[OSX-Users] Re: iPhone OS 3.1 and iTunes 9

[JD Marsters]

For any of you who are 3G owners and who haven't yet upgraded: you may  
want to hold your horses just a little while longer.

I "upgraded" from 3.01 a couple of days ago and it was a disastrous  
decision. Using my phone is now an exceptionally frustrating  
experience. The UI is sluggish and it frequently locks solid for  
several seconds. Typing for this message has been surprisingly  
difficult. Battery life is now dire, too.

Things are definitely far worse than before the upgrade and thanks to  
their new "phone-home" reflash validation procedure I understand  
(correct me if I'm wrong) that it's not possible to downgrade to the  
now deauthorised 3.0.

I'm sure reading this some people will be thinking, "Well it worked  
just FINE for me so I don't know what you're whinging about! It's not  
Apple's fault!" but I'm fairly confident that this is neither user  
error nor exaggeration. The interwebs seem to concur.

A cautionary tale, at least?

JD.

On 10 Sep 2009, at 11:24, Jules <sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> For those of you who happen not to know :-)
> iTunes 9 and iPhone OS 3.1 were released last night.
>
> Loads of new features, including "Genius Mixes", much improved  
> syncing control in iTunes, you can now lay out your apps in iTunes  
> instead of on your phone's Home screen, lots of little extras.
>
> Mostly documented and described quite well here:
> http://www.tuaw.com/2009/09/09/first-look-tuaw-gives-iphone-os-3-1-the-hands-on-treatment/
>
> Also there have been a whole load of updates and improvements made  
> to the whole iPod product line, read all about it at www.tuaw.com.
>
> So do a "Software Update..." from the Apple menu on your Mac, which  
> will install iTunes 9. Then connect your iPhone, ask iTunes to check  
> for updates and let it get on with it.
>
> Jules
>
> -- 
> sysjkf at ecs.soton.ac.uk
>