Actually, I suspect it's not so much the battery life itself as the battery indicator. The one in 3.1.x is wildly inaccurate (especially the percentage), although 3.1.3 did help things a little. Interestingly, the iPhone battery life measurement at the hardware level is apparently only accurate to the nearest 5%, which makes me wonder why on earth the percentage meter shows intermediate values. Might also explain why it seems to randomly jump up at times.
Yes, a little. 2.4MB to be precise. Not a huge deal if you're running a 3rd gen device or better, which are the only devices that support it. Jailbreak users can modify a .plist to get it working on a 2nd-gen device, but those devices only have 128MB of RAM so it makes a bigger difference.
I guess I'll post this here instead of the topic I made since people might be a bit less dickish: I'm having problems downloading the actual update. I have now tried six times, I think, and every time, it stops at some point and gives an error about how it couldn't download and I need to check my internet connection. It's taking upwards of two hours to download the update. I just Googled it again and found this, but it doesn't give any helpful tips on how to make sure it works. So I was going to ask if anyone has any tips, or could help at all, regarding this issue. And if you get after me for having a "social dysfunction" just for asking for help, you can go ahead and not even reply to this. You know who you are.
Hm, Sounds like perhaps a strain on your internet connection? I know when I have other things downloading, or torrents downloading iTunes will due that alot. I would just make sure you close everything on your computer except for iTunes and see if that works.
you probably got your 8-Gig 2nd gen (believed to be 3rd gen) when you/parents/family/friends ordered a new macbook or imac. Apple was giving these away with a new purchase to get rid of excessive, old stock. ios4 is pretty neat on my 3GS right now (waiting for iphone4), but you will not really be able to experience its all-mightiness and wonder without the new iphone. I'm pretty sure fan-boys will start bashing me over the minute details of that statement.
I agree with you- I would always spend a lot more time with my battery at 20% and under than anything else.
Here is a link to a website that you can directly get the ipsw file from. Then just do the shift update, or shift restore.... Good luck... http://mac.softpedia.com/progDownload/iPhone-Firmware-Download-38026.html
Beyond anger with iOS4 - help! First everything seemed to be going well. It was backing up and preparing to update. Then everything went to sh#t. First it told me there was an error in the process and that I must restore the entire iPod. Needless to say with my 100+ apps, many of whom I had a lot of save data to be lost, I was not very happy at ALL. But all's there was was the USB with the arrow pointing to iTunes. So I gave in and went for full restore figuring at least I'd have an operating iPod Touch and some of the games would be enjoyable to start fresh (still angry about others) Well, about 1/2 hour into the process of RESTORE. It give me another error saying it cannot restore and gave me an error of 21. I looked on their website. Gives ideas on rebooting machine, changing to different USB cable etc. No luck so far. I'm trying again now, but I was looking forward to iOS4 for folder functionality, etc. Now, I'm looking at a dead iPod. Any suggestions????
Could be Apple's servers too. I'm pretty sure that there are probably hundreds of thousands of people all flocking to download this thing, especially since it's free for Touch users too. I'd keep trying, or download the GM .ipsw that's floating around. Depending on the device you have and the last time you did a backup, yeah, it can take bloody forever. But I'm sure anyone who remembers the good ol' days of the earlier devices that took even longer.
http://forums.toucharcade.com/showthread.php?t=58631 THE OFFICIAL HELP THREAD! EVERYBODY NEEDS TO STOP MAKING THREADS EVERY TIME THEY NEED HELP AND POST IN THE OFFICIAL THREAD!
Tried your DFU idea and was restoring my backup that I did right before I did the update, I waited at least 2 hours and no avail, I'm gonna try again tomorrow when I will have more time. For specifics: I got an "Error 14" during the update in the restore process. I'm done for today and I hope I get my iPod working again before the 29th when I go to vacation =\
Goddamn, I feel lucky. Mine was 15 minutes without a hitch, but some of these sound like straight-up horror stories.
