iPhone Software 3.1

dazedandlost

From another forum, with the Apple event tomorrow, rumours are that software 3.1 will be released tomorrow !

Highlighted rumours are:

Features are probably going to be similar to the following:

* Video editing on iPhone 3GS wont overwrite the clip over the original when you are editing a clip.
* A new option for checking tethering data statistics.
* iPhone will now vibrate whenever you switch to the mode where you can move and arrange icons on the iPhone home screen.
* Improvements in the performance of Compass on iPhone 3GS.
* Directional orientation in Google Maps app is now more accurate.
* Copy/Paste support for address book and numeric keypad in Phone application.
* “Fraud Protection” toggle has been added to settings under Safari.
* iPhone boot time is now faster.
* Voice Control over Bluetooth.
* Password-locked phones will now ask for a PIN, the first time the device is plugged into a new computer for syncing.
* New APIs to enable third party apps to access videos and edit them.
* Developers can now work with an iPhone wirelessly (WIFI) instead of having to connect it to their development computer via USB.
* Non-destructive video button names changed to Trim Original and Save as New Clip, this should help clear up the confusion caused by the original names Save and Save a Copy.
* New enhancements to Core Audio has been added.
* Support for copy/paste of videos into email.
* Support for Instruments (on your Leopard or Snow Leopard OS X machine) over Wi-Fi instead of USB for developers to test benchmarks in apps for memory leaks, performance etc.
* Video attachments can now be saved into photo album.
* Improved battery life.
* Failover support for HTTP live streaming.
* Support for VM Tracker in Snow Leopard.
* Improvements to OpenGL and Quartz.
* MMS support for AT&T customers.
* Official API support for Augmented Reality apps. (unconfirmed)
* More accuracy in battery % meter. (unconfirmed)
* A toggle for Batter % for all devices. (unconfirmed)
* Password protection toggle for “Find my iPhone”. (unconfirmed)
* Real-time zoom for camera:
* Numerous other bug fixes.

http://www.avforums.com/forums/iphon...are-3-1-a.html



Really hope battery life is improved !

banquo

+1 on the battery!

Since tomorrow is all about iPods, shall we nominate this as the official ''watch'' thread?

Dades

Nothing in there that really floats my boat tbh!

Obviously battery life and maybe the extra cut and paste bits, but it's no "3.0".

IamMetaldave

Anything extra in the battery department is always welcome

banquo

...and badly needed. IMHO this is the only major drawback of the two products. Seriously weak battery life. Maybe not so much for the iPhone because it's aimed more at the business market, and most of the day you're supposed to be doing, you know, your job. But the iPod Touch is 100% toy and I would really love it to have a super battery life. Pity about all the science that means I can't have it.

dazedandlost

Dades wrote: »

Nothing in there that really floats my boat tbh!

Obviously battery life and maybe the extra cut and paste bits, but it's no "3.0".

If it is true, I will be happy with majority of these updates. Also next major software update would be called 4.0...

Owen

Augmented Reality is supposed to making an appearance with the 3.1 update too. The camera zoom sounds worthwhile, and definitely a +1 from the PD camp on battery life.

gartcork

I was also hoping there might be a software update in it to improve the power to the antenna in the 3GS....Reception is much better on the 3G
Still all the other items are welcome.

(P.S. I know it's off subject but I'm fairly new to boards.ie, how do I thank people for posts)

TheTubes

those are incredibly detailed rumors!!

Edit:

gartcork wrote: »

(P.S. I know it's off subject but I'm fairly new to boards.ie, how do I thank people for posts)

Use the button on the post you want to thank

gartcork

TheTubes wrote: »

those are incredibly detailed rumors!!

Edit:

Use the button on the post you want to thank

Thanks a lot TheTubes but for some reason I don't have that option

banquo

You need to have 25 posts under your belt first

gartcork

Ahhh...Great stuff.... I'll make sure to thank you all when I reach that.
Sorry again for going off subject.... Looking forward to the apple event this evening

faceman

Only thing on that list of interest to me is battery life.

Apple have "improved" battery life on the iPhones since day one yet i still have to charge it daily.

jester77

Yip, battery is poor on OS3.0. I had to turn off push as I was having to charge the phone a few times a day. With Push turned off I can just about manage from morning till night and leave it charging over night.

Leiva

All APPLE Websites are busy ?..... could this be the new firmware ?

From what i remember they went like this just before the last update !

TheTubes

could be the new firmware but I think there are also some new ipods expected at an apple event today
http://www.engadget.com/tag/ipod,rumor

banquo

http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055654731&page=3

Where it's at.

Stephen

Dev Team are warning that this is going to break all of the existing unlock techniques. Be careful people.

bluemachaveli

It's up on iTunes now.

digitaldr

Anyone willing to see if it breaks tethering too??

eirlink

i have an italian unocked 3gs.

just finished downloading itunes 9 and in it is iphone 3.1.

both installed without a hitch in under 15 mins.

FYI for anyone with an official unlocked device....happy days

bertie4evr

It breaks tethering.

Jax Teller

whats the iphone configuration utility ????

digitaldr

bertie4evr wrote: »

It breaks tethering.

think I'll hold off on updating then as am not convinced it'd be worth losing tethering for the sake of a few minor updates. Will iTunes 9 break it too?

faceman

I have 3.1 installed. Ive noticed no differences other than iPhone backup taking an eternity to complete. :mad:

Owen

Has anyone with the 5 icon dock had issues with the icon management in iTunes 9? I'd imagine it screws it up royally, not to mention all the hidden icons I have (Stocks deleted, etc)

jamieh

Hi all,

Does anyone know where I can get the 3.1 ipsw file from?

