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OS 3.1 Update Sending iPhones into Coma Mode

Categories: iOS / iPhone OS, iPhone
By: , IntoMobile
Friday, September 18th, 2009 at 9:18 AM

The Apple Forums are abuzz with complaints from iPhone users who have attempted to update to the recent 3.1 patch, only to find their phone shortly became unresponsive, and required a hard reboot. The phenomenon has been appropriately dubbed “Coma mode”, and though it doesn’t affect everybody who has updated, and there are directions available for downgrading to 3.0, this is a rough patch for iPhone owners who want to give the latest and greatest a shot. If Coma mode wasn’t enough, battery life, tethering, Wi-Fi and call stability have also suffered at the hands of 3.1. If you haven’t updated yet, it’s probably worth saving yourself the headache and holding off until the bugs get sufficiently squashed. For those of you that have already had a go, are you experiencing problems?

[via The Register]

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  • GoodMan

    I experienced same thing.

  • mike

    since i updated to version 3.1 i dont get all my playlist synced properly and there are many album covers that don’t show up
    they really need to get that fixed asap!!!

  • marc

    Nope, all good.

  • Shimmy

    No problems at all

  • Anastassios Evangelou

    …like the other guy I have only experience the problem with album artwork that doesn’t synced correctly to the iPhone. I hope this will be theo only issue for me!

  • Booey

    Mine is a disaster. No battery life. Disconnects call constantly. Sleeps a lot and doesn’t respond. Not happy with iPhone from the go.

  • Big J

    My phone went into serious coma. I had to rollback to 3.0.