Apple releases iPhone 1.1.2 update

As expected, Apple has finally released its 1.1.2 update for iPhone and, presumably, iPod touch. You can download the ipsw file directly from Apple or upgrade in iTunes. The associated documentation is here.

The clock until a reliable 1.1.2 jailbreak appears begins now. You probably want to wait a bit to upgrade if you've invested time and effort in customizing your 1.1.1 iPhone. At least this time, unlocking does not appear to be a barrier to upgrade--especially if you've used the recent revirginizing and safer unlocking methods.

10:45. My download finally finishes. From what I'm hearing there are no new features other than multilingual support. If you find any, shoot us a tip or a comment.

10:55. My AppSnapped iPhone is upgrading without incident. I do not have an unlocked phone but it was AppSnapped for 3rd party support. Just FYI, I manually downloaded the ipsw zip file, added it to ~/Library/iTunes in the iPhone updates folder. Then I did option-update to select it. So if you're seeing that 1.1.1 is still the current version, you can do your upgrade this way.

11:00 I'm pretty sure that this is the iPod touch 1.1.2 update.

11:05. The new "Connect to iTunes" screen now matches the one from the iPod touch. No pretty Earth picture! I'm now trying to get iTunes to recognize that my iPhone is, you know, attached. It gives me "happy chime" but...then not much. Trying to figure that out now. Oh! Wait! Earth. And waiting for activation. Okay! I'm back in the system and all my contact information is still there. Activated!

I"m looking through the Settings and it all appears to look pretty much like it has always had. I don't really see anything new yet. My International keyboards include English, English (UK)--hah that that isn't the standard "English"--French, German, and Italian.

I'm connected now via iPhuc. I'm jailed again. I can see iPhoneDrive, all my Tap Tap Revolution files, etc. A symbolic link I added before upgrading did not work.

11:10. I look (via iPhuc) at my Ringtones folder. All my normal ringtones are there. I'm going to try to restore the Ringtones.plist file now. Not only does it work but New feature alert. My 4 custom ringtones (1 purchased from iTunes and 3 installed via SendSong) all appear in a separate Custom list. Very nice! I see no reason that this shouldn't work for iToner.

11:15. TUAW Reader AppleTwo asks: "So are your 3rd party apps gone after upgrade, or not?". They are, at this time, gone. However, given that I installed them into /var/root/Applications rather than /Applications, they should still be on the phone, albeit inaccesible.

11:40. The name of the new DMG User Bundle is....Oktoberfest. Perfect for a November release. iPhone users may recall that previous bundles were called Heavenly and Snowbird.

Reader (and former TUAW heavyweight) David Chartier asks: "So where did this download come from?" You can find Apple downloads by issuing curl -s -L http://phobos.apple.com/version | gunzip from the Terminal command-line.

Confirmed: INdependence does not seem to be working. "Unsupported version of phone firmware installed. Detected version is 1.1.2"

Confirmed: Some users have been able to downgrade back to 1.1.1 and 1.0.2.

12:10: Generating header files for the 1.1.2 frameworks now. Like last time, it's a lot of annoying fussy work but the results should be helpful.

12;15: Confirmed. The *#307# trick still works. That's the trick that lets you access Safari from an unactivated iPhone with only emergency dialing capabilities.

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cook_iez

hey I have an iPod 1.1.2 and I cant seem to downgrade It back to 1.1.1, itunes comes up with an error even before it starts restoring my iPod. Can any one give me some advice plez!

November 15 2007 at 3:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Hi Erica,
I have a quick related question. I am using ATT contract. I unlocked my iphone with anySIM 1.0.2 in my 1.0.2 firmware. I revirginized my baseband using iPhone elite's method . I then upgraded to 1.1.1 and did never unlocked or jailbreaked since.
Now, my question is, is it possible to upgrade my phone to 1.1.2 without bricking it and still use ATT?

November 13 2007 at 11:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Todd

I asked a guy at the Apple store last night if there's any word of a search function for iPhone yet? He said he hadn't noticed or heard any complaints, but now that I mentioned it, that did seem like a big oversight. Dah! Palm Treo had it 3 yr or more ago, I think. With over 3,000 contacts, I can't remember them all. What good is this phone's flashiness if we can't do the basics?

November 13 2007 at 9:52 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Thomas Bates

AS of 9:12 , November 11, 2007, PST: iTunes still saying 1.1.1 is most recent update.

November 12 2007 at 12:13 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JGO

Download the file to your desktop, open iTunes, open the iPhone screen, Option+Click the Restore button (for Windows users itâ€™s Shift+Click). Now locate the update file and open it. It's that easy.

November 12 2007 at 12:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Kyle

How do you get the 1.1.2 download to open in iTunes?

November 11 2007 at 9:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

GearsofWar

No update here in California (SF)-still says 1.1.1 is the latest. 11/10/07 1:15PM

November 11 2007 at 4:15 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bill Fold

BTW, guys, this is how my update went.

This was performed in the wee hours of the morning (between 2 and 5) of 16 november (EST).

1. Downloaded update. Why couldn't it be smaller?
2. Update auto-unzipped. I think this may have been a problem.
3. Tried opening update before finding out how. Obviously, doesn't work.
4. Tried opening update with iTunes (opt+clicking Update). Still doesn't work as it is not a .zip
5. Zipped file and tried opening new .zip (opt+click+update, then restore). Both failed, plus my iPhone was now in recovery mode.
6. Decided to give in. Clicked Restore normally. License agreement comes for for 1.1. ...2?! You've been saying that it's not been released, but I not only was able to but had to download from iTunes. Of course, I was happy that it would finally install, but I had to re-download it, which was no fun.
7. After download, install starts, and I get the same error as I got before. NO!!! Tried clicking Restore normally again, and this time it works. Yay!

So, there you have it. If it matters, I've got Leopard and iTunes 7.5. But come on, guys, iTunes must have released this update. If they hadn't, I wouldn't be able to be using on the iPhone I am posting this from.

November 11 2007 at 12:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Bill Fold

a Steve Simitzis:

Quest'Ã¨ che puoi fare:

1. Puoi cambiare la lingua dell'iPhone all'italiano se non hai giÃ . Clicca Settings, poi General, poi International, poi Language e alfine Italiano.

2. La tastiere italiano Ã¨ stata attivato. Se vuoi anche usare altre tastieri, puoi clicca su Impostazioni, poi Generali, poi Internazionale, poi Tastiere e puoi scegliere le tue tastieri.

Ora, cuando vai ad un'applicazione come Safari, Note o Mail e trascegli un box di testo, puoi cliccare il button che sembra come un mappamondo a scegliere la tastiere qual vuoi usare. Cuando devi digitare una lettera con un accento, alloca un dito sul button della lettera che hai bisogno di. Cuando il dito Ã¨ stato su quella lettera per un secondo (piÃ¹ o meno), puoi muovere quel dito alla destra o alla sinistra e prendere la decisione.

Cuando usi la tastiere italiano, il dizionario Ã¨ anche italiano. Cuando usi la tastiere (inserisci lingua qui), il dizionario Ã¨ anche (lingua).

Ãˆ piÃ¹ facile per te adesso?

November 11 2007 at 10:21 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave P

Appears over on the apple discussion forums, that you can add your own ringtones to the phone with 1.1.2.
I haven't personally tested it (my macbook is out for repairs) but I wonder if this was intentional or not.

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1229012&start=0&tstart=0

November 11 2007 at 12:36 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply