An interesting bug relating to the date and time system in iOS has emerged recently. Several users have discovered that if you change your iOS device’s date to January 1st, 1970, your device will be permanently bricked. You can see the process in the video below, and while I don’t have any desire to try it out to confirm, it’s pretty apparent based on separate reports that it’s a legitimate issue. In order to change your date and time settings, you have to go to the Settings app, tap the General menu, choose Date & Time, and turn off the Set Automatically option. From there, you’ll have to scroll through the menu until it reaches as far back as it goes. After that, go back to the General menu then go back into the Date & Time settings and scroll backwards again. You’ll have to repeat this process until you reach 1970. The video below shows specifically how to do it. After you successfully set your iOS device’s date to January 1st, 1970, you’ll then want to reboot your phone and book a trip to the Apple Store.

Once you reboot, your device will reportedly not come back on. You can put it into DFU and even get iTunes to recognize it to perform a restore, but even after that, it will remain stuck on the boot up screen. @9to5mac If true, then it's impossible to replace the battery. 010170 is the default after disconnecting the battery. — Jürgen Kraus (@ElectronicFart) February 11, 2016 This bug affects any iOS device that uses a 64-bit processor and is running iOS 8 or newer, including iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches. For those unsure, 64 bit processors are the A7, A8, A8X, A9, and A9X (iPhone 5s or later, for instance). If you use a 32 bit device, you’re in the clear. A Reddit thread offers a handful of possible causes of the issue. The most reasonable appears to be that it all comes down to time zones and that setting the date to January 1st, 1970 causes the internal clock to be set to less than zero, which confuses the device and crashes it. Another user claims that he inadvertently suffered this bug when he changed the time zone on his iPhone from Bejing back to New York, experiencing the same issue.

One Twitter user says that the device could come back on after 5 hours, while another notes that changing the SIM card could fix the issue, as well. Other users, however, say that it has been longer than 5 hours, some upwards of a day, without the device coming back on. garage door sales lancaster paIf your device comes back on after 5 hours, expect it to be very laggy, but you should be able to go into Settings and change the date back.dutch door for sale seattle @9to5mac Many kids testing at apple store as we speak.garage door repair walker mi — Mike Galicki (@mgalicki) February 11, 2016antique door knobs in chicago

This isn’t the first time we’ve seen odd bugs causing iOS devices to crash. Last year, sending a text message with a certain string of Arabic code caused the Messages app to crash and the iPhone to reboot, sometimes continuously. This year, a website emerged that crashes Safari every time you visit it. This date and time bug, however, is unique in that it permanently bricks your device. We haven’t tested this issue first-hand and we don’t recommend that you do either, as it will likely result in you having to make a trip to the Apple Store to get a new phone. Nevertheless, the video below demonstrates the process: Angry Birds Space Danger Zone Level 30 Walkthrough Danger Zone level 30 is a bit challenging, but our strategy works pretty well. Send the Lazer bird just outside of the gravitational field of the bottom planet. As it drifts off screen, redirect it back into the stone planks in front of the far-right pig. The bird should both pop that pig and ricochet into the TNT on the left.

After the smoke has cleared, send a Lazer bird just over the tower of the top-right planet, then redirect into the TNT. A word of caution: Be very mindful of debris on this level, as it can truly ruin the second shot. The score in the video below is 117,730. Nav: Home »Walkthroughs » Angry Birds Space » Angry Birds Space Danger Zone Level 30 WalkthroughTags: Space Danger ZoneCategory: Angry Birds Space, Danger Zone, Walkthroughs Sign in to Post Your Score. Related Videos Shared in Comments Jump to Comments martythebrit shared a vid: E-Star shared a vid: swellD shared a vid: Do_not_ban shared a vid:By constant self-discipline and self-control you can develop greatness of character.If you're in the market for an iPad, chances are you're not considering a refurbished model. Why would you want to inherit someone else's problems when you could buy new and be guaranteed that it's clean and trouble-free? That's where Apple's "certified refurbished" program comes in.

