iPhone OS 3.0 breaking video out

Last night I received an email from a friend who was irate. He's been using his iPod touch as a portable video solution with a dock and video out cable. The iPod and the cable got along famously until he updated to ~~iPhone OS 3.0.1~~ OS 3.0 [sorry, there isn't a 3.0.1 for the iPod touch]. Now, the iPod refuses to recognize it. Same cable, same dock, same iPod.

We looked around and found that he's not alone. There's a thread on Apple's Discussion Boards reporting the same thing. It's affecting both the iPod touch and the iPhone. Apparently 3.0 is specifically designed to reject 3rd party cables, strictly on the premise that they fail the "Made by Apple" test. One poster on the discussion board notes that the original Apple Component AV cable and dock work fine. Sure, you could restore and downgrade, but that seems silly.

Of course, no company has a responsibility to support 3rd party devices, so my friend is out of luck. But we're sympathetic. If you're affected by this issue, all we can say is it's probably time to pony up for a cable from Apple.

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Source: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2046835&st…

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Stacey

My automobile Dock causes this sometimes since the 3.0 update, but clicking ok and it continues to work just fine... Strange indeed.

September 01 2009 at 12:55 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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Chad Magendanz

Is it from USA Spec? Mine too. My iPhone 3GS is still throwing up those annoying pop-ups even after sending the PA12 interface and cable in for a firmware update.

November 02 2009 at 6:14 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

dallasward007

I love my first gen iPhone. I really want a unibody MBP. I love the white MacBook my girlfriend has. That said statements like this;

"Apparently 3.0 is specifically designed to reject 3rd party cables, strictly on the premise that they fail the "Made by Apple" test."

tell me that there really is an Apple Tax and we haven't even seen the height of it yet.

September 01 2009 at 8:47 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Dave Caolo screws up again.

September 01 2009 at 6:25 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ned

Looking at the Apple discussion thread it seems the -only- cables being affected are the cheap knock-off ones that you find at places like dealextreme. Legitimate Made-for-iPod 3rd party a/v cables will continue to work.

Not only that, but this is pretty old news. Apple pulled the same thing with the 2.0 to 2.1 upgrade.

September 01 2009 at 3:17 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Nick

Apple has forgotten which side of the 1984 ad they're supposed to be on.

You can tell companies what you think of their business practices with your wallet. Moves like this are asinine, but if you keep buying the product you're basically saying "I don't mind. In fact, bend me over farther."

September 01 2009 at 3:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Ned

My 3rd party Scosche A/V cable works just fine. You can get those for about $30 from Walmart.com (last time I checked you couldn't get them in the local stores).

September 01 2009 at 2:56 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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September 01 2009 at 1:10 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

blibbler

I have been affected by this as well. What really annoys me is sometimes the video works... for about 5 or 10 seconds before the iPhone "notices" that it shouldn't work.

August 31 2009 at 11:51 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

JimScar

Not having a responsibility to support 3rd party accessories is quite different from intentionally blocking the use of such accessories without any cause. Boo, Apple. Hiss.

August 31 2009 at 11:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matt

By the way, @Chris Funk, Love Handel does rock.It's one of my, I mean my daughter's favorite episodes.

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