Bricked iPhone? Say it ain’t so…

May

11

I have a few suggestions for developers using bleeding edge systems on iPhone.

1. The OS will expire. Be sure you update to the latest available system before you, say, go out of town to Railsconf. We’ve been warned you don’t use OS3 on a production phone, but that’s easy advice to ignore when things seem to be going swimingly.

2. Download every beta OS for your device even if you don’t expect to use it. I found OS3 beta5 won’t install on this iPhone. I don’t think I’m alone here, but it might only affect the original iPhone. I had to go to a beta4 to get running again.

3. If you do find you can’t run the latest beta, mangle the Apple URL to download an older image. Since I didn’t have beta4 downloaded, what I did was copy Apple’s URL for the beta5 image, change the fives to fours, and

Tags: iPhone, iphone beta, iphone os 3, iphone sdk, itunes
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Can’t build for iPhone OS 2 or 2.2.x after iPhone SDK 3.0 beta 3 upgrade

Apr

27

Brad Midgley

After upgrading to iPhone SDK 3.0 beta3, I found all my Xcode projects only had two build options remaining: iPhone OS 3 Device and iPhone OS 3 Simulator.

I still need to build for multiple systems to test all the custom iPhone development we do at Surgeworks, but I also need iPhone OS 3.0 so I can diagnose issues and get all our Native Apps ready for the scheduled release of new iPhone models in June that will feature the new operating system.

Ivan Kalaica suggested how to fix this issue: to check out all projects again from SVN (Subversion). That worked, and all targets are now available in Xcode again.

Tags: iPhone, iphone beta, iphone os 3, iphone sdk
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