Quite a few iPhone users are finding difficult to user various apps for a longer time. It just keeps crashing. The most common iPhone crash is one where the application you are working in suddenly ceases operation, the screen momentarily turns black, then the iPhone home screen appears. This is so damn frustrating. iPhoneAtlas has a fix for this:
Full reboot Perform a hard reboot of your iPhone as follows: Turn the iPhone off completely, by pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake button (on top of the device) for a few seconds then slide the red slider. Turn it back on by holding the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Restore the iPhone Try performing a restore of your iPhone. Connect it to your Mac or PC and, in iTunes, click the Restore button under the Summary tab.
Reinstall the application Touch and hold any application icon the icons begin to shake. Tap the “x” in the corner of the application you want to delete. Tap Delete.
If you are on 2.0 firmware and have tried to SMS a few times, you might have found that the input speed is a bit slow. This is not one-off issue, but quite a few iPhone 3G users have been facing off late.
SMS incredibly slow on iPhone 3G
Check out this Apple Discussions thread for more info.
iPhoneAtlas suggests - In many cases, the lag can be eliminated by resetting the iPhone: Turn the iPhone off completely, by pressing and holding the Sleep/Wake button (on top of the device) for a few seconds then slide the red slider. Turn it back on by holding the Sleep/Wake button until the Apple logo appears.
Unfortunately, poor performance generally returns after a period of normal operation post-reset.
This is great. Safari has got few great new features with the 2.0 firmware. Gizmodo has found this youtube inbuilt player in Safari. You can now see embedded youtube movies within safari which wasn’t possible with the earlier firmware.
One had to load youtube app to watch movies. Thanks Gizmodo
This is cool. TUAW has discovered this great new keyboard feature on the iPhone keyboard. If you are running the new 2.0 firmware, you can hold the ‘.com’ and get 3 options to choose from - “.net,” “.edu,” and “.org.”. This would be a relief to all those iPhone users who go to .net or .org websites regularly.
This version of downgrading 2.0 firmware to 1.1.4 was published by iClarified.com over the weekend. I am trying to cover all those downgrading formula over the web on my blog; so that iPhone 1st gen users who have upgraded their iPhones to 2.0 by mistake, could be helped. Please keep commenting on these posts so that other users could benefit from users who have cracked this 2.0 to 1.1.4 riddle:
iClarified Formula - You will want to perform this tutorial if you accidentally updated to the 2.0 firmware or you just rather be on 1.1.4. To follow this tutorial you will need to have iLiberty (Windows, Mac), iTunes 7.5 (Windows, Mac), and the 1.1.4 firmware.
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Update - 20th July 2008: iPhone users who had upgraded 1.1.4 to 2.0, can now breathe free. Go to Unlock ANY iPhone link now and download PwnageTool-2.0 to jailbreak 2.0 firmware. ——————– ^ continue reading…
If you have Windows, uninstall iTunes 7.7 as well as Apple Mobile Device Support and then reboot your computer. Go to your Control Panel and use Add/Remove Programs or Programs and Features(Vista) to do this!If you have Mac OS X, open Terminal from Applications:Utilities. Enter the following commands into the Terminal window:defaults write com.apple.iTunes StoreActivationMode -boolean NO
defaults write com.apple.iTunes StoreGeniusMode -boolean NO
killall iTunesHelper
rm -r /Applications/iTunes.app
rm -r /Library/Receipts/iTunesX.pkg
rm ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.iTunes*
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Install iTunes 7.5 onto your computer using the download links provided above.
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This is an update from my previous post on ”. If you are getting error 20 from iTunes restore while you are trying to downgrad from 2.0 to 1.1.1, please try steps mentioned below:
Some of you have reported “I am in DFU mode and keep getting error 20 from iTunes restore”. Answer, you are not in DFU mode. Follow the guide and the DFU link. An iPhone in DFU mode has no image on the screen and looks powered down.
Some of you are reporting error 160x (1600, 1601, 1602, 1604 etc) on the iTunes downgrade while in DFU mode. I suggest trying another PC. You may still have some residual files left over from the 7.7 install. Make sure you are in iTunes 7.5 with drivers from 7.7.
I am sure quite a few of us would have accidentally upgraded their unlocked iPhones to 2.0 firmware. Here is what you can do.
I found this on Hackint0sh.org’s forum:
You MUST have an earlier version of iTunes than 7.7 to do this - I used version 7.6.2 (the one before 7.7).
Put the iPhone i DFU mode and restore to 1.1.4.
iTunes say error 1015 of course as iTunes can’t downgrade the baseband.
iBrickr couldn’t kick iPhone out of restore mode, so I restored to firmware 1.1.4 one more time, THIS time with regular restore mode. Once again error 1015 in iTunes.
NOW iBrickr was able to kick iPhone out of restore mode.
Then I used “ZiPhoneGUI - patched by kIREmK” to downgrade the baseband.
Restored (regular restore this time) to 1.1.4 again (using iTunes 7.6.2).
Used iBrickr to kick iPhone out of restore mode.
Then using PwnageTool 1.1 to put my own custom firmware 1.1.4 on the iPhone.
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Update - 20th July 2008: iPhone users who had upgraded 1.1.4 to 2.0, can now breathe free. Go to Unlock ANY iPhone link now and download PwnageTool-2.0 to jailbreak 2.0 firmware. ——————– ^ continue reading…
This one is from the BigBoss. I am sure this would definitely help us all:
The first problem in your downgrade is that you probably are getting error 20 in restore mode and error 160x in DFU mode. This is due to iTunes 7.7. So, you now you need to uninstall iTunes 7.7 and install iTunes 7.5. Make sure after your iTunes 7.7 uninstall you reboot your pc as it requests you to. **OSX users, see note at bottom of page to downgrade your iTunes.
As I mentioned earlier that the ‘iPhone Dev Team’ have already JailBroken the 2.0 firmware. iPhone Dev Team has just published a video showing the jailbreaking process for a 2.0 iPhone.
And this is what these guys have to say:
We’ve added lots of new features, including 2.0 support, spotlight file indexing of .ipsws, canned websearches, installer custom configuration, custom root partitions and various other things that you’ll see on the release. Release date is soon although not this weekend.
This is for iPhone users who haven’t unlocked their iPhones earlier. Please do not upgrade your existing 1.1.4 firmware to 2.0 as of now. It will take a week or 2 for those geeks to hack open 2.0 firmware to be used on present JailBroken iPhones. So hold on.
Unlocked iPhone 1st Gen users, here is how to upgrade your firmware:
Sync your iPhone with iTunes 7.7 to make sure all data is backed up.
Download iPhone1,1_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw (Official firmware). You should get a single “.ipsw” file. If your browser renames it to a .zip file, you should rename it to “.ipsw”
In iTunes click on the “Check for Updates” while holding the Option key on the Mac (Shift key on Windows)
Select the firmware you downloaded in step #2
Wait for your iPhone to update and restore.
All your App Store applications and data should be moved over, and all applications should run.
Do share your exeperiences while upgraded this firmware…
Hi, I have been using this awesome invention called iPhone in Bangalore, India from November 2007 and have gone nutzzz over this.
Nuts to an extent that I have started my own blog on iPhone. I will be covering various developments happening around Apple iPhone. Will cover everything and anything which is even remotely connected to the iPhone. But will put more emphasis on iPhone news and buzz from an Indian perspective.
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This is cool. TUAW has discovered this great new keyboard feature on the iPhone keyboard. If you are running the new 
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