Comments on: iPhone 2.0.1 software released

By: raphy m

raphy m — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 23:51:39 +0000

i updated and i still have the same contacts lag and also my ringer volume keep turning itself down no matter where i set it,(it was doing this before the update too)…i want my old iphone back this sucks

By: Brad

Brad — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 02:56:16 +0000

I installed the update and the contacts did speed up, but after 12 hours they slowed down again, there is an improvement but not like ti was when I first installed the update.

Also I found a weird bug, if you have a phone number that has a pause in it, i.e. dialing an extension after the phone number, the phone will not call that number at all. I have tried in Contacts to call it, setting it as a favorite, everything, you push the number and it just sits there. Weird bug.

But I love my phone, I am a BB convert and its great.

By: Scott U

Scott U — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:20:55 +0000

I realize I’m in the minority but hey have you ever tried to download 200+ megs over a slow sat connection or worse, dial-up

By: Jordan Brown

Jordan Brown — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 19:25:36 +0000

Updated last night.

Less keyboard lag(less is the keyword), but still getting random crashes on Safari. It’s getting old.

By: MikeN

MikeN — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:37:42 +0000

Upgrade 3G iPhone, notice NO change. Address book still has 3 – 5 second delay, very frustrating after a year of crisp performance on original iPhone and 1.1.4 FW. Still having hard time switching between Edge, 3G and Wifi, things take many seconds to get going.

I guess we wait for real performance and cut and paste….

By: Andy

Andy — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:42:03 +0000

I’m with keymaker – i’m still suffering with a severe lag everytime i load my contacts, they are visible straight away, but locked, so i cant scroll or begin a search for a good 10-15 seconds. Haven’t really noticed any improvements with 2.0.1

By: Sheed

Sheed — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:13:33 +0000

I appreciate when BG smacks the knuckleheads. Honestly, anyone who comes in here boasting about a Treo or Opera Mini on a Curve has obviously not experienced Safari on the iPhone. There is much more to it then that but when that dude said he’ll stick with his Treo and WM OS I spewed my soda on the keyboard.

By: chris

chris — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:50:27 +0000

will it recharge/work on current car ipod connections now?

By: xmxpro

xmxpro — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:28:49 +0000

Steve-o is trying to tell you to drop XP and get a Mac..

By: Evilhomer

Evilhomer — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 13:27:20 +0000

@ your mom whatever your name is

Not saying the iPhone is perfect, it’s far from it. There are a lot of stupid issues and problems, but the software upgrade distribution model is NOT one of them. You’d rather wait 6-12 months for an OS update (if you’re lucky) than get one no more than 3-4 weeks after the phone launched? Ok, buddy. You do that.

Amen. BTW, all you haters. What the hell does this post have to do with your Treo’s or Blackberrys. You Verizon folks need not even try and boast about your BB Curves that are a year late to the party and locked down GPS.

How you can fault a company for pushing out fast updates is beyond me. Go back to WM and wait two years between releases and STILL not have a fast, stable, half-way usable system.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 12:19:39 +0000

I talked to an apple rep who told me that the “updates” are actually a full OS overwrite. Apple doesn’t write patches for the iphone, but rather does a full OS reload every time they make a change, that’s why the “updates” have only grown over time.

By: pinktech

pinktech — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 11:32:11 +0000

Mine was fine before the update, it’s still fine after the update. Gave me something to do last night up in Edge world.

By: bcourtney

bcourtney — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:31:38 +0000

@ Steve G:

Are you using NOD32? if so chck this out:

http://www.eset.com/support/kb.php?option=com_kb&Itemid=29&page=articles&articleid=760

I had issues with itunes too and this fixed them

By: andrew rosen

andrew rosen — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 07:25:51 +0000

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By: The Boy Genius

The Boy Genius — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:03:33 +0000

@ your mom whatever your name is

By: TheBigChu

TheBigChu — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:03:06 +0000

Ok, I did mine and messed with it for about 10 minutes and it doesn’t really feel like much of a difference to me. Unless you guys are having crashing or major lag problems I wouldn’t bother (at least not until the next JB comes out). I still get some lag switching between apps or going to different contact menus (favorites, recent, all contacts). Safari might be a little better… but barely.

