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More major, minor iPhone upgrade problems and how to fix them
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Some iPhone Atlas readers, and posts on Apple's Discussion boards, have reported additional problems--some large, some small--after upgrading to iPhone OS 3.0 or the iPhone 3GS. The following procedures will solve a number of the reported problems.
- Reset your iPhone by holding down the Sleep and Home buttons until the Apple logo appears.
- Restore your iPhone: In iTunes, click the Restore button under the Summary tab. Restoring the phone will erase contacts, calendars, photos, and other data on the phone, but will restore automatically backed-up information including text messages, notes, call history, contact favorites, sound settings, widget settings, etc.
Yet, even after performing these steps additional issues have persisted. For more detail, read on.
Sound issues
Though listed on discussion boards here and here, I've also heard sound distortion when making a call, listening to the other phone ringing, and receiving an incoming SMS text message at the same time. The second sound, Glass (my SMS tone), has a buzzing noise as it plays.
An theAppleBlog report has mentioned an audible whine on recorded iPhone 3GS videos. There does not appear to be a fix for this at this time, so I'm hoping that Apple addresses it via a software update.
Here's the video from theappleblog.com Web site and a direct link to the isolated sound here.
A suggested short-term workaround is easy enough to implement; some people might even learn to live with the problem. Prior to recording a video, either plug in your headphones or manually place the iPhone into "silent" mode by moving the ring selector to vibrate. The entire post is worth reading as it includes more examples and the steps to recreate the problem on the iPhone 3GS.
Wrong or "changing" icons
Apple's discussion boards here, here, and here are reporting a problem that I've encountered as well. In my case the problem occurs when I remove apps from the iPhone using the delete feature in Springboard and then install new apps.
The newly installed apps can inherit the icons from the apps that were deleted from the same location. This is a known bug documented under Apple Bugfix 6906853. The only fix that I've been able to find is to reinstall the apps affected by the bug and hope it does not happen again. Hopefully, Apple will get this really annoying bug fixed soon.
Last week we covered a number of other issues with iPhone OS 3.0 and the iPhone 3GS. Check it out for additional troubleshooting advice.
Tell us about your iPhone OS 3.0 or iPhone 3GS upgrade problems in the comments.
And who says Apple is afraid of competition? Just like every other company, they are going to sue anyone who violates their IP. Two years into the iPhone's life, they haven't sued anyone. So where do you get off making that assertion? Stop hating them just because they have been successful.
What I love is that people think that if they get a DOA or defective phone, that means that ALL the phones ever built are defective. Apple sold 1 million in a weekend. At a 1% failure rate, that's 10,000 you'd expect from the first weekend lot. With 20 million total phones sold, that's 200,000 defective phones, minimum, out of the box.
Then, if you look at the laptop failure rate over time, you can expect at leas 1 million iPhones to need repairing or replacing over time, and that's GOOD by modern technology standards.
That's reality. Some people just can't seem to handle reality.
iTunes cannot read the contents of the iPhone "<name here>". Go to the Summary tab in iPhone preferences and click Restore to restore this iPhone to factory settings.
I've had nothing but good experiences with Apple's customer service and I love my phone/iPod/navigator/game system/compass/personal voice recorder/video player/alarm clock/TOY. :-)
I hope your advise is not to use certain applications because there are a lot of new smartphones out there that don't have this issue. This should be a major iPhone 3Gs problem addressed in your article - that would be helpful.
i enjoy the phone, not planning to keep it for the rest of my life,at some point it will break like my old phone did and i will get a new one.
cha cha for now.
The 3G connection still works OK, so I'm not freaking out. This was not an issue before I upgraded. Does anyone else have this bug and/or a fix?
This isn't just a problem with iPhones, it's a problem with the wireless password checking standard in general and happens to laptops and wireless desktops, too. By erasing the connection from the list on any of these appliances, then cycling wireless on and off, and reconnecting, the problem is usually solved.
If not, try the above method again, but before turning wireless back on on your phone, power cycle the router as well. The router can "hang on" to an old connection for a device and refuse that same device access because it hasn't let go of the previous connection.
THE "FIX" TO THE WRONG ICONS ISSUE ON 3.0
1. If you have this problem, remove all your apps from your phone.
2. Resync all your apps back on.
3. DO NOT RESET YOUR PHONE!!!!!!!!!!
For me, and a bunch of other people, its the reset that causes the icon problems. I know what you're thinking, with 2.0 the reset was the cure all, but in 3.0 it causes the problems. Resist the urge to reset (Obi Wan), its your only hope!
as a temporary fix. Hopefully Apple will patch this soon.
http://thefifthcorner.com/2009/06/23/iphone-app-icon-duplication-problem-fix/
On the subject of Apple's Customer Service, I'm yet to see anyone else do a better job. They fixed my MacBook in three days, including shipping time.
I think Voice Control is fun. It has a mind of it's own. It REALLY likes the Eagles. Whenever I tell it to play something, and it can't figure it out, if it has an eee sound it in it, it plays the Eagles. It also doesn't like the Beatles. No matter how hard I try, it finds something else.
My friend had some fun with it. She has different taste in music than me, and so she would tell it to play things, and instead of saying "I don't know what that is" the phone makes it's best guess. And those guesses are funny...
I am still surprised that Apple has yet to comment on the problem.
The result is the Phone is now locked, I have tried reset etc but no change, it will not sync with my I tunes and i can not even register the phone on the itunes web site as it does not accept the date.
Now i find out there is no support in the UAE for the iphone so it has to be shipped to the USA.
So after less than 5 hours of becoming the proud owned of the new Iphone 3G, I have an unusable expensive paperweight, I should have bought the Blackberry !!!
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by suego1
July 4, 2009 6:55 PM PDT
- I have a 3G which synchronizes thru push with my work Exchange calendar and contacts. Since upgrading to OS 3.0, many of my calendar items don't sync and IT guys can't figure out what the issue is since I didn't have this problem before. no one else at work seems to have this problem but I am one of the ifrst few who has updgraded to 3.0. (They are rolling it out in the office next week.)
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Showing 1 of 2 pages (33 Comments)I have searched different discussions boards and cannot find anyone else reporting this...nor any solutions to try.
Can anyone help??? Thanks.