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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3-03-2008 @ 11:10AM
matt said...
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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3-03-2008 @ 11:14AM
Flunky Carter said...
@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.
3-03-2008 @ 11:41AM
Luigi193 said...
They were just having fun... No need to rain on their parade...
3-03-2008 @ 11:11AM
DJCraze said...
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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3-03-2008 @ 11:35AM
Daniel Tull said...
Could we get visual confirmation of that?
Sarcasm if it weren't obvious. ;-)
3-03-2008 @ 11:21AM
Tyrannous said...
girlfriends go past 1000 hours.
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3-03-2008 @ 11:36AM
stuck said...
I'm stuck behind a nazi-esque filter - can someone summarize what happens please?
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3-03-2008 @ 1:17PM
madgunde said...
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. ;)
3-03-2008 @ 11:36AM
bob sakamano said...
this guy didnt update the phone or restart it?
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3-03-2008 @ 11:37AM
Mucx said...
Girlfriends go past £1000 let alone hours
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3-03-2008 @ 11:42AM
Darren said...
> 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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3-03-2008 @ 12:04PM
Perceval McElhearn said...
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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3-03-2008 @ 2:33PM
TheBen said...
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)
3-03-2008 @ 11:35PM
Sketch said...
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.
3-03-2008 @ 12:12PM
Ben Englert said...
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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3-03-2008 @ 12:28PM
Tom said...
Now we've just got to wait till the 10,000th hour...
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3-10-2008 @ 10:29AM
Zdrasti said...
I already did that for 400 000 hours, and even negative time! Look:
http://www.ipodtouchfans.com/forums/showthread.php?t=47155
3-03-2008 @ 12:28PM
Phil said...
Yea,
It figures that a Sig Ep would be involved so should it be greek instead of geek?
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3-03-2008 @ 12:28PM
chesama said...
i for one am incredibly impressed, and now i have a reason to buy an iphone.
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3-03-2008 @ 12:32PM
Patrick Cheung said...
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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