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Apple Releases iOS 4.3.3 With Location Tracking Bug Fixes

Chumburro2U said:
I believe Apple does this on purpose. I remember when I had the 3G and "updated" it with the latest iOS and it turned it into a clunker. Apple didn't care and they didn't give people the option to downgrade the "upgrade". Apple we love your products, but please understand that we are hip to your tricks now. Geez. :cool:
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Don't really know what you're talking about, but you can put any iOS version you want on your phone if you know how to use itunes correctly...
 
Probably the most boring update ever. (Yes i think the location-gate was waay overblown)
 
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walterg74 said:
Chumburro2U said:
I believe Apple does this on purpose. I remember when I had the 3G and "updated" it with the latest iOS and it turned it into a clunker. Apple didn't care and they didn't give people the option to downgrade the "upgrade". Apple we love your products, but please understand that we are hip to your tricks now. Geez. :cool:
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Don't really know what you're talking about, but you can put any iOS version you want on your phone if you know how to use itunes correctly...
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Tell us then because I am absolutely done with this PoS device now unless I can downgrade.

I'm obligated to fellow consumers not to keep giving money to companies who deliberately bork your device to force an upgrade.

Absolutely had enough of Apple now. Screw 'em.
 
spazzcat said:
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No longer supported means never patched or upgraded again no matter the reason.
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A lot of people, like me, just think that Apple should support their devices about a year after they have last been sold. The iPhone 3G was sold in a lot of countries until August 2010, it received its last update in November 2010, merely three months after it was discontinued. Hey, the standard warranty everywhere is one year.
They had done so with the original iPhone (though one could argue that the large gap between the 2.2.1 release in January 2009 and the 3.0 release in June already meant that support ended in effect in January, and that no security fixes were offered for a six month period neither for the original iPhone or the iPhone 3G that was the flagship during these six months).
 
Banjhiyi said:
Tell us then because I am absolutely done with this PoS device now unless I can downgrade.
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You can downgrade the iPhone 3G with the help of some free third-party software but it is multistep process, you'll have to google for it.

The iPhone 3GS can only be downgraded if you had saved a 'security blob' (think of it a digital fingerprint of your device and its OS) from it before you upgraded it 4.x.

I did downgrade my 3G from 4.0.x to 3.1.3 as 4.0.x was unusable. But from 4.1 on (and even a little bit better with 4.2), my 3G was pretty much behaving with 4.1+ as it did with 3.x.
 
manu chao said:
The iPhone 3GS can only be downgraded if you had saved a 'security blob' (think of it a digital fingerprint of your device and its OS) from it before you upgraded it 4.x.
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I'd only like to go to 4.2.x as it was perfect then. Appears I can't as I didn't save that blob thingy.

Thanks anyway but guess I'll be switching to Android now.
 
Habakuk said:
According to the info in iTunes the 4.3.3 update file has exactly the same size as 4.3.2 had: 666.2 MB for my iPhone 4.
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And the same goes for the iPad 2: 614.8 MB. For the iPad 1 there is a slight difference: 4.3.3: 593.4 MB; 4.3.2 was: 593.3 MB.

BTW: The update was very quick (less than 20 min) for my iPhone 4 and everything seems to work fine: Safari, an App Store update for an app (AutoStitch Panorama) and a technically demanding game (Real Racing 2). Same goes for iPad 1 + 2 (less than 15 min for the complete update process incl. download).
 
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Daremo said:
im hoping this quietly fixes the unresponsive home button issue.
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I've been having problems with the home button on my iPhone, but figured it was just the hardware going bad. Perhaps not? Is this an issue many have been experiencing?

The trouble I experience is that sometimes when I double-click the home button, it takes me to the search screen rather than the multitasking bar. Other times when I double-click the home button (or even single-click it), it does nothing at all. Is that what you're also talking about?

And the biggest question of all — does this update fix it?
 
mlmathews said:
When is Apple going to figure out how to implement software patches instead of forcing people to download a whole copy of the OS for every little update?
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Yeah, ~700MB a time is getting really daft. I can't believe they couldn't find a better way to do this.

It's typical of Apple though, assuming everyone in the world has the same internet connection that they do.
 
Getting tired of these incessant 660mb downloads.

But I finally figured out how Apple gets you to keep updating... they always promise a battery fix along with the other crap you really don't care about. By now I should be running for 30 days on a single charge.
 
LagunaSol said:
You get what you pay for. ;)



Sadly, people keep giving him oxygen by responding to his incessant trolling.
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What's even sadder is i got banned for saying one negative thing about that guy, while he's still around after being the biggest troll on these forums.
 
People on these boards never cease to amaze me. First, they complain that there aren't enough update. When are the updates? We need more!!! Then they release them, and people complain. What's with all the updates?! Why is the update so big?! Apple is horrible...I'm switching...!!!

WOW...Just amazing. I'd hate to be living in your houses! :D
 
Angelchild said:
That's not a good argument. You forget that this is not a feature. It's a matter of privacy and how iOS uses your data.

So, to me, Apple must give a fix to 3G users too. They can send iPhone 3G users a 4.2.2 for example.
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Did the original iPhone get the Safari fix or signal bar fix from 4.0.1 or 4.0.2?
Exactly. I dont care if it's not "a good argument," you should know that when an iPhone is dropped of support, it will never get fixes again. That is just how apple is.
 
OMG LOL Unicorn Powder

pmz said:
wtf is exactly what i've been saying for a while.

I hate to think that Apple intentionally leaves these issues unaddressed so that you fall for the idea that "maybe the iPhone 5 will run current software better".

But that's exactly what they do. They leave these goose eggs to annoy the user who notices such things, who are coincidentally the same people who will buy a new iPhone to fix lag issues.

I've owned every iPhone, and every new iPhone running X.0, runs beautifully, only to be slowed down and negatively effected by every single interim update.
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:)

mdelvecchio said:
so, have you ever owned a computer before? because thats the exact same thing that happens to any OS ive ever worked with. the more that is added to an OS, the slower it gets. the more a machine/device is used, the slower it gets.

such is life. wipe it and see if that helps. or look for a phone that runs on Unicorn Powder, im sure it wont have this problem.
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OMG LOL Unicorn Powder ....more more
 
autumnsong said:
Has anyone else had their events in iPhoto totally screwed up by this update? It took 10 events and turned them into about 50. :(
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I had this from the last update, but Im thinking it was the iPhoto update recently, not the iPhone/ iPad updates. This needs to get fixed ASAP!
 
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