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Upgrading from Unofficial iPhone 2.0 Firmware to Official 2.0 Firmware

I recommend to anyone who has the leaked 3G firmware to upgrade to the new official 2G firmware instead. The added features in the official build are as followed according to me after an intensive use of work and play:
1. The whole iPhone experience is amazingly zippy.
2. Applications that use to crash no longer crash.
3. The maps "follow-me" feature is still in there. It's faster as well.
4. Safari now has the ability to read embedded youtube videos into sites so when you tap it, it brings up a youtube pane so you can watch it. Note that this actually doesn't bring up youtube app itself but loads it within Safari. Amazingly cool.
5. You can press and hold the home button and then the sleep wake button to take a screenshot where it will be uploaded to the photos.app.
6. EVERYTHING the WWDC 2008 keynote contained.
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This is awesome. Way to go, Apple. I love you guys at Cupertino.
 
Location much better than 1.1.4

Updated leaked 1,2 yesterday and noticed MUCH better location at my house than ever before. Switched to 1,1 this evening due to sluggish performance and minor app crashes, location still works great. I feel much better about switching to official release at this point.
 
cualexander said:
I have a 2G iphone, I had installed the 3G firmware yesterday. Yes it mostly worked fine.

I have 2 confirmed features that now work correctly on the 1,1 firmware that did not work right on the 1,2 one.


1.) The contacts search was really slow to pull up.

2.) Saving pictures from an email did NOT work at all on the 1,2 firmware. They locked up both the camera and photo apps after saved and would not let me use them anymore until I actually deleted the photos from the iphone with iphoto.

On the correct firmware, Search pulls up really snappy and I can sucessfully save pictures from Email now, although they aren't available immediately. I think the iphone processes and optimizes in the background and does the process that the sync would do because a couple minutes later they were sucessfully imported.

So yes, it is a fact that the official firmware works better on the phone it was designed for.
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Unfortunately all this proves is it works betters on YOUR phone. Mine doesn't have any of the problems yours had -- I just tested both cases; the length time it takes to pull up contact search (via contacts app I assume) is kind of arbitrary (it's certainly not like I have to wait to type in a name or anything), but saving photos from email causing freezes of Photos and Camera apps is a pretty distinct test case, and I got no problem there.

So, seriously, was your phone jailbroken and/or unlocked? Let's face it, people who are likely to grab early stuff, even if from an official source, are more likely to at least jailbreak their iPhones. My case, I just didn't do either. I didn't unlock mine because I was cool with ATT -- as cool as with any other US carrier, and I don't carry a mobile... I mean, I carry my iPhone, but I don't make calls or use EDGE data on it -- when I travel overseas; in a pinch, if for some weird reason I'm not provided a local mobile by whoever brought me there, I buy a throwaway and expense it. In most cases I can just use my iPhone in a pinch and bill the gobs of voice and data international roaming charges; the throwaways are for people really tight with anything over above decent r&b and a per diem.

And I didn't jailbreak because I was too chicken.
 
joedaddy said:
Updated leaked 1,2 yesterday and noticed MUCH better location at my house than ever before. Switched to 1,1 this evening due to sluggish performance and minor app crashes, location still works great. I feel much better about switching to official release at this point.
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Yeah, Joe, I'm definitely gonna "side-grade" to the Oh-fishul release; I'm already confident I won't lose any features I care about. I just want to wait until next week so I don't have to go through an iTunes Store reactivation glut nightmare. Besides, I didn't, ahem, advance upgrade my wife's phone, so she can be the guinea pig, and I can report here if I notice any different between her phone updated straight to official upgrade via iTunes updater, and mine with the early-bird special via iTunes manual restore/update.
 
But I can already DO ALL THIS STUFF with my "leaked" firmware, with no crashes. (I haven't trying playing an embedded YT video, somebody send me a URL; and for you jokers out there, the tub girl URL is long gone, so don't even try)

We need to test this.

Need to time some function not dependent on WiFi or EDGE speed, or size of contacts list, etc.

