iPhone 1.0.2 update released

Before you get your hopes up, there's allegedly no new functionality here -- "bug fixes" only. Then again, that was the verbiage last time, too, and there ended up being a few little goodies packed in there. Word to the wise: we're getting an error on our hacked unit right now, so let us know what y'all are getting.

Update: Yep, Jailbreak still works! Phew.

Update (code BAD): We take it back about our backup working properly. Despite the fact that we had a couple of error messages during the upgrade which seemed innocuous, this iPhone update wiped out our device and refused to restore our last back backup, instead creating a new backup based on a fresh restore. In other words: we just lost everything on our friggin device and the automatic backup is gone.

[iGrooveLA @ Aug 21st 2007 6:40PM]

what??? im first! anybody find anything worthy???

[Mr Angry @ Aug 21st 2007 6:42PM]

you tools are so lame. Apple are so lamz it is only BUG FIXXXES PEOPLE!!! Nuffink new, get a clue losers

[Sean O. @ Aug 21st 2007 11:45PM]

ok who else pronounced that as lambs?

[bombastinator @ Aug 22nd 2007 12:03AM]

L33t? How quaint. This person is obviously living in 1994.

[Robert @ Aug 26th 2007 11:27PM]

Mr angry, you make my life complete

just kidding

[Nick K. @ Sep 4th 2007 5:20AM]

It better have the "%" sign centered in the Stocks App. Seriously.

[Mobilehavoc @ Aug 21st 2007 6:45PM]

If you've hacked your iPhone you need to do a full restore. Suckaz.

Mine was stock and the update took 5 mins in total time...nice and smooth. I'd hate to have to restore and lose my text messages, my camera roll and god knows what else.

Glad I held out.

[Will Design for Food @ Aug 21st 2007 8:32PM]

Umm...why don't you just sync your pictures...then if you lose your camera roll you're all good...

[Mobilehavoc @ Aug 21st 2007 6:46PM]

If you've hacked your iPhone you need to do a full restore. Suckaz.

Mine was stock and the update took 5 mins in total time...nice and smooth. I'd hate to have to restore and lose my text messages, my camera roll and god knows what else.

Glad I held out.

[CharlieX @ Aug 21st 2007 6:54PM]

We're all really proud that you don't hack your hobbled cellphone. I hope you enjoy "marimba."

[Mobilehavoc @ Aug 21st 2007 6:57PM]

@Charlie,

I actually like the stock ringtones but what I enjoy more are keeping all my text messages, camera pics, settings and being able to update in 3-4 mins.

[J Doss @ Aug 21st 2007 7:18PM]

@CharlieX

Stock here too, I use iphoneringtonemaker and did the update and still have my ringtones. No Jailbreaking required.

[Omar Abudayyeh @ Aug 21st 2007 8:57PM]

So Jdoss, using iphoneringtonemaker wont cause the update to go bad??? I can do it with no harm to the phone?

[J Doss @ Aug 21st 2007 9:20PM]

I updated with no problems. It was fast too. I think since the program doesn't dink with the system files you'll be fine. There are noticable minor improvements

[Richard A @ Aug 22nd 2007 12:04AM]

Yes, indeed! I second.... uhh, third that!

Efiko iPhone RingtoneMaker: installed 2 custom tones, upgraded to 1.0.2, smoooooth as silk.
To use EiRTM, there is no jailbreaking involved.

[Bootes @ Aug 22nd 2007 12:54AM]

Everything stays the same if you restore, including your text messages. Everything is backed up when you sync with iTunes. Restoring erases the phone and then puts everything back.

[Pans @ Aug 21st 2007 6:48PM]

I'm bricked.

Dont DL if you want to keep your goodies. :(

[adrizzle @ Aug 21st 2007 11:21PM]

when you say bricked... do you mean bricked as in "inoperable from this point on" or bricked to a point where a restore your bricktastic-ness?

[bombastinator @ Aug 22nd 2007 12:08AM]

and the moral of the story is... don't do a blind update on a customized product until you know how it is going to work out.

This is SOP in linux. Even if they are not trying to mess with the hacks they're not going to go out of their way to make them work either. Folks are going to keep on having to play catch up with OS changes.

I'd say wait 3 weeks or so to give things a chance to get ironed out.

E

[fluffy @ Aug 21st 2007 6:50PM]

man i hope this fixes the app's from crashing constantly...any other ideas on a fix?

[Harkonian @ Aug 21st 2007 6:55PM]

One thing I've noticed is that you are now able to scroll properly in Safari as the page is still loading whereas before it would mostly not allow you to scroll.

[Calvin @ Aug 21st 2007 7:03PM]

he's right ! engadget scrolls perfectly now !

