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iPhone OS 3.0

iPhone OS 3.1.3 Causing, Not Fixing, Battery Issues?

February 10, 2010

Amongst the quite small list of changes that Apple mentioned when the 3.1.3 iPhone OS update was released was: improvement in the accuracy of reported battery levels on the iPhone 3GS.
Ironically, just a week after that update’s release, there are reports that users are having some serious battery related issues after updating to 3.1.3 …
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iPhone OS 3.1.3 Update Now Out on iTunes

February 2, 2010

Well, it’s about time I guess. It’s been quite a while since we’ve had any iPhone OS updates, and today we’ve got one. The 3.1.3 update is out now on iTunes.
The only details listed for this update are a couple of bug fixes and a promised improvement in the accuracy of reported battery levels [...]

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Day dreaming: Adopting the Dashboard on the iPhone

September 29, 2009

News of a new jailbreak app called SmartScreen (via TUAW) has been circulating and people seem to be pretty excited about a widget-based app on the lock screen. I really like playing around with these solutions (Intelliscreen rocked when I used it), but I wonder if these kinds of interfaces wouldn’t be cooler after the [...]

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Big Jump In iPhone Users Updating to 3.1 Last Week

September 28, 2009

There were some significant changes this week with iPhone OS version statistics. Mainly, there was a sharp increase in users upgrading to 3.1; from 18.8% to 31.4%. 3.1.1 nearly saw a doubling of users from 3.7% to 6.0%. All other OS versions lost some of their user-base.

The chart and quote above are from [...]

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Jailbreak for iPhone OS 3.1 Available for Some iPhone / Touch Models – No 3GS Yet

September 16, 2009

If you updated to iPhone OS 3.1 on an iPhone 2G or 3G or an iPod Touch 1G, and want your jailbreak back, then there’s great news for you today, via the Dev Team and an updated version of their superb Pwnage Tool app.
Because of changes with Apple’s update techniques this will be a [...]

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Managing Apps in iTunes: First Impression = Not Impressed

September 9, 2009

I’ve been wanting to see better options for organizing our iPhone apps and home screens almost ever since the App Store opened. It’s always been at or near the top of my wish list for the iPhone.
As of today, with the release of iPhone 0S 3.1, we now have the ability to organize apps [...]

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iPhone OS 3.1 Should (finally) Fix Wrong Icons Bug

September 9, 2009

Here’s one nice new OS 3.1 update item that I hadn’t seen mentioned until just a short while ago – it fixes that pesky )and very annoying) wrong icons bug in iPhone OS 3.0, that had been hanging around for nearly three months. At least according to Apple’s details page for the update that [...]

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An Update & Offer of Support for 3.0 Mixed Up Icons Bug – Not from Apple, From Truphone

August 20, 2009

Suffering with buggered up icons under iPhone OS 3.0? Looking for some sort of news or support on the issue? Well hey – there’s a little of that available via an email sent out to users yesterday.
Not from Apple of course, who still haven’t acknowledged this widely-known bug – but from the developers of an [...]

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Mixed Up iPhone Icons Bug Still Around

August 17, 2009

Up to now, I’ve been fortunate and not been affected by the commonly reported ‘mixed up icons’ bug on iPhone OS 3.0 – where apps display the correct name but the wrong icon, and similar issues. The bug has been around for a couple months, and apparently is still affecting plenty of users, according [...]

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My First Experience With In-App Purchases

August 5, 2009

When Apple released the iPhone OS 3.0 update in June, it introduced the ability to upgrade or enhance third-party apps from within the app itself, using what is called In-App Purchasing.
As I don’t play any games on my iPhone, which are the apps that take advantage of in-app purchasing the most, I had not had [...]

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iPhone 3GS – Notes on How To Restore, Apply SMS Security Update, & Re-jailbreak

August 1, 2009

Last night I got into ‘have my cake and eat it too’ mode – as in, I decided I needed to apply the 3.0.1 urgent security update for the iPhone, but also wanted to get straight back to being jailbroken.
I managed to get both things done last night, and took some quick notes [...]

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