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3.0 officially sucks on iPhone 3G

skwoytek said:
Those are non-updated apps. Every app that has been updated in the past week has been working fine on 3.0. I've seen many go from crashing and buggy, to working perfect on 3.0 after an update.
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You may very well be correct. I have plenty of apps that haven't had a 3.0 related update. Sometimes they will work fine and sometimes they won't open at all. The weird thing is that this affects ALL apps (even the updated tap tap app). Hopefully once all the apps receive a compatibility update these problems will cease to exist.

The only way I've found to fix the app crashing problem is to download an app from the app store or to delete all my apps and sync them back to my iPhone.
 
I haven't tried the 3.0 GM yet but was on all of the beta versions. Beta 5 had some bugs. The "slide to unlock" slider sometimes didn't work, or sometimes lagged. Also some app crashes and overall sluggish performance. I was hoping they cleared that up for the final release. I'm thinking there should have been a beta 6.

I don't think I experienced worse signal or battery life though, not sure what that's about.
 
Romanesq said:
tha, tha, three times! 7A341 is the gold master and The One.

If you have issues you should reinstall and try the new phone option.

(Or turn your phone off and restart.)

Now if you installed with a jailbreak, yeah you have a problem. :p
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Wait what?

I said I had no issues. I never made any mention of the build. I know the GM is the final release.

Reh, reh, reh read the post!
 
My iphone actually got more stable after installing 3.0... maybe it was your phone to begin with...

3.0 is how the iphone should have been out the gates... everything just works... it almost makes me not want a 3gS but not that much lol
 
Future2001 said:
My iphone actually got more stable after installing 3.0... maybe it was your phone to begin with...

3.0 is how the iphone should have been out the gates... everything just works... it almost makes me not want a 3gS but not that much lol
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Mine too, Facebook would actually crash the whole phone every now and then to the point where I had to shut it off and restart.

Solid as a rock with 3.0

Loving 3.0, can't wait for all the apps to start making use of the new features.
 
ItsGavinC said:
The GM version isn't a beta! It's the same version that will be released tomorrow. :rolleyes:

I've had no problems with the GM version. Great battery life, very stable (probably most stable iPhone OS I've used), keyboard feels great, etc. I recommend a clean install.
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agreed!
 
bndoarn said:
can you tell me what the build number is on the 3GS version of 3.0? Here's the download link
http://appldnld.apple.com.edgesuite...090617.LlI87/iPhone2,1_3.0_7A341_Restore.ipsw

oh wait, that's right, it's 7A341. the same build number as the GM. why would they change it if it's being shipped on the the iPhone 3GS?
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Umm... It is 7A341, the final build of 3.0... but that link is to the 2,1 (i.e. iPhone 3GS) version of the firmware. It's not going to work properly with an iPhone 3G or iPhone 'EDGE'.

Same thing happened when 2.0 was released. The 3G's firmware was available for download before EDGE's firmware was up... if you installed the 3G firmware on the EDGE phone, all kinds of random problems popped up (e.g. performance, battery, and call issues).

If the OP used that link to download the 3.0 firmware (which I've seen posted in various places on the web), he's going to probably experience all of the issues he's referring to.
 
mrbrown said:
Umm... It is 7A341, the final build of 3.0... but that link is to the 2,1 (i.e. iPhone 3GS) version of the firmware. It's not going to work properly with an iPhone 3G or iPhone 'EDGE'.

Same thing happened when 2.0 was released. The 3G's firmware was available for download before EDGE's firmware was up... if you installed the 3G firmware on the EDGE phone, all kinds of random problems popped up (e.g. performance, battery, and call issues).

If the OP used that link to download the 3.0 firmware, he's going to probably experience all of the issues he's referring to.
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I doubt the firmware from that link would even install on an iPhone 3G. Apple puts in hardware checks in the OS and it will fail if it's not the correct iPhone model.
 
