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Foreword: it isn't obvious in the context — this cable is to used in the car, hooked up to car amplifier RCA cable, so it's thickness isn't a big deal.

After last time I split cable apart and soldered back together, it lasted a couple of days only if that. So I ordered a new one and opened up old one again. Changed a bit how I do old one and keep brand new two dollar one as a backup.

The thing broke again. I know how to solder and all, but with this thing one has to work with sizes as small as a quarter of millimiter. I guess I didn't do a perfect job. It still works, but I have to press on a hacked up bundle of wires, or put it under something heavy enough (eg. map, book) so the it's tight, then it works. Otherwise half of the side doesn't work, i.e. only left or right depending how RCA cable is plugged in.

My hacked cable adapter broke today. One of the three wires on one of the plugs broke off. Since I am not home I don't have access to any tools. First thing handy was hot glue gun, but that didn't work.

Since a switch to iPhone 2.0 I was happy 100% minus one tiny issue. One of the most useful application I had on iPhone 1.1.4 is not working on 2.0. This application is NemusSync.

For now I figured another way to do this manually while NemusSync is not available for 2.0.

To sync your google calendar with iPhone caledar these are the steps:

My iPhone is now with 2.0 firmware thanks to Pwnage 2.0 tool . I used The Happy Coder's instructions.

Took a little bit more time than previous effort with 1.1.4, but all went smoothly. Most importantly all my calendar events, contacts, and other stuff was restored.

Ever since I decided to keep my iPhone I discovered a great feature of iPhone back-up. I never knew it worked so well, that's why I was always afraid to use so-called "Installer". Now that I knew I could always bring my phone back to factory settings without loosing contacts, calendar, and other data, I simply went crazy with Installer and discovered plenty of very useful apps — NemuSync, Flashlight, PocketTouch, and many more.

Of course not all these programs are ideal as they're not official. I found out a first bug with app called Navizon.

So when I sold my iPhone on ebay, I had a condition that payment must be made within 24 hours. The person who bought it couldn't get money in time and we kindly agreed to not exit out of transaction. I had a number of reasons to keep an iPhone for now.

But today and yesterday I noticed that I couldn't access my iPod area of iPhone and when connecting to my laptop, iTunes complaining that something got corrupted. Either way, I opted to restore and update my iPhone to 1.1.4. Previously, I've been running 1.1.1. 

The time has come to say good-bye to iPhone 1.0. New version of iPhone is few days away, and I definitely want that. So up for sale it is!

Since I decided to part ways with my carputer, I've started using iPhone as a car radio. I couldn't have done it without headphone adapter cable. The reason for that is the iphone, for protection and durability reasons, has a unique canal for headphones/RCA jack. Usually these are expensive.