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While there is plenty to rave about, sometimes sharing what’s not to like can be helpful to others who are thinking about making a purchasing decision too. So after using the iPhone Plus for a few months, here are some of my unexpected findings and thoughts about the biggest iPhone ever made. When you first get an iPhone 6 Plus it feels huge, at least if you’re coming from a prior iPhone model. That feeling goes away in a few short days as you get accustomed to the wonderfully large display, but it has the unfortunate side effect of making every other iPhone (or other smartphone) without a comparable 5.5″ display seem unacceptably small if not outright puny. You’ll pick up your old iPhone 5S or iPhone 4 and laugh out loud, wondering how on earth you possibly used something so small. It quickly becomes hard to imagine going from an iPhone Plus to anything smaller in the future, the screen size is that great after you get accustomed to it. Is this really a problem or something not to like?

Time will tell, but for now don’t expect to find another device with a smaller screen size adequate again. (That’s an iPhone 4S with a 3.5″ display next to an iPhone 6 Plus with a 5.5″ display, it looks even more silly in person) This is a very unexpected side effect of getting the big screen iPhone 6 Plus; I stopped using my iPad, completely. I suppose the iPhone Plus screen is easily big enough to replace whatever I was doing on the iPad, but the iPad now just feels heavy, clunky, slow, and… unnecessary. Granted, this is an iPad 4 which is basically an ancient technological relic at this point, so those with a brand new iPad Air 2 may not have the same experience. Regardless, it’s hard to imagine wanting an iPad again. If I need to do anything serious that the iPhone Plus can’t do, and there is plenty, I go to my Mac. This also means any games you were playing on the iPad (*cough* Clash of Clans *cough*) will be abandoned, which could be viewed as a good thing.

Is this a universal experience? Probably not, but I’ve heard similar sentiment from a notable amount of other iPhone Plus owners, where an iPad goes unused, while the iPhone and Mac gets a lot more use. The rolled edges and polished aluminum on the iPhone 6 series are so incredibly refined and smooth that it winds up being slippery. This is kind of hard to explain unless you’ve felt one and used it for a while, and though it feels great in the hands, a side effect is that it easily slips from unsecured pockets and right off of fabric surfaces, like a couch or lap. The first time my iPhone 6 Plus was dropped, it had slithered out of my pants pocket while seated, dropping 2′ or so onto the concrete. It survived with a few scuffs, but nobody likes the feeling of a dropped phone. Don’t expect a banana peel or anything, but it is the most smooth and slippery iPhone I’ve felt. As a result, you’ll almost certainly want to use a case with the iPhone 6 Plus (and maybe the iPhone 6 too), because not only does it protect the device from a drop but it also makes the device feel considerably less slippery.

Now that leads to the next thing…. I have yet to find a case for the iPhone 6 Plus that is really great. This is probably due to the devices size, where a big bulky case is ridiculous and many of the slimmer cases don’t offer adequate protection which leave large portions of the phone unprotected. Many iPhone owners like the official Apple Leather cases which feel great to the touch, but the leather can scuff easily and for $49 it doesn’t seem to be as protective as a good silicone or plastic shell should be. For those wondering, I’m currently using a generic $10 plastic case found on Amazon, it does the job but it’s not going to win any awards. This will undoubtedly change as more manufacturers create and refine slim cases for the iPhone 6 Plus, but in the meantime it’s a little frustrating. Let’s just state the obvious; iOS 8 and iOS 8.1 are buggy. My iPhone 6 Plus completely crashes and reboots at random. It doesn’t matter what I’m doing, it can be anything from making a phone call, being in the middle of a phone call and then trying to do something else on the phone, or, with some regularity, opening the multitasking app switcher (where you quit apps).

Boom, a black screen with an  Apple logo. It’s kind of a regular thing, usually happening a few times a week, granted I use my iPhone a lot so the average person may not experience this. An iPhone rebooting itself at random is practically unheard of in the world of typically very stable public iOS releases, which is probably why it feels so peculiar to have such a buggy crash prone phone that isn’t running an iOS beta version. Updates to iOS are anxiously awaited and will almost certainly resolve these problems. For what it’s worth, a similar issue got some press on MacRumors recently but it was relating to the iPhone 6 in 128GB. Mine is a 64GB model though. Whatever devices are impacted, I’m confident it’ll be resolved with an upcoming iOS update. When the iPhone Plus first debuted there were tons of questions about practicality and how it’d actually function in regular use. Some of those questions, and my answers are as follows: Seriously, this is a great phone.