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iPhone 2.1 Firmware Now Available

Shasterball said:
I officially hate repeat text messages.... I get too many to be "reminded" every few minutes.
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I can't believe there's no way to turn this off. It's very useful for me as I have to have my phone turned on silent in school and I often don't feel the first short vibrate, but I know it would drive many people crazy being reminded they have a text that they already know about. I think it would have been wiser for Apple to leave it the way it was, and it would have been muuuuch wiser for them to give you the options of how long the interval is before it reminds you you have a text and to be able to turn off this feature entirely.
 
gceo said:
Welcome!!!

Yeah, try a simple on/off first. If still slow, do a reset (10 second hold of Home and Sleep buttons until you see the Apple logo), if that doesn't work I would think about a doing a restore.
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Hi, restoring finally did the trick, and everything is smooth and responsive. Thank you very much!!!
 
RE: sending pics via email as an alternative to a feature that *should* have been included in the iPhone from day one......

Wow. that's totally cool. Nice tip
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.....when it works.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people get excited about bug fixes. It's as if we've decided that flaws are a necessary evil.

It's been said a bazillion times but I'm 'gonna say it one ore time; where is MMS, Apple?
 
skinnylegs said:
.....when it works.

It never ceases to amaze me how many people get excited about bug fixes. It's as if we've decided that flaws are a necessary evil.

It's been said a bazillion times but I'm 'gonna say it one ore time; where is MMS, Apple?
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It's called email. You're going to have to learn to live with it. We probably won't ever get it, and we're probably not getting copy+paste and video until (at least) MacWorld '09.
 
tuffluffjimmy said:
It's called email. You're going to have to learn to live with it. We probably won't ever get it, and we're probably not getting copy+paste and video until (at least) MacWorld '09.
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Yeah tell that to the other several billion people in the world who don' have (and don't want to have) email-enabled mobile phones.
 
tuffluffjimmy said:
dang! They'll have to wait until they get home to check that oh so important picture you sent from your favorite band's concert.
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Get a grip, dude. The iPhone is possibly the *single* cell phone made that is not MMS capable. MMS is an important way that people communicate and no, it's not always about concerts. This is a *major* blunder on the part of Apple. *Please* don't make excuses for them.....

So, if you want to say lack of MMS is a trade-off because the majority of the other features are superior; I can live with that but don't do making lame excuses for a feature that is lacking and *should* be there.

Allow me to take it a step further. I "switched" about four years ago because I liked Apple hardware and the way it integrates seamlessly with their software. I have noticed that since the introduction of the iPhone, quality control is really slipping. The reality is that the vast majority of these bug fixes should have addressed a long time ago if quality control were doing its job.

I have purchased an iMac, MBP, Apple TV, iPhone and more iPods than I can count (I engrave my company name on them and give them as gifts). It is *precisely* because of guys like me who have switched and spent a lot of money on Apple products that their market share is increasing. If guys like me start getting jaded with their products.....

Capesh?
 
If MMS is soooo vital to someone why on earth would they buy an iPhone. 30 secs of research and anyone would know the iPhone doesn't support MMS. It's your blunder, not Apple's if you bought an iPhone and feel MMS is a must have.
 
GNice said:
If MMS is soooo vital to someone why on earth would they buy an iPhone. 30 secs of research and anyone would know the iPhone doesn't support MMS. It's your blunder, not Apple's if you bought an iPhone and feel MMS is a must have.
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Thanks, Mr. Obvious. :rolleyes: I, like the vast majority of other people, knew MMS was not supported when I initially purchased the iPhone. However, I, like the vast majority of people, thought Apple would have corrected this by now.

BTW.....it *is* possible. You might want to invest 30 seconds of research yourself.
 
I purchased my 3G just a week ago and while I did not have much keyboard lag I did have contacts lag. I updated to 2.1 yesterday at noon and used the phone quite extensively. However, something quite disconcerting happened roughly 12 hours afterwards in that the phone refused to come out of sleep mode, either by pressing the home button or the sleep/awake button.

However, a call from a payphone to my phone took it out of sleep mode. But, going back into sleep mode it would not awake again, except for another phone call.

Finally, a reset solved this problem but it was most disconcerting.

Any ideas on this? Could this be hardware related?

Peter
 
I personally don't know anyone that uses MMS. I have had it on my past four or five phones, but at most maybe one message. Email does the same thing, but can be viewed on PC and iPhone. I also don't use the camera either. Cell phone cameras are junk.
 
Excellerator said:
I personally don't know anyone that uses MMS. I have had it on my past four or five phones, but at most maybe one message. Email does the same thing, but can be viewed on PC and iPhone. I also don't use the camera either. Cell phone cameras are junk.
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I don't use this feature either, but clearly the majority of the world does. Not being able to receive picture texts is silly. My 75 year old grandmother loves to send pics from her phone. If she is doing it, I am willing to bet a lot of other people are too.
 
Sadly...

I had two apps crash this morning for the first time since installing 2.1 -- the "PayPal" and "Movies" apps. However, after I reset the iPhone (power button + home button), everything was fine again.

Otherwise, from my perspective, the 2.1 firmware has lived up to its expectations :)

~WCP
 
I personally don't know anyone that uses MMS.
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Huh. I don't know anyone who *doesnt* use MMS. Errr......except iPhone users. :cool: Let me give you an example of why MMS is a great feature. My daughter and son-in-law have a new baby. Dad works all day and mom stays home and takes care of the baby. She likes to send pictures to dad so he can be a part of the experience. She has an iPhone and he doesn't. Get the picture? Now, I will be the first to admit that this isn't *necessary* but I ask you; are the vast majority of features on cell phones really necessary? For God's sake....I've been reading post after post about a pinball game that doesn't work with 2.1 and everybody is jumping on that bandwagon. LOL

Cell phone cameras are junk.
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....but they sure take some nice pictures! Just check out this thread.....