Every time I try to download it it gets to 99% and then gives me network error 3259.

I've googled but all I can get is beta versions.

copacetic

bertie4evr wrote: »

It breaks tethering.

not a lot to go on there, do you lose the option (expected) and then can't put it back with a different the carrier file?

philiporeilly

3.1 breaks tethering on O2 and I have noticed my phone was a lot slower this morning doing basic tasks.

I rarely used tethering but it was handy to have in an emergency. O2 Ireland are appalling with their iPhone experience. I generally love the phone but am really annoyed with O2. So much so that I wont get the 3GS as committing myself to another 18mths with O2 would be a nightmare.

Besides offering the phone, they have done nothing to support the additional iphone feature sets such as tethering and visual voicemail. Fair enough the voicemail could cost them to install but tethering is a simple service to enable which existing customers could use within their 1Gb allowances. What's worse is that even though their customer service rep stated tethering is on the way soon (months ago) their has been no update since.

In protest I think we should all switch off our wifi by default until we use up our already paid for 1Gb allowances each month!

iMADEtheBBC

Any suggestions on blogs or sites to monitor for tethering to be fixed on 3.1 ?

I only got my iphone yesterday and won't be jailbreaking it so I took the 3.1 update not realising/thinking it could break the tethering. Not a deal breaker but something I'd like to have available to me.

TheTubes

iMADEtheBBC wrote: »

Any suggestions on blogs or sites to monitor for tethering to be fixed on 3.1 ?

Here

It will probably be posted here fairly soon after it becomes available, hackintosh.org aswell maybe.

my 2 ¢

dingding

I have a Italian 3G on Three and the tethering options are still in the settings and I can enable it.

I will try later to see if it still works.

Checked later and I found the option vanished. So I can no longer tether with the iPhone

banquo

I can't find a single useful feature in 3.1. Not one.

miralize

app managment isnt useful?

banquo

It certainly is! My favorite feature of the whole keynote actually but I thought that was an iTunes thing and not a firmware thing? If it is a firmware thing then I completely retract the previous statement.

Stephen

Is it safe to use itunes 9 with jailbroken/unlocked phones on 3.0/3.0.1?

DryCleanOnly

faceman wrote: »

I have 3.1 installed. Ive noticed no differences other than iPhone backup taking an eternity to complete. :mad:

Mine took forever aswell but i found this and it is a lot faster now
http://justanotheriphoneblog.com/wordpress/2008/07/28/quick-tip-speed-up-iphone-sync-times-not-by-disabling-backup

pvt.joker

if i update to 3.1 , will i lose any apps i have downloaded from cydia/installous ?
i.e will it restore my iphone , and overwrite the jailbreak ?

phill106

pvt.joker wrote: »

if i update to 3.1 , will i lose any apps i have downloaded from cydia/installous ?
i.e will it restore my iphone , and overwrite the jailbreak ?

yes, untill its possible to jailbreak 3.1, then you can redownload those apps.

Fingleberries

One of the features that I like in 3.1 is that you can use Voice Control (on 3Gs) using a bluetooth headset.

It was a bit of a bummer when I got the 3Gs first and tried to do this with my generic car kit. All better now

TinCool

Any significant increase with batter life ?

faceman

TinCool wrote: »

Any significant increase with batter life ?

I havent noticed a difference

Gryzor

pvt.joker wrote: »

if i update to 3.1 , will i lose any apps i have downloaded from cydia/installous ?
i.e will it restore my iphone , and overwrite the jailbreak ?

currently if u upgrade to 3.1 inadvertently or otherwise, it is not possible to downgrade to 3.0 to rejailbreak,if i understand things correctly??

irish1967

Stephen wrote: »

Is it safe to use itunes 9 with jailbroken/unlocked phones on 3.0/3.0.1?

Was wondering the same as this myself

Some_Person

I'm using Itunes 9 now with my jailbroken Ipod Touch 2G (3.0), doesn't cause any problems except it breaks Iphone Browser(the filesystem viewing thing) for some reason. Don't update to 3.1 firmware of course or you'll lose your jailbreak.

sharkman

Some_Person wrote: »

I'm using Itunes 9 now with my jailbroken Ipod Touch 2G (3.0), doesn't cause any problems except it breaks Iphone Browser(the filesystem viewing thing) for some reason. Don't update to 3.1 firmware of course or you'll lose your jailbreak.

Plus you wont be able to roll back to jailbreak.

dougs09

TinCool wrote: »

Any significant increase with batter life ?

nope batery life still sucks, my phone went dead on my when in dublin yesterday and it was fully charged before leaving town

passingthrough

i have to restore my ipod touch, jailbreaking caused a slight problem, well using categories did, apps gone missing etc. so i want to re jailbreak it but when i try to restore it itunes tells me that its going to update to 3.1
is there any way to stop that from happening?

EDIT: found this on macrumours, in the event of apps going missing

1. Go to your Settings
2. Go to "General"
3. Go to "Restrictions"
4. Enable Restrictions
5. Enter in a passcode and confirm
6. Disable Restrictions

they appear again

Bubba

Does anybody know if the latest iphone software 3.1 can be installed on jailbreaked iphones and be unlocked?

sharkman

Bubba wrote: »

Does anybody know if the latest iphone software 3.1 can be installed on jailbreaked iphones and be unlocked?

NOT YET ...

dougs09

yea it will prob be another week or so they say

and once you go to 3.1, there is no way you can downgrade back to 3,0 or 3.01 apparenty, so be careful of that