iPhone Firmware 2.0.2 Released

[spencerlamb]

much appreciated for the reply yeah when it fails to send it does say failed to connect to smtp, il have a little play around with it see if i can get something working as i have no problem recieving emails on 3g just never been able to send. cheers again spencer.

I sometimes get this, its because of the smtp servers. When on 3G your primary smtp probably won't work, so it could be stuck trying to connect to that smtp and never get to the at&t-3g smtp. Try inactivating your primary smtp, and then sending. If that works, you may also try switching the 2 - making at&t primary. But you may get the reverse problem when you're on wifi.

 

[yrsonicdeath]

All this morning I've been getting a steady "No Service," which I have not seen until today sitting at the same desk I sit at every weekday since I had the 3g.

My 3G internet connectivity is terrible now. It's so slow that my iphone goes to sleep before pages load. I'm not sure what's wrong? Is anyone else having this problem? I know some people in D.C. are having the same issue.

I'm in Mclean, Va and having the same issues.

 

[fronheiser]

I live in a non-3G area, but close to one. So I don't expect anything but EDGE in the house, here.

I was a 2-3 bar person. Now I have 5 bars. No clue if that means anything as I haven't made or received any calls. I normally have the phone forwarded to the house anyway and airplane mode on while home to eliminate the GSM speaker interference in my home office.

I did get an error saying iTunes couldn't recognize the phone, restore to factory settings. I pulled it from the dock, rebooted the phone, stuck it back in the dock and it's fine.

So far.

Just seems like a release rushed to market. More problems than I had in almost a year with the original iPhone.

All this morning I've been getting a steady "No Service," which I have not seen until today sitting at the same desk I sit at every weekday since I had the 3g.

I had that happen until I rebooted the phone. Then I got 5 bars (EDGE).

 

[sgfrontman]

No bars in my places

My 3G internet connectivity is terrible now. It's so slow that my iphone goes to sleep before pages load. I'm not sure what's wrong? Is anyone else having this problem? I know some people in D.C. are having the same issue.

I am in Rockville, MD (near DC for the non-locals) and my issue isn't 3G speed but that I just don't get a signal. My fiancée has the iPhone EDGE and gets an average of 3 bars and I am pretty constant at 1 bar.

2.0.2 does not fix this problem. Apple, HELP!

 

[bronksy]

'no service' issue

I too have noticed the 'no service' message that has been coming up on scree.. It seems to take a very long time after boot up to get the service.

Also I noticed the other day that the 3g iphone takes ages to get a signal after being out of service. I travel on the tube a lot and the phone seems to take way too long to get a network when i get out of the underground.

Perhaps the new update speeds this up? But i have had 'no service' showing on my phone today and i work in Central London.. dont think that is right?


Cheers people!

 

[yrsonicdeath]

I had that happen until I rebooted the phone. Then I got 5 bars (EDGE).

I did this and now have 2-3 bars of EDGE which is a little better than I normally get, but I also have noticed that I get better data signal early in the morning.

 

[macfettish]

Sweet iPhone

Am I the only one with a trouble-free iPhone 3G? Backs up in about 10-25 seconds (I only have a couple of pages of apps). Phone is responsive, screen is not particularly yellow (but then I never had a first gen to compare it with). Few problems with apps crashing, and good, pretty consistent 3G reception. The update's not changed this, maybe it's a little quicker now. I should probably keep quiet right?!

 

[yrsonicdeath]

I am in Rockville, MD (near DC for the non-locals) and my issue isn't 3G speed but that I just don't get a signal. My fiancée has the iPhone EDGE and gets an average of 3 bars and I am pretty constant at 1 bar.

2.0.2 does not fix this problem. Apple, HELP!

I live very close to Rockville proximity-wise although it takes a while to drive there because I'm right across the river. I get a huge lack of signal as well although I'm well inside the 3g coverage maps provided by AT&T.

Right now however I'm able to stream WAMU over tuner and it's working steadily although like I said earlier, I have found that signal is better early in the morning.

 

[peterdevries]

This shouldnt matter should it? On the phone you could send a message as long as you want and it only shows as one message. I'd be pretty annoyed if I found out I was sending 3 messages when there is no warning of this on the phone

Yeah, but that's exactly what's happening. Did you really think you could write a 5000 charachter SMS and be charged only for one sms? The number of characters in an sms is fixed to 160 charachters. Each sms you write is truncated in 160 charachter portions and delivered as such. Most mobiles assemble these messages into one sms again, so it looks as one sms has been received.

