iPhone firmware update 3.1.2 is out! How's it working for you?

Viridium wrote:
Alan - exact same for me. Anything beyond OS 3.0 on my iPhone 3GS won't update on a Windows based PC. It craps out and I have to downgrade. I've borked both 3.1.1 and 3.1.2 so I'm not touching this crap again until Apple fixes it.

This is my first experience with Apple hardware, and I must say that so far, nothing "has just worked".

It's not a "windows" issue. I've been using mac since '88 and have been a consultant since shortly after.

I have been very disappointed in the flawed mechaism of install/upgrade. Right from the first install of my first iPhone it has been trouble.

I have administered about a dozen iPhones and not ONE of them has been error free in the update department. I'll re-phrase that to say that 100% of the iPhones (over a dozen) have had at least one major hang up doing a firmware upgrade requiring some secondary install solution. To me that is unacceptable.

I really hope apple will go back to a stand alone installer like iPod used to have.

-awr

here 'goes nothing'.

attempting to re-create my super-success with my accidental 3.1 install (but with 3.1.2).

step one was to start a NORMAL 'restore' that is; to just plug in iphone, open iTunes and hit the 'restore' button and let it start.

step two: force-quit iTunes while it says 'preparing iPHone for install'

step three: plug phone back in (it will be in RECOVERY not in DFU mode)..

step four: enter DFU mode: while iPhone is connected and iTunes 'sees' it in recovery mode; hold home and sleep for 10 seconds, releasing sleep but continuing to hold home continuously until iTunes gives the alert that an iPhone/pod has been detected in (erroneously) 'recovery' mode (it should say DFU mode. (confirmation of DFU: iPhone/pod screen will be black).

step five: hit restore once again; at the end the phone should restart and re-connect to iTunes

step six: update the carries settings

step seven: manual re-start of iPhone (not reset) just hold sleep for four seconds and slide off.. then press 'wake' (same as sleep) for 2 seconds to turn back on.

that should do it.. if it's still flaky like shown in This Movie, i will re-do the steps but 'interrupt' step five during the restore and re-do it.

The ONLY thing different in the ONE time of 3.1x install on my phone that worked properly was that the install was interrupted (iTunes or iPhone crashed; iPhone was stuck on the apple with the progress bar not moving). my theory is that re-creating this incident may result in a positive outcome. i'll keep you posted.

First indications were very good. Interesting to note: apparently haven't been getting voicemail indications since 3.1.2 installed (just like 3.1 bug)... but.. when i crash-installed 3.1.2 just now.. the first thing i noticed was that it instantaneously responded to home button presses (vs an up to 4 second delay), then i noticed voicemail was not 'visual' (i.e. press on vm icon and it 'calls' voicemail; i called, put in my ph #, i hit '*' then put in my pin and there were 3 messages! which by the way; do NOT show up in 'deleted messages' later in visual voicemail even when that starts working!

about 1-2 minutes later and not sure how coincidentally; i get an alert that my voicemail pin is incorrect, i put it in and then v.voicemail started working..

a few minutes later all my contacts disappeared.. it took a bit of poking in and out of various contact apps, but this has happened before.. eventually it figures out to re-download from m.me and it's all golden.

the only real bite in the a#%$ is that the two hours i spent re-ordering all my application icons apparently was yet another 'wasted in the 3.1 coma bug' timesheet; (about 40-45 hours now).. probably even more.

if you are here because YOU had to 'deal with' issues related to iPhone 3.1 firmware upgrade, please visit This Page and fill out the checklist of issues you personally had (good or bad.. i don't want only problems i want to see the good results also).

I did notice also that safaris is MUCH MUCH more responsive; it was nearly impossible to browse THIS SITE for example on the iPhone this morning, i wasn't having a problem with 3.1 but with 3.1.2 the problem CAME BACK that i had with my FIRST install of 3.1 (and 2nd through 12th).

wait 'til i can get all my applications back on and use this 'hack install' for a day or two, before copying me (unless your phone is just dead anyhow and nothing to lose), but if you go look at the you-tube video of my 3.1 phone; my 3.1.2 phone was just as bad or worse; typing an SMS took over a minute because every 5th letter i would get a 5-10 second pause! So far so good; haven't had a single hiccup (i want to come up with a more clever name than iRetarded but that's the closest to describe the MORE SIGNIFICANT problem than the iComa problem related to the 3.1 update.

So... anybody who has put in 3.1.2 and it just acts (literally) iRetarded... there may be hope; it would be awesome if this hack can be universally applied.. so far so good for me.. i accidentally did it with 3.1 and it cured the iRetarded problem but not the coma..when i did a NORMAL install of 3.1.2, the coma was cured but brought back the iRetarded problem.. well it's looking very very promising from the first 10-20 minutes of testing (since in the past i usually experience hang-ups within a minute!).

So.. if your phone act like shown In This Movie
There may be hope, go fill in your details On This Form and check-back, i will be keeping people up-to-date on the status of my particular phone. (since it obviously has whatever pre-conditions are needed that caused the coma bug, but I have cured it once before by accident, and quite possibly 10 minutes ago on-purpose!).

-awr

Mariposa1024 wrote:
How can I downgrade my phone from 3.1.2? Is my only option to do a restore? If yes, will all of my contacts be wiped out? Any advice is appreciated. Since the download my phone is basically a heavy paperweight.

there may be another option. when my phone turned into an iPaperWeight with firmware 3.1, I retrograded to 3.01 but then accidentally re-installed 3.1. During that re-install, the iPhone itself crashed, so it took a second attempt. On the second attempt, it installed flawlessly and very fast. After the 2nd install, my phone worked better than it had ever worked since OS 1.0 (or maybe already had 2.0; it's a 3G i forgot if they released at the same time; may have come with 2.0).

Anyhow... while i had that install of 3.1 going, i did not have ONE instance of a flaky operation like what is shown in the Movie HERE (now with annotations). When i used a simple 'upgrade' from 3.1 (speedy but with comas) to 3.1.2 i lost the coma but also lost the SPPEEED! went back to acting like the video.

So far SO GOOD with the 'crashinstall'. I would wait to hear back tomorrow to see if all goes well with putting on all the applications but so far it's doing exactly what i experienced with the crash-install of 3.1 (where performance went from useless to better than ever!).

-awr

DAtherton wrote:
Andrew: Thanks for all this detailed info. I'll try it. Are you restoring a G or GS?

I have a 3G from 'day one' of release; i have wondered if there was an 'early batch' that is more susceptible to 'the bug' but it doesn't seem so. It seems to be more of a problem with delivery (installation), which if my phone keeps working as it is now, may be proven correct.

-awr