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Okay u guys, after playing with the iPone 2.0 for around 3 days now.... i have come across i huge problem that Apple needs to be working right a way... its biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggg i tell ya.... the iPhone actualy bricks for no reason all of a sudden... it freezes at the Apple lOGO and does nothing while rebooting... i thought it was just me at first because i have around 50 new Apps on my iPhone... but it turns out that not only i do i have this glitch but a lot more... Just today there was an Article on "macenstein.com" with the same issue.. and what happend with him is exactly the same thing, except i was at home when all this started happening... and like he mentions... iphone Threads on the Apple.com is bursting with them... so i am expecting an iPhone 2.0.1 very soon... i will leave u with the article....
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Mo’ Apps, Mo’ Problems. Whose iPhone 2.0 migration is working smoothly?
July 14th | Posted by Dr. Macenstein
Not mine, I’ll tell you that much.
While I love the iPhone, and the Apps, I do not love the “rickety” feeling my gen 1 iPhone has now, as if I must handle it with kid gloves or risk crashing it. Not that it matters, kid gloves or not, it crashes. And don’t get me started on those hour-long syncs…
Mo’ Apps, Mo’ Problems
At first the migration seemed to go well. I upgraded my firmware Friday morning, downloaded/bought a few apps, played some games – everything was going swell. Then sporadically, once in a while using an app, or surfing the web, the iPhone would either quit that application, kicking me back to the home screen, or reboot entirely. This only happened maybe twice on Friday, 3 or 4 times on Saturday, but by Sunday I had about 6 such scenarios, leading up to a real scare Sunday night. That was when I had my first “unrecoverable” crash.
Actually, I was able to recover, but it wasn’t easy. What happened was around 11:30 PM (these things always seem to happen when you should be sleeping) I was rearranging my application icons (something I find more fun than using the apps themselves, at times) when the screen froze. Then the iPhone rebooted, and I was presented with the familiar “Apple logo” boot screen. Only this time, it did not boot past that. After a minute or two, I did a reset – same thing, stuck at the Apple screen. After about 12 of those, I tried hooking up to iTunes. The Apple Logo screen stayed up, and iTunes did not recognize it. When I unplugged it from the computer, my iPhone briefly showed up in iTunes for about half a second, as if it had been there all along. So I did a restore (connected to iTunes, and held down the Power and Home buttons for a long time until the “Connect to iTunes” graphic appeared).
Now, the one thing that I doubt anyone will argue with is that sync times have DRAMATICALLY increased with version 2.0 of the software. My iPhone goes through a lengthy “Backing up” process each sync, which usually takes anywhere from 15 minutes to as long as an hour. USB 2 is slow, but it ain’t THAT slow, especially since it is only moving about 600 MB, so I’m not sure what the problem is. Apple’s discussion boards have dozens of threads with hundreds of posts describing similar issues, and no one has discovered a universal cause or solution. Some say every time you buy an app it does this, some say every time you rearrange an icon it does this, some say just having a certain game that keeps track of scores (even if you have not played it between syncs) will cause it. While some have suggested that resetting the sync cache using iSync has cut down their backup time, others (including myself) have not found this to be the case. To date, the most common piece of advice you’ll read is that if you are in a hurry you CAN click the “x” next to the “Backing Up” message in iTunes, and your iPhone will sync as normal, so that’s what I did during this latest restore. (And that was a mistake, but we’ll get to that later.)
Big Crash 2
Big Crash 1 wasn’t so bad, because I was home, and my home machine has all my mail, media, and apps, so the restore (while extremely slow) wasn’t a big deal. However, Big Crash 2 happened today at work, around 11:30 AM. I experienced the exact same symptoms, and no matter what I tried, I could not get the iPhone to come back from the Apple Logo screen. I didn’t want to restore my iPhone on the work machine since that meant losing everything on it, but I also didn’t want to be without a Phone the whole day.
I eventually just gave up and left the Phone plugged into my work Mac Pro, and went about my day. Every 20 minutes or so the iPhone would vibrate, although the screen would not change. Then suddenly, after about an hour and a half just sitting there connected to iTunes, I heard the familiar “Chirp”, then the standard “Charging” screen came up, and finally iPhone showed up in iTunes. Sweet!
Big Crash 3
Well, it was certainly sweet for the 2 hours it kept working, but around 4:30 or so Big Crash 3 happened, and this time leaving it plugged in did not do the trick, so I drove home without a working phone and did a restore from here.
Of course, if that restore worked smoothly, it would have been too easy, so the restore went horribly wrong. Remember how during the first Big Crash I decided to quit out of that 40-minute Backing Up procedure? Well, here’s something you should be aware of if you think you have outsmarted iTunes by bypassing the backups. When I went to restore, I was told it could not complete my request because there was a corrupt backup image. Basically, what I believe that means is, iTunes does not save your old backup while creating a new one, so if you cancel out of a backup, iTunes has already deleted your current good one. So beware.
So anyway, I did a REAL restore, from scratch, and now I have my home screens arranged how I like them, yet I am afraid to do anything other than use the iPod feature at the moment. I certainly don’t want to risk another crash at work where it will mean 8 hours of downtime.
So how soon can we expect to see v2.0.1?
So, tell me, how is the 2.0 software working for you guys? While you may not have had quite the number of severe crashes as I have, how would you rate the overall stability of it compared to v1.1.4? Let me know in the comments if it’s just me.
Okay u guys, after playing with the iPone 2.0 for around 3 days now.... i have come across i huge problem that Apple needs to be working right a way... its biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiggg i tell ya.... the iPhone actualy bricks for no reason all of a sudden... it freezes at the Apple lOGO and does nothing while rebooting... i thought it was just me at first because i have around 50 new Apps on my iPhone... but it turns out that not only i do i have this glitch but a lot more... Just today there was an Article on "macenstein.com" with the same issue.. and what happend with him is exactly the same thing, except i was at home when all this started happening... and like he mentions... iphone Threads on the Apple.com is bursting with them... so i am expecting an iPhone 2.0.1 very soon... i will leave u with the article....
Another big problem that i have noticed is that... if u have 50 Apps like me, and u tell iTunes that u want alllllllllll ur Apps installed on ur iPhone and then update... it will not install all the Apps... for some reason it leaves some behind... and then u have to manually add them ur self... so u pretty much have to sync ur iphone around 3 times to get all ur aPPS ON THE Iphone... very pain in the behind procedure...
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