TheSpaz said:
I doubt the firmware from that link would even install on an iPhone 3G. Apple puts in hardware checks in the OS and it will fail if it's not the correct iPhone model.
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Are you sure about that?

While I do not have an iPhone 3G, from my own experience, it was very possible to install the 3G firmware on the EDGE phone, and plenty of people did it when 2.0 was released last year.

And a few websites have posted the link to the 3GS firmware today, with reports of upgrades on those same sites. So, I have no doubt that the same is occurring here if people on these sites are reporting "successful" upgrades using that URL (of course, those people could be lying out their butts).

Personally, I haven't had any problems with the 3.0 firmware, even while it was in beta.
 
Wow, I've had zero problems with 3.0GM on my iPhone 3G. In fact, it seems much faster now.

Sure there's a couple small glitches and bugs here and there, but that expected.
 
mrbrown said:
Are you sure about that?

While I do not have an iPhone 3G, from my own experience, it was very possible to install the 3G firmware on the EDGE phone, and plenty of people did it when 2.0 was released last year.

And a few websites have posted the link to the 3GS firmware today, with reports of upgrades on those same sites. So, I have no doubt that the same is occurring here if people on these sites are reporting "successful" upgrades using that URL.
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I recall people trying to install 2.0 for 3G on the original iPhone but I believe it gave an error. Show me someone updating their 3G with 3G S firmware and I might believe you. If people CAN install 3G S firmware on the 3G then do they get the extra features such as percentage indicator and extra apps?
 
TheSpaz said:
I recall people trying to install 2.0 for 3G on the original iPhone but I believe it gave an error.
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You would be wrong. I vividly remember Gizmodo posting the link to the 3G firmware a full day early (as soon as it appeared on Apple's servers), and upgrading both my phone, and my fiancée's phone. No errors - just really bad performance. I ended up having to restore both when the 1,1 specific firmware was released, because the performance was just that bad.

You can filter through the comments yourself - some users had successful installs, and some users error'd.

Show me someone updating their 3G with 3G S firmware and I might believe you. If people CAN install 3G S firmware on the 3G then do they get the extra features such as percentage indicator and extra apps?
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Seeing as how C-Net has posted the link with a big warning telling iPhone 3G users that it's not recommended for install, I would be inclined to believe they might've gotten it to install themselves (or it's a standard legal disclaimer).

Though, upon some further research, users here have and on hackintosh have gotten error messages.

If, in the circumstance that one would be able to install the 2,1 firmware on their device, they would not get the new features, obviously. The hardware's not there, but the OS is smart enough to know that (just as the "3G" option was hidden to those users who installed 1,2 firmware on their 1,1 device).

Again, I don't have the 3G; I was just trying to rationalize why the user might be having problems with 3.0. It was possible to install 1,2 on 1,1 hardware - I just figured with random reports of people having successful 3.0 installs (with the 2,1 version) that the same thing was going on here.
 
stinker

Original Iphone----

Pre-update to 3.0: excellent battery life and overall behavior

Immediately Post-update to 3.0: battery burns itself out in good and bad reception areas alike within 2 hours

Something is problematic with 3.0 on my original iPhone

A sarcastic dim wit quoted me in another forum saying there was some thread about updating an original iphone, but he neglected to offer a url. Maybe I'll try the reinstall as "new phone" trick...
 
Personally I am VERY pleased with the update.

If you get a voicemail you go RIGHT to the voicemail screen when you slide it on.

Also, I have a beach condo near my house that I have to run downto a lot. There is free wifi in the lobby but it is one of those companies that makes you go to a screen to say YES you want it every time. On the old OS mail would just freeze up and I had to remember to go to Safari to say yes. Today it automatically went to the OK screen from mail and returned to mail when I said OK. I then turned off the wifi and put it back on and NOW it remembers I have already said OK to that network. I LOVE IT.
 
I get apple logo of death on reboot after installing 3.0. Sometimes, when I do get through, all third party apps refuse to launch.
 
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