By: your mom loves my thunder

your mom loves my thunder — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:57:44 +0000

at Josh W–

Really bro? The iphone has been out for less than one month and they are already releasing a software update to fix all of these bugs. I’ll keep my verizon curve outfitted with opera mini. Call me when att and apple get their network and their hardware up to par.

By: Jose Morales

Jose Morales — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:56:02 +0000

Where did you find 2.0.1 firmware. I’m using a mac.
I know I can jail 2.0, but then I’d be downgrading from 2.0.1 (and to be honest, I’m happier that it got fixed[should've been like that to start with])

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 04:32:28 +0000

After not being able to compose text messages for the last several days because of the keyboard lag I was really hoping that this update would solve it. A couple of hours into testing, however, it is clear that the keyboard lag has NOT been completely resolved.

Is anyone still having issues with the keyboard lagging dreadfully behind your typing?

By: hfva

hfva — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:55:40 +0000

well I applied the backup and I can say I have seen inmpovments inteh contacts as it is now down to 1 second instead of teh 10 mentioned. Signal, I was seeing 1 or 2 bars in the same location and now it is showing almost full and at times down by 1 bar. In safari, screen flip is faster and it no longer hangs up and take time. Same sites access that used at times to stick in landscape mode is now gone. Waiting for battery and hopefully that is improved as well as need to see if it now pairs better with the car (before it has been showing double entry for each contact number under (eg. John Smith Home shows twice on the car deisplay)

By: Josh W

Josh W — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:34:13 +0000

Did you just compare a Treo 750 to an iPhone 3G!? Are you out of you f-cking mind? I left the 750 like a year and half ago before switching to the Blackberry and the Treo couldn’t even hold a candle to THAT! the Blackberry can’t even hold a candle to the iPhone 3G!! Take you Treo and enjoy i b/c you clearly have never tried either a Blackberry or iphone. The moment you use either you will NEVER go back!

By: smokeonit

smokeonit — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:14:48 +0000

the geo-location bug with East and west in europe and further east hasn’t been resolved!

there’s apps that don;t make the mistake, but camera app still writes the wrong data into the EXIF!

camera app doesn’t see when you cross the meridian… weird…

i have to manually change the negative to positive value for the longitude… bummer!

By: jrring

jrring — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:57:49 +0000

Let me know when you get basics such as copy and paste.. I’ll enjoy my Treo 750 with WM 6.1

By: Galvatron

Galvatron — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:35:05 +0000

keep dreaming about copy and past it’s vaporware as much as Duke Nukum forever is stop kidding yourselves. an kills you jailbreak hmm notice i mad a prediction about this a month or 2 ago.
I don’t want to say I told you so. but… thats like asking OJ Simpson to find the REAL killers.

By: smokeonit

smokeonit — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:15:30 +0000

no, just update, no need to unlock again…. but we will have to use the soon to be released pwnagetool to patch the iphone osX 2.0.1 in order to get the jailbreak back onto the iphone…

By: smokeonit

smokeonit — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:14:06 +0000

the unlocked iphone 2G can be updated as well!!!

but cydua and all jailbreak apps will be gone!!!

if you need cydua/jailbreak wait for the update of the pwnagetool!

if you just need the unlock just update via itunes;-) i did so 1h ago with no problems @ all besides the cydia/jailbreak thing….

By: Steve G

Steve G — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:07:13 +0000

Anyone else having trouble with itunes crashing on your Windows XP? Mine freezes up all the time now.. what gives?

By: keymaker

keymaker — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:39:25 +0000

I don’t know about you guys but contact’s on my iphone still has that crazy lag, after the update so i guess it was aim at something else

By: Pherball66

Pherball66 — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:25:33 +0000

If you right click the iphone in iTunes and click reset warnings, uncheck the sync every time box and sync again, then when the box pops up, click do not send to apple, it will only take a minute or two to sync every time.

By: brianhenn

brianhenn — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 01:24:58 +0000

at first blush this feels much closer to the 1.1.4 experience on the 1st gen iPhone, but I have since up’ed to the 3G. 2.0 felt nasty by comparison. 2.0.1 makes this feel like an iPhone again. Solid improvement.