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iPhone 2.0 software available now

By | July 10, 2008, 8:13am PDT

Summary: MacRumors has decoded Apple’s XML files and found a way to get the iPhone 2.0 software right now.Unfortunately, this trick doesn’t work for the iPod touch. Perform a full sync of your iPhone Check Software Update and install iTunes 7.7. Download the new firmware image “iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw” (225MB). Connect your iPhone 2G to iTunes 7.7 and option-click on “Check for [...]

iPhone 2.0 software available nowMacRumors has decoded Apple’s XML files and found a way to get the iPhone 2.0 software right now.Unfortunately, this trick doesn’t work for the iPod touch.

  1. Perform a full sync of your iPhone
  2. Check Software Update and install iTunes 7.7.
  3. Download the new firmware image “iPhone1,2_2.0_5A347_Restore.ipsw” (225MB).
  4. Connect your iPhone 2G to iTunes 7.7 and option-click on “Check for Update” and navigate to the firmware image that you downloaded.

Apple offers this warning:

Normally if you choose to update, the iPhone or iPod touch software is updated but your settings and media are not affected. If your device currently has a software version prior to 2.0 (1.x) and you are updating to software version 2.0 or later, all data on your device will be erased in order to perform install the new software. In this case, iTunes will offer to create a one-time media backup of your device depending on what content is on your device and what content is stored in the iTunes Library you are connected to. You should ensure that you have enough free space on your Mac or PC to accommodate a backup that matches the capacity of your iPhone or iPod touch (4 GB, 8 GB, 16 GB, or 32 GB) if you proceed with the this backup.

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady is the creator and editor of O'Grady's PowerPage, which has been publishing mobile technology news since 1995. He maintains an advertising relationship with the following legacy advertisers on the PowerPage:

  • Amazon Associates
  • Google Adsense
  • Tekserve

    • Advertising on the PowerPage is brokered by a third-party agency (BackBeat Media) and he recuses himself from these negotiations.

Biography

Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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