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Posted on Aug 22, 2008 9:39 AM

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VFIVE

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10 points

Sep 14, 2008 2:07 AM in response to mavisXP

I'm still trying to upgrade or restore to 2.1. So far I'm just getting errors and problems with iTunes not recognising the phone. After about 7 attempts I'm now in the middle of restore so hopeuflly in about 5 hours I may be able to use the phone and see if the problems are fixed.

Good to see some of you seem to have had the problem resolved.

mavisXP

Level 1

30 points

Sep 14, 2008 4:43 PM in response to VFIVE

veridian5 wrote:
I'm still trying to upgrade or restore to 2.1. So far I'm just getting errors and problems with iTunes not recognising the phone. After about 7 attempts I'm now in the middle of restore so hopeuflly in about 5 hours I may be able to use the phone and see if the problems are fixed.

Good to see some of you seem to have had the problem resolved.

Any luck with your upgrade? I know you've had lots of problems with your phone, I hope it's all sorted out now ...

Pirx07

Level 1

29 points

Sep 14, 2008 5:52 PM in response to Zach23

Same observation here: 2.1 does not reliably fix the issue. I had my phone crash this morning because the NY Times app crashed (the brand new version that just came out). On reboot all I got was the screen of death. I could fix it, as usual, simply by turning off and waiting 15 minutes, but is is definitely still the case that the iPhone OS is very flakey, and can easily be brought down by ill-behaved applications, and that the iPhone may hang during reboots.

gSalsero

Level 1

0 points

Sep 14, 2008 10:51 PM in response to JayBerk

I just wanted to let everyone know that you can do this procedure without SSH by using iPhoneBrowser or DiskAid. All you have to do is move/rename mobilewatchdog.bundle and then move/rename back to original when you are done.

I did this several times this weekend without any problems on my Windows XP computer. I had to close iTunes and kill the following processes: iPodService.exe and iTunesHelper.exe via the Windows Task Manger.

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