New copy/paste feature
Said my prayer and pushed the upgrade button in iTunes this afternoon, committing to the iphone 3.0 firmware upgrade. As TMobile is my iphone carrier, I live in the murky zone of the unsupported and the untested. I have an unlocked 2G iphone without being jailbroken. The good news is that my virtual unlock is preserved and my phone works. Initially, my wifi seemed dead and nothing loaded into Mobile Safari. Shit… no more online NYT or GMail, life was going to be harsh. But after about 15 minutes, my wifi connection was back (sleepy wifi syndrome) and my appendage (Schimmelism #254) was connected to the world again. The only thing I had to do was re-enter my TMobile setting for the APN number (internet2.voicestream.com, no username, no password; love TMobile’s logins).
Now the bad news about firmware 3.0 upgrade. Most of my 49 apps are broken, including Tweetie. They crash immediately upon launching. I have read online that this means the app was not yet updated for the iphone 3.0 OS. I can’t believe 49 iphone developer forgot about 3.0’s arrival, but a fair amount of iphone users seem to be reporting app crashing, or maybe this problem will require the new ultrasn0w hack, which is supposed to be available tomorrow. Either way, another iPhone firmware update survived but with injuries.
