Hi everyone, I'm still under (jailbreaked) iPhone OS2.1 and have the latest version of iTunes. I'm both a Mac (Leo) and PC (XP) user and I regularly backup my computers - most of the time I make a complete image backup (called ghost for pc users) of my hard drives. A few months ago I bought Band from the iPhone App store, which worked perfectly. Yet after an official upgrade of Band, this software became no longer compatible with my iPhone, which I found very unfair and frustrating ! I wrote to the company and complained about that. They didn't bother replying... So I decided to try restoring the app from an old backup dating back to the period when I bought BAND. I thus erased the newly-updated app and replaced it with the original version. Guess what : Band is now back on my iPhone ! My advice is : make regular backups of your iTunes files ! Most of the time a simple restoration of the faulty app should do the job... Hope you'll find this useful. Thierry P.S. : By the way, I originally bought Band when I only had a PC and therefore used a PC backup copy to restore the app onto my MacBook. As I suspected, I encountered no compatibility issues ! archived from misc.phone.mobile.iphone

In article <4a3df07f$0$17102$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr>, Thierry Larivičere <ttllaarriivviieerree@nnoorrddnneett.fr> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I'm still under (jailbreaked) iPhone OS2.1 and have the latest version > of iTunes. > I'm both a Mac (Leo) and PC (XP) user and I regularly backup my > computers - most of the time I make a complete image backup (called > ghost for pc users) of my hard drives. > > A few months ago I bought Band from the iPhone App store, which worked > perfectly. > Yet after an official upgrade of Band, this software became no longer > compatible with my iPhone, which I found very unfair and frustrating ! I > wrote to the company and complained about that. They didn't bother > replying... no doubt they used some of the changes for audio apps in 2.2, which was also a free upgrade. the error message would have said you needed to upgrade. > So I decided to try restoring the app from an old backup dating back to > the period when I bought BAND. I thus erased the newly-updated app and > replaced it with the original version. > > Guess what : Band is now back on my iPhone ! > > My advice is : make regular backups of your iTunes files ! Most of the > time a simple restoration of the faulty app should do the job... better advice is