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Upgrading from Unofficial iPhone 2.0 Firmware to Official 2.0 Firmware

i downloaded the 1,2 firmware yesterday and installed it, while installing around 8 apps. noticed a slight sluggishness to the phone itself, noticeably while sending SMS and scrolling between the 2 home pages. applications seemed to run well enough, and i experience no crashes.

had initial problems this morning in attempting to "restore" the phone to the official 1,1 released firmware. originally was given the no resource error, but finally was able to obtain the update. process completely successfully until the activation step which required the itunes server activation process. took around 3 hours (started at 8:30am or so, finally was able to get through and activate my phone around 11:30am.)

honestly, i see little difference in 1,1 as compared to 1,2. SMS still seems a bit sluggish and scrolling from home screen to home screen still feels muddy. not to discredit people for saying that 1,1 fixed everything, but i find it very hard to believe that everything was "magically" fixed with this "official" firmware due to having used both and seeing hardly any difference between the two.

guaranteed if you had two phones, one running 1,1 and one running 1,2 most if not all would not be able to tell which one was which.
 
dacreativeguy said:
You are blaming Apple because:

1. someone read the itunes source code and extracted the link for unreleased firmware without knowing exactly what products that firmware supported
2. you 'stole' that unreleased firmware from Apple and installed it on your iphone
3. the firmware was later found to be incorrect for your model iphone and/or didn't work properly on your iphone
4. you had to install the CORRECT firmware once Apple officially released it and offered it to you.

Now who did the botching, exactly?
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OK. You read a WHOLE lot more into my one sentence than you should have.

1. This has nothing to do with the servers being down.
2. I did not download the leaked firmware and encouraged others (check my posts) to NOT download it.
3. Not applicable.
4. I have not yet updated my phone.

On top of that, I never blamed Apple. I said the rollout was botched. There are many parties involved in that.

So sad....
 
A Success Story

Downloaded and installed the 'unofficial' version this morning with no problems. Phone worked well, added apps, happy days.

After reading some of the posts I nervously decided to revert to the 'official' build. Followed the steps laid down at the top of the thread and successfully reverted to the official build in less than 15 minutes. Not a single problem. All apps copied over, mail and contacts fine too.

Don't be too afraid folks.
 
I'm seeing the difference in responsiveness as well.

My 1,1 still felt like mud until I turned the phone off then back on. I never trust anything installed without that "extra" reboot at the end.

Now that I've done that it's outperforming what I installed yesterday, hands down.
 
Jocko said:
LOL. Love the paranoia. Today's is snappier than yesterdays. Hilarious. How different do you think the hardware is between the two phones? Not much! It's the same build. I'd love to see a diff of the files on my phone vs. your phones after you've spent all this time re installing the same files on your phone again from the 1,1 package. Have fun! I'm gonna get back to using my phone.

Maybe I'll go reinstall Windows on my PC. I heard Microsoft just released a version that is on a CD that is a different color than it was before.
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I dig the sarcasm, but you forgot to notice that there are two different builds of the new 2.0 software we are discussing. 1,2 2.0 5A347 is the first one that many of us installed yesterday. 1,1 2.0 5A347 is the latest one released by apple today. This was discussed in another thread - there are a couple of files in the latest build that are different.

The first build we installed was slower than the latest. No trickery or smoke/mirrors. We shouldn't have installed it in the first place, but what the heck. Got to try out the applications a few hours before the masses.

chris
 
1st gen iPhone 8GB missing some capacity on 2.0?!

Weird.

So, I just updated using the "official firmware" link, took about 10-15 mins for everything (minus tunes and videos etc, obviously) I had no issues with the phone activating to at&t... but the funny thing is the phone has magically gone from 7.27GB capacity to 7.08 capacity. I'm not really going to miss the 200MB difference that much, but that could translate to 100 up to maybe even 300 apps that I could have... oh well ;)

Is anyone else noticing the same? Is it because the update is bigger? :confused:

Thanks Apple. :cool:
 
I cannot take photos with the 1,2 FW. I have tried everything... I've reset 3x. All kinds of problems. Restarting on its own, etc... I am going to try to put the "official" FW on. Grrrrrr...
 
