iOS 4.2 upgrade problem solutions

[sonnas]

morning..

just a warning (or caution) to any iphone users out there thinking of updating their iphone to the latest iOS 4.2.. DONT! (or last least noy yet)

did so last night and it bricked my phone, unable to restore via backup either, and was stuck in a infinity recovery mode loop.

long story short: if you do update and brick your phone

use the advice on this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2657100&tstart=0

it worked (eventually)!

and if after following those instructions you get a "error code 37"

it just means you have to disable your firewall and AV.

just sharing incase anyone is thinking of doing this and ends up with a expensive paper wieght, as i spend a good few hours trying to sort this out last night

 

[alan1405]

solved mine by going to a different computer completely....

the online forums are filling up with this problem as we speak

 

[sonnas]

solved mine by going to a different computer completely....

the online forums are filling up with this problem as we speak

yea i tried using a different laptop but no joy...

awesome customer service by Apple....

 

[RadiusBPO]

I didnt have this problem, but I am experience a few app crashes which just never happened in the previous version. I am also experiencing freezes. Hopefully they will update the update soon

 

[matth]

I upgraded mine last night... No problems, nothing untoward happening on the phone today either... 3gs rather than iphone 4 though, maybe that's something different..

 

[Optegris]

Yep same here with a 3GS, absolutely fine...

 

[the locksmith]

3GS no probs

 

[nr-ts]

3GS and iPad upgraded fine here too.

 

[Pab]

Mine wasn't happy initially. After the update all itunes music was seemingly deleted from the phone. A quick reboot sorted that and all music reappeared.

 

[Spock]

No problems for me either

 

[akirk]

3 x iphone 4 here - no issues
ipads as well - fine
customers with both ipad and iphone 4s - no issues

Alasdair

 

[zomex]

I upgraded my 3GS last night without any problems. Is this an issue with iphone 4 only?

 

[MASSEY]

I think sonnas means upgrading the software on your iphone 3gs to that of ip4? to save buying an ip4 ?

 

[akirk]

no - the upgrade is an incremental one for the iphone - the 3Gs and the 4 use the same iOS.

so the comment about upgrading the iOS is separate from the concept of upgrading the hardware

Alasdair

 

[Hydra]

My problem is in the baseband not the IOS.

Apple sneaked in an upgrade in baseband to 5.14.02 during its update cycle a month ago and instead of having an unlocked phone, I have a phone which is cureently useful merely as a paperweight.

I sadly think back to the days of Thatcher economics when the "Market always reaches equilibrium", but if I cannot use my own telecoms provider using a phone I have effectively paid for via another provider, where is the free market???

I admit it was an O2 phone, and yes they subsidised its cost, but why should I be tied to them "post contract" when another firm has better signal and better rates?

The Dev teams are the heroes of the free market in ensuring personal choice is paramount. I await the baseband unlocking facility due tomorrow more than the API feature set available to developers in their montly upgrade cycle.

 

[blloyd]

If you were on contract with O2, you were entitled to request a free unlock at the conclusion of your contract. If you had a PAYG handset, you can still have the phone properly unlocked for a one-off payment of £15. Might be worth talking to them...

 

[sonnas]

I think sonnas means upgrading the software on your iphone 3gs to that of ip4? to save buying an ip4 ?

no, i meant upgrading the software on the iphone 4, not the 3gs.

 

[akirk]

If you were on contract with O2, you were entitled to request a free unlock at the conclusion of your contract. If you had a PAYG handset, you can still have the phone properly unlocked for a one-off payment of £15. Might be worth talking to them...

That unlocking was to move the phone from O2 to any carrier.
Different to the unlocking referred to above which is I believe in effect hacking iOS to allow non-apple controlled software to be run on the phone...

iOS 4.2 has put into the baseband a method of detecting this to prevent people from unlocking their phones. A US court case ruled that it is not illegal to unlock the phone, but didn't rule that Apple couldn't attempt to prevent it...

this is the issue being referred to above.

Alasdair

 

[blloyd]

My mistake - I confused unlocking with jailbreaking. A fix will come along sooner or later, but it will take time.

My experiences with jailbreaking have been that, in general, it isn't worth the effort anyway.

 

[the locksmith]

O2 will unlock your contract phone for you FOC even while you are in contract...... obviously you still have to pay your monthly charge but at least if you are off on hols or something you can use a local sim.

Tried this jailbreak malarky but to be honest it did some weird stuff like making it difficult to connect to wifi easily and various other rather alarming side effects. I went back to apple on the 4.1 upgrade and the phone runs a lot smoother.

 

[dagaul101]

Updating your Iphone is always a risky business, if you can send it to a store to guarantee the update, I would follow that route

 

[akirk]

Updating your Iphone is always a risky business, if you can send it to a store to guarantee the update, I would follow that route

???!!!

really?

plug in iphone
run itunes
it upgrades
finished

simple...
rarely an issue - we have a number of iphones, have had them since the first and never had an issue in upgrading. I would always wait at least a day or so after the release of a new version - check the dev. forum for any comments and allow any issues to be fixed in an interim release - but no issues.

no need to go to all the hassle of sending it off elsewhere...

if of course you jail break the phone, or tweak it in other ways - well, yes, the Apple update may not work, but for 99.9% of people it will be fine

Alasdair

 

[PureIT]

I totally agree - there will be a few who have problems but in the main no one that I know has had any problems upgrading to 4.2