Apple launches iPhone 2.0.2 update - Page 2

1 - you knew that before you bought it
2 - there's contact search (not too sure what you'd be searching for anyway)
3 - blame your provider because that's some crap
4 - buy a mac (Address Book and iCal work wonderfully with it)

So.....

Do you have coverage?

[ducks behind steel wall]

Sitting at my desk at home, I can now get 3G for the first time. However, my bars still occasionaly jump down to 1 from 5. We'll see how well it improves call dropping. I've had occasional call drops, usually immediately after dialing, so fortunately it hasn't been a big issue for me.

EDIT- seconds after hitting Post Reply on my desktop, my iPhone then displays "No service". I had to reboot.

For #2 - what is it you are wanting to search? Perhaps the Google app would interest you (free)
For #3 - what country are you in? Here in the UK you don't have to specially subscribe to anything for that feature - I think that is more of a network thing.

Dare I say for #4 MobileMe?


Fluctuating - may well be coincidental.

Who needs MS? There is such a service called NuevaSync...'pushes' beautifully (pardon the pun)

Could it be that AT&T updated something on their end as well?

Downloaded and backing up for the new load now.

2.0.1 fixed the spontaneous phone reboots, but apps still tended to crash. Some apps would reach a point of refusing to run until the phone itself was restarted. Hopefully 2.0.2 will keep apps from crashing as often or at least make them more consistent at restarting afterward. Each step brings a little more progress.

no re-setting up of mobile me has been necessary for me! last update made mobile me bugs worse, prompting a complete troubleshooting session (see http://support.apple.com/kb/TS1672)... contacts no longer constantly disappearing, lets hope 2.0.2 is a good one...

What is the iPhone equivalent of Cmd-F in the full-blown versions of Safari and Mail?

BTW: The iPhone Google app looks like a privacy threat. Does anybody know?

No, seriously, are you worried your three-year-old is reading this forum? Don't even worry about your nine-year-old; his language when you are not around would make a soldier blush.

Contacts still has an annoying delay of 2-3 seconds after launch during which it's unresponsive. It also often opens at one location in the list, and then jumps to a different location upon being responsive.

After the update, my bars go to 11, which is one more than 10.

I want to be able to sync the iPhone Notes with Mac applications such as Mail or Entourage. Note syncing should be possible without having to pay for a MobileMe account.

If the majority of the iPhones are backing up and installing the new point update then they are not sucking the carriers bandwidth. But that seems a very unlikely reason.

Things feel more responsive after 2.0.2. Contacts seems better when first opening.

However, 3G is still flaky for me. I'm in the financial district of San Francisco at work. With the phone on my desk, I get 4 to 5 bars in 3G but then it'll randomly drop to EDGE and it usually will not go back to 3G unless I force it to (via airplane mode, turning 3G on or off, or powering the phone off and back on) - at which point it will pick up 4 to 5 bars again for a while before dropping to EDGE again. This is while it is sitting in one place on my desk.

My coworker sits a few feet away and has a Samsung Blackjack on AT&T without any 3G problems in the office.

Note Syncing with MobileMe does not sync to your iPhone. It's like most of the syncing options with MM on a Mac. It's basically cloud storage that will sync to your other Macs and that is it.

It is pretty lame that this feature which was introduced in Leopard Mail does not work with the iPhone.

I don't think that that is a defect.

Most iPhone apps have a startup delay - some throw up a splash screen to cover the true load time.

Likely, Contacts is just loading a small portion of the data and displaying it until it has the full contact list loaded.

Do you have a large contact list?

Apple would have made a big deal out of any 3G improvements, so if there are some who notice an improvement it may be some slight adjustment that Apple did-- but my guess is we will hear of the Infineon tweak sometime later.

I believe few would people argue that the jumping isn't a defect. And in my book, not being responsive when the display looks like it's ready, is a defect.


The Phone app has virtually no startup delay.


Just under 500. Big but not gigantic. I'm sure the data are stored in a database after all.

So...

1) When will you be 10 years old?

2) Print this out and have a teacher, parent, friend, etc. mail it back to you in ten years. Perhaps by then you will have developed a vocabulary.

Lol, good form.

Back to the topic, here almost in the middle of London (Notting Hill/Bayswater) my iPhone's 3G bars are constantly jumping up an down from 1 to 5 and back like (I presume) Dick Cheney's heart on 5 Red Bulls ... Furthermore, the 3G signal is being very frequently replaced by Edge even as I am strolling quietly around my flat. The situation is no better at the flagship Apple store itself (on Regent street) - it was almost embarrassing to watch an Apple presenter swapping 3G for wifi during an iPhone presentation; the chap mumbled the usual mantra 'thanking o2 for that connection' but I doubt more and more that the network operator is in fact to blame ...

Also true that the iPod function usually interferes with web-surfing (and vice versa) - have had quite a few 'broken records' while trying only these 2 functionalities at once ...

In addition, did you notice that the GPS has an allarming tendency to be 'unable to determine your current location'? For me, it happens nine times out of ten ... And I'm not doing it in my basement, if you would like to ask.

