Sergio O Salvador wrote:
But when you say "a clean install of 3.1.2", you mean a restore from last back-up, or restore the phone as a new phone to iTunes?
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Salvador
neither; there is no official way to perform a clean install of firmware on an iPhone from a consumer's standpoint; that is exactly the cause of these griefs. (the 'coma' situation does seem to be an actual bug; they changed code and results are different); however, the zombie effect happens on 1000s of phones all over the world, my contention is specifically because of the way installs via iTunes are not complete. (and the utter lack of control).
I'm going to do an experiment to see if i can bring back the zombie and eliminate it once more (that will be three times); i have at least 20 installs of 3.xx (mostly 3.1, but 2-3 of 3.0 and 3 or so of 3.01 and 2 of 3.1.2, and the ONLY time of all 20 times that the install 'took' and the phone worked properly was when either iTunes or the iPHone crashed during the firmware upgrade, and the following DFU install was performed; it worked flawlessly (of course the 3.1 version still had 'coma' so it crashed about every 30 hours; that was FAR more useful than the ipaperweight of when the thing is 'iZombie'.
I never did a complete restore of all apps the last time 'cause i didn't trust it would work, and my most recent 'backup' doesn't have half of my application data so i have to restore anyhow. I'll post results as they come.
-awr