[Harkonian @ Aug 21st 2007 7:31PM]

Also, one issue I consistently have is that playing music while browsing web sites will very often (85% of the time) cause the music to stop playing. I have not been able to get this to happen with this update.

[Harkonian @ Aug 21st 2007 7:43PM]

Aaah..interesting. WiFi reception is better. There are several WiFi access points in the area that I can see with my PC but have never been able to see with my iPhone. I can now see them. Also, my access point on the other side of the house would typically go in and out of reception and I now have a steady 2 bars. Nice.

[Phil @ Aug 21st 2007 7:23PM]

There is a % sign in the stocks app now.

[Kyrra @ Aug 21st 2007 7:27PM]

/me looks at is 1.0.0 fw iPhone...

Mine shows a % sign as well, what are you talking about?

[eastcoastblogging @ Aug 21st 2007 7:10PM]

From what I can see, they added a Drafts folder in the mail app ! Hooray, amd suddenly mails I had saved showed up miraculously.

[PK @ Aug 21st 2007 7:21PM]

This was already there before, AFAIK.

[eastcoastblogging @ Aug 21st 2007 7:28PM]

sorry, i had never seen it before ...

[Scott Thatcher @ Aug 21st 2007 7:05PM]

Standard "OEM", quick update, no noticeable changes. Tried the menus, settings, nothing stuck out particularly but I don't live in the device either...

[Paul J. @ Aug 21st 2007 7:13PM]

Yep, I plugged my iPhone in to sync and do the update, and sure enough it wiped out all of my contacts. I hadn't yet synced it with my computer since I reformatted, so the contacts weren't yet on my PC and now they are all gone. Awesome stuff Apple.

[ed @ Aug 21st 2007 7:19PM]

Awesome stuff Paul.

The first rule of computers: backup, backup, backup.

[Gudbergur @ Aug 21st 2007 7:23PM]

Surely Apple is at fault for wiping out your contacts... But come on... If they are at all important to you why did you risk it? Having a common sense, you must know there is some probability that a firmware update will screw up your device, in which case you should of course have a backup of irreplacable data.

[Gudbergur @ Aug 22nd 2007 4:16PM]

Strike that. Irreplaceable.

[Greg Poole @ Aug 21st 2007 7:14PM]

"Macs don't get those cryptic error messages." - Mac

[mongoos150 @ Aug 21st 2007 7:55PM]

They don't. There haven't been any cryptic error messages reported.

[mongoos150 @ Aug 21st 2007 7:59PM]

EDIT: Didn't see the update on the original story. Sucks guys - I haven't received any such messages ;)

[Greg Poole @ Aug 21st 2007 8:00PM]

"The iPhone "iPhone" could not be updated. An unknown error occurred (0xE8000029)."
If that's not cryptic then I'd love to see what your interpretation is.

[jay sea @ Aug 24th 2007 12:25AM]

Im not sure thats cryptic. its pretty honest. it says it doesnt know. :)

[jds @ Aug 21st 2007 7:15PM]

Has anyone tried putting the phone back in jail and then applying the update? I'm hoping that I can run the update after jailbreak as long as I put it back in jail. Oh, and does anyone know of a nice tutorial or utility (for windows) to put it back in jail?

[Travis @ Aug 21st 2007 7:18PM]

there's a share button in the url section in safari so you can email urls. copy and paste would be better. duh.

[Travis @ Aug 21st 2007 7:20PM]

or was that already there? can't remember that far back.

[PK @ Aug 21st 2007 7:22PM]

Already there, too...

[duffy @ Aug 21st 2007 7:24PM]

Dunno if I stumbled on a new feature...while in Safari if you tap the top tool bar it will scroll back to the top of the page. Beats the hell out of swiping.

[PK @ Aug 21st 2007 7:26PM]

Last time I type this: that was already there before, too.

[Kappy @ Aug 21st 2007 7:27PM]

was there before

[Adam @ Aug 21st 2007 7:26PM]

That was definitely already there.

[Mike @ Aug 22nd 2007 2:47PM]

Wow that is incredibly useful! Why wasn't I notified?!

[Drew @ Aug 21st 2007 7:26PM]

The URL share button, the percentages in the Stocks app, and the Safari scroll-to-the-top were all already there.

[PeteC @ Aug 21st 2007 7:26PM]

"we just lost everything on our friggin device and the automatic backup is gone"

That sucks supreme monkey balls. I'm none to happy about apple backup systems since I tried to restore an image on my macbook only to find there's a bug on OSX 10.4.6/intel systems that means that you can't drag and drop a drive when using disk utility off the restore CD resulting in me having 4 hours off hair pulling before finally coming up with a workable solution. Backup your backups people and keep paper backups of any important stuff!