Plus, many outside apps (such as the Facebook chat) break down almost constantly for no apparent reason, and yet again I have a suspicion it may not be (at least solely) Facebook's or other developers' fault ...

And iPhone's Bluetooth capabilities and its battery life - don't even get me started ...

Finally, Apple, are you going to address the total travesty that is the iPhone's genocide of custom ringtones and its collection of factory ringtones that is worthy of any respectable mobile phone circa 1994 ... And please, spare me the usual 'legal/illegal ... copyright' bullshit this time ...

And what is copy/paste, by the way? Personally, never heard of such a groundbreaking functionality.

Mod Edit:

No.

MacRR Edit:

Yes.

Fuck all y'all

I updated, my 3G went from 0-1 bars to 2-3 bars.

Perhaps the fix is in, but won't be evident until more people on the network update. Perhaps the 2.0.1 users' chips are running wild and wreaking havoc on the 3G network. I say give it a couple days (weeks?) to determine if it's fixed or not.

Do you even HAVE an iphone ??? Seriously, do you ?

I say the time is too short for a proper 3G fix. They could have easily upped the radio power but we don't we even know if that is an issue. Plus, despite Apple's rapid fixes the timeframe seems too short for this issue to be resolved and I agree with rjwill246 that Apple would have probably advertised this as a particular fix in this update.

I'm no expert. But I tend to believe anything from google qualifies as a privacy threat.

I was kind of expecting the 2.0.2 update to have more localizations, but I don't see any on my iPod Touch. Nonetheless, I'm guessing the update has something to do with the additional carriers that will be available this week.

Interesting thought. That would make sense.

v2.0.1 has languages for...
English
Français
Deutsch
Japanese
Netherlands
Italiano
Español
Português (Brazil)
Português (Portugal)
Dansk
Norsk (bokmål)
Svenska
Korean (?)
Chinese (?)
Chinese (?)
Pyccknñ
Polski

Anything else listed for v2.0.2?

this is just annoying. I wish everyone would stop saying snappier because it's not snappier it's in your head. And the word snappier Is really gay. I hate that apple doesn't give details. These non detail messages make me not want to waste the time installing another update that does nothing

So not breaking down the details of the bug fixes now means that there are no bug fixes? Definitely not the snappiest assessment I've read.

When will they offer the ability to search e-mail as well as mark all e-mail as read? Is it part of this update?

Nope. Marking all email as read would be nice, but the search may be difficult as the Mail app only keeps 20 messages on the phone at a time.

I'm not worried about anyone's children, I'm concerned that you have so little regard for the civility which we should expect from eachother that you can't help but rub your dirty little mouth all over the internet, not in the toilet where your language belongs.

You don't have to reboot, just wait 3 to 4 minutes and you'll get 4 -5 bars and then it'll repeat. I had this happen at home just after the 2.0.1 update. But it seemed to go away after a day or so. When I'm at home I turn off 3G since service isn't too great.

My assessment is that it hasn't made a blind bit of difference to anything.

Ridiculously simple apps such as Clock still take 2-3 seconds to open, leaving me gawping at the screen like an idiot just to see what the time is in Dubai. Contacts is still unresponsive for a good couple of seconds (I don't have a big database) and Weather loads about as fast as it would on an Macintosh Classic.

Can ANYONE tell me why these BASIC apps should be SO SLOW opening?

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iPhone 3G 16gb

Phone worked great before, works great now.

LOL @ the guy complaining about not being able to copy and paste. Download the SDK and get on it, sport.

This is a major defect because there wasn't any lag under 1.1.4. If it wasn't for a few cool apps, I would gladly downgrade my phone to 1.1.4 for the responsiveness that it once had. As another pointed out, the contacts will start at a part of the list that you were not browsing before, then after a few seconds, jump to your last location.

This update has now caused my battery icon to act erratic. I had no problems with it charging before but now when I charge it, and it says it's charged, then suddenly it will go back to showing it's charging again. Very weird. Anyone else having this issue?

Can you hear me now?
AT&T sucks.

I can't believe all the problems I'm reading on here tonight- is it all that bad?-really?
...waiting for my new non-phone iPod touch and loving it!
This is so entertaining - all the threads on here, all these months, devoted to the iPhone and it all comes down to this??

What is large? Personally, mine is about 175 contacts and no photos in them, which really doesn't sound like should be a problem that gives noticeable lag in loading, but it did. That said, 2.0.2 seems to have almost eliminated the lag between appearing to be functional and actually being functional, which I think is a UI gaffe. It may take just as long to start, but it does not show a list of contacts until it's ready to let you do anything with that list.


Any web service, any company that you give information is a privacy threat. As it is, Google doesn't seem to be selling or trading uniquely identifiable information right now.


Isn't declaring something gay being really... ...gay? How meta is that?

Contacts did change how it starts a bit, whether it's a mind trick (see above), I'm not totally certain, but it's less frustrating now. Instead of showing you a clipping of the contacts scroller, it doesn't show you a list until it's actually ready to let you pick a contact or scroll through the list.