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/336174/
 
skinnylegs said:
Huh. I don't know anyone who *doesnt* use MMS. Errr......except iPhone users. :cool: Let me give you an example of why MMS is a great feature. My daughter and son-in-law have a new baby. Dad works all day and mom stays home and takes care of the baby. She likes to send pictures to dad so he can be a part of the experience. She has an iPhone and he doesn't. Get the picture? Now, I will be the first to admit that this isn't *necessary* but I ask you; are the vast majority of features on cell phones really necessary? For God's sake....I've been reading post after post about a pinball game that doesn't work with 2.1 and everybody is jumping on that bandwagon. LOL

....but they sure take some nice pictures! Just check out this thread.....

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/336174/
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I've never once in my life used MMS, despite having all MMS capable phones (until I got my iPhone)
 
Excellerator said:
I personally don't know anyone that uses MMS. I have had it on my past four or five phones, but at most maybe one message. Email does the same thing, but can be viewed on PC and iPhone. I also don't use the camera either. Cell phone cameras are junk.
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the US cell phone market is hardly a representation of the world's trends on mobile communications.

MMS are HUGE in popularity in Europe. Period!!
And yes, there are people who aren't buying iphones because of MMS.
I have a spare phone that I've kept just for sending MMS (receiving is a lot easier with spanish movistar since you have a web that's sort of like a webmail but where you see all your sms and mms).

You say for or five.. I can tell you all the phones I've had in the past.. 7 years have had MMS. That's 10+ phones, because for 5 years I lived in England and had two phones with two sim cards, one with my spanish numer and another one with the british one.

It's simple, so everyone just listen and get it straight: the world is not ready to give up mms for email just yet. Nor do they feel like they have to.

For one, data is more expensive than MMS!!! (in most countries that is if we don't consider the blackberries and iphone plans).
 
tuffluffjimmy said:
I've never once in my life used MMS, despite having all MMS capable phones (until I got my iPhone)
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I've never in my life paid for incoming calls or SMS within my own country, yet you do every day... so maybe mms is not that big in the US. But it is over here.

You're just getting 3G networks now in the US. I've had 3G phones for 4 years already.

YEs, japanese people have been using email for years.. yet their phone market is so huge that the iphone is not selling that greatly over there.

Apple has a hugely US-centric mentality. For computers or ipods that's fine. But not for mobile phones. They're failing to see this, and it's gonna come back to bite their a$$es.
 
I've never used MMS from the day I owned a cell phone, with iPhone Edge I never intended to and obviously with the 3G I never expect to use MMS ever.....

There are these certain small things that Apple decides are not fit for the World and kills them completely.... eg: floppy, serial port, etc....
 
WildCardPix said:
I had two apps crash this morning for the first time since installing 2.1 -- the "PayPal" and "Movies" apps. However, after I reset the iPhone (power button + home button), everything was fine again.

Otherwise, from my perspective, the 2.1 firmware has lived up to its expectations :)

~WCP
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doesnt restarting the phone temporarily fix the problems anyways? or are you in some way saying that your restart permanently "fixed" the problem?:confused:
 
jmmo20 said:
I've never in my life paid for incoming calls or SMS within my own country, yet you do every day... so maybe mms is not that big in the US. But it is over here.

You're just getting 3G networks now in the US. I've had 3G phones for 4 years already.

YEs, japanese people have been using email for years.. yet their phone market is so huge that the iphone is not selling that greatly over there.

Apple has a hugely US-centric mentality. For computers or ipods that's fine. But not for mobile phones. They're failing to see this, and it's gonna come back to bite their a$$es.
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The iPhone is already hugely successful in the US, sure it may never be as successful in the rest of the world, but I doubt Apple will make any sacrifices for its phone to sell better in Europe as long as it's selling well in the US.
 
jmmo20 said:
I've never in my life paid for incoming calls or SMS within my own country, yet you do every day... so maybe mms is not that big in the US. But it is over here.

You're just getting 3G networks now in the US. I've had 3G phones for 4 years already.

YEs, japanese people have been using email for years.. yet their phone market is so huge that the iphone is not selling that greatly over there.

Apple has a hugely US-centric mentality. For computers or ipods that's fine. But not for mobile phones. They're failing to see this, and it's gonna come back to bite their a$$es.
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if you are so ahead of the US in your technology, why are you still using "MMS", e-mail is obviously going to be the standard for picture messages in the future.. needless to say how come a place as japan with their technology did not make something better than the "iPhone" to fit their own market specifically.
 
RTiii320 said:
if you are so ahead of the US in your technology, why are you still using "MMS", e-mail is obviously going to be the standard for picture messages in the future.. needless to say how come a place as japan with their technology did not make something better than the "iPhone" to fit their own market specifically.
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I think you misunderstand the bit about the Japanese phone market. There are better phones there and that's why the iPhone isn't selling well over there.
 
RTiii320 said:
if you are so ahead of the US in your technology, why are you still using "MMS", e-mail is obviously going to be the standard for picture messages in the future.. needless to say how come a place as japan with their technology did not make something better than the "iPhone" to fit their own market specifically.
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Japan is actually more mature in mobile phones technology. I think though that if Japan more advanced is or not, is irrelevant. MMS is something that ALL mobile phones all over the world support. The iPhone should have it.

I don't use MMS, I never liked it but most people do.

There are other issues with the iPhone that a simple software update can solve:
  • Bluetooth support for file transfers. This is a must. I don't get it why Apple doesn't support that.
  • Forwarding of an SMS message...no comments here
  • copy/paste
 
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