iPhone update, so far it's not looking good
So I just downloaded and started the update for the 2.0.1 update to my iPhone and from the looks of things, it seems to have frozen up my desktop -- my laptop is reporting time of 10:58 PM and desktop is stuck on 10:47 PM. Everything outside of iTunes is simply showing the hourglass and the progress bar on my iPhone "Updating iPhone software..." window is stuck on the same number of dots on the install line...
Hey, now is your chance, if you can't wait to get your own iPhone, check out the Apple availability page to see if your local Apple Store has the iPhone in the color and size of your choice.
UPDATE: So good news, iTunes caused a blue screen of death (BSOD) and my iPhone was not completed with the update yet. So after I turned the computer back off then on, it tells me that it is in recovery mode and must be restored. Wow, guess I should have waited to find out if this update has multiple problems. It is in the process of recovery right now, keep your fingers and toes crossed for me!
UPDATE: So it looks like it may not be as bad as it originally looked. I now have iTunes telling me that it is restoring my phone (about 1/2 done according to the bars) and my phone is telling me that a restore is in progress, but also giving me an activation alert (we will see where that goes from here...
UPDATE: ...And back to the concern... iTunes successfully restored my iPhone (or so it reported), then my phone restarted. As soon as it came back up, iTunes changed it from "restoring rwilson's iPhone" to now "restoring rwilson's iPhone - Aug. 4, 2008". I thought it just did that?
UPDATE: Well this will be my last update on this. The restore worked about as well as a 6/10. Why give it a six out of ten? Well, for one, after the restore, it came up with the same screen again, so I had to set it up as a new iPhone which means all my settings for my Exchange server, iTunes music, videos, podcasts, images, ringtones, everything had to be copied back over to the iPhone. This is not so bad because I knew to do a sync before the upgrade to 2.0.1, but not everyone knows this and there was never a warning that it should be done.
Maybe it should deserve a 7/10 instead since it did remember the music, videos, photos, etc that sync'ed previously (although it was set to sync ALL by default). As soon as I changed the selector from All to "Selected..." it remembered what was selected previously.
Till next time, happy iPhone'ing...
Hey, now is your chance, if you can't wait to get your own iPhone, check out the Apple availability page to see if your local Apple Store has the iPhone in the color and size of your choice.
UPDATE: So good news, iTunes caused a blue screen of death (BSOD) and my iPhone was not completed with the update yet. So after I turned the computer back off then on, it tells me that it is in recovery mode and must be restored. Wow, guess I should have waited to find out if this update has multiple problems. It is in the process of recovery right now, keep your fingers and toes crossed for me!
UPDATE: So it looks like it may not be as bad as it originally looked. I now have iTunes telling me that it is restoring my phone (about 1/2 done according to the bars) and my phone is telling me that a restore is in progress, but also giving me an activation alert (we will see where that goes from here...
UPDATE: ...And back to the concern... iTunes successfully restored my iPhone (or so it reported), then my phone restarted. As soon as it came back up, iTunes changed it from "restoring rwilson's iPhone" to now "restoring rwilson's iPhone - Aug. 4, 2008". I thought it just did that?
UPDATE: Well this will be my last update on this. The restore worked about as well as a 6/10. Why give it a six out of ten? Well, for one, after the restore, it came up with the same screen again, so I had to set it up as a new iPhone which means all my settings for my Exchange server, iTunes music, videos, podcasts, images, ringtones, everything had to be copied back over to the iPhone. This is not so bad because I knew to do a sync before the upgrade to 2.0.1, but not everyone knows this and there was never a warning that it should be done.
Maybe it should deserve a 7/10 instead since it did remember the music, videos, photos, etc that sync'ed previously (although it was set to sync ALL by default). As soon as I changed the selector from All to "Selected..." it remembered what was selected previously.
Till next time, happy iPhone'ing...
posted by t001z at
8/04/2008 10:57:00 PM
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