HTC EVO™ 4G. Only from Sprint.
September 12, 2008 12:00 AM PDT
iPhone OS 2.1 released; many bug fixes/improvements claimed
Apple has released iPhone OS 2.1, as promised, with the following, surprisingly detailed release notes:
- Decrease in call set-up failures and dropped calls
- Significantly better battery life for most users
- Dramatically reduced time to backup to iTunes
- Improved email reliability, notably fetching email from POP and
- Exchange accounts
- Faster installation of 3rd party applications
- Fixed bugs causing hangs and crashes for users with lots of third
- party applications
- Improved performance in text messaging
- Faster loading and searching of contacts
- Improved accuracy of the 3G signal strength display
- Repeat alert up to two additional times for incoming text messages
- Option to wipe data after ten failed passcode attempts
- Genius playlist creation
To apply the update, connect your iPhone to a Mac or PC running iTunes 8 then click the "Update" button.
Do Apple's purported fixes hold true on your iPhone? Let us know.
3G calls are now of poor quality and get dropped more than before!
My screen has also turned off and have not been able to come back on. Had to plug into USB to restore the screen.
You can now make calls, ANY CALLS on the emergency screen.
Was unable to end a call. Kept pressing end call, but it did nothing.
Disappointing. My 2G iPhone was far better.
I used to get one bar 3G in my office and now I am getting full strength in 3G. Also, switching between 3G and edge is far smoother in this new version.
SMS was soo much smoother an call quality stayed about the same, just no dropped calls.
I have power cycled the phone, synced a few times, tried other tricks (none of that worked.) I just finished wiping the phone & am now restoring from the backup. Here's hoping that works.
- by climbbike1 September 12, 2008 4:13 PM PDT
- Interesting . . . After I upgraded to 2.0.1, I could no longer use 3G AT ALL. But after this update, things are looking great so far. Weird how inconsistent it is. The contacts list is WAY better now (finally). I like the text mssgs reminders but I wish they had given more control over them like how many reminders, how often, etc.
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