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On 4.1 (yes, I’m lagging behind with my blog posts) something rather funky happened. And it took my 7 days to notice.

My phone was running hotter and battery life was suddenly crappier than usual. But not really paying attention, until my cell provider (Proximus) texted me I was over my data consumption limit…

As it was the beginning of the month, so that was unusual. I checked data usage in settings, and noticed ~7Gb of traffic by mail app over WiFi and ~3Gb over mobile data.

Okay. This one took a long time to solve.

At some random point after upgrading from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion was unable to add new printers.

As I don’t really add new printers on a daily base, I have no idea when it actually happened or what might have caused it.

• If I deleted an existing printer, and tried to readd it, it would throw errors at me.
• Plugging in (known) printers would pop up the dialog "click here to install/download/search for the printer driver", even though it was installed. Clicking install would give me an error no drivers could be found.
• Dymo Labelwriter shizzle stopped working.
• The driver list (system pref > printers > add > select printer software) would be empty, while on another Mac it was fully populated.
• Mac would never find the printer driver for the printer, requiring manual intervention (but, yea, as the list was empty, there wasn't much to select).

This is, as you might guess, quite annoying. Unable to print any new labels or print out any papers (and invoices ! -.-) ) I had to use another Mac just for printing.

Worth a read.

Definitely worth reading.

About this…

President Obama announced a plan to limit the sale of combat weapons and, hours later, those kinds of guns are out of stock in Wal-Mart

Oh lordie lord. Please all pray for Murphy to stay out of this! ;)

And you’re all very welcome at 12 (Brussels) and 17 (Antwerp).

I updated to 4.2. Then I wanted a new phone.

4.2.1 came. It solved 5% of the lagginess.

However, it was still unbearably slow. With 4.1 I had an amazing phone, 4.2 made me want to shoot it.

But after 4ish weeks I found something out… Go to Settings and then Sync, click the Google account(s). Disable Google Currents syncing.

Enjoy. You might want to reboot to be sure, but for me this brought my phone back. It’s not perfect, it’s still a bit slowish, but it’s a lot better!

Not convinced though :P