iPhone Techie

WARNING! At 10:20AM PDT on October 8th 2009 Apple released the 3.1.2 version (7D11) of the iPhoneOS. Jailbreakers DO NOT UPDATE!!!

If you care about your jailbreak and unlock, don’t update your device - 3G and 3G(S) owners should pay particular attention to this warning

Apple has released the latest firmware for iPhone OS. The new version, iPhone OS 3.1.2 is available for iPhone, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS and iPod touch. The upgraded firmware addresses several issues and problems for both iPhone and iPod Touch. Download links for iPhone OS 3.1.2 is now available on iTunes 9.0.

Here’s the upgrades and bug fixes in new firmware 3.1.2 for iPhone and iPod Touch

• It fixes for issues related to interrupted cellular network services until restart
• It fixes for intermittent incidents of iPhone and iPod Touch not waking up from sleep
• The firmware fixes the bug that causes occasional crash during video streaming
• Fixes the bug that causes occasional crash during video streaming

Just a month ago Apple released iPhone OS firmware 3.1 that was upgraded with new features, security fixes, and enhancements. According to the reports, iPhone OS 3.1 was more buggy than  iPhone OS version 3.0 and suffered from power consumption issues.

Upgrading to new iPhone firmware OS version 3.1.2 would break existing jailbreak and unlock. iPhone and iPod touch owners who jailbreak and unlock their device should not upgrade to iPhone OS 3.1.2. To upgrade iPhone and iPod Touch just connect the mobile device to PC and start iTunes. You would get the update message message automatically. Download the the individual standalone iPhone Firmware Update file (IPSW) for manual offline updating from our Firmware Downloads Page