iPhone 3G 2.2 Warning..., Watch out before you upgrade if your using a Turbo Sim... |
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 Nov 26 2008, 11:14
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Regular  Group: Posters Posts: 51 Joined: 26th February 2003 From: UK Member No.: 3,107 Device(s): HTC Diamond  |
Luckily I have transferred over to the dark side and joined O2 midway through my tmobile contract, so i actually have an official iPhone 3G on the O2 network now, but if you are using a Turbo sim (as I was) to unlock your iphone, when you upgrade to Firmware 2.2 your phone will display NO SERVICE when you put in your sim card with the unlock sim.
Was scratching my head wondering why it wasnt working until I checked out google and viewed the news about it. There are currently some new unlock sim cards available on ebay for about £19.99 to solve this and there are some software unlock methods apparently out there but just thought id let you know. Hope this info helps some of you out. -------------------- Tom
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Dec 1 2008, 16:20
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Diehard  Group: Posters Posts: 409 Joined: 25th August 2004 Member No.: 54,173 |
QUOTE(Tomchap @ Nov 26 2008, 12:14)  Luckily I have transferred over to the dark side and joined O2 midway through my tmobile contract, so i actually have an official iPhone 3G on the O2 network now, but if you are using a Turbo sim (as I was) to unlock your iphone, when you upgrade to Firmware 2.2 your phone will display NO SERVICE when you put in your sim card with the unlock sim. Was scratching my head wondering why it wasnt working until I checked out google and viewed the news about it. There are currently some new unlock sim cards available on ebay for about £19.99 to solve this and there are some software unlock methods apparently out there but just thought id let you know. Hope this info helps some of you out. How's your battery life now Tom with 2.2? Mine really sucks now. It was great with 2.1, but not with 2.2 -------------------- |
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Dec 1 2008, 17:02
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Regular Group: Posters Posts: 51 Joined: 26th February 2003 From: UK Member No.: 3,107 Device(s): HTC Diamond |
QUOTE(paholman @ Dec 1 2008, 16:20) How's your battery life now Tom with 2.2? Mine really sucks now. It was great with 2.1, but not with 2.2 Mines about the same as before to be honest. Have you found significant differences with 2.2 than 2.1 battery wise? I just got used to turning off Location Services, Wifi, Roaming, Data connections, 3G, etc because of windows mobile. I do admit that when everything is turned on and using the GPS battery life isnt amazing and its nothing to shout about. About comparable with other mobiles that do the same thing really. -------------------- Tom
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Dec 2 2008, 11:58
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 gotta start somewhere Group: Posters Posts: 62 Joined: 29th January 2005 From: Milton Keynes, UK Member No.: 107,458 Device(s): iPhone 3G |
QUOTE(paholman @ Dec 1 2008, 17:20) How's your battery life now Tom with 2.2? Mine really sucks now. It was great with 2.1, but not with 2.2 Have you by any chance got syncing with an Exchange account setup ? There have been some reported issues of the syncing "constantly on" on exchange accounts, which would be particularly battery unfriendly. The posts I've seen about this suggest you delete the Exchange account and recreate it and all should be happiness and light again. Not having run into the problem myself (I do sync with Exchange but only calendar and contacts), can't say if this advice is bogus or not, but HTH. -------------------- current phone .~::~. sold my soul to Cupertino
previous phones .~::~. T-Mobile Hermes with Black Satin ROM (ex Orange M3100), O2 Mini-S, SPV C500, loads of Nokias...... |
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Dec 2 2008, 17:30
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Diehard Group: Posters Posts: 409 Joined: 25th August 2004 Member No.: 54,173 |
QUOTE(tasman @ Dec 2 2008, 12:58) Have you by any chance got syncing with an Exchange account setup ? There have been some reported issues of the syncing "constantly on" on exchange accounts, which would be particularly battery unfriendly. The posts I've seen about this suggest you delete the Exchange account and recreate it and all should be happiness and light again. Not having run into the problem myself (I do sync with Exchange but only calendar and contacts), can't say if this advice is bogus or not, but HTH. Thanks for the reply but no, I don't use Exchange at all. Push email is turned off, so is bluetooth and I rarely use the location services. Wifi is always on as is 3g. I manually fetch email. I charge last thing at night and phone is in standby over night. By morning three is a noticable reduction on remaini g battery with 2.2, but a full bar was with 2.1. I find I'm charging more frequent with this new firmware -------------------- |
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Dec 2 2008, 21:43
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 Peanut Brain  Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 6,409 Joined: 10th September 2004 From: Surrey, England Member No.: 56,072 Device(s): iPhone 8Gb. Athena, C600 |
My battery life is about the same with 2.2 with everything turned on.
