
No issues here either. My Android is just hopping right along.
no issues on my 3G. That's not to say that it takes any less than about 15 seconds to open the SMS app, choose the convo i want from the inbox, and bring up the keyboard, though. Oh wait, just timed it. Only 13 seconds.
It takes about 15 seconds to open SMS application on mine too. I have also see a hit on my battery life. Has anyone else had issues with safari crashing when looking at a website with a bunch of images? Without fail, I can have a browser open with a bunch of images and then I will click to open a new page and it freezes and shuts down safari.
These polls are USELESS because iphone haters will vote "YES i have got all sort of problems omg the phone is trying to kill me"
I hate the iphone myself (I prefer ipod touch contract free) but i voted for donuts however don't expect others to do the same.
THE DONUT IS A LIE.
What Farris said.
Being that my phone is jailbroken, i would be waiting on that fix regardless, but then came the Exchange issues which were granted "upgraded support", that was a huge blindside to the IT community.
How about a heads-up next time Apple? Dare I say, maybe a "KB" article that explains exactly what the update entails? I don't know, maybe thats just the next logical step in support for your user-base.
Thank you to those who don't have the phone for letting us know their nonexistent phone upgraded ok. Really, that helps a lot.
Anyway, no issues with my upgrade. Though - am I the only one that hates that whenever i move the phone in texting it says nothing to undo. That's annoying.
I'm a smart consumer waiting for the 3.1 jailbreak
@Ryan F.
...Then you should download it. It's been out.
@Comment_System: You simply need to realize the truth. There is no donut.
I HATE donuts!! >:|
...wait.
e-mail freezes when I'm typing in profile and switch to landscape. WTF. Not to mention it never got any quicker after 3.0 made it slow as hell. I'm beginning to think the conspiracy theories that pin Apple with purposely slowing the OS down in the 2G and 3G to sell 3GS's are true...
Wow, I was the 4th person to post my vote and all the options were at 25% lol
Yeah, totally. My GF updated her phone, meaning that I had to jailbreak it all over !! -_-
Mine got screwed up so bad that Apple replaced it with a new one. And it was out of warranty.
Yes you can jailbreak 3.1 :)
Yes, you can jailbreak 3.1, but I put it back to 3.0 because I had it all ready.
She only uses the thing for phoning and music anyway. No need to jump at every update.
You can jailbreak 3.1, but only on earlier hardware (iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod Touch 1st gen). Even when the jailbreak comes to more recent hardware, 3GS users won't be able to unlock the phone due to the baseband upgrade. At least until a new hole is found...
By the way, would it *kill* the iphone dev team to create a flowchart of "this model > this software -> do this"? Especially when we have fragmented releases like this, it's a damn mess.
Reboot your phone (turn it off and then back on). Sometimes the things get wonky and a nice reboot clears it up.
I was having the same problem. Battery life went down the tubes. I actually let my phone completely drain until I got the "plug me in" icon. Now it is perfect again. Seems like letting it drain resets the battery somehow after the update.
The iPhone users in my office including myself have had this problem since the 3.1 update, although some have upgraded with no problems. I have resolved this issue by restoring my phone with a fresh 3.1 firmware and then restoring my most recent phone backup. This process works for most people but if it doesn't then you have to restore with 3.1 and then setup iPhone as a new phone under iTunes. Yes, I know it sucks, but it's the only way I've found to resolve this issue.
Yeah last night I was thinking that I used to only charge my iPhone once a day and now I've been charging it both at night and during the day when I'm at work. I was just thinking maybe I was using it harder or the battery was getting old.
I did a full restore as a new phone and still had problems up the wasoo: battery life, gps, PLACING AND RECEIVING CALLS >:(
Wound up downgrading to 3.0.1, waiting for 3.1.1 before I upgrade again
Oh, and IMO Apple Support SUX if you actually know what your'e doing and trying to get an answer above your own knowledge...
For me, it's occasional screen freezes. The phone would slow down after recovering from a freeze so that required a reboot.
Then two times so far, audio was jacked up. There were no sounds coming out of the iphone, either through its own speakers or headphones. Volume was up, mute was off, and I checked it through youtube, safari, ipod, and other apps. That required a reboot as well.
@Chris & Matt
What HW version? I got a 3GS less than a month ago and it seems to be doing better on battery life with Wifi on, but location service off. It only dropped a few % over 3-4hrs checking emails every 30 minutes in standby.
Currently I have 1h17m usage, 20h36m standby and sitting at 76% on battery with Wifi off 3G connected.
I've only had a few problems with some apps where it'd totally freak out and freeze. That's pretty much it. The 3GS still feels quite speedy coming from someone who used the 3G. Battery life still seems to be great as well. Just wish multi-tasking was available, because switching between IM clients off and on can make the phone buggy.
I had the battery issue too, I was wondering why it was dying so fast, so I charged it fully during the day and unplugged it over night. Woke up to the battery at about 20% and checked my usage...it looks like it was constantly disconnecting from wifi, and asking to join other wifi networks. I turned off the ask to join a network setting and now my battery is back to normal.
Mmm, donuts. Huh? Oh, this post is about a phone? How devilishly sneaky...
Seriously though I think it makes the poll useless or just less useful - don't get why Engadget has to be "Gizmodo" funny with their polls*
3.1 works brilliant on my 3GS on the Danish carrier 3 (both tethering and MMS OOB), but for some strange reason it's not possible to disable 3G and use EDGE. Luckily they've got the best coverage (88-90% of the mighty kingdom) - still an odd limitation.
*Sorry for this everything but fun comment.
Maybe they're referencing the new Android update named 'donut'. :)
Last night I had to Restore my phone. I've been running 3.1 nearly flawlessly for the last week or so. But last night, I found all my iTunes media had disappeared... but it was still taking up space in the form of "Other". Restoring took a long time, but I did it overnight and it worked fine.
Mine too. After a reboot and some hours later the library was back, but the "other" section of the memory is growing exponentially since yesterday...WTH?!
I've been having problem with apps while playing music too; many used to work just fine and now music just stops when launching the app and it won't let me bring the music control pop-up.
My iPhone was fine for a while then suddenly froze and refreshed the screen, now all my icons have been jumbled to default more of a pain than anything!
Startac = best phone ever.
Of course he did.
Motorola StarTAC... Top PRO!! Times when they used to build phones... now... what are they?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cU8cUIITDk
(kidding)
I loved my StarTAC!!! It was my first phone when I was a junior in high school. I wish I still had it : (
No issues as far as I can tell. Interestingly enough... and I may be mistaken, but it seems as though my battery life has improved since the update.
EpsilonNot (Sep 17th 2009 10:42AM) - Lowest Rank
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No issues here, though I'm on an iPod touch (1st-gen) rather than an iPhone.