Somebody tell me a free iTunes Store App that crashed consistently with "leaked" firmware and I'll install it and try it out.

And people need to state, "was jailbroken" or "was NOT jailbroken". A jailbroken phone updated with the "leaked" firmware is NOT a valid test case.

Also, we need a count of people who downloaded PhoneSaber, nature of damage (broken screen, dented aluminum back, etc.) and estimate of how much repair is gonna cost.

toxicbomber said:
I recommend to anyone who has the leaked 3G firmware to upgrade to the new official 2G firmware instead. The added features in the official build are as followed according to me after an intensive use of work and play:
1. The whole iPhone experience is amazingly zippy.
2. Applications that use to crash no longer crash.
3. The maps "follow-me" feature is still in there. It's faster as well.
4. Safari now has the ability to read embedded youtube videos into sites so when you tap it, it brings up a youtube pane so you can watch it. Note that this actually doesn't bring up youtube app itself but loads it within Safari. Amazingly cool.
5. You can press and hold the home button and then the sleep wake button to take a screenshot where it will be uploaded to the photos.app.
6. EVERYTHING the WWDC 2008 keynote contained.
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This is awesome. Way to go, Apple. I love you guys at Cupertino.
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sanford said:
But I can already DO ALL THIS STUFF with my "leaked" firmware, with no crashes. (I haven't trying playing an embedded YT video, somebody send me a URL; and for you jokers out there, the tub girl URL is long gone, so don't even try)

We need to test this.

Need to time some function not dependent on WiFi or EDGE speed, or size of contacts list, etc.

Somebody tell me a free iTunes Store App that crashed consistently with "leaked" firmware and I'll install it and try it out.

And people need to state, "was jailbroken" or "was NOT jailbroken". A jailbroken phone updated with the "leaked" firmware is NOT a valid test case.

Also, we need a count of people who downloaded PhoneSaber, nature of damage (broken screen, dented aluminum back, etc.) and estimate of how much repair is gonna cost.
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Even thou all those features I listed are in your 3G build, I'm on something that was designed for the iPhone 2G and as a result is much faster. That I can testify. :D
 
I updated my iPhone with the latest update to overwrite yesterdays "unofficial" version. The speed difference is night and day. The "official" version is lightning fast on my phone, so I guess when Apple said the "unofficial" version was for the 3G, they were right.
 
bdkennedy1 said:
I updated my iPhone with the latest update to overwrite yesterdays "unofficial" version. The speed difference is night and day. The "official" version is lightning fast on my phone, so I guess when Apple said the "unofficial" version was for the 3G, they were right.
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yeah, yeah. somebody tell me that got the activation delays ironed out and i'll do it.
 
Bricked...but painless. :)

My little upgrade story:

So I went to upgrade my edgePhone (I claim that nomer! Please? ^_^ ) today and it ended up bricking itself.
Wonderful huh?

Basically I got an error saying:
"The iPod "iPod" could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (1611)."
With all reattempts would make iTunes tell me I needed to restore which would just keep me looping with that error & hard-reset.
....iPod!?!
Yeah, so I immediately scheduled myself a 'Genius Bar' appointment for Saturday (the earliest available).

Then... just for sheiats and giggles I decided to try something. I repeated the process, but when the iPhone was stuck at the black-screen Apple logo :apple: with the spinner (where I'd normally perform a hard-reset) I just left it, tossed it in my pocket and drove down to the Apple store.
Arriving, I saw about 4 dozen people waiting in line for the 3G phone, and a Apple dude and a fake-cop guarding the door outside.
Being polite and saying "excuse me" they stopped me from entering, and asked what I needed. I showed the tech my phone and he immediately let me in. (SWEET) About 10 people in like were QUITE pissed off. :-] :p
Walking to the bar, the waiting 'Genius' grabbed my phone and restored it, and upgraded it to 2.0.
No needed appointment, no line to wait in. Sweet app-store relief.
The download, restore and install took about 30 minutes, so in the meantime I was able to browse and toy with the new 3G phone (since not one person was at the display...they were all waiting outside.
Yeay.

