Filed under: iPod Family, Cult of Mac, Bugs/Recalls, iPhone
Found Footage: iPhone Stopwatch 1,000 hour "memory loss"?
In this trivial video, someone shows what happens to the iPhone when the stopwatch has been running for over 1,000 hours. You may ask yourself, "Who runs their iPhone's stopwatch for over 41 days?" And we asked ourselves the same thing. But what happens is most definitely surprising -- and brings a whole new meaning to geek.
[via Daring Fireball]


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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
DJCraze said 11:11AM on 3-03-2008
You can easily modify the PLIST file and chagne the time to anything you want... 4000, 5000 hours w/e it be. I got my to 2,000 hours in 20 seconds flat... The guy stupidly enough reset the watch, so he wouldn't know that once u go back to springboard and then back to the stop watch, it just centers the data allowing you to see most everything.
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Daniel Tull said 11:35AM on 3-03-2008
Could we get visual confirmation of that?
Sarcasm if it weren't obvious. ;-)
matt said 11:10AM on 3-03-2008
the fact that they find this amusing and interesting is really pathetic. get laid kids, there is a world out there
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Flunky Carter said 11:14AM on 3-03-2008
@matt
The time it took you to spill your diatribe, you my friend could in fact busted a quickie. get laid man, there is a world out there.
Luigi193 said 11:41AM on 3-03-2008
They were just having fun... No need to rain on their parade...
Tyrannous said 11:21AM on 3-03-2008
girlfriends go past 1000 hours.
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stuck said 11:36AM on 3-03-2008
I'm stuck behind a nazi-esque filter - can someone summarize what happens please?
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madgunde said 1:17PM on 3-03-2008
Try this link: http://youtube.artofgeek.com/watch?v=ke9kxb_H-ac
It gets me by my company's firewall nicely. Having my own domain name is handy. ;)
Mucx said 11:37AM on 3-03-2008
Girlfriends go past £1000 let alone hours
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bob sakamano said 11:36AM on 3-03-2008
this guy didnt update the phone or restart it?
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Darren said 11:42AM on 3-03-2008
> But what happens is most definitely surprising...
How is that surprising? The iPhone handles it quite well, overflowing the least-significant data off the right side of the screen while maintaining the count.
After 1000 hours, I don't think the s/ms values are that important, though they are tracked and recorded if you hit the lap button.
What did you expect instead? How is this behavior unreasonable?
Apple recessing the iPhone's headphone jack in such a way that you need a $10 adapter to use non-Apple headphones is "surprising", a stopwatch that works isn't.
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chesama said 12:28PM on 3-03-2008
i for one am incredibly impressed, and now i have a reason to buy an iphone.
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Perceval McElhearn said 12:04PM on 3-03-2008
Easy: you just start the timer, then change the Date & Time to 40 days later...
When you get up to 10,000 hours, the display tries to show the whole thing but the beginning and the end are cut off.
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TheBen said 2:33PM on 3-03-2008
This works, just tried it setting the year to 2031, but it doesn't show as it is in the video; Instead I just got my clock showing it all right (no 3 dots) from the right to the left (seconds show up fine, while hours are cut off)
Sketch said 11:35PM on 3-03-2008
It used to do that when it passed 1000 hours. I started a stopwatch for some reason over the summer and didn't reset it for nostalgia or something. This was still on firmware 1.0, so it's entirely possible they've changed it since.
Ben Englert said 12:12PM on 3-03-2008
I think this is inconsistent because in the Phone app, when you go to the keypad and hit lots of numbers, the font gets smaller instead of just truncating the leftmost numbers.
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Patrick Cheung said 12:32PM on 3-03-2008
An interview with the 1,000 hours iPhone stopwatch dude
http://weblogs.redeyechicago.com/iphoneblog/2008/03/an-interview-wi.html
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Phil said 12:28PM on 3-03-2008
Yea,
It figures that a Sig Ep would be involved so should it be greek instead of geek?
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Tom said 12:28PM on 3-03-2008
Now we've just got to wait till the 10,000th hour...
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Zdrasti said 10:29AM on 3-10-2008
I already did that for 400 000 hours, and even negative time! Look:
http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47155