That's great. I just found it in the Readme.txt finally :)

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[ Alice ],

Considering the [ - 4 ] ( ! ) votes at the moment on a post that gives away the serial number, I'd suggest that GOTD voting is in serious need of repair, perhaps a [ Read by / presented to ] number instead, maybe followed by a yay / nay vote, or just eliminate the yay / nay vote altogether, as it just causes silly and off-topic discussions ... like this.

What say you all?

Yay / nay?
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Peter Blaise, nay... regulars know that when a license is made public it often results in the vendor invalidating the license code for everyone so it makes sense that if the license is in the readme.txt file it is NOT useful to have it made public in comments and if it is not the real license code then that would not be useful either. Only time it could be considered useful is if Alice is the official representative of Joyoshare, in which case she should say so plainly and that would have given some reasurance that the poster is not trying to sabotage the giveaway license code.

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[ TK ],

That would make some sense, that GOTD users are averse to sharing the serial number because it sours the vendor's offering, who might then react by closing down their free offering ... if this were an unmoderated thread.

But GOTD threads are moderated, so someone at GOTD accepts the post with the serial number, and this is their game.

It also makes sense that a newbie from the vendor would fill in the GOTD posting prompts as asked by the GOTD web page, where there is no prompt asking "are you the vendor of today's GOTD?", but just asks for a name and email ... and if this is the first time visiting GOTD, they would have no idea how the post is going to be presented, after they click [ Comment ], or if there will be subsequent dialogs before posting, nor would they know that there is no "preview' or "edit your post" feature on GOTD.
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Regardless, I've never seen a productive dialog about the GOTD "Did you find this comment useful? yes | no ( )" voting and scoring.

At the moment, [ Alice ]'s post has ( -1 ), which means at least + 3 votes from the ( - 4 ) I previously commented on, which are not displayed, so it could be - 99 votes and + 98 votes for all we know ... and it's still meaningless.

Even [ Disqus . com ] and [ Quora . com ] no longer display down-votes, plus they display a list of up-voters.
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Does anyone else have any thoughts, insights, or preferences regarding the GOTD "Did you find this comment useful? yes | no" display?

Perhaps the GOTD commenting stream programming could use an update, taking queues from Disqus and Quora, providing preview and editing?

Thanks in advance for anyone's thoughts.
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[ Greg ],

Did you register the software in the setup menu?

Are you using the demo unregistered version?
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[ a ],

"... please attach your iPhone ..." messages when we already have our iPhone attached, are a bear, patience is required.

1 - wait -- Windows has to install drivers, and that may take a long time, and you must be on the Internet unless you have appropriate device drivers findable when your computer is in safe mode, and you know how to point your Windows software to discover your local directory that contains your iPhone driver software.

2 - wait -- once Windows recognizes your iPhone, your iPhone usually has to display "trust this computer?", and you must respond in the affirmative on the phone.

3 - try other iPhone software, such as iTunes, and confirm that your iPhone and your computer CAN talk to each other, keep working until you computer can "see" your iPhone attached using any software before expecting data recovery to start.

4 - if other programs "see" your iPhone, once your computer proves that it can "see" your iPhone, yet data recovery still fails, then try rebooting your computer into safe mode, and then try data recovery.

5 - try another USB socket, another iPhone cable, another computer, clean all connections and sockets, drain the iPhone battery ( keep tapping it to force the screen on while it is unplugged, adjust brightness to max, and turn off screen lock, this may take a day or longer ), recharge the iPhone battery ( taking another day, maybe ).

Yes, Apple has ways to turn on an iPhone while holding the power button and start button and or volume buttons, there are web-findable special instruction on how long to hold and when to release any button in combination, in order to engage a couple of different special startup modes, and if your iPhone is responsive at all, you can explore to see if data recovery is possible in each of those modes.

Also, Apple tethers iPhones to iCloud and iTunes, especially with "find my phone" engaged, so if you can turn off "find my phone" in the iPhone iCloud settings menus, then do it, as "find my phone" always interferes with local manual management of our iPhones -- I recommend turning off "find my phone" for everyone because it will inevitably eventually interfere with local manual control, troubleshooting, and recovery, that is, our fear of theft usually causes us to steal our own phone from ourselves, because a misbehaving phone with "find my phone" turned on will usually frustrate any efforts to recover locally manually -- we stole our own phone from ourselves.

Finally ( as if ) if you cannot get through any sign-in passcode lock, you have to resolve that first, either with software that promises to figure out or bypass your passcode, or with an Apple or non-Apple unlocking service over the web, with your iPhone connected to your computer ( if your computer recognizes your iPhone, as in the 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 steps above ), or connected wirelessly to your WiFi and Internet somehow.

Finally finally ( as if ), find a local an independent or Apple repair technician ( front door or back door ), and interview them regarding their specific success experiences with other iPhones that present exactly as your iPhone presents, and maybe risk handing your iPhone to an experienced professional ... along with handing over your wallet.

You have to decide how much the data you are after is worth to you, because you can always move on and buy a replacement smart phone cheap, and it never has to be an Apple.

Good luck, and let us know what happens for you.
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