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Upgrading from Unofficial iPhone 2.0 Firmware to Official 2.0 Firmware

sanford said:
Frankly, I don't buy SPX is anything but a fake. Come on. The "I work for Apple innuendo"? Please. He writes things about it being a dev build for dev units that only someone on the iPhone team at Apple should know. And the first rule of fight club is you don't talk about fight club. And he just registered yesterday, and his first post, and subsequent posts, were all during his "busy day", so would have very likely been posted from a Cupertino Mac on a Cupertino network on an Apple IP. Can you say, Please fire me now and sue me for violating my NDA in a huge way?
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My apologies if you interpreted my writing to be read as if I work for Apple. I absolutely do not work for Apple, nor do I have anything to do with iPhone development.
 
dstrauss said:
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:
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Same thing here. Hrmph.
 
appleguru1 said:
FWIW:

BOTH 5A347 builds are OFFICIAL and release versions of the iPhone software.

The 1,2 version that you all installed yesterday is intended for use on the 3G iPhone. The 1,1 version that came online today is for the original iPhone.

If you do a restore with iTunes with the iPhone 3G, it downloads.. you guessed it, iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw

If you do a restore with the original iPhone, it downloads... guess what? iPhone1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw

So, yes, the "tracking" feature in maps is only intended for the GPS enabled 3G phone and is NOT in the 2.5G firmware.

BTW, apple frequently uses the #,# (Eg, 1,1) designation to signify different hardware models.. for example, my macbook pro has the model identifier: MacBookPro2,2
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Just as I suspected, though it also shows that both phones share enough in common (hardware wise) in order to run that firmware.
 
"safe" to upgrade now?

I have the unofficial upgrade but need to put the offical one on my phone - but im afraid that i'll have to wait a long time for it to re-activate. anyone do this today so far and have success quickly?:confused:
 
when trying to take a screenshot the screen comes up to turn to phone off appears. am i doing something wrong? i press and hold the home button and the sleep button on top at the same time, no?
 
kashmoney2006 said:
when trying to take a screenshot the screen comes up to turn to phone off appears. am i doing something wrong? i press and hold the home button and the sleep button on top at the same time, no?
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You don't hold them, you hold the home button and just PRESS the sleep/wake button, don't hold the sleep/wake or it will hard reset the phone.
 
just updated from unofficial 2.0 to official at 1pm cst and it all went just fine with the activation :)
 
msw123307 said:
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.
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can anyone help me with this?
 
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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I'm sorry to disagree, but I'm still running 1,2 firmware and I'm able to do both of the above successfully. Also, I see no sluggishness as reported.

Oddly, this firmware is still functioning fine on my 1stGen iPhone.
 
sundancemc said:
I'm sorry to disagree, but I'm still running 1,2 firmware and I'm able to do both of the above successfully. Also, I see no sluggishness as reported.

Oddly, this firmware is still functioning fine on my 1stGen iPhone.
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I completely agree, other than the odd occasional app crash or phone reboot on its own, both of which are reported as happening on the correct firmware as well, so I see no problem with running this. If it WERE the 3G firmware it WOULD NOT WORK with the 2G communications chip, only the 3G one, the same goes for the GPS, geo-location WOULD NOT WORK because it would be looking for the GPS chip, which it WOULD NOT FIND. Think about what you're posting before you start running your mouth about things you don't understand. Its working fine and I'm not up for another 30 minute car ride just to the nearest high speed internet to re-update my perfectly working phone.
 
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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With all the problems yesterday I would say Apple has a lot of work to do. Plus has anyone noticed how buggy iTunes 7.7 is? I have sent out at least 10 error reports to Apple.com, anyone else?
 
I have iPhone 1.0 (classic), upgraded to 1,2_2.0_5A347 "unofficially" 2 days ago. What is the "official" release for 1.0? It seems to be "1,1" version, but I'm not sure if it's 5A345 or 5A347 build... Thanks.
 
Geniusdog254 said:
I completely agree, other than the odd occasional app crash or phone reboot on its own, both of which are reported as happening on the correct firmware as well, so I see no problem with running this. (snip)
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I'm running the prerelease 1,2 firmware on my iPhone Classic. It crashes no more often than any 1.x release I've run. I really do not see any reason to re-upgrade until we see a 2.1 upgrade.
 
I upgraded from the unofficial firmware to the official firmware and from my experience, the unofficial firmware was much more stable on my first gen phone. i am not sure why this is. SMB will get stuck at the first screen and then quit often on the official firmware, and I will have to restart the phone to get it working again. also, some of the other apps that i have installed will crash sometimes, and on the unofficial firmware i had no problems at all. anyone have this same thing? I think i may just go back to the unofficial firmware. It seemed to work much better for me.
 
