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iPhone 1.1.2 Firmware Released

ibwb said:
There's this upstart OS called Linux, you may have heard of it.

In a desktop or server it's rare to really run out of RAM, since you can make use of disk for swap. Linux by default (probably other systems too, but Linux is what I know) will allow allocations that it doesn't have the space for. Part of the reason for this is that applications regularly ask for more RAM than they every actually use, so the kernel oversells the capacity (kind of like your bank does with money). This leads to a need to kill processes if space runs out.

You can change this behavior so that the kernel will guarantee that RAM will be available if an allocation succeeds, but there's not much point. Very few applications are really written to handle a failed memory allocation well, and tend to abort -- well written apps do so cleanly.
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Yeah I think I remember hearing about Linux back in the 90s. A bunch of the other CS guys liked to tinker around with it when we were in college. I actually make a living as a software engineer, so I have no clue how Linux works. In Windows, if you try to allocate a rediculous amount of RAM (beyond the 4GB virtual memory space on 32-bit), it will simply fail. At no point does the OS randomly pick some arbitrary process to simply terminate. If it needs more physical RAM for the active process, it just swaps the memory of a non-active process out to disk. How on earth could a system work where your application is constantly in danger of being randomly terminated through no fault of it's own? What criteria would be used to choose the victims? That is the most rediculous concept I have ever heard. I would be shocked if this was actually how Linux worked by default.

Whatever the reason, the iPod app terminating while using Safari is a bug.
 
Help!!!!!

OK...so I awake this morning and download 1.1.2 from the link at the top of this thread. I attempted the alt/option + click restore. It appeared to be going fine until all of the sudden I get the "connect to itunes logo image" on the iPhone. Then iTunes froze and I got the beach ball. At the time there was an activity window which said "Preparing iPhone for software upgrade"...

I waited and waited and nothing. So I tried to force quit iTunes....nothing. Then I resorted to restarting the whole thing, removed the phone from the dock, and tried again...only this is where it REALLY starts to suck...

Now, when I connect the iPhone to the computer...its not showing up in iTunes at all, and I am still getting the beach ball.

Someone PLEASE help me....WTH?!?!:mad:

Craig
 
Windows Users:

You need to hold down the SHIFT key and then click on Restore in iTunes. This will bring up the box where you can select the 160mb file that you downloaded. :)

Hope this helps.
 
ryanmcv said:
Windows Users:

You need to hold down the SHIFT key and then click on Restore in iTunes. This will bring up the box where you can select the 160mb file that you downloaded. :)

Hope this helps.
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I did this by holding Ctrl Shift and right clicking on Check for Update and restore went perfectly...It did take about 3-5 minutes to complete.
 
drummingcraig said:
OK...so I awake this morning and download 1.1.2 from the link at the top of this thread. I attempted the alt/option + click restore. It appeared to be going fine until all of the sudden I get the "connect to itunes logo image" on the iPhone. Then iTunes froze and I got the beach ball. At the time there was an activity window which said "Preparing iPhone for software upgrade"...

I waited and waited and nothing. So I tried to force quit iTunes....nothing. Then I resorted to restarting the whole thing, removed the phone from the dock, and tried again...only this is where it REALLY starts to suck...

Now, when I connect the iPhone to the computer...its not showing up in iTunes at all, and I am still getting the beach ball.

Someone PLEASE help me....WTH?!?!:mad:

Craig
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OK....phew....back in busniess. I finally got iTunes to recognize that the iPhone was in "Recovery mode" and needed to be restored. So its now back up and running on 1.1.2.

Nice little morning scare...and I haven't even finished my first cup of coffee!:eek:

Craig
 
Blue Arrow Bug

So I come to this iPhone update thread using my iPhone, and Safari just randomly crashed when I first tried to post.

Then I restart Safari, and hyperlinking has frozen. I go to other web sites but hyperlinking won't work. First reboot of the day, but there are sure to be more.

To add insult to injury, I try to navigate to "Last Page" on this thread, and the blue iPod play arrow pops up spontaneously. To stop this battery-draining glitch, which is a known bug, I have to exit Safari, open iPod, choose a song, and then hit the stop button to make the blue arrow go away.

Now that I've finally made it to this iPhone update thread, allow me to ask Apple to kindly issue an update that fixes this buggy $400 device.
 
This may be a dumb question from one iPhone user to others, but can I connect and sync my iPhone and NOT be forced to update?

(I have it set NOT to automatically check)
 
tom5304 said:
So I come to this iPhone update thread using my iPhone, and Safari just randomly crashed when I first tried to post.

Then I restart Safari, and hyperlinking has frozen. I go to other web sites but hyperlinking won't work. First reboot of the day, but there are sure to be more.

To add insult to injury, I try to navigate to "Last Page" on this thread, and the blue iPod play arrow pops up spontaneously. To stop this battery-draining glitch, which is a known bug, I have to exit Safari, open iPod, choose a song, and then hit the stop button to make the blue arrow go away.

Now that I've finally made it to this iPhone update thread, allow me to ask Apple to kindly issue an update that fixes this buggy $400 device.
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Which firmware version are you running - I haven't updated to 1.1.2 yet and was really hoping that it would fix these kinds or problems!
 
GTiPhone said:
This may be a dumb question from one iPhone user to others, but can I connect and sync my iPhone and NOT be forced to update?

(I have it set NOT to automatically check)
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Yes, you can connect your phone without being forced to update.
 
SFC Archer said:
For those of you that have been whining and crying forever about ringtones and adding your own creations...IT NOW WORKS!

I had saved all of my converted to .m4r ringtones from the old 1.0.2 era and after each update have tried to install them.

