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Today I update my iPhone 11 to iOS 18.4.  No issues to report although it seemed to take longer than usual to install.

Also, I updated my MBA 2017 to Ventura 13.7.5 through OCLP.  I had installed Ventura using OCLP back in January and have had no issues since the install.

@PKCano can we open a new thread since there are over 1000 posts and it takes awhile to view the latest.  Thanks!

 

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jburk07, Myst

Today I decided to update an iPhone 11 and iPhone 14 to iOS 18.2.  Everything went smoothly on both phones.  I still need to go through all the “improvements” but have a few days off over Christmas to play around with things.

Thanks to all who updated before me. Made things less worrisome!

 

 

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I currently have an iPhone 14 running iOS 17.7.2. The only update I see is to iOS 18.2. But on the Master Patch List says to defer 18.2. Should I update to iOS 18.2 or stay pat?

Thanks!

I finally found what I was looking for! It was right under my nose all this time. I found the following thread:

https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=15226

Basically, I turned compositing off by disabling it: XFCE Settings > Window Manager Tweaks > Compositor > Uncheck “Enable display compositing” Finally I was able to login to my Xfce session without having to delete the ~/.config/xfce4 directory! I have now been up and running normally for over 1 week. I themed my desktop to look more like Cinnamon but with the lower overhead of Xfce. I then wanted to try the other option within that thread. Which was just to change vblank_mode to “off”. I did this on another users account and it also worked. So I was able to find 2 solutions to my problem!

I am now a happy camper and look forward to using LMDE 6 until LMDE 7 and beyond!

Reporting back on my iPhone 11 not charging. My patience has been tested, again.

I talked to a colleague at work who had the same issue with his phone not charging.  He said he took it in to a phone shop in the local mall.  He said they would clean his charging port and if it worked he would pay $25 and if not he wouldn’t have to pay anything.  Cleaning out the charging port worked and he paid $25.  So this gave me some hope.  After work I went to the mall and talked to the gentleman at the phone store. He said it would cost $10 to clean the charging port or nothing if it didn’t work.  Thankfully the cleaning worked and my phone is now charging again!

Like I said above, my patience was tested again.  Sometimes things seem bleak but there is always a solution out there!

 

 

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jburk07, pmcjr6142, Myst

I was hoping to say I updated my Iphone 11 to iOS 17.7 on Sunday without any issues. Unfortunately something came up today, 2 days later.

My phone’s battery was getting down to around 15% which is the point I usually charge it.  I was out of the house so I just used the “charger” I have in my car.  Unfortunately it didn’t seem to “connect”. I tried turning it off and on but still not charging.  I thought that it might be my cord in the car. So when I got home I plugged into my brick but it wouldn’t charge either.  I turned the phone off and plugged in the charger. The only thing that happened was the phone turned on.

I am down to about 5% battery left.  Not sure if I can try many things before I need to take it in for repair. But that would be the very last resort.  Anybody seeing this after installing iOS 17.7?

 

My Mom used to tell me “Patience is a virtue” I only wish that I had more patience.

Today I logged into my Macbook Air Monterey, and clicked on the Apple Mail App. To my surprise my Yahoo mail and Rogers mail was downloading. I know I was playing around with the accounts on Tuesday but I am sure I never used an App Password. Unfortunately I can not seem to see my server settings in the Apple Mail App. I also noticed that the SMTP server for Rogers is smtp.broadband.rogers.com and not smtp.mail.yahoo.com.  So there was something wrong on Yahoo and Rogers side of things.  I’ve also attached a file showing the rogers smtp server.

Tonight I fired up my Linux Mint 21.3 test machine.  I only had my gmail account set up which worked without any issue.  So I decided to setup my Yahoo email account and it worked too.  I did not use an App Password but the regular password I use when signing in by Firefox.

I wanted to thank PKCano and Paul T for their patience with me.  Hopefully if this happens gain I’ll be more patient,

 

OK so I haven’t given up yet! There must be an “issue” with Yahoo! IMAP services.  I logged on to my MBA and I was using Apple Mail App, and it doesn’t send or receive email either.  I say IMAP services because just tonight I was playing around with Thunderbird on Linux and I chose POP3 and I got a different response than IMAP.  It “popped” up a new window to sign into my Yahoo account.  I made it further than IMAP which just says “Probably wrong configuration, username or password”

If I continue down the POP3 path, I think there is a setting to keep emails on the server? Seeing that I use IMAP on all my devices I don’t want to delete messages from the server.  Any thoughts?

 

So I took Paul T’s advice and ran Profile_Manager to create a new profile in Thunderbird. It was pretty straight forward and gave me a fresh account to use.  I tried again my yahoo.com and rogers.com email accounts without any luck.  However, I have a gmail account which I tried and it did work. When I created the account I used the password that I already had and NOT an App Password.

For my yahoo.com account. it currently uses an account key to sign in.  If I try signing in through Firefox it tells me to open Yahoo Mail on my phone and I just confirm that I am logging in and then it signs me in. I don’t remember how I originally setup the account in Thunderbird. I must have used the password that I have.

I don’t have any idea about my rogers.com email.  It seems that its a password issue but why does it work on my phone and tablet?

 

I thought I should update on my progress with Thunderbird and Yahoo! Mail.

After deleting my 2 email accounts I am no longer able to connect for either of them.  I can’t connect for IMAP or SMTP.  I am no longer getting incoming emails.  It seems to me that my passwords are not working. I am not willing to reset my passwords and risk losing access on my phone or tablet. I might try to see if I can find another email client for Linux. Maybe I’ll have better luck,

Thanks PKCano and Paul T for your help.

 

Okay I have an update. First, I am doing all this on a test machine so not too worried of losing everything.

I decided to start fresh and removed both email accounts. I have 2 email addresses which I would like to use. And like I said before everything was working perfectly a month or so ago. I have one yahoo dot com email address and one rogers dot com which uses yahoo. If I first use my yahoo dot com address everything get setup okay but when I confirm the smtp and imap servers it pops up a window to sign into my rogers dot com account!!  Even though I have no information about rogers dot com setup yet.

If I first use my rogers dot com address, I am able to login and the smtp and imap servers get setup and I can use it but only to download emails not to send emails. If I try to get an app password for my rogers dot com for some reason I cannot login to my account via Firefox. I keep getting invalid password even though it works with Thunderbird!!

I am sure you are as confused as I am. Any thoughts of what else I can try?

 

I’ve pulled out what little hair I have left!!!

Is there anyway to restart from the beginning?  I tried File->New->Existing Account which will allow me to enter my email address and password.  It finds all the right servers for Yahoo! but when I click on done I get “Incoming server already exists”  I am really spinning my wheels here.

Yes I am seeing FF 130.0 on my LMC 21.3 which I am using right now.

Also seeing it on my MBA Monterey.

Paul T – I deleted the password

PKCano – See attachment for SMTP settings

It seems that I do have the SMTP settings setup for yahoo dot com but can’t seem to setup a password for it. If I go to Account Setting-> Thunderbird settings-> Privacy & Security-> Passwords-> Saved Passwords  there is no password for SMTP.  Is there a way to setup the password?

Hi PK thanks for the info.

I was able to create an “App Password” but I am having trouble adding it to Thunderbird.  Do I need to delete my email account and create a new one?  I am using IMAP if that helps.

Edit @10:55pm EST

I found where the passwords are saved.  Unfortunately I made a mistake and deleted the entry for the smtp password.  I didn’t realize it could be edited! Now I can’t figure out how to add it back!

Argh!!