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Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.0

griz said:
And you can't just sync your data why?
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Because I had received a new machine since my former uMBP overheated to the point it was getting unusable. Didn't have time to wait for the time machine backup @ 260Gb and went ahead with iTunes thinking Apple knows their stuff.

Didn't think it would swipe the whole thing just to do an OS update. My SE didn't need do and I expected at least the same thing from iPhone. At the very, very least it could've given me a warning. Maybe it was because I hadn't 'authorized' iTunes yet but come on! Guess I was wrong, must've clicked the OK button wrong as well. :rolleyes:

Thank you, once again, Apple for 'teaching' me in a rather parental way to sync before doing anything else, bleh!
 
No Problems with 3.0

:)Just did the 3.0 in my 3G... It took about 20min to d/load, another 10min or so to initially back up, and everything works!

I've since synced again and it's its usual fast self. Safari is faster, landscape keyboard in more apps work well, and the voice memo to email is hot.

Only 1problem: My trash can disappeared when viewing photos. I can't delete thru the iPhone. Where did it go???:confused:
 
I just noticed this morning that the "More" tab in my app store is gone now. It was there last night, but now the tabs at the bottom look like they were before I updated to 3.0. Has anyone else had this happen? (the tab is still there in the iTunes store though)
 
so I have an old firmware version that is jailbroken. Do I restore-backup and then upgrade to 3.0? I think that's how I've done this sort of thing in the past.
 
Lame update. I can't believe I was excited for this. For some reason, Apple didn't incorporate many of the simple 3Gs software upgrades for existing customers.

Oh well. . . at least there is cut and paste (2 years of waiting for that) and I can record the sounds of me going to the bathroom (no more calling and leaving it on voicemail :) ).
 
Evangelion said:
Dont know if it has been mentioned already, but you can now open links in to new tabs in Safari. Thank you Apple!!
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I hit a link in a site and I went to the link in the same window but I happened to scroll down and it had 2 pages. I thought that was weird. It says 1 of 2 pages. I didn't get the tabs. Maybe on another site.
 
Downloaded OS 3.0 Now 3G Doesn't Work

I downloaded the update lastnight and now cannot connect to the 3G network. I spent an hour this morning with Apple and ATT it departments and they finally told me this is a known issue..... Even the connection to EDGE is hard to get.

I don't know if this is a wide spread problem, but I'm in Tampa, FL.....

The support person recommended for anyone else not to download the update.

3G is back up and running now......
 
peejay3 said:
:)Just did the 3.0 in my 3G... It took about 20min to d/load, another 10min or so to initially back up, and everything works!

I've since synced again and it's its usual fast self. Safari is faster, landscape keyboard in more apps work well, and the voice memo to email is hot.

Only 1problem: My trash can disappeared when viewing photos. I can't delete thru the iPhone. Where did it go???:confused:
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that is what I was trying to think of earlier about the photos. Slow day, slow mind.
 
Does the new high contrast/accessibility option only come on the 3GS? I can't find it on my 3G after the update.

If it's only on the 3GS, then all I can say is another WTF Apple?
 
TrEyHoLyO said:
I have rebooted my iphone and do not seem to have the problem of the battery draining. See if that works
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Unfortunately it did not...

Unless I switch to airplane mode, the battery just burns up. At home over 30 minutes of wifi use, the battery dropped about a third of it's charge. That never happened under version 2.0. By the time I got to work at 8:30 about 2 thirds of the battery was depleted... hmmm....
 
o0samotech0o said:
Are you insane? Everyones like "blah blah, i won't use cut copy paste, or landscape etc, or even push (which is odd), but everyones forgetting what 3.0 is really about. HARDWARE!

Think of all the cool hardware that will be available. Not as yet, but we may get gaming pads, analogue sticks, etc!
-Sam
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I might get another ipod with 3.0 already on it but for now my 1st generation does well.
 
Does anybody knows something about tethering? I recall they said, when they presented the 3.0 upgrade, that it would have been possible...I just did a quick search but cannot find any new...
 
3.0 on Edge iPhone

I had a smooth update process. After playing around for awhile on my Edge phone, I've noticed that all seems to be running quite smoothly. Everything is snappier. I have also noticed better battery performance. I wasn't sure if my Edge phone would do well with the update, but it did. :)
 
linsam said:
I had a smooth update process. After playing around for awhile on my Edge phone, I've noticed that all seems to be running quite smoothly. Everything is snappier. I have also noticed better battery performance. I wasn't sure if my Edge phone would do well with the update, but it did. :)
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Funny, I've found that 3.0 has caused my EDGE iPhone to run worse than when it was on 2.2.1.

