TAG | iMessage to Apple: iPhone OS 2.0 sucks |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Thursday, 24 July 2008 | |
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Page 1 of 3 Related storiesYeah, yeah, I know. It’s been less than two weeks since the iPhone OS 2.0 and the iPhone 3G came out. And yeah, I know. It’s well known that the new OS is buggy as all hell, whether you’re using it on the iPhone 2G or the iPod Touch. It's also a two.point.ZERO release, something you can never really have confidence in, because a point.ONE release will come to the rescue. Then a point.TWO. Because honestly, OS 2.0 sucks. My “App Store” icon told me I had three updates, one for Cro-Mag, that cool little car racing game, one for Evernote, and one for Urban Spoon. I was connected to my Wi-Fi access point, and rather than downloading the app updates through iTunes, I decided to do it on the iPhone itself. Big mistake. It started downloading the Cro-Mag update, and then after a few minutes... BOOM! My iPhone re-starts. No biggie, I thought. It’ll just start up again and I can try downloading the updates again. But horror of horrors... the iPhone is stuck at the Apple logo. Stuck, stuck, stuck. I try re-starting it by holding down the ‘home’ button and the button at the top of the iPhone. It re-starts. And I’m back in Apple logo won’t-go-away-hell. I try a couple more times for good measure. I plug it into the USB cable. I try to see if iTunes can talk to it. No dice. So, it’s a-restorin’ we go – you hold down the home key and the top button, and keep on holding for a couple of minutes (or longer) until you see the iTunes logo and the USB plug. This tells the iPhone – either model (and the iPod Touch) – that you are putting it into Restore Mode. You can then connect your iDevice to iTunes and have it restore from your firmware. Continued on page 2. |
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