{"id":1783,"date":"2008-09-15T16:49:30","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T15:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.razorianfly.com\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2008-09-15T22:43:29","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T21:43:29","slug":"iphone-21-selected-applications-virtually-broken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/15\/iphone-21-selected-applications-virtually-broken\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone 2.1: Selected Application&#8217;s Virtually &#8216;Broken&#8217; &#8211; [Updated]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p>With the sheer amount of anticipation 2.1 gained, it&#8217;s security improvements, bug fixes and more, when it finally did hit last Friday, people were starting to think this was an update Apple just &#8216;got right&#8217;, and in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arronhirst.com\/blog\/2008\/iphone-update-21-fixes-app-ordering-post-app-update\/\">some cases<\/a>, they did &#8211; In others, not so much. All attention has now shifted onto the growing list of third party applications which have been &#8216;broken&#8217; by updating their iPhone&#8217;s software to 2.1 &#8230; <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Complaints range from applications crashing, to sound effects becoming distorted, save functions becoming inoperative and even on some titles, random freezes. <\/p>\n<p>The list currently stands at:<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Last updated 15.09.08 @ 21.37PM]<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<strong>Last.fm:<\/strong> (no audio) Developer aware, v2.0 update in transit<br \/>\n<strong>Zen Pinball:<\/strong> (no graphics white screen) Developer aware, v2.1 update in transit with improved frame rate, responsiveness, and graphics<br \/>\n<strong>Toybot Diaries:<\/strong> (corrupted sound effects) Developer aware, v1.2 update in transit<br \/>\n<strong>Alli&#8217;s Jigsaw:<\/strong> (cannot select new image) Developer aware, update in transit<br \/>\n<strong>Asphault 4:<\/strong> (12) (drifting and braking sound effect corrupted, freezes)<br \/>\n<strong>Splash ID:<\/strong> (8) (?keyboard no longer automatically appears in login screen?\/works intermittently for some) Developer aware, update in transit<br \/>\n<strong>Jeyo Mobile Extender:<\/strong> (nonfunctional, connects ok but no transfer of messages to outlook) Developer aware, currently software was rendered incompatible with iPhone 2.1 Update<br \/>\n<strong>Brain Tuner:<\/strong> (crashes, appears to function after reinstall though) Reinstall fixes issue<br \/>\n<strong>My Weather:<\/strong> (fails to launch) Reinstall fixes issue<br \/>\n<strong>Text Guru: <\/strong> (crashes after editing document)<br \/>\n<strong>Younote:<\/strong> (after voice recording function cannot save)<br \/>\n<strong>Blue Skies:<\/strong> report from Developer (cut scene speech is distorted) Developer aware, update in transit<br \/>\n<strong>EirText &#038; EirText Pro:<\/strong> report from Developer (now crashes on firmware 2.1) Developer aware, updates in transit<br \/>\n<strong>Voice Dialer:<\/strong> (does not respond to voice commands)<br \/>\n<strong>Lexitron:<\/strong> (corrupted sound effects)<br \/>\n<strong>Tuner Internet Radio:<\/strong> (AAC+ stream support is now broken)<br \/>\n<strong>eWallet:<\/strong> (lack of automatic keyboard appearance at login screen, works for some)<br \/>\n<strong>Truphone:<\/strong> (out of memory error\/ memory leakage from other app? works for some)<br \/>\n<strong>What&#8217;s On:<\/strong> (fails to discover TV stations upon entering zip code\/ works for some)<br \/>\n<strong>Whoshere:<\/strong> (crashes repeatedly on loading, reinstall does not help, developer is unable to replicate issue)<br \/>\n<strong>Whitepages:<\/strong> (?Unable to install??? But works if already installed, works for some)<br \/>\n<strong>Facebook:<\/strong> (does not work,keyboard in chat screen unreliable, works great for some)<br \/>\n<strong>Cube Runner:<\/strong> (sound effects corrupted, sounds fine to some)<br \/>\n<strong>Tube Status:<\/strong> (random crashes\/exit to home screen, works fine for some)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showpost.php?p=6222982&#038;postcount=3\">Credit<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now I think you&#8217;ll all agree, that is one hell of a list of application issues. As to what is causing most of these issues? &#8211; we don&#8217;t yet know, however according to <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.toucharcade.com\/showpost.php?p=1635&#038;postcount=8\">RPGGuy<\/a> of Toucharcade.com:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;I have found that the 2.1 firmware no longer plays 8 bit sounds correctly.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s obvious the &#8216;bugs&#8217; within iPhone OS are far from resolved. Although the latest update to the software fixes most known bugs, as well as provides a relatively stable platform that at least we can now use from day to day, 2.1 seems to take a step back in other aspects.<\/p>\n<p>One developer, ZEN Studio&#8217;s of which 2.1 broke their &#8216;Pinball Rollercoaster&#8217; title, stated a fix was on the way:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n&#8220;Thank you for taking the time to write to us!<\/p>\n<p>We have refined our physics engine over the last months, and the new version of the game (2.1) is at Apple for a week now to be released &#8211; the new version is with higher framerate, more responsive flipper arms and upgraded graphics.<\/p>\n<p>This is free for our present customers of course, hopefully by the time you read this message it is already available )<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your feedback and understanding!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zsolt Kigyossy<br \/>\nManaging Director<br \/>\nZEN Studios <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/forums.macrumors.com\/showpost.php?p=6238997&#038;postcount=54\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Yet again, the price for quality bug fixes has resulted in Apple messing up another aspect of the software&#8217;s architecture. Hopefully Apple pushes out 2.1.1 soon which should rectify these quite major issues. <\/p>\n<p>Do you have issues with applications under 2.1? &#8211; Feel free to leave a comment below &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the sheer amount of anticipation 2.1 gained, it&#8217;s security improvements, bug fixes and more, when it finally did hit last Friday, people were starting to think this was an update Apple just &#8216;got right&#8217;, and in some cases, they did &#8211; In others, not so much. 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