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Apple Releases iPhone OS 4 Beta 2 and SDK to Developers
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No issues with exchange for me on 4.0b2. 4.0b1 had issues where it would lock up the email app for me every hour or two until I force quit the email app.Exchange 2003 still cannot sync in beta 2.
If I restore back to 3.1.3 it works perfectly.
4.0b1 and 4.0b2 both give the following error:
Exchange Account : Unable to verify account information.
Perhaps this guy should not use an app which shows an almost completely black image to show off an animation that features a fade-to-black effect ...
Restore to 3.1.3, you will get an error 1015 and be left in recovery.
Then, use iRecovery to exit out of recovery mode.
Done
http://www.ihackintosh.com/2009/09/recover-iphone-3gs-from-apple-logo-or-recovery-mode-loop/
Would you mind sharing any of those "significant and substantial bugs" that prevents the phone from being usable, APART from camera not working?
In my opinion beta 2 is a huge improvement over beta 1. My favourite fixes are that mail keeps synching mail continuously instead of locking up after a few hours. Calendar events show up when connected to an Exchange 2010 server, did not appear at all in beta 1. Calendar invitations from an Exchange 2003 server now only pop up once, not continuously as in beta 1.
Apart from that I have had no OS crashes, no lock ups, no reboots and I've been using the phone a lot! UI feels snappier than beta 1, new transition effect when using task switcher is smooth, making/answering calls working, text messages working. My everyday apps work almost without an issue. Facebook have crashed twice, but that is about it.
3GS, fresh restore with beta 2.
Updating from Beta 1 to Beta 2
I have the Beta SDK installed on my Macbook and I'm not quite sure how to update my iPod Touch to the new beta. iTunes won't let me and I only know how to restore firmware in Xcode, not upgrade.
Thanks
I have the Beta SDK installed on my Macbook and I'm not quite sure how to update my iPod Touch to the new beta. iTunes won't let me and I only know how to restore firmware in Xcode, not upgrade.
Thanks
I have noticed that the button during a phone conversation to end the call has changed from "(Phone Logo) End Call" to "(Phone Logo) End" Possibly setting up universal buttons for when video conferencing happens.
When video chatting on skype (for Mac) it is still called a "call". You could be right though...
How to downgrade
I only have one iPhone, my 3Gs, so I had to use it when testing the new SDK, and it's definitely too glitchy to use all the time, so I spent about eight hours trying to figure out a solution... and I got one:
I have only tested this on my 3Gs, so I can't recommend using it for any other device... also these instructions are for OS X.
1. First, you need to download iRecovery. I found it here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ywhxqzdoimg
2. Restore your phone through iTunes normally, and wait until the end. It will complete the downgrade and then give you an error (1015) message, this means that your baseband had been updated with the 4.0 beta, and Apple doesn't allow backtracking to previous baseband settings, so your iPhone gets locked from use, but the key thing you have to understand here is that your iPhone is already downgraded to 3.1.3, just locked. All we have to do is bypass this lock.
3. Open Terminal and drag the iRecovery file into the terminal window. This should add iRecovery to the command line. just add -s to the end so you should have this: iRecovery -s
[Press Enter]
4. There should be several lines of code that scroll down the terminal window, after which, you must enter the following commands: (press enter after each line)
setenv auto-boot true
saveenv
reboot
Should be good after this. Just restart your phone and launch itunes to sync it with a backup of your phone.
I only have one iPhone, my 3Gs, so I had to use it when testing the new SDK, and it's definitely too glitchy to use all the time, so I spent about eight hours trying to figure out a solution... and I got one:
I have only tested this on my 3Gs, so I can't recommend using it for any other device... also these instructions are for OS X.
1. First, you need to download iRecovery. I found it here:
http://www.mediafire.com/?ywhxqzdoimg
2. Restore your phone through iTunes normally, and wait until the end. It will complete the downgrade and then give you an error (1015) message, this means that your baseband had been updated with the 4.0 beta, and Apple doesn't allow backtracking to previous baseband settings, so your iPhone gets locked from use, but the key thing you have to understand here is that your iPhone is already downgraded to 3.1.3, just locked. All we have to do is bypass this lock.
3. Open Terminal and drag the iRecovery file into the terminal window. This should add iRecovery to the command line. just add -s to the end so you should have this: iRecovery -s
[Press Enter]
4. There should be several lines of code that scroll down the terminal window, after which, you must enter the following commands: (press enter after each line)
setenv auto-boot true
saveenv
reboot
Should be good after this. Just restart your phone and launch itunes to sync it with a backup of your phone.
Nice info.
I ended up downgrading back to Beta 1, since B2 was very, very buggy.
Everything was slower, specially the mail app.
Also, battery took a turn for the worse and it would run dry in just 5 hours with minimal use (and unit getting hot to the touch after using it a few minutes).
same here my 3gs crashes everytime i use camera...i cant save pics and cant import/export pics with iphoto.....beta 2 sucks going back to beta 1
a once in a blue moon
FAIL!!!!!Um when I drag the .rar file into terminal and add -s it tells me access denied. What am I doing wrong?
You have to double click it to extract the executable. That's the thing you drag into Terminal.
same here my 3gs crashes everytime i use camera...i cant save pics and cant import/export pics with iphoto.....beta 2 sucks going back to beta 1
a once in a blue moon
Betas do expire. So you will soon have a brick, while others are on beta 2
Make sure iPhone is in DFU mode, and make sure there is a space between the -s and the iRecovery line
ill have my friends in high places tip me off a few days before
....then ill have to upgrade to the POS beta2 I JUST WANT MY LAMBO WALLPAPER BACK
Download the 3.1.3 firmware from your site choice (I like felix, just google felix pod firmware) and then shift restore to it from DFU mode (after you plug in your phone press and hold the sleep/wake and home button for 10 seconds (A FULL TEN SECONDS, NOT UNTILL IT REBOOTS) and the screen should stay blank and off, but itunes should say it found a iPhone in recovery mode (If your phone show the plug into itunes sign instead of a blank screen, your doing it wrong! try again) and then after it restores and its verifying, it will give you error 1015. this si fine, the firmware is installed, it just couldn't downgrade the baseband. Your phone should re-boot into recovery mode (the plug into iTunes sign). Then, use iRecovery (its pretty simple if your not afraid of a little terminal/command prompt work, just three lines, not hard there are step by step instructions if you google it) (note, something the site doesn't tell you, f your running 64-bit windows it wont work, but 32 is fine, and all versions on leopard+ work) and it will re-boot into 3.1.3 normally, and then you can activate and restore from a backup in iTunes. the only difference is that you will be running the updates basband under 3.1.3 (05.13.03), but the only difference you should notice is maybe better signal and better battery. but no complaints there.
Have fun with your once again stable phone!
NEVERMIND just realized someone else already posted how to do this, just ignore me.