Before I take the plunge, has anyone had success updating to 2.0? I am sure there must be some who are enjoying themselves now, so if you have been successful, was there a trick or are some people simply having problems?
Yes - I just upgraded to 2.0 about an hour and a half ago. I was fighting an issue with not being able to backup my phone prior to the upgrade (unknown error -43, which I finally tracked down to iTunes not playing nicely with a redirected Application Data folder). I ended up backing up the phone on my laptop and running the upgrade from there. Entire process took about 30 minutes to download the update, upgrade the phone, restore my settings, etc. - and it even activated immediately upon completion, and I had two new text messages that came through right away . . .
Yes, after waiting for hours and hours and having problems trying to reactivate on iTunes, I was finally able to get through. All my settings, sms, photos, music, videos, everything intact. Btw, the Remote app ROCKS!
Just did it total time start to finish was 22 minutes. I did delete the movies and all my podcast off the phone so I only had to back up about 120 photos and 1500 contacts. no problem with the up date. I did loose my application folder in i tunes but thats another issue. Good luck