 

[westernmass]

second time syncing no Back Up = quick sync time

I have not read all the responses so forgive if mentioned already.

Gen1 phone, no issues with update or backup. I did it at hope and when I got to work this morning I did a Sync. Took about a minute compared to about 5 it was taking. It started with the backup then calander and contacts. I made a change in Outlook and wanted to update the phone. On this the second sync it did not do the backup it normally was doing, it just went to sync and was done in a few (maybe 8 seconds). I only changed 3 contacts. still just important to not I thought that it did not go through the backup as it had been.

 

[ericsante]

it killed my phone

my phone is stuck in restore mode after I applied the 2.0.2 update. I just got the phone on Friday with 2.0.1 pre-loaded.

 

[lopoz]

This shouldnt matter should it? On the phone you could send a message as long as you want and it only shows as one message. I'd be pretty annoyed if I found out I was sending 3 messages when there is no warning of this on the phone

An SMS message can contain only 160 characters, so AFAIK if you go over the limit, the phone automatically sends it as multiple messages.
In other words: if you type 161 characters, you send (and pay for) 2 SMS messages..

I think it's really ridiculous that there's no way to tell how many messages you're sending.. Just a way for the telco's to make more money..

 

[wadejc85]

An SMS message can contain only 160 characters, so AFAIK if you go over the limit, the phone automatically sends it as multiple messages.
In other words: if you type 161 characters, you send (and pay for) 2 SMS messages..

I think it's really ridiculous that there's no way to tell how many messages you're sending.. Just a way for the telco's to make more money..

I do wish that Apple would put in a character count.

I would also like to share my 2.0.2 3G connectivity... er, I mean non-connectivity. My 3G was always bad, but now I can't even get 1 bar 3G where I used to before. I still get perfect Edge, though. Hmm....

 

[steve1973]

3G signal still fluctuates wildly

Here on Long Island the 3G signal still fluctuates wildly from 5 to 0 bars (at my home address.)

When I drive near the closest cell tower I have speedtested my download speeds to 1.1 Mbps= 134kB/s This occurs with the signal meter pinned at 5 bars.


Does anyone know what the claimed speed of 3G under ideal conditions should be?

 

[fmiddleton]

Hey since i purchased my Iphone 3g i have never been able to send email when i have 3g reception even when i have full signal, does anyone else have this problem? does anyone know how to resolve this? as soon as i then connect to my home wifi the mail sends straight away. cheers spencer.

Assuming you aren't using one of the default mail services (Google, MobileMe, etc), my hunch would be that the port on your send mail is blocked by AT&T, but not your ISP at home. Hunch #2: you setup email while on a wireless network instead of over the air.

Try: delete the mail account, go on to the 3G network (not WiFi), and set the account up again. When the phone tries to check the SMTP service it will probably come back with an error and ask if you want to try secure/SSL. Tell it yes. Once complete you can go back to WiFi. Hopefully that fixes things.

If that doesn't work:
On your phone, go to Settings - Mail - account you're having problem with.
Select the outgoing mail server (SMTP)
Primary server at top of page: select it (probably smtp.xxxxx.com)
Is the server port number 25? (don't know if 2525 gets blocked also?)

If yes, go to your mail provider and look for the "alternate port SMTP settings." Enter those settings back on the page you were just looking at. The port number is probably 587 or 465.

 

[rtdunham]

It's not yet known if this software update fixes rumored 3G connectivity issues.

don't forget first-gen iPhone owners with connectivity problems.

In its typical location at rest on the kitchen counter mine shows two bars after the update--one was typical beforehand. But the first call i made this morning had to be terminated because the person on the other end said the call was breaking up and they couldn't hear me. (the call was replaced with one from my voip phone and quality was perfect, so assumption is the problem was on my end).

I'm still hoping something's been improved, but this is a rotten start.

 

[Mastidon]

Hey Guys,

I live in Germany. Have a 3G 16 meg. I have had some wild results with the GPS.