I probably shouldn't have been so quick to upgrade top 2.2 as there is no way of downgrading the BaseBand so will have to buy one of the new SIM adapters that work with 2.2 to get it back on T-Mob. -------------------- He who asks a question looks foolish for 5 minutes. He who doesn't ask a question remains foolish forever.
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Dec 3 2008, 09:55
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Diehard Group: Posters Posts: 409 Joined: 25th August 2004 Member No.: 54,173 |
QUOTE(Confucious @ Dec 2 2008, 22:43) My battery life is about the same with 2.2 with everything turned on. I probably shouldn't have been so quick to upgrade top 2.2 as there is no way of downgrading the BaseBand so will have to buy one of the new SIM adapters that work with 2.2 to get it back on T-Mob. Me too, I was far too quick updating, but I like to make sure I have the latest bug fixes etc It seems there's different results in terms of battery life with 2.2, some experience better life, other's worst: http://weblogs.redeyechicago.com/iphoneblo...ttery-life.html I think 2.2 is disappointing in terms of fixes or new features. It's hardly given me anything remotely useful. Street level view on google maps is only useful if you're viewing a large city that actually has the photos, which there aren't that many I've found, and a small tweak to Safari to put search and address bar side by side. I've also noticed a delay again in Safari when you want to type in the search or address bars, perhaps a few seconds before the characters start to appear. That uses to happen in Contacts with 2.0. The only thing I've found useful with 2.2, is pressing the home button returns back to the 1st page of the homescreen, which is useful if you've got a few pages of Applications. Aside from that, it doesn't do a lot,. except for me it uses more battery  Still no Push notification or voice guided navigation capabilities yet, but I shouldn't really complain. Apple do very well in releasing regular updates, which keeps me wanting more, and eager to find out what they'll do in the next update This post has been edited by paholman: Dec 3 2008, 10:02 -------------------- |
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Dec 5 2008, 16:25
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Regular Group: Posters Posts: 123 Joined: 18th October 2007 Member No.: 312,408 Device(s): Vodafone V1615 (Tytn II) |
I'm very happy with 2.2 - battery life is better for me, email fetching in the background is more reliable (ie, it works), and Safari is much, much more stable and doesn't crash constantly anymore. The only bug I've found is that Googlemaps is now stuck in KM rather than miles - obviously some issue with the English regional setting, although nothing else seems to be affected.
My iPhone's "stock" though - not jailbroken or turbo-simmed. |
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Dec 5 2008, 16:32
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Peanut Brain Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 6,409 Joined: 10th September 2004 From: Surrey, England Member No.: 56,072 Device(s): iPhone 8Gb. Athena, C600 |
Try navigating to an address in your contacts. if you don't have United Kingdom in the address it very kindly adds United States because, obviously, everyone you know lives in the Good Old U S of A....
This post has been edited by Confucious: Dec 5 2008, 16:33 -------------------- He who asks a question looks foolish for 5 minutes. He who doesn't ask a question remains foolish forever.
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Dec 23 2008, 15:33
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 The artist formerly known as Peekie Group: Posters Posts: 1,868 Joined: 26th October 2003 Member No.: 19,316 Device(s): HTC Diamond / Iphone 3g |
well if you have been following the yellowsnow unlock ( due out 31 dec ) then you will be happy to finally be able to use your iphone without a turbo sim , but the only question i have for the iphone dev team is the unlock looks software based so will it stay unlocked if you update it ( abit like the psp custom software which runs homebrew untill you update it with a real sony update then its useless ) seeing as they advice not to update the baseband on the iphone on 2.2 it looks like it could cause problems should you upgrade the iphone by mistake
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Dec 23 2008, 15:44
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Peanut Brain Group: MoDaCo Plus Posts: 6,409 Joined: 10th September 2004 From: Surrey, England Member No.: 56,072 Device(s): iPhone 8Gb. Athena, C600 |
If you read the comments on the Dev Blog you'd know that any update restores thge phone to locked state - you have to Jailbrake and unlock via Cydia so an inadvertent update to 2.2 would lock your phone again - I hope they do a BB 2.28 unlock soon! Until then I'll continue with my iSmartSIM.
-------------------- He who asks a question looks foolish for 5 minutes. He who doesn't ask a question remains foolish forever.
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