Each time we do this, Apple makes the firmware upgrade process easier and faster. As with my last upgrade, 1.1.3 came down like Willy Wonka’s river of molten chocolate — sweet and fast. I barely had time to turn the phone over (it was lying on its face) before the software had downloaded from iTunes.
iTunes popped up the box asking me to do the install, so I clicked to go ahead, and boom! The iPhone was restarting already even as iTunes was warning me it would.
iPhone rebooted in less than 30 seconds, the blue popup box on the Home screen informed me I could now make the icons wiggle to move ‘em, and then also immediately popped up that iPhone was reactivating.
Although that message told me reactivation could take "some time," I had no sooner touched to dismiss that message box than the activation acknowledgment came in.
Elapsed time, oh 15 seconds?
In short, on my virgin iPhone, I doubt the entire process took 2 minutes. Total.
Now to decide if I want to re-arrange my Home screen icons. No, I don’t ever use Stocks and would love to remove it elsewhere. But the issue is that after all this time, I have deep instinctive muscle memory of the layout.
I don’t even have to look at iPhone to touch the icons I want nowadays. So while the layout ain’t ideal, my very body knows it. Do I really wanna make the effort to learn it again?
Hmmmm. . . .
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January 16th, 2008 at 4:39 pm
I am having the very same dilemma surrounding the moving of my icons. I know exactly where they are, though I don’t like where they are. What I did was keep the icons I used in the same spot while replacing the Stocks and other widgets I don’t use with web clips. We’ll see how that works over the next week or so. If I don’t like it, I now have the option of simply moving them again!
January 16th, 2008 at 7:29 pm
mine erased everything when i upgraded… :0(
January 17th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
Mine erased everything too. And now the name of my iPhone is just “iPhone” instead of the name I had before.
January 17th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I totally agree, the iPhone 1.1.3 was painless, effortless, awesome. The only confusion is that my itunes wanted to upgrade to 7.6 at the same time and I didn’t know what to do first. I choose the 1.1.3 update, btw. Makes me think Apple has got this locked, with the upcoming SDK and iPhone apps Apple will take it all the way!
January 18th, 2008 at 3:32 am
I love the new 1.1.3. i had my phone’s upgraded 1.1.1 hacked, and restored it because of many problems. 1.1.3 is as close as you can get with a jailbroken iphone, legitimatly. jailbroken apps were a lot better though ’cause it wasn’t a bookmarked link, so safari never had to load up. and in response to “iphone with a sad face”, click on the “iphone” when the small icon pops up on itunes on the left column. you can change the name there with ease.
March 27th, 2008 at 4:30 am
i just bought my iphone 1.1.3. How does its wifi work? cani update it to 1.1.4?
March 27th, 2008 at 10:16 am
Hey Johanna,
If you have a virgin, unbroken iPhone, definitely upgrade it. I find 1.1.4 improves battery life and wi-fi connectivity noticeably.
Time to connect, esp. What I mean by this is if you go into a building or subway, something like that, without connectivity, and then come back out, 1.1.4 picks the signal back up much faster than 1.1.3 did.
However, if you use a bluetooth headset all the time — there’s nothing around that. Bluetooth just inhales power, end of story.
Tell us how it goes,
F