Apple Releases iPhone OS 3.1 for iPhone and iPod Touch

[BeyondtheTech]

Just to clarify,

3.1 (7C144) was released for all three generations of iPhone.
3.1.1 (7C145) was released for all three generations of iPod touch.

You can download them directly from http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/ (which basically parses the http://itunes.com/version XML feed).

iClarified stated that the BenM tethering hack was disabled back during the second beta of 3.1, so it's almost guaranteed that it's disabled in the final release.

3.1 beta 2 did fix the high-pitch noise issue that occured in many iPhone 3GS during recording of video and voice memos, so I'm sure it also remained fixed in the final release.

 

[xIGmanIx]

"Remotely lock iPhone with a passcode via MobileMe"

Thats nice. so If you lose your phone but didn't have it passcoded you can push that down and then no one will be able to get into it.

Also I d/l iTunes 9 and its nice. Home sharing is neutered enough where music companies wont get up in arms. Though I can see app developers crying about sharing apps between computers (buying a GPS nav system once and then putting it on many phones).

However I cant seem to get Genius mixes to show up, I get Genius but not Mixes.

so your screwed if you don't have mobile me or if the person already was able to get into your device. not exactly bulletproof

 

[mrkgoo]

Is it just me or did iTunes9/3.1 upgrade dump all my obsolete firmware files for iPod touch and iPhone? It retained the latest firmware files, but why did it keep my first iPod touch firmware, but dump out all the rest? I guess a restore to factory for the iPod touch needs that first one. But what about the iPhone, then?

 

[ortuno2k]

Downloaded iTunes 9 and installing 3.1 on my 3G iPhone.

iTunes 9 looks nice! Haven't had a chance to try any "new" features yet.

I am noticing quite a lot of spinning beach balling... * scratches head **

Maybe it's 'cause I'm trying to do all these things at the same time... Now, off to restore iPhone to factory default and start from scratch.

No iTunes 64 though

 

[fishballer]

heh. sorry to confuse the newbies, but they had to be brought into the fold one way or the other, right?

I think fishballer is using what we call al little sarcasim...people always seem to say these 2 things after an OS update, usuaually there is not a real difference.

 

[thegman1234]

Still drops calls like nobodies business. Very, very, very frustrating.

 

[alex3d]

Number confirmation

Just ran the update and everything seems good so far. But suddenly while I was in the app store I think, a message popped up asking me to confirm my phone number. Did anyone else get this as well? Strange...

 

[akac]

I want:

- YouTube with decent quality on 3G cellular, I have about 2-3 Mbit/s effective download rate both on Wi-Fi and 3G cellular, why do I get lousy quality on 3G when I have the bandwidth?

Maybe you don't have the bandwidth...

- Removal of other 3G cellular restrictions to allow Skype calls etc.
- Possibility to run at least music apps like Spotify in the background
- Correction of the problem with third-party apps that stops working, solved by new app download

I haven't heard of or seen that bug. As an App developer I probably would.

- Removal of the bug that stops execution for a second or more (no response) in any app now and then

Usually that means something is going on in the background. As a very heavy user/developer I haven't seen this either.

- Display of accumulated cellular download in the status bar

That seems a bit specific and non-user friendly.

- Display of turbo-3G as 3.5G or similar in the status bar

I'm sure if you had that you'd get that.

- Possiblity to change rotation of the screen when the keyboard is displayed

Works for me.

- Addition of a "go to end of page" in Safari (had to add a bookmark with javascript to get this)
- More home screens
- Naming of home screens
- Removal of 2GB restriction per app, let the user decide this

I had way more than 2GB in one app... (voice recording).

 

[dwd3885]

Still drops calls like nobodies business. Very, very, very frustrating.

ATT is not for everybody. Works perfectly fine in my area. Never had a dropped call.

 

[akac]

Still drops calls like nobodies business. Very, very, very frustrating.

That's an AT&T thing - not iPhone.

 

[RMo]

[Am I crazy,] or did I pay $10 for 3.0 and if I would have waited $5 for 3.1

Nope, you're absolutely right.

 

[Peace]

I had MMS in the 3.1 beta but now in the release it's gone.

 

[zax123]

WiFi still not working

When I installed 3.0 on my 3G 16GB, WiFi stopped working (a bug a LOT of people had). It had something to do with Bluetooth being on the same antenna or something like that. Strange that I didn't have this problem with 2.x. So I waited till 3.1 came out trusting that Apple would see the large number of people having this problem and fix it. Well, for me anyway, it isn't fixed. Has WiFi performance improved for anyone on 3.1 who was having issues on 3.0?

 

[evilspoons]

The ringtone thing still confuses the hell out of me.

Why is it you can buy a song for $0.99 but PART of the song costs $1.29?? I know it's still cheaper than most carrier ringtones ($4.00!! WTF!) but seriously, on my BlackBerry I just download the song (iTunes Plus, for example) then crop it and put it on my phone. That cost $0 more than the song.

Does it not seem obvious to everyone that ringtones are the same thing as music files? Gah!

 

[mikejd1]

not sure if this was mentioned but you can now sync back videos from the photos tab in itunes!

 

[orangermac]

Home DoubleTap!

Maybe this was a bug that only affected me before, but the Double-click home button setting now works with the combination of:

Search
iPod Controls (ON)

Prior to this, the iPod Controls would pop up if these were both selected, whether I was currently playing music or not. Now it does what it claims, defautling to the search unless music is playing. Interestingly, double tapping brings me to search from music when in portrait mode but brings up the music controls when in landscape (cover flow) mode (probably because it lacks the controls in this mode).

 

[dr_lha]

Yep, you're supposed to get iTunes 9 first, then sync and update the phone's OS.

There's a little "Learn How" thing in the top right corner of the main frame that tells you the steps:
http://www.apple.com/iphone/softwareupdate/

8.2.1 updates the iPhone Firmware to 3.1 just fine.

 

[darksider]

jabra bt620s

Does anyone have an experience with the 3.1 and jabra bt620s - bluetooth headset?

Does the "next/previous track" work now?

thank you!

 

[TrEyHoLyO]

does anyone know if the tethering is still working? I changed the carrier file before to make it work. When you update can you use the older itunes to update the carrier file again if you have too?

 

[vilasgn]

Contacts Scrolling fixed?

It looks like the contacts scrolling by alphabet is still now fixed?

Am I missing something?

 

[WickedRabbit]

I hope they fixed the stupid bug that you cannot switch tracks with Stereo Bluetooth headphones...

Sorry - and someone can correct me if i'm wrong - but this is not an error. This is a lacking feature of the iPhone. The device needs to support the Bluetooth profile of AVRCP (Audio Video Remote Control Profile) and the iPhone I don't believe does. It only supports A2DP (stereo bluetooth for wireless listening).

 

[farleysmaster]

Anyone else annoyed that podcasts aren't showing up in the playlists?

And my podcast screen is also fairly jerky...

 

[akacaj]

Anything new with Stereo Bluetooth? Last I heard you could not control the volume with certain bluetooth headsets. I would love to pick up the Sony HBH-IS800 stereo headphones if the volume control has been fixed.

 

[Floyd26]

NO Camera icon

i still don't see the camera icon after my software update, So iam guessing we still have 2 wait until the 25th.

 

[bacaramac]

Hopefully they fixed the app icon issue for good. I am about sick of deleting app and losing my progress and re-installing just to fix the display of the wrong app icon. Very, very annoying.