iPhone thread

[ChrisF]

I had issues with Mail on my Touch after I went from 1.1.4 to 2.0... soft reset did not fix it... HOWEVER, doing a full wipe (the 2hr long jobby) fixed everything. I'd recommend trying that.

[Destrukticor]

just as an update, went my local O2 store today to see if there was anything they could do about my home button "issue".
They have no stock of any iphones and aren't getting any in anytime soon either.
They will call me when one comes in so i can replace it.
Not holding my breath

[Nu-Eclipse]

I've had it with firmware 2.0 on my original iphone, the apps from the store constantly do not work and the overall reduced performance has made all thoughts of upgrading to a 3g iphone disappear completely.

HaHaUK I have tried the soft reset as well as turning the phone on and off but it still does nothing.

How can the same app work fine one minute then with the phone still turned on but on auto-lock not work four hours later?

That particular app was apple's own remote software for itunes, all the other apps go to the splash screen and then return to the dash.

The only way to get them to work again is to remove them and re-install.

This may go some way to explaining the apparent bugs and glitches that come with iPhone 2.0 firmware on 1st-Gen iPhones.

[ascender]

I did a restore on my 3G one yesterday and got the newer firmware which seems to have fixed the sluggish apps and typing problem.

[NekoFever]

I'm going to try this restore thing. I've had no serious issues, but everyone's said that it's brought at least some improvement to responsiveness and such, so I suppose it's worth being on the most recent revision.

It's literally just hitting the big restore button in iTunes after making sure it's backed up?

[ascender]

Yip, that's all you should have to do. Its a definite improvement all round.

[funkydan]

This release has been quite the shower - you guys must be pretty pissed off with the whole debacle?

[VR46]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/8Gb-APPLE-iPhone-3G-BNIB-ready-to-be-UNLOCKED_W0QQitemZ330251949594QQihZ014QQcategoryZ3312QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Over a grand for the 3G 8gb model

[funkydan]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/8Gb-APPLE-iPho...QQcmdZViewItem

Over a grand for the 3G 8gb model

"THIS IS THE MOST SORT AFTER PHONE EVER"

[Nu-Eclipse]

Any other iPhone 3G owners finding a consistent 3G connection hard to come by? The reception on my black 16Gb 3G model is acting really strangely, atm. It picks up the EDGE and GPRS connections when the signal strength is good and 3G connection when the signal strength is bad - surely it should be the other way around?

I'm just about to call O2, because I've tried to restore and reset my iPhone in every which way and it's now becoming irritating.

Sh1t like this is exactly why I'm not normally an "early adopter"...

...Oh, and it would appear that setting the International Region Format to UK on an iPhone/iPhone 3G with the latest firmware (as UK users should obviously do) leaves you unable to change the clock to a 12-hour setting. Changing the region to USA gets around this, but then puts Sunday as the first day of the week in the Calendar and sets the date to read as Month/Day/Year like over there, as opposed to Day/Month/Year over here.

Honestly, you couldn't make it up.

[Taka]

Spent most of the evening applying an Invisible Shield to my iPhone 3G. Decided to snip off the awkward corner pieces and have settled on just the front and main portion of the back. Really quite pleased with how much protection it offers and I no longer have to worry about fingerprints and constantly polishing the back and front!

Any other Mobile Me users here? Apple have tacked on an extra month for free as apology for the flakey service since it launched a week ago.

[teddymeow]

Well, call me a hypocrite. Me local CPW had a delivery of 8Gb today and I thought "why not". My current phone is dying and the contract is nearly up and I'm loving it! They were much more helpful than O2 and the girl who did the transaction was damn smokin'!!! Apologies for going a bit off topic there.

So, if I heard her right then all data browsing is free (so what I'm doing now isn't costing)? It's only if I download anything that I get charged - does that include things like email attachments?

Also, is there anyway to turn off 3G to improve battery life?

[NekoFever]

I'm on the MobileMe free trial (to claim my usual user name as much as anything ) but I still haven't managed to get it to sync my calendars. I don't think I'll use it outside the trial anyway, even if I'd like an iDisk integrated right into the Finder, just because my calendars and contacts get synced every night when I sync the day's new podcasts to the phone and I have my own domain for email, which makes the push mail pretty useless.

I still maintain that something so prominent in OS X should be a free service, at least in a more limited form than the paid one. Maybe give everyone the calendar/contact/bookmark syncing and, say, 100MB iDisk space (enough for the occasional few images and documents, but enough to be restrictive for power users), but charge for the push email and the bigger storage.

[NekoFever]

So, if I heard her right then all data browsing is free (so what I'm doing now isn't costing)? It's only if I download anything that I get charged - does that include things like email attachments?

You get unlimited data on your iPhone contract, so browsing the web, downloading email, etc is all essentially free (in that it's not costing you extra). I assume when she was talking about charging for downloads she means the paid ones from iTunes and the App Store. There is a fair use limit that means that if you're constantly using ridiculous amounts of data you could be in trouble, but it's pretty high.

Also, is there anyway to turn off 3G to improve battery life?

Yeah, Settings -> General -> Network, and the option to turn it off is there. I leave it off unless I'm going web browsing or on YouTube because there's no sense wasting the battery with it when you're just making calls and checking email. I hope Apple adds an option to make it toggle 3G on or off automatically when you start data-intensive apps like Safari or the App Store.

[NekoFever]

Any other iPhone 3G owners finding a consistent 3G connection hard to come by? The reception on my black 16Gb 3G model is acting really strangely, atm. It picks up the EDGE and GPRS connections when the signal strength is good and 3G connection when the signal strength is bad - surely it should be the other way around?

When you're on 3G it's showing the strength of the 3G connection only, and the same goes for when you're on EDGE/GPRS. What it means is that when there's poor 3G reception and it drops it, it switches to EDGE, which usually shows a strong signal because there's much better coverage.

In other words, showing a 3G connection with one bar is like a step up from an EDGE connection with five, essentially. 3G coverage is spotty where I live and it shows a poor signal, but if I switch to EDGE it goes up to full because we have good EDGE coverage but poor 3G.

Sorry to be making these in new posts, but I tend to get a bit wordy and it makes it slightly easier to read