I did find one possible difference between yesterday's 1,2 software, and the official 1,1 software. Yesterday, when I curled up the map in google maps, the button under "Drop Pin" said something along the lines of "Traffic not available in this area" (sorry I am not sure about the actual wording). After using arn's instructions to install the official version of 2.0, the button now says Hide Traffic/Show Traffic. I've never seen the button say "Traffic not available in this area" in any 1.x version. I'm not 100% sure that this has to do with the firmware, but maybe someone with the unofficial version can check theirs?
 
so i take it by now the server is handling authorizations speedily again?

i'm curious if all these re-authorizations thanks to all of us putting the wrong firmware on our phones is helping to slow their server situation down. it can't be helping. way to go macrumors!!! and techcrunch... you didn't help much either!! ;)
 
.vin. said:
I did find one possible difference between yesterday's 1,2 software, and the official 1,1 software. Yesterday, when I curled up the map in google maps, the button under "Drop Pin" said something along the lines of "Traffic not available in this area" (sorry I am not sure about the actual wording). After using arn's instructions to install the official version of 2.0, the button now says Hide Traffic/Show Traffic. I've never seen the button say "Traffic not available in this area" in any 1.x version. I'm not 100% sure that this has to do with the firmware, but maybe someone with the unofficial version can check theirs?
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it's not possible that the traffic was simply not available at the time?
 
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007bond4321 said:
dr_lha said:
Regardless of your incredulity, I can also confirm that I had slowness issues with the 1,2 package on a 1,1 iPhone, that was cured by installing the 1,1 firmware. The sluggishness was immediately noticeable after installation of the 1,2 firmware, but I just wrote it off as the usual "new OS, slower performance" thing we get from Apple. I'm very happy that installing the correct firmware has fixed it.
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Good to hear, I'm waiting to get home to crossload 1,1.... 1,2 seems sluggish on my original iPhone
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I want to get home too to do the exact same thing.
 
Re: Iphone firmware install

Hi,
I downloaded it from the link yesterday, I had to use Firefox to get it to download properly. The install took about 20-30 minutes on a 1.25 mhz G4. It took almost an hour to sync all my music and contacts. Working great though no problems, installed apps no problem seen.


Jeffrey

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I got a little jumpy and installed the early release update yesterday. I noticed some sluggishness but figured that it was normal. I'm going to install the official update now. The restore button on iTunes isn't working though so I'm doing a manual full system restore through the iPhone menu. Hopefully this won't be too bad. I must admit the full restore feature takes a good 45 minutes to an hour. I'm at about 60% now.

*fingers crossed*

Hopefully us 1st gens will be good to go.

On a side note: here in Nashville, the iPhones were reported out of stock at the Apple store and all metro AT&T stores by 10:00AM. Damn Vanderbilt students ($$$)

Good luck to all with everything going on with Apple!
 
So What's the Difference

The Difference folks is there is 2 sets of firmware Flash. 1.) for the new 3G Phone and 1.) for the gen Iphone - (i.e. last nights sneeky peak download - is larger because you had 2 sets of Flash)

I wouldn't panic too much, as phones either take a flash or they don't. The file was larger to accomodate people testing both hardware versions of phones. Mine works fine. What they are releasing right now is only the m68 flash for older Iphones, duh. The new 3G already has the latest 2.0 - so there's your size difference. In my humble opinion, size of file in this case doesn't matter.
 
