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Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.0
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Upgrade my pawned iPhone 2G and everything works fine without any problems. For some reason YouTube won't connect, but Im sure it will be resolved shortly by someone smarter than me. Apple also dicked over the people that bought the original iPhone by not including MMS, hopefully that too can be activated somehow.
Otherwise 3.0 is dope ... feels really polished.
Otherwise 3.0 is dope ... feels really polished.
Everyone should have expected this
Apple can't handle the mass amounts of requests right after 3.0 got released
It just can't right off the bat.
Anyone know if 3.0 allows for MobileMe syncing of Notes and Mail Accounts? Or is it just through USB?
i just downloaded 3.0 for my ipod touch. It took 3 minutes to download, another 5 to install, but now it is on 35 minutes to backup and counting. WTF I didn't pay $10 for it to take an hour to backup!
You should definitely call Apple and ask for your money back. AND keep on them don't stop until you get your $10 back. It is unconscionable that they have treated you so shabbily.
Anyway. Update is installing and I am excited with anticipation.
summary
I think if you cannot get to the store, the summary tab and the detail about the iphone isn't even showing up for most folks
I think if you cannot get to the store, the summary tab and the detail about the iphone isn't even showing up for most folks
It is now a little later for me that assumed the risk, and for other people that tried, but here goes the ultimate advice for people who have unlocked iPhone 2G and wants to update for 3.0 now:
DO NOT update your 2G iPhones yet!
DO NOT believe the people that tell you that you can update without being locked!!
I just updated mine (I have unlocked and jailbroken my phone many times previously), and now my iPhone 2G is ready only for emergency call.
It is now asking me to connect to iTunes with a supported SIM card, because mine is not supported. An supported SIM card is needed for the activation process.
iPhone DevTeam is working to release a Pwanage Tool today, so let's wait for it...
Thanks.
(Now my iPhone is blocked... Well, thats the price we pay to be on the edge!!)
This is not entirely true. I have a 2G iPhone and I'm running 3.0 even though I'm on an unofficial carrier and can't activate thru iTunes obviously.
What I did was, before updating to 2.2.1, I restored to my custom 2.0.2 that i made thru winpwn and then I updated to 2.2.1. I kept the activation. I upgraded to 3.0 and the activation was also kept.. you can't restore, obviously. I'm waiting for quickpwn to restore to 3.0 and activate/jailbreak
Got thru after 3 tries
installing now
I've pretty much been trying for about 2-3hours.
Downloaded it in about 4mins. My iPod Touch is all up to date...my wife says that 'Shake to Shuffle' makes me look like a bit of a spaz though!
I'm liking the new search feature!
I'm liking the new search feature!
Imagine the publicity the next day.
This isn't even a new phone, it's software. And people are falling all over themselves to get it.
Other vendors can barely manage to cause so much as a muted acknowledgement of their phone. Apple released a software update, and BOOM!
Fresh install of 3.0 completed. And now when I check for updates it finds nothing. Dammit where is the next one already . I look forward to the next waiting threads. Cheers.
. I look forward to the next waiting threads. Cheers.
Did somebody find my tethering switch??? I seem to have lost it somewhere between 
Cupertino and my mac?
Have looked everywhere, Apple Manual says it should be at setting, General, Network. But guess...nothing there!!
it should be there, but it isn't strange or normal????
Cupertino and my mac? Have looked everywhere, Apple Manual says it should be at setting, General, Network. But guess...nothing there!!
it should be there, but it isn't strange or normal????
Backup, Restore to original setting, then Restore from Backup
That sequence worked for me.
Now running 3.0.
That sequence worked for me.
Now running 3.0.
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I don't have a tethering menu.... I go where it is supposed to be and it says cellular data and no tethering. And I haven't done the online activation cause it won't let me. And when the os was installing, iTunes told me that I needed a new sim card, but the phone works fine. I'm in Venezuela and my phone company is movistar which is an umbrella company from Telefonica which apple said that would allow tethering and mms. And mms does not work either.
I don't have a tethering menu.... I go where it is supposed to be and it says cellular data and no tethering. And I haven't done the online activation cause it won't let me. And when the os was installing, iTunes told me that I needed a new sim card, but the phone works fine. I'm in Venezuela and my phone company is movistar which is an umbrella company from Telefonica which apple said that would allow tethering and mms. And mms does not work either.
I wonder which is worse... Opening the gates all at once (the current scenario) and then you piss off a bunch of people or strategically stagger which iTunes get the "a new update is ready for you" to help defray the load on their servers... Knowing the MacRumors crowd, that would be akin to torture and the whining would be deafening. At least then when you did get the update, you wouldn't be plagued with these activation issues.
I suppose then too they'd have to disable the manual downloading of the ipsw file until the traffic dies down.
i tried both update and restore. neither worked.
but where would i find the ipsw file anyways?
With something this popular you're damned if you do, damned if you don't.
BUT . . . staggering the release might have been the way to go, regardless of the belly-aching.