Interesting side-note, while waiting towards the end there.
During a little small talk with two 'Genius' techs, they informed me that nearly all the employees at the store were refraining from upgrading their edgePhones to 3G. (Really?!) Most agreed that overall, the software was the BIG release of the day and that the majority were going to wait to see if the death-star (AT&T) was going to lower the ungodly high price of the 3G plan.
I had to chuckle at that. They all were forced to wear the 'Twice the speed. Half the price' baby-blue Ts, but none of them (or most of them) weren't going to buy the product.
:p
 
sanford said:
yeah, yeah. somebody tell me that got the activation delays ironed out and i'll do it.
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Just did it. Very quick activation...no problems. :) Restoring from backup and sync-ing your old data over will take the longest...prob. about 15-20 minutes depending on how much data you have.
 
Darth.Titan said:
I just went on a drive for the benefit of Macrumors. I installed the "wrong" firmware on my 2g iPhone yesterday. No problems. I played with my apps. All I noticed was a bit of "stickiness" with touch keyboards in email, sms, etc.
Today I changed to the "correct" firmware. I hadn't noticed the Map app's "follow me" feature with yesterday's firmware, but allow me to assure you:
It DOES in fact work with the "official" release firmware contrary to what has been said. When you push the "locate" button it stays "lit" and continually updates. I'm sure it's not as instantaneous as it would be if I had real GPS, but it does track you as you move. I left the Map app running and checked it at each major intersection, and the crosshairs had me pegged correctly every time. It also seems that the longer it's on the smaller the circle gets, but that may just be my imagination
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You are indeed correct! Cool :) So looks like the only real difference in maps is the pointer... on the 3G you get an opaque blue dot with a (mostly?) opaque accuracy circle... with the 2g you get a (usually larger due to less accuracy) open blue circle.... but said circle moves on both!
 
was running 1,2 yesterday...syncs were never going thru, iPhone 'lost' connection with iTunes during syncs, apps were crashing the iPhone too.

Upgraded to 1,1 today...seems a ton more stable...lost all my web app icons though and about half of my photos in the Camera Roll folder during upgrade though...everything else stayed...

one thing that was happening in both 1,2 and is still happening in 1,1 is that when i plug in to sync, it starts doing a backup and takes FOREVER...is this normal? Is this going to happen every time i sync now?? I thought syncing was supposed to be pseudo speedy!!

please advise...
 
Ok, so maybe my tests were invalidated by the fact that I have jailbroken every version of the firmware except 2.0.

Didn't think about that fact. But, and here is the million dollar question. Why not just upgrade to the official track now? If you do any updates in itunes, say when 2.1 is released you are going to get back on the official track anyhow, unless you actually download the 3G version again and manually restore it.

The point is that its pretty much inevitable that you would get back to a 1,1 firmware release somewhere down the line. Thats why I did it anyhow.

Just my two cents.
 
I had an error after taking my edge iphone from 1,2 to 1,1. I undocked and itunes asked if I wanted to restore; I did. How do I know if I'm running 1,1 or 1,2 if the build numbers are the same?
 
Yep, jailbreak means totally invalid test case. We can't tell if you were crashing with that apparently 3G iPhone build because you have an original EDGE iPhone or because all that jailbreaking left behind a bunch of trash that a) doesn't play nice with that particular "early-bird" upgrade but plays fine with "official" update, or b) because you've never done a total, complete, clean full restore and cleaned up all the jailbreaking trash (app prefs, various code sledgehammers, God knows what), and in moving from the early-bird special to the official update, you were forced to do that full restore.

At any rate, as to the $247,000 question (adjusted for taxes and the current price of oil, you know), I'm currently updating my wife's EDGE iPhone with the official, and just going to do some side-by-side exact same environment speed tests... and then I'm gonna update my EDGE iPhone since it's late-ish stateside and activation traffic should be really low as it's going to get here. Because you're right, no I'm not gonna download the 3G 2.1 firmware or never update to the EDGE 2.1 firmware to keep what I have, and I'm satisfied I'm not gonna lose a thing.

