My iPhone problems after the 1.1.1 FW upgrade

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Hello everyone,
It appears I'm not the only one having issues after upgrading to 1.1.1. I'd like to document the problems I've encountered after upgrading to 1.1.1 in case others can relate. Some of my observations are similar to others, while I think i've seen some other funky behaviour not documented yet.
1) POOR battery life. Used to get about a whole day of use no problem before needing a charge...now I have to charge two or three times a day. Just now I saw my battery diminish from full to empty in less than 1 hour!
2) Phone runs HOT often, although this is intermittent. Sometiems it's ok. Like what others have reported. Probably a stuck process in the background?
3) Now notice the iPod "play" icon on the top right of the home screen pops up even if nothing is playing. I can temporarily resolve this by going into the iPod function and playing and then stopping a song. But sometimes the icon pops back up shortly after! Maybe this is the "stuck" process?
4) Some movies on YouTube return an error "movie cannot be played" which i do not recall seeing prior to the upg. After a while of trying, the movie can finally be played.
5) Some of the icons (metadata?) representing my photos are now missing. There are blank white boxes for them. But when you press on the blank area, the original image is still there.
6) Phone now locks-up intermittently. FORTUNATELY a hard reset still works. Since you can't take the battery out, I'd be SOL if the hard reset fails too.
7) When syncing to Outlook on a Windows XP system, I now get an error indicating a sharing issue with Outlook.ost. Basically when syncing with Outlook running, it seems to lock-up Outlook. Work around is to make sure Outlook isn't running prior to syncing. Never did this prior to the update, and this is annoying!
8) Date and time goes WAY off when set to sync automatically!! Breaks all scheduled appointments.
9) Checked device usage and one time it showed 803 hours. Took a picture of that, LOL!!
10) Intermittent internet connectivity on both Edge and WiFi. Like the browser locked up. A restart corrects the issue.
11) volume for speakerphone and earphone seems lower than before. Probably similar to what others have reported.
12) Bluetooth has intermittent auto-pair issues. Prior to 1.1.1, my phone would have no problem auto-pairing with my car when I got inside. But now it seems it doesn't do this sometimes, requiring a manual re-pair sequence from my car.
Here's what i have tried to do to correct the issue:
1) Visited the Apple Genius Bar in Valley Fair, Santa Clara, CA. Per their recommendation, we did a full iTunes removal and re-installation on my computer. Then we did a full phone restore, pulling a "fresh" 1.1.1 image from the Apple server.
The next day I found I still have the same issues.
I suppose I can try another restore?
As most of my problems take some time to manifest/develop, it's sometimes hard to demonstrate this to the Apple store help. But i'm not sure if in my case the problem is still with the FW, or with the phone itself. I'd feel more comfortable if they replaced the phone to eliminate that, but can understand if they want to address the FW first. Maybe go back and try their help again?
At any rate, I hope Apple support is tracking issues documented on the forum. Seems there is something up. Hopefully a FW update will be released to get us back to a stable base.
Oddly, it seems not everyone is experiencing these problems, at least from the sound of it on this forum. Weird issues!!

Answer 1

AAARRRGGGHHHHHHH!!!
i have a different problem... i've found an infinite loop...
upgraded to 1.1.1 and it wants me to connect to itunes after it restarted... itunes wont connect because it wants me to enter the pass code on the iphone first... iphone is not asking me for the pass code... it says to connect to itunes... itunes wont connect because it wants me to enter the pass code on the iphone first... iphone is not asking me for the pass code... it says to connect to itunes... itunes wont connect because it wants me to enter the pass code on the iphone first... iphone is not asking me for the pass code... it says to connect to itunes...
AAAARRGGHHH!!!
can anybody help please???