With 2.0, it frequently said I was in Milan - I wish.
With 2.01, it worked almost perfect
With 2.02, it can't quite put me on the street. It has me driving through houses or even past intersections. It seems the triangulation is a bit off.

Here is hoping 2.1 fixed the GPS issue once and for all....

Well, I have moved back to Milan - according to my IPhone GPS anyway. Funny how looking out the window still looks like Mainz, Germany.

 

[Mark Booth]

GPS is absolutely working better/faster! Getting a fix using the locate feature is actually useable now!

Mark

 

[GNice]

Once again I'm amazed at the wildly different experiences of people. It is impossible to determine what got fixed or improved because the experiences of people are so different. What seems to be great for one person, is horrible for another. *sigh*

 

[fmiddleton]

Does anyone know what the claimed speed of 3G under ideal conditions should be?

Theoretically, ~14Mb/s downlink and ~1Mb/s uplink, but I've heard the chipset is limited to 7.2Mb/s downlink.

According to http://hspa.gsmworld.com/devices/detail.asp, the data rate on the iPhone is capped at 3.6Mb/s.

AT&T is/was rumored to limit the bandwidth to 1.4Mb/s downlink.

 

[rtdunham]

evidence of change in signal-grabbing?

Also I've noticed GPS is working better indoors. Before it always showed me in Houston Texas. Now it shows me where I'm actually at with a 3-4 bars instead of 1-2.

Yesterday "locate me" on my lst-gen phone located me fairly precisely, on the road immediately in front of my place. Today it first located me half a mile west of home; without touching the device it re-located me about ten blocks south.

So accuracy's declined. But i'd take the results as evidence the phone is responding differently, to different towers, than it used to, in its triangulation efforts. That suggests to me something was included in the 2.0.2 update in an effort to improve reception on the first-gen phones.

 

[HyperZboy]

This notion that the problem, whatever it is, affects some units and not others, is entirely unsupported by the evidence. The 2% figure, if accurate, obviously does not mean that 2% of phones are broken, but rather that the problem affects approximately 2% of total users. There is a great deal of evidence that some of this is geographical; especially that users in very densely covered areas are the most affected.

Also, there is no reason to speculate that a software workaround will make the phone "slower" somehow. Most software workarounds for hardware problems are never even noticed by users.

3 POINTS...

1) 2% seems wildly too low to be geographic related to 3G/non-3G areas, sorry, sounds like you're grasping at straws to support Apple blindly to me.

2) I'd like to know if the original iPhone had an INFINEON chipset & memory because I've never used a video card with INFINEON memory before that I didn't have trouble with and/or that didn't have to be downclocked or made to run slower than its specs. And no, my original iPhone does not have this problem.

3) If the # is much greater than 2%, this is gonna be REALLY bad news for Apple.

 

[born4sky]

contact lag is still there ... it's most annoying thing ever

 

[rtdunham]

Quote:
Originally Posted by ki2594
an update cant improve the camera lens

Has anyone found this guy's sense of humor floating around on any other threads. He seems to be missing it here.

i saw it for a second on page 8 of the comments, but it drifted off the screen as i was watching...

 

[kingtj]

re: bugs fixed

That's a pretty major bug to fix, if it's really affecting all the 1st. gen iPhones! I have one, but wouldn't know if that was an issue on mine or not, because I no longer have any speakers or in-car adapters that rely on audio going through the dock port like that.

If this was a universal problem, I think they might have updated 2.01 to 2.02 solely for that!

(But it's obvious they ALSO are trying to make some changes to the 3g reception with this update, because the modem firmware reports being a much newer revision after 2.01 to 2.02 is done on those phones.)

I'm wondering if anyone can report any fixes related to syncing calendars with Exchange server (for people NOT using MobileME)? Apparently, iPhones (either gen.) using the 2.01 or 2.00 firmware to sync with a corporate Exchange server were having issues where you couldn't add new calendar entries from the phone, and have them show up properly all the time in Outlook 2007 on a desktop PC afterwards. You had to make sure you entered all of them at your desktop, and used the iPhone in pretty much just a "read only" mode, if you didn't want any of that to get screwed up. Major issue for some corporate salespeople and the like ....

Well, this update fixed a very real bug for me on my first generation iPhone. My audio out through the dock port had stopped working. Did not work with my radio in my car or my speakers at work. That really sucked. As of this morning, all is working fine again.