My main hold-off was follow-me, even though I don't have GPS, I like the follow-me, the enhanced triangulation accuracy, and, really principally I was going to do it next week because I don't want to get hung for half a day waiting on reactivation via iTunes, but that seems like it's cleared up, especially this late.

cualexander said:
Ok, so maybe my tests were invalidated by the fact that I have jailbroken every version of the firmware except 2.0.

Didn't think about that fact. But, and here is the million dollar question. Why not just upgrade to the official track now? If you do any updates in itunes, say when 2.1 is released you are going to get back on the official track anyhow, unless you actually download the 3G version again and manually restore it.

The point is that its pretty much inevitable that you would get back to a 1,1 firmware release somewhere down the line. Thats why I did it anyhow.

Just my two cents.
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Ok, I've read this post, and still am not sure what to do in my situation. Hope someone can help me.

I want to sell my original iPhone, i got the 3g today. I downloaded the leaked firmware yesterday and installed it on my original iphone.

Now, i know that i need to get the firmware either restored to the original or the correct firmware. But i don't have a sim card for this phone. What's the best way to do this? I had someone tell me that hooking up the original phone to iTunes without a sim rendered his phone useless.

Also, what's the best way to completely wipe my original iphone of all data? I need to sell it and want to make sure i can give whomever buys it as close to a new phone as is possible.

Finally, in terms of the iphone 3g. I guess i'm ok? i restored from backup when i came home with the phone, and i'm assuming it's the leaked firmware that it put on my phone. from what we can tell, this is the best firmware to use on the 3g? I do have some problems with apps closing, but from the info here it seems i'm running on the correct firmware.
 
toxicbomber said:
I recommend to anyone who has the leaked 3G firmware to upgrade to the new official 2G firmware instead. The added features in the official build are as followed according to me after an intensive use of work and play:
1. The whole iPhone experience is amazingly zippy.
2. Applications that use to crash no longer crash.
3. The maps "follow-me" feature is still in there. It's faster as well.
4. Safari now has the ability to read embedded youtube videos into sites so when you tap it, it brings up a youtube pane so you can watch it. Note that this actually doesn't bring up youtube app itself but loads it within Safari. Amazingly cool.
5. You can press and hold the home button and then the sleep wake button to take a screenshot where it will be uploaded to the photos.app.
6. EVERYTHING the WWDC 2008 keynote contained.
----------
This is awesome. Way to go, Apple. I love you guys at Cupertino.
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the leaked version i downloaded yesterday does all of that, I haven't had any of my apps crash.....so why I need to change it?
 
KittyToy said:
the leaked version i downloaded yesterday does all of that, I haven't had any of my apps crash.....so why I need to change it?
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Okay, I'm all official now. We did some timed tests (no network stuff or anything that should be influenced by outside factors) with my wife's phone updated to official firmware 2.0, before I updated mine from leaked version to official version. Nada. No faster, not in perception or tenths of a second. And no speed/stability improvements when I updated my phone to official version from leaked.

Of course I didn't lose any functionality either, and I'm just as glad to be officially official, but I can only write off performance issues, freezes and crashes with the leaked firmware to multiple jailbreakings, installation errors that left behind garbage that didn't get cleaned up until the official firmware restore procedure, etc. Or you guys weren't holding your knees right.

The only reasons I can see to update to official are: To be official merely to be official, which might become an issue if you need service from Apple; if you are having performance problems or perceive you are; or if you are having stability or functionality issues.

