I have not graced you all with my words of wisdom for a few weeks now, and I know you all are feeling the void in your lives… So I decided I would pop in and give an update covering the last few weeks. First, where in the world have I been? Well the answer is simple. Around. I have pulled back from social media in my personal life. I manage multiple social media accounts for two different businesses as well as my Tech with Tyler accounts. I hit a point in my life where I needed to rearrange my priorities. For me that meant my faith and my family. During the time I backed away from anything extraneous and focused my energy. I feel that I am in a place of stability and I wanted to get back to work. Blogs and social media posts still may stay slow for a little while as I am working on many projects between my jobs while still maintaining a healthy amount of time for myself and my family. Feel free to use the Tech with Tyler page to build a community of support for one another on a tech level. My energy and motivated for all of this comes from all of you and our interactions. Okay, enough of all this mushiness lets talk tech. Tech for me lately has been a headache to say the least. I feel like I am constantly fighting fires at work over IT issues, but lately even my personal devices have become a major source of frustration. Most recently my iPhone X became self aware, with what I deemed “SkyNet.” The phone began to act of its own accord. Opening and closing apps, typing texts and emails and numerous other crazy activities. After a few months of research I deemed my iPhone X to have the “Ghost Touch” issue. This problems seems to stem from bad or broken chips that control the bottom half of the screen. After many many hard resets, I figured it was not a software problem but a hardware problem. Finally, I could not take the issues any longer. My phone gets more use than any other device I own. I run multiple businesses off of my phone, I cant have a paperweight iPhone. But before we segway into my replacement phone, the iPhone XS Max lets quickly go over my OS Mojave debacle. I am old school and I back my iPhone up to my laptop via iTunes. My 2013 MacBook Pro needed some software updates in order to run the phone back up. So I ran those and then decided to upgrade to Mojave while I was at it. Bad idea. Little did I know I just started a 23 hour long series of unfortunate events. Mojave began to install and eventually failed. The computer would not reboot. I did not have a back up of my computer that was anywhere near current. I was able to reboot enough to reinstall OS Sierra, the last OS it had installed. That too failed. By now I am sick to my stomach thinking I just lost my entire hard drive. I called Apple support. As always they were friendly and did their best. They finally suggested a trip to the Apple store to download Mojave off of their in store server. I was headed that way to get my iPhone anyway. At the store they verified my hard drive was still good and all the data was still there. They did a back up, wiped out the computer and reinstalled Mojave. Then I reinstalled my documents and files. Long story not so short is that Apple changed the basic archistructure behind Mojave, as it will be the the basis for the next few generations of Mac OS. Some older devices have a hard time with this archistructure change even though they are technically supported devices. If you have a device that is a few years old. BACK UP your computer BEFORE you update to Mojave. And Finally, the iPhone XS Max. 5 days in and its… a bigger iPhone X. Other than that I have not noticed any difference between the XS Max and the X. I do like the larger screen size. I will do some more playing around and give you a better review in the future. I am drooling over the new iPad Pro’s. I have the second gen iPad Pro with pencil and keyboard and everything I didn’t like they fixed on this new version. What tech are you looking at maybe to purchase for this holiday season? Apple or non Apple. I have my eye set on the iPad Pro, updated Mac Mini and the new Apple Watch Series 4. Well I hope you enjoyed the long winded update. Thank you all for your continued support of this venture.
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AuthorI am an everyday person who has a passion for technology. I am not a technology guru but rather a everyday user of technology. #techwithtyler is focused on technology that is used by everyday non tech people. I hope to pass along my knowledge to help you better live with and through todays technology. Archives
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