Comments on: Issues Arise with iPhone 2.2 Firmware

By: Hiliana

Hiliana — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 01:23:49 +0000

My 1st gen iphone crashed when updating to 2.2 firmware. The screen had the usb cable and itunes icons and that is as far as it would go.When trying to restore, I would get error messages. I did a lot of research and found this article to fix my phone http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1808

By: Killian Bell

Killian Bell — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:37:24 +0000

@ Chris — Maybe try downgrading back to the 2.1 firmware just to be sure it is definitely the 2.2 firmware that’s causing this? Either way, I’m not sure where you should go from here. Hopefully 2.1 will restore you iPhone back to health however if it doesn’t work, I’m not sure what you can do I’m afraid.

@ MaryRose — I’ve never heard of this I’m sorry to say. The only thing I can suggest is, go back to an Apple store and insist THEY restore it on one of their machines whilst you’re there. If they themselves can’t get it working, they should replace it.

By: MaryRose

MaryRose — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 12:40:37 +0000

I recently bought an iPhone and 14 days after buying it 2.2 was released. I clicked update and halfway through updating to 2.2 the iPhone went blank and an error message displayed on the screen saying this iphone is now in recovery mode and I must resotre it. I did so and halfway through restoring it the same thing happened. I am now stuck with a completely dead iPhone that wont switch on or do anything! Iv been onto apple care and tried everything they’ve told me to do but to no avail. Anyone ever heard of this?

By: chris

chris — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:57:44 +0000

DOES ANY ONE THINK I HAVE A LAW SUIT.
I MEAN ITS APPLE’S CRAP FIRMWARE THAT DID THIS. I STILL HAVE A YEAR ON MY CONTRACT AND THE THING DOESN’T WORK. THE LADY FROM 1-800-MYIPHONE IS BASICLY TELLING ME IT MY FAULT AND FOR 200.00$ THEY CAN HOOK ME UP WITH A NEW PHONE,……….YA OK UP YOURS JOBS.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:47:02 +0000

2.2 firware updat killed the middle of my screen, not responsive to any touching and the phone keys 7, 8 ,9 will not work so i can’t dial numbers with 7, 8, 9.
iphone won’t see my wireless access point, and can’t send sms text because the send button is in the dead zone of the screen.

and at&t won’t replace it. that is BS.

By: Brad

Brad — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 23:29:08 +0000

Hi, I updated to 2.2, and it says SIM not recognized or something. Shall I go to the phone company store?

By: Killian Bell

Killian Bell — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:34:44 +0000

@ dggraphics — I still use an AOL e-mail. I’ve been with AOL since I had internet (years and years ago) and they’ve always been great for me. Out of all of my e-mail accounts on the iPhone (MobileMe, Yahoo!, AOL, GoogleMail) AOL is probably the most reliable. I have more connection errors with the others, MobileMe especially, than I do with AOL.

@ Ted — My Safari browser doesn’t seem too much better either — it still crashes just as much. I do find though that removing any unused applications certainly speeds up the phone. I often remove any I don’t use every couple off months because I have a build-up of applications I’ve downloaded mainly because they were free and that I never use.

By: Ted

Ted — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 22:19:36 +0000

No problems here. But Safari doesn’t seem that much better at not crashing. I think I might backup and restore the phone completely just to get a fresh install. I also have a bunch of useless apps that I’ve let accumulate and I might as well prune those at the same time.

By: Paul

Paul — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 22:25:43 +0000

No problems here either.

By: Leland

Leland — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:22:39 +0000

No problems for me.

By: Joseph Awad

Joseph Awad — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 16:19:31 +0000

I had to reenter my secure wireless network setting at work after upgrading. It wiped all settings other than my home Apple wireless. That may explain part of the first post.

By: dggraphics

dggraphics — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:22:43 +0000

AOL….Do people still use this? Of course they would be having problems.

By: Killian Bell

Killian Bell — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 11:19:19 +0000

Hmmm… that’s interesting! Thanks for letting us know.

I hope for you sake and for the sake of many, many other iPhone users Apple releases an update SOON!

By: AN

AN — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 10:31:32 +0000

iPhone 2.2 Update promptly killed my 3G connection. A Major c*** up.

However it was rescued through many resets including network settings.

Until then phone worked, slow GPRS internet worked, wireless worked but 3G didn’t.

Now I have discovered a new problem in the iPhone 2.2 update with regard to wireless.

If I connect to my home wireless access point the iPhone switches to wireless icon and uses wireless access for mail / safari / itunes, etc.

However if I connect on the road to my ad-hoc wireless network, the iPhone 2.2 says it joined but the icon remains 3G. Accessing the mail / safari / itunes, etc. still works so its still going over 3G instead of wireless to my ad-hoc network. Another c*** up.