Today after the the 1.1.2 install, I dragged all 5 of my favorite tones to the library, dropped them in and they automatically went to the ringtone folder. I then hit sync and they were transferred to the iPhone and WORK without any restrictions!!!

HOPE THIS MAKES YOUR RINGTONE DAY!!!

Good Luck and Enjoy:D
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Wondering if you can provide details such as:

Running Mac OS or windows
OS version
QuickTime version
iTunes version
 
Consultant said:
Wondering if you can provide details such as:

Running Mac OS or windows
OS version
QuickTime version
iTunes version
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I am running Windows XP
The most recent version of iTunes/Quick Time 7.5.20 and whatever the new quick time is.
And just updated to 1.1.2

The ringtones installed with no issues except for one that I had to drag and drop into the ringtone folder in My Music. I have synced 4 times now and everything is still in place including the ones I assigned to a contact.
My iPhone has never been hacked (dont need it) and I have never used anything like iToner or iPhoneRingtoneMaker...figured if it didnt work or come with the phone...why bother.

Hope this helps...Good Luck
 
pacohaas said:
shouldn't even need iToner now, I think Apple gave up and said we can create our own ringtones now by renaming to m4r and drag and drop, like in the old iTunes versions.
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i'm sure this is a dumb question, but i will ask it anyway.

so then in garage band i can edit a song down to the 30 seconds or less that i want and then save it as an m4r?

thanks
 
Macrumors said:
... Devices in iTunes, battery icon shows up to indicate it charges. ...
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I think this may be at least partially wrong.

I don't have an iPhone, but I do have an iPod.

The battery charger indicator started showing up in the last iTunes update day before yesterday. I am fairly sure this is part of the iTunes software update and not the iPhone firmware update.
 
bubbahotep68 said:
Since the iPhone is not on sale in Japan just yet (heck, it does not even work in Japan at all), the iPhone does not HAVE to support Japanese. So it doesn't.

I am not saying that is right or wrong, and I am certainly not defending it since I am also in need of Japanese input and have been waiting for it since the iPod Touch was announce; however, that is the rationale on Apple's part for not enabling that feature just yet.
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Yeah, I can kind-of understand what Apple is thinking about this,
but even though I speak Japanese I'm living in the U.S. and have a contract with AT&T. (sorry for the shouting :p)

Can't we sue Apple for discriminating based on the language a person speaks ? Of course I'm joking, but I don't really understand why they are allowed not support Spanish here in the U.S.

I'll jailbreak my 1.1.1 in the weekend.
I wonder if 1.1.2 removed the secret support of non-officially-supported languages...
 
Virgil-TB2 said:
I think this may be at least partially wrong.

I don't have an iPhone, but I do have an iPod.

The battery charger indicator started showing up in the last iTunes update day before yesterday. I am fairly sure this is part of the iTunes software update and not the iPhone firmware update.
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Sorry to say...IT IS part of the iPhone update because it does not activate until you install version 1.1.2...I DO have an iPhone and sync it daily and it was not there yesterday and is today. My daughters new Nano also did show after update iTunes 7.5.20 so it requires BOTH updated to activate.

Good Luck
 
Beware...

I downloaded the 1.1.2 update this morning from the link provided in the post and tried to update using the shift-click and pick the restore file method. Everything seemed to be going fine (iTunes was displaying a message about "preparing iPhone for restore") until iTunes displayed a message saying that it couldn't restore the phone (error 1604.)

I rebooted, tried restoring back to 1.1.1, soft-reset the phone, etc. Nothing would get the phone out of "recovery mode."

Out of desperation, I called apple. When they found out that I had downloaded the restore file FROM THE APPLE WEBSITE, they said it wasn't supported. When I explained that in a few hours that iTunes WOULD have downloaded the file on its own, he said it didn't matter.

So yeah. Do this update at your own risk, etc., etc.

Not that I shouldn't have known that before I did it.

Edit: The issue is fixed, btw. I removed the 1.1.2 file from the c:\documents and settings\my username\application data\apple computer\itunes\iphone software updates\ directory that I had downloaded and tried to restore again. iTunes said there was an update available and downloaded the 1.1.2 file again. This time the restore worked. I have no idea what was keeping it from working the first time.
 
pacohaas said:
shouldn't even need iToner now, I think Apple gave up and said we can create our own ringtones now by renaming to m4r and drag and drop, like in the old iTunes versions.
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Can you elaborate? I had not read this was added back. Are you saying that with iTunes 7.5 and 1.1.2 you can do the m4r trick again?
 
Still nothing in iTunes yet. Seems odd that they would make this downloadable with first packing it into iTunes for mass consumption. Anyone else able to update via the iTunes "Check for Update" module?
 
Just ran the update on my Windows PC, unhacked iPhone, by shift clicking on check for updates. Pointed it to the downloaded file, and 5 minutes later it is done.

Now if they can get Safari and iPod to work simultaneously, and figure out why an appointment I put in at 4 PM on my iPhone shows up at 3 PM in outlook, and why something put in at 3 PM in outlook shows up at 4 PM on the phone. It's really screwing with me! I think it only started when daylight savings time switched over last week.
 
International Keyboards available before 1.1.2

I have seen some screenshots of 1.1.2 and one thing I noticed is that the new key with a small globe that appears next to the space key on the iPhone keyboard (which lets you change the keyboard language) already appeared in some hacked iPhones before the update. I myself had installed a modified M68AP.plist (under /System/Library/CoreServices/SpringBoard.app) that made the trick, but I ended up sticking to the original file once that I had no interest on the hack. Apparently, however, the modified file gave support to more languages than the official update, but I am not sure of it.
 
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