Apple Releases iPhone Firmware 2.1 Beta 3

MacRumors · Aug 8, 2008, 08:04 PM

Apple has released Beta 3 of the iPhone 2.1 firmware. The new update consists of more bug fixes. iPhone 2.1 firmware offers some developers an early look at the next iPhone firmware with early support for background notificatoins.

Apple last seeded the second beta on July 30th.

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isimon1207 · Aug 8, 2008, 08:07 PM

I really hope this fixes most bugs for good. My phone crashes more now with 2.0.1 than when i had 2.0

newyorksole · Aug 8, 2008, 08:32 PM

Siigh I have a feeling the keyboard lag, crashing and other problems won't be fixed anytime soon, I don't know if it is my phone or just the 2.0 and 2.0.1 firmware in general.

LinMac · Aug 8, 2008, 08:32 PM

Still not available to those of us not blessed by being accepted early.

VolceOntra · Aug 8, 2008, 08:33 PM

Please fix keyboard lag. It makes want to punch innoncent things!

carousell · Aug 8, 2008, 08:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newyorksole

Siigh I have a feeling the keyboard lag, crashing and other problems won't be fixed anytime soon, I don't know if it is my phone or just the 2.0 and 2.0.1 firmware in general.

Quote:

Originally Posted by VolceOntra

Please fix keyboard lag. It makes want to punch innoncent things!

Haven't had ANY keyboard lag since upgrading to 2.1. Salvation is in beta.

atluten · Aug 8, 2008, 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by carousell

Haven't had ANY keyboard lag since upgrading to 2.1. Salvation is in beta.

That's great news. Has it also eliminated the lag in the Contacts app?

bob122989 · Aug 8, 2008, 08:43 PM

This update is welcome, background notifications cannot come soon enough!

carousell · Aug 8, 2008, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by atluten

That's great news. Has it also eliminated the lag in the Contacts app?

Can you be more specific? I haven't noticed any either way though...

EDIT: After playing with it a bit, I noticed the lag as you open up contacts. there's still about a second long pause before you can move it. So comparing it to my 2.0 phone, the lag is still there but there seems to be less of a delay.

Hope that helps.

stevearm · Aug 8, 2008, 08:47 PM

Any thoughts on when this will be made available? Are we talking days/weeks... or months...!!

Quote:

Originally Posted by carousell

Can you be more specific? I haven't noticed any either way though...

I tap a name in the contact list, takes about 2-3 seconds to register that I tapped it.

F-ing annoying.

atluten · Aug 8, 2008, 08:48 PM

I've found that when I launch the app, it either takes 2-3 seconds to actually show the list of my contacts or shows the list but is unresponsive for 2-3 seconds. Interestingly, this lag is not present if I access my contacts list from the Phone app.

gcmexico · Aug 8, 2008, 08:52 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by newyorksole

Siigh I have a feeling the keyboard lag, crashing and other problems won't be fixed anytime soon, I don't know if it is my phone or just the 2.0 and 2.0.1 firmware in general.

*
not your iphone...it's across the board...hopefully the new firmware will fix the bugs

carousell · Aug 8, 2008, 08:53 PM

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Originally Posted by stevearm

I tap a name in the contact list, takes about 2-3 seconds to register that I tapped it.

F-ing annoying.

Mostly fixed. Playing with it just now, I'm seeing about a .25 second pause. Not quite instant but still not bad.

Quote:

Originally Posted by atluten

I've found that when I launch the app, it either takes 2-3 seconds to actually show the list of my contacts or shows the list but is unresponsive for 2-3 seconds. Interestingly, this lag is not present if I access my contacts list from the Phone app.

Like I said, delay is reduced to about 1 second.

These two observation are from playing around with it for a bit, not from testing over a few weeks. Not sure if these bugs/delays kick in randomly or are constant.

Electro Funk · Aug 8, 2008, 08:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carousell

Haven't had ANY keyboard lag since upgrading to 2.1. Salvation is in beta.

that is promising... this was driving me crazy!

i am updating now.

atluten · Aug 8, 2008, 08:55 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carousell

These two observation are from playing around with it for a bit, not from testing over a few weeks. Not sure if these bugs/delays kick in randomly or are constant.

Thanks for letting us know! I'm looking forward to it.

stevearm · Aug 8, 2008, 08:56 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by atluten

I've found that when I launch the app, it either takes 2-3 seconds to actually show the list of my contacts or shows the list but is unresponsive for 2-3 seconds. Interestingly, this lag is not present if I access my contacts list from the Phone app.

I didn't realise people actually USED the contacts app! Why bother having an icon for it when you can just click on the Phone button?

Tom Sawyer · Aug 8, 2008, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by LinMac

Still not available to those of us not blessed by being accepted early.

Yeah... it's a bummer for sure.

BWhaler · Aug 8, 2008, 09:16 PM

I too hope Apple has learned its lesson from shipping code too early and the public shame that comes from their low quality (of late.)

I hope 2.1 brings notifications, but more importantly, I hope it stabilizes the iPhone and makes it a useful device again. 2.1 bricked my phone, and the replacement is still pretty buggy.

Quality, Apple, quality.

bobbleheadbob · Aug 8, 2008, 09:19 PM

Good news! The sooner the better. I sure hope they get it right this time.

Diode · Aug 8, 2008, 09:19 PM

When is the data for background notifications?

September or August?

papiti · Aug 8, 2008, 09:37 PM

Yup, lets hope they fix the issue with dropped calls and less reception bars, ITS ANOYING!!! And the lag time with the contacts, SUCKS!!!

jayducharme · Aug 8, 2008, 09:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by stevearm

I didn't realise people actually USED the contacts app! Why bother having an icon for it when you can just click on the Phone button?

I've wondered this too. I thought maybe there was something different about the "full" contacts app compared with the one in the Phone app, but they seem to be identical. Maybe Apple simply standardized the interfaces to be more like the Touch.

xix · Aug 8, 2008, 09:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by carousell

Can you be more specific? I haven't noticed any either way though...

EDIT: After playing with it a bit, I noticed the lag as you open up contacts. there's still about a second long pause before you can move it. So comparing it to my 2.0 phone, the lag is still there but there seems to be less of a delay.

Hope that helps.

Great job breaking NDA. You're really awesome.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Diode

When is the data for background notifications?

September or August?

September.

mavis · Aug 8, 2008, 10:33 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by xix

Great job breaking NDA. You're really awesome.

Agreed! I think it's awesome that we can get a little information about upcoming products/software. I don't know about you, but that's a large part of the reason I started visiting this site on a daily basis (at least originally) ... Of course, if you don't like people violating NDAs and dispensing information freely, you probably shouldn't bother coming to a site called macrumors.com ...

macduke · Aug 8, 2008, 11:44 PM

This better fix for good my iPhone having to be restored ON A DAILY BASIS.

If it doesn't then I'm going to go on a rampage through Cupertino until I find the man who makes my iPhone die every day and force him to fix it!!

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atluten macrumors 6502 Join Date: Mar 2008	I've found that when I launch the app, it either takes 2-3 seconds to actually show the list of my contacts or shows the list but is unresponsive for 2-3 seconds. Interestingly, this lag is not present if I access my contacts list from the Phone app.

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