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.vin. said:
I did find one possible difference between yesterday's 1,2 software, and the official 1,1 software. Yesterday, when I curled up the map in google maps, the button under "Drop Pin" said something along the lines of "Traffic not available in this area" (sorry I am not sure about the actual wording). After using arn's instructions to install the official version of 2.0, the button now says Hide Traffic/Show Traffic. I've never seen the button say "Traffic not available in this area" in any 1.x version. I'm not 100% sure that this has to do with the firmware, but maybe someone with the unofficial version can check theirs?
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Yep. You are right. It says traffic is unavaiable.
 
Aniej said:
I'm glad the link to the correct update has been posted. I have been getting the strangest error message when I try to do a restore. Anyone else experience this message or know whether it might be related to the unofficial 2.0 firmware?
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I got the same message, too. Also, for some reason, itunes kept loading podcasts onto my phone that I had deleted from my mac. I got itunes to not sync them yesterday, but now not having any luck. So now I'm hoping the correct software for my OG iphone will alleviate this problem. Just now synching after installing the iphone 1,1 update. So far so good
 
help a moron

Ok help a non techi. If I don't follow the direct link from mac rumors...can I expect to find the firmware update when I "check for updates?" this is with an original Iphone? has the new firmware not been "officially" put out? every time i check for updates I get a window that says 1.1.4 is the current no updates available. am I doing something wrong?

-help:confused:
 
I upgraded my original iPhone (legit on O2 UK) with the leaked 1,2 release yesterday, didn't notice anything odd, all went smoothly. "Just in case" I've installed the official 1,1 release. Again all went smoothly, activated within 30 secs (servers obviously sorted now), chose not to restore from back-up "just in case".

Only one odd thing, 4 previously downloaded Apps failed to sync and all the Apps that did sync immediately dropped back to the home screen. Deleting the Apps and re-downloading them fixed this, I'm guessing it's a good ole' DRM issue perhaps.
 
Is there anything functionally different with the official 2.0 software. I upgraded my phone with the leak and am very happy with it, it runs smooth and if it wasn't for this recent news I wouldn't know any different. One thing that was a pleasant surprise to me was the screenshot function, I heard someone in another post say this did not work for them. Since screenshots are kind of a developer necessity I'm wondering if this was unique to the leaked software. For the time being I think I'm going to stick with what I have, but anyone knows of any features not in the official version I would be interested in hearing about it.
 
I'm keeping this first 2.0, as I have a feeling there are features on there only for 3G. I know for a fact there were 2 sets of Flash (M68.ap.productions) and (N85.ap.production - the 3G firmware). Now this official one is missing N85. starting to make sense ? I'm keeping this early linked firmware until I have problems.
 
Hard to tell how desperate I am with this iPod Touch?
I restored my ipod with the slight glimmer of hope that it would suddenly say there's new software available.
And now, it's forgotten about the software upgrade I put in back in January,
which MEANS, that i no longer have weather, stocks and all that stuff. SOMEHOW though, my ipod touch still has web clips, and can flick through the different home screens, but i cant rearrange the icons. Which now means there are gaps where the old apps were, all scattered around the home screen, but i cant re-arrange them.
Can you imagine what it looks like?!?!?!?!?!
and now it wont let me put the upgrade back in cos there's some "error". Brilliant. This new software better be worth the freakin hassle.
 
Jocko said:
Maybe I'll go reinstall Windows on my PC. I heard Microsoft just released a version that is on a CD that is a different color than it was before.
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The images are NOT the same.

235957125 Jul 8 12:54 iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw
228768637 Jul 11 08:13 iPhone1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw

You can unzip both and see the contents are different.

If I were installing Windows again, I think I would use the newest pressed CD from MS. I would think they include the most current 3rd party drivers and OS bug fixes.
 
FakeWozniak said:
The images are NOT the same.

235957125 Jul 8 12:54 iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw
228768637 Jul 11 08:13 iPhone1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw

You can unzip both and see the contents are different.

If I were installing Windows again, I think I would use the newest pressed CD from MS. I would think they include the most current 3rd party drivers and OS bug fixes.
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Look at the difference. Its the Flash Update for 2 different sets of hardware.
 
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