Battery issues

I just wanted to post my issues when I installed the early leaked 3G firmware on my EDGE older Iphone.

I noticed the already reported sluggish response with several apps but especially I noticed some slows down in my SMS app. I SMS a lot, about 200 every day and the 3G firmware on the older iphone was getting bogged down and doing quirky things, like sending SMS messages to the wrong contacts.

I also noticed one major issue that I hope the correct firmware will fix - BATTERY MANAGEMENT.

I noticed on my older iphone after I installed the 3G leaked firmware, my battery was showing strange readings. It would out of the blue read 20 percent and then go back up to half life. This only happened two or three times in the 24 hour period I had the 3G firmware installed. I discarded the issue and thought my playing around with the apps so much caused the problem but alas I am thinking it was something built into the 3G firmware that perhaps the older iphones could not handle.

I am installing the corrected firmware right now.

I will post my findings, thanks for everyone's advice and suggestions!
 
terrells said:
I have the unofficial upgrade but need to put the offical one on my phone - but im afraid that i'll have to wait a long time for it to re-activate. anyone do this today so far and have success quickly?:confused:
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It worked perfect, I just did this with mine however the Naughty updated seemed to work better my iphone feels a bit slower and has crashed out a few times, I may go back to the Naughty update.

If you click restore it detects you have version 2 installed so then downloads there official one.
 
USB direct connect will save you

I hate the double post but I was experiencing similar problems with getting the firmware to fully install and even when it did my RESTORE options were not working.

Here is what I learned from here

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1595835&tstart=15

Make sure you plug your iphone directly into your MAC and not through a HUB. I am even using an expensive HUB made for Mini Macs and it still gave me issues.

SO PLUG your iphone or itouch directly to your computer - it will save you from losing backed up data!
 
Why would Apple leak the 3G software when no 3G phones had been sold yet? That doesn't make sense. What does make sense is that they would leak the software for the first generation phones, which is what I believe they did. I downloaded and it operates as smoothly as the "official" version that was installed on my wife's phone. On the phone it takes up exactly the same amount of space too. I suspect the leaked version might have been a "fat" file, containing files for both the 3G and 2.5G phones and upon installation it only installed the appropriate files. When you download the official version it is smaller because it contains only the files for your phone and that explains the differences in the file sizes.

Now, anybody having crashing, sluggishness problems should do a software restore. That is more a problem related to installing too many upgrades on top of one another. I had those kinds of problems after upgrading to 1.1.4 and after doing a software restore it solved the problem. I have had no problems with the leaked 2.0 version and it works like a charm on my iphone.
 
I downloaded 2.0 the day it was leaked, and have been having issues with my phone ever since. I am downloading the correct version for the first gen iPhone right now, hopefully that will solve my problems.
 
I downloaded the leaked 2.0 1,2 firmware on thursday evening onto my original iPhone. I am trying to get it back to the official but I am not sure how. When I go into iTunes and I hold option and press "Check for Updates" it just tells me that I have the current version. It won't open up my finder and let me select the official update like it did when I put the 1,2 on it. Any help?

I restored my iPhone yesterday. Would that put the official 1,1 firmware on it??
 
I've updated my iPhone with the leaked version and noticed a really slow interface.

SMS was awfull to type in and scrooling the contacts was a nightmare. Then a few hours later the official version was out and I tought that it would correct those anomalies but I was wrong.

The menus are not as snappy as before, the contacts scrooling still lags, SMS typing is terrible. How come Apple has released a so antecipated firmware with such terrible bugs.

I don't know how to explain this but it seems the phone lowers its processor's speed when you're not using it and when you start doing something the processor is speeding up. There is really a delay and it is noticeable.

Honestly if there was a way to downgrade i would do it because my phone was way better off using the 1.1.4 version, and honestly, at least for me, there are none apps worth the trouble.
 
msw123307 said:
can anyone help me with this?
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hi.. i also put the 1,2 version on my 1.0 phone and then bought the 3g before i got a chance to put 1,1 on the 1.0 phone. my 1.0 is now de-activated and i plan to sell it.

i still do have my old SIM. the apple store didn't take it away when i bought my 3g

my plan is this:

1. use the reset/wipe data option under general-->settings to remove my personal data from the device.

2. use the 1,1 updater to restore and cross-grade my 1.0 phone.

3. when i get to the "activate iphone" part of the process i'll just unplug and sell the phone as a freshly restored, ready to activate, 1st gen. iphone with 2.0 software.

......

does this sound reasonable to everyone? do people generally sell iphone with a SIM included or should i keep my old sim for security reasons?
 
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