It seems both laggy and jumpy at times. It almost feels like the OS isn't happy on my iPhone.

For example, when closing an App, instead of the App's screen fading to a point in the middle of the homescreen, it just ends in a flash and the homescreen appears.

When opening an app, there is more of a delay.

It takes forever for it to power on, and once it does, instead of the silver Apple shrinking and the homescreen zooming out, a black screen appears for a few seconds and eventually my 'Slide to Unlock" screen appears.

Turning from portrait to landscape in Mail is laggy and looks like a slow motion animation.

All of this stuff isn't happening all the time (except the power on behavior), but it's all happening enough to annoy me.

Hell, my iPhone seems more stable when it was jailbroken.

Nothing has crashed yet, which is good. EDIT: Scratch that. It just crashed in the middle of a game of "Let's Golf".

I'm thinking about doing a restore, anyone think that would actually help?
 
dknyboi said:
I just noticed this morning that the "More" tab in my app store is gone now. It was there last night, but now the tabs at the bottom look like they were before I updated to 3.0. Has anyone else had this happen? (the tab is still there in the iTunes store though)
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Yup. Same here.
 
No MMS overseas?

I downloaded the new 3.0 update, which adds MMS to the iPhone. Under Settings-Messages, however, there is still no MMS button! I went to the Apple site and looked it up, and they say "if the local carrier doesn't support MMS, this button won't appear."

Well, I have a local Sim card (Iraq) with a full account which allows MMS, so I don't understand why it doesn't work.

USAusers aren't seeing it because AT&T doesn't yet allow it, but my local carrier does, so I should be seeing it, right?

I guess if it doesn't show up I'll have to jailbreak/unlock/Pwn it.
 
Downloaded 3.0 when I got home from work. Wanted to wait until the craziness was over. Went flawlessly! Less than 20 minutes start to finish.

Now I'm resyncing after doing an App update. The back is being pokey, but that was to be expected for the first one.

I will be an iPhone dork the rest of the night trying to figure out all the new features. I will get away with it though because my wife is an iPhone dork too. :D

Steve
 
I've found that the iPhone 3.0 software is pretty cool; the thing I really like was that my camera seemed to perform faster. I also thought that the other features were cool, but I've noticed that my iPhone has become a lot slower; everything seems to lag now.
 
Surely said:
Funny, I've found that 3.0 has caused my EDGE iPhone to run worse than when it was on 2.2.1.

It seems both laggy and jumpy at times. It almost feels like the OS isn't happy on my iPhone.

For example, when closing an App, instead of the App's screen fading to a point in the middle of the homescreen, it just ends in a flash and the homescreen appears.

When opening an app, there is more of a delay.

It takes forever for it to power on, and once it does, instead of the silver Apple shrinking and the homescreen zooming out, a black screen appears for a few seconds and eventually my 'Slide to Unlock" screen appears.

Turning from portrait to landscape in Mail is laggy and looks like a slow motion animation.

All of this stuff isn't happening all the time (except the power on behavior), but it's all happening enough to annoy me.

Hell, my iPhone seems more stable when it was jailbroken.

Nothing has crashed yet, which is good. EDIT: Scratch that. It just crashed in the middle of a game of "Let's Golf".

I'm thinking about doing a restore, anyone think that would actually help?
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I have the exact same problems on my 3G phone. It's choppy, slow, and ran better on the old system. The battery life has been affected hugely by this upgrade. As usual, 3G doesn't work 95% of the time. Apple straight up lies about their products. This phone would be great if it worked like they say it should. Lies to get money, what's new.
 
N00b alert: Friend has the SDK membership, still has beta 6 (7A312g) installed on his iPhone and can't find it the official 3.0 software to download anywhere on the developer.apple.com console. Also can't get it through iTunes. How does he get it?
 
Sehnsucht said:
N00b alert: Friend has the SDK membership, still has beta 6 (7A312g) installed on his iPhone and can't find it the official 3.0 software to download anywhere on the developer.apple.com console. Also can't get it through iTunes. How does he get it?
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Why does he need it? Isn't beta six the GM? That IS the 3.0 firmware.
 
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