subsequent loss of charge retention. Getting the same result with a brand new battery raises a couple of questions: if it was brand new it would have lasted longer, so are you sure it was brand new? The second point is that something might be wrong with the iPhone itself. Apple could sort that, but you bought a second-hand and outdated ‘phone, and faults come with the territory.

As I have found out BetterthanTV once Windows 10 installs itself on you device you have 10 days to revert back , any longer and, as you say, it doesnt want to know . It isnt fueling the computer industry as much as its fueling the $billion pockets of Microsoft. I think you have up to 2020 on Win 7 , so you have 3 years of security updates left just keep an eye on your device there have been many reports worldwide of Windows 10 forcedly installing itself again—and—again.

Ian-You are not alone the web is full of complaints going back to IOS 6 . However try – any-data-recovery.com/topics/mobile-devices/recover-iphone-notes.html. Many posters say even Apple techs cant help them and many are ditching Apple . There is now an industry in recovering iphone apps on a download a recovery app ( at a price )

This is an interesting phenomenon that seems to have affected mainly iPhone 6s and a few iPads. The notes will still be there; it’s most likely that their location ID has changed. Must admit. I’ve been using Apple systems since the late 1980s and one thing I’ve never, ever done is upgrade to the next OS until it’s at least six months old.

I take it you mean MS Office- Outlook Connector Laurence and its not syncing ? Support for Office 2003 has ended – April 8 2014 but there is a work around IF you can reprogram the Registry – go to- support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/889697. The whole purposes of Win 10 is to make as much money out of its customers as possible adverts help pay for the CEO,s new island in the Caribbean. Your right junk does affect security thats why MS has had to download “updates” from its inception due to “backdoors ” there because they want total control but that allows hackers the same control over your computer MS fixes it – 5 minutes later a hacker breaks it.

If Laurence has Microsoft Outlook – part of Microsoft Office – why not just use this to handle email? It will handle multiple email accounts including web-based mail, and avoids the adverts.

What I have found Wavechange is that people like a particular email service and are adverse to using another ,maybe illogical in the engineering sense but every service has its own pluses and minuses . I have four for various functions with different email addresses from my ISP one . But the one I use is an email client that downloads from two of my email services , a lot of people like Hotmail but its gone for new users . As far as Microsoft Outlook is concerned its a totally new version and that is what he is complaining about its a desktop client as apposed to their web based email client . MS has intentionally made it complicated have a look at- makeuseof.com/tag/hotmail-no-microsoft-outlook-email-service-explained/

Thanks Duncan. I had not spotted to the reference to the new version of Outlook. I’m still on Outlook 2011.

John are you using BT Wi-Fi +Bluetooth ? Win 10 also has problems with the Nokia 8.