iPhone 3.1 update triggering several issues
updated 10:30 am EDT, Fri September 11, 2009
Problems with Exchange, power, more
Downloaders of the iPhone 3.1 firmware are experiencing a variety of problems, according to talk on Apple's support forums. Perhaps the most serious involves occasional total shutdowns, which occur without warning. Affected iPhones can be revived, but only after a manual reboot.
Others have complained that the update hurts battery life. In one incident a person reports that a phone went from 100 percent to 55 percent charge in the space of six hours, despite being completely inactive and even having Wi-Fi and Bluetooth disabled.
Still more users are complaining of podcasts showing up in random order, instead of by date. More critical is a problem with syncing Exchange e-mail. It is believed though that the errors stem from server-side encryption options being properly enforced, as a result locking out the 2G iPhone, the iPhone 3G and possibly the iPod touch. The iPhone 3GS has built-in support for processing the encryption, and so should be unaffected.
No harm
09/11, 11:13am reply
to battery life here. In fact, if not the same, it's a little bit better. Going into my second day, now showing 83% remaining. I'm by no means a heavy user though...
For those effected, perhaps some apps are not really shutting down like they're supposed to?
I haven't fiddled with podcasts, or exchange mail, so I have no info on that.
Flying Meat
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Shutdown issue
09/11, 11:30am reply
Count me in as experiencing the "random shutdown" issue. The problem manifests itself with a blank screen, and the phone will not respond to any button presses. Seems to occur when the phone is left idle, as I've not experienced it happening while actually using the phone. The only fix I've found, as the article states, is a reboot (home button + sleep switch).
iPhone 3G, 8GB.
DiabloConQueso
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Battery
09/11, 12:17pm reply
My battery went from 100% to 38% in about 20 minutes yesterday. I unplugged it, rode to the optometrists, pulled it out, 38%...
MyRightEye
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Joined: Apr 2008
All night backups
09/11, 12:33pm (1 reply) reply
For the last two days I've done my syncing at night - and it's taken the best part of the night to complete the backup. I can see this happening once, for some special "super backup" but it's happened twice in a row.
wr11
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Joined: Feb 2001
update broke
09/11, 12:41pm reply
all my downloaded apps, I had to do a restore and then download them again, good thing i didn't have so many apps I couldn't remember all of them. is there any way to track which apps are installed so that when you have to reset the iPhone, it 'knows' which apps to re-install?
(bought a 16gb 3gs last week)
climacs
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Joined: Sep 2001
3.1 fixed wifi disconnectivity
09/11, 05:53pm reply
I had serious problems with wifi dropping after I went from 2 to 3-oh. With 3.1, my wifi is back, and the touch is no longer a virtually unusuable pain. Whew!
ggirton
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3.1 no problems now
09/12, 12:18am reply
The issues I had, I lost my mms icon, tethering and visual voicemail stopped working.
I found the ipcc file 5.1
it fixed everything...but no tethering....
since updating my carrier file to 5.1, I haven't had any troubles. Battery life seems the same.
I have the 3gs...
kevin1106
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