The significant thing is, besides it taking just as long as it did the first time to do this official restore from leaked firmware, there's no downside. Okay, I lost PhoneSaber, but it wasn't part of the latest back-up set -- I sync'ed before the restore to official firmware, but iTunes didn't do a back-up on the iPhone that sync. It doesn't sometimes; I'm not sure what triggers back-ups, time between syncs, some flagged changes, who knows. Anyway, PhoneSaber is free and I just downloaded it again -- thank God, too, because Phone Saber is totally mission-critical; plug your iPhone into your car stereo, crank it, roll your windows down and absolutely freak people out at stop lights. Unlike iTunes audio and video media, based on the "you already purchased [it was free, but the App Store dialog doesn't know that] this software, would you like to download it again for free?" the no new free extra downloads doesn't apply to purchased apps in the App Store.

Only thing, if you're happy with the leaked version, I'd update to official 2.0 late at night like this or wait until next week, avoid the possibility weekend shoppers will beat down the iTunes server activation system and you'll get de-phoned for some indefinite period of time.
 
DeltaHF said:
I'm actually having a pretty big issue with the latest version of the posted firmware (1g phone) - I can't get my Wifi connection to work. I can see my local network just fine and can connect to the AP, but I cannot acquire an IP address from my DHCP server... Of course, when I was using yesterday's firmware, I was unable to get ANY of the applications that I downloaded to send/receive data over an EDGE connection - they only worked with Wifi. They work fine with EDGE now, but of course they can't use my Wifi connection because my phone doesn't have an IP address.

Ugh.
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Same problem, doesn't see networks that are present, rarely connects (if does drops connection). No IP address generated. Hope fixed soon.
 
Good Afternoon guys / gals.

SIGH...........Well what can I say......What a mad 24/48 hrs its been for everyone lol. Atleast its 'sorted'..........for now. Can I ask what might seem like a daft question. Apart from the obvious addition of Apps Store and the like. Is there anything else that we get for our Upgrade fee?

e.g
Was there any sort of update for the mail functions or the Safari App for instance ????
:eek:
Regards
 
The only thing daft is following all this stuff so closely so that you don't have to ask what you think are daft questions.

Do you have .mac/mobileme in the UK -- assuming, "afternoon" when it's early morning in the States, use of word "daft" in proper context, also not capitalized and immediately followed by word "punk".

If you do have mobileme, you get push mail, calendars, contacts, bookmark sync'ing. Scientific calculator, if you need a little more than the existing calculator, but not a full-blown, standalone model. You get a lot of free apps from the App Store for the cost of your US$10 iPod Touch upgrade fee. The usefulness of mobileme and some of the free Apps via the App Store is perhaps questionable with an iPod Touch, since you don't have an always-on Internet connection with the Touch, you have to be in range of WiFi you're allowed to use.

I'd say for $10 American -- I think that's about 52p these days -- it's certainly a worthwhile upgrade; you'll fine enough in free Apps and Apps you won't to spend a small amount buy to justify the small upgrade fee.


Fathead said:
Good Afternoon guys / gals.

SIGH...........Well what can I say......What a mad 24/48 hrs its been for everyone lol. Atleast its 'sorted'..........for now. Can I ask what might seem like a daft question. Apart from the obvious addition of Apps Store and the like. Is there anything else that we get for our Upgrade fee?

e.g
Was there any sort of update for the mail functions or the Safari App for instance ????
:eek:
Regards
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upgrade or not

If the software version on my iphone says 2.0(5A347) should I still upgrade to the official version?
 
Contacts Sluggish?

Anyone else having a problem with Contacts? They are slow to open (blank white screen for a couple of seconds); scrolling often takes 2-3 swipes to get it to start; have to tap in the search box several times before it will bring up the keyboard. :confused:
 
iPhone Chicago said:
one thing that was happening in both 1,2 and is still happening in 1,1 is that when i plug in to sync, it starts doing a backup and takes FOREVER...is this normal? Is this going to happen every time i sync now?? I thought syncing was supposed to be pseudo speedy!!

please advise...
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I've read this entire thread whilst my 1_2 to 1_1 revert was backing up, installing and finally synching.

I'm synching w/ a brand new MBP w/ OS 10.5.4.

Beard growth:cool:
 
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