Must be a real problem since its got an icon.
WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
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Re: WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
#42Airdrop uses Bluethooth for discovery (and may be even transfer?). Why does the author say it uses Wifi for discovery?
Yes it does in Yosemite, not sure why you've been down voted .
Re: WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
#43Yeah when are they going to fix these issues? Everything was great until iOS 8 & Yosemite. My Mac with Yosemite can no longer use Airplay and my Airport Express no longer shows up as a supported Apple device in Airport Utility (despite the wifi still working)
IMHO everything was not "great" since Mavericks came about. My wifi (2012 MBP) started having issues connecting on wake, which were fixed and unfixed with each patch released. Now Yosemite will reconnect on wake, but DNS resolution will be broken, so when that happens i have to go in TCP/IP settings, make any change and "Apply" to get back to a working state. It's 2014 and these were solved problems, I really don't k…
I've been experiencing the wake issues on 10.9, as well. Bouncing wifi seems to fix it, but it's very annoying. It seems to be when I close lid on one network and open it on a different network that it gets confused what to do.
Re: WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
#44I thought one of the benefits of the Apple ecosystem was that they controlled both the software and the hardware, so they should be able to catch these things...
Re: WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very interesting. How did you go about reverse engineering it? Would you mind sharing?
Sure! It's a combination of static and dynamic analysis. I have a jailbroken phone, which allows me to access any file on the filesystem and decrypt any App Store binaries[1]. The first step is to find in which binaries the functionality lives. I know from searching that AirDrop lives in Sharing.framework[2], which has a supporting daemon, sharingd. Then, I open the binaries in a disassembler like IDA Pro[3] or Hoppe…
Oh crap, I didn't know IDA was free for non-commercial use. I thought it was like Photoshop: prohibitively expensive for most users, so everyone pirates it. I'm going to have to give that a shot.
Re: WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
#46I have noticed since iOS8 on an iPad3 and my 2012 MBP (non-retina) that Safari is insanely slow to resolve sites. It gets to about 15% of the progress bar and will just sit there. Has anyone else noticed this?
Safari is borderline unusable for me on 10.9 and 10.10. It will literally take 30 seconds to load facebook.com. If I open Chrome or Firefox and try it, it loads instantly. I've tried different DNS servers to no avail. I don't use Safari that often so I never bothered digging deeper.
Happens to me as well on a rMBP. There's also significant lag opening new tabs.
I've had wifi issues on my phone since upgrading, where the iPhone will switch to LTE even though there's wifi available, from a network it remembers. Rebooting the phone will cause it to reconnect, so I'm trying this airdrop disable tip to see if it helps my connection problems.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure! It's a combination of static and dynamic analysis. I have a jailbroken phone, which allows me to access any file on the filesystem and decrypt any App Store binaries[1]. The first step is to find in which binaries the functionality lives. I know from searching that AirDrop lives in Sharing.framework[2], which has a supporting daemon, sharingd. Then, I open the binaries in a disassembler like IDA Pro[3] or Hoppe…
Oh crap, I didn't know IDA was free for non-commercial use. I thought it was like Photoshop: prohibitively expensive for most users, so everyone pirates it. I'm going to have to give that a shot.
An old version is free, and lacking the decompiler. It's a good tool, but it's really not IDA Pro.
Re: WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sure! It's a combination of static and dynamic analysis. I have a jailbroken phone, which allows me to access any file on the filesystem and decrypt any App Store binaries[1]. The first step is to find in which binaries the functionality lives. I know from searching that AirDrop lives in Sharing.framework[2], which has a supporting daemon, sharingd. Then, I open the binaries in a disassembler like IDA Pro[3] or Hoppe…
Oh crap, I didn't know IDA was free for non-commercial use. I thought it was like Photoshop: prohibitively expensive for most users, so everyone pirates it. I'm going to have to give that a shot.
IDA is not the expensive part, the Hex-Rays decompiler is. A single license can cost up to $2000 :(
Re: WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
#49Seems Apple's quality control has really been screwing up the last few releases. I haven't updated to iOS 8 or OSX 10.10, and the way things are going I'm not going to any time soon.
If they keep this up, I'm switching back to Android and Linux.
Re: WiFried: iOS 8 WiFi Issue
#50Seems Apple's quality control has really been screwing up the last few releases. I haven't updated to iOS 8 or OSX 10.10, and the way things are going I'm not going to any time soon. If they keep this up, I'm switching back to Android and Linux.
I second this. I'm part of Appleseed because I figured my use cases of my Macbook for development might bring out some less noticeable bugs.
In the latest pre-release before 10.10.1 came out, the iCloud settings broke so that you could only access the system settings by agreeing to the iCloud EULA, or clicking very quickly and hoping you could press the back button before the dialog reappeared. Very obvious, easy to reproduce bug.
Even after sending in multiple reports via Feedback assistant, it's still a live bug in 10.10.1 production. I get it, bugs happen, but the lack of QA and use of feedback assistant is really mindblowing to me.
Anyone have some light to shed on what's up?