New Update 1.1.1 Has Serious Problems!

Question

my father in law had his iphone updated at the apple store and he lost all of his info. the mac idiot (far from genious) said that my father in laws computer died when installing update cause the mac idiot failed to plug it in when he was working on it. he did not care at all that he lost all of his pictures nor did he bother to back it up before he updated the software.
I was hesitant to update after that but i still had to try. i updated all photos and did a sync prior to updating. when i downloaded and installed update it said that i had to *"connect iphone to itunes"* in a yellow triangle on the iphone. well, it was already connected so i did nothing. about 4 minutes later it gave me an error saying that *"there was an unknown problem with update"*. i closed that window and then another window popped up and it said that *"itunes has detected an iphone that is in recovery mode and needs to be restored."* so while i bit my lip i hit restore and it took a while cause of all the songs i had in my iphone. it synced everything back up to where i had it except the photos which i backed up in iphoto before hand. what a major pain in the butt!! Thanks Apple.
i thought all of this would be worth it because of the new fix to the speaker/earpiece volume issue. come to find out my volume is exactly the freaken same. what a bunch of BS. that really ****** me off big time. i can't believe it. apple got me all excited for this update just to let me down again.
the next thing i did was call my close friend jedhed and told him what happened. he said he would try the update with his phone and see what happens. he called me back a half hour later and said the same exact thing. he had to restore and that his volume was exactly the same as well. I called my father in law next to see if his volume was any louder and he said his was the same as well. i updated my wife's next same problem. had to restore and volume is no different. that is 4 out of 4 phones that have no increase in volume and had major issues with software update 1.1.1. now i have read a lot of the forms and i see some people saying that there volume is great and they had no problems with updating. i even saw people stating that their ipod volume was significantly louder too even though that was not part of the update according to the apple user agreement. all i saw was a fix to the earpiece and speaker volume on the phone not the ipod. so i don't understand people who are claiming that. now, is this volume increase people are claiming just in there heads. everywhere that i have read when people compare newer software with older software notice no difference. they you have people just say its way louder. are they crazy or is it way louder.
i am trying to understand the theory that some of the phones may have no problems with updating and are experiencing louder speaker volume but why would i get 4 out of 4 phones with same issue. if that was the case you would think that at least one of these 4 phones would be fine with the update and have louder speaker volume right? what is going on here? this is extremely frustrating and i am getting sick of it. this earpiece/speaker volume has to be fixed. it is way overdue. and for some of you stating that the volume was fine before the fix are just plane nuts. you must either have wolf hearing or your working in a lab with where it is so quiet you could hear a dust mite ****! give me a break. if your one of these people PLEASE don't reply to this post. i don't have time for your excellency.
if anyone has any thoughts on this subject please feel free to share them. i would really like to get some people posting some truth on this thread. Apple needs to hear us and do something about this once and for all. also, please don't even bring up anything about hacking phones or third party software as that does not apply to this situation at all. none of this phones have been hacked or have third party software, thank you.

Answer 1

Same issue here on 2 8GB phones (my phone and GF's phone.) Pretty annoying. Phones were not modded, hacked, or unlocked... ever. Bone stock.
One was updated using a PC, the other using a MacBook. iTunes of the latest version on both machines, both machines and phones rebooted before start. Both phones had auto lock disabled before starting the update process.
My phone was at version 1.0.2, and hers was at 1.0.1.
In-Call Volume of receiver and speaker is still very poor on both, but a teensy eensy bit better.
System sounds are much louder now and acceptable.
The vibrate function no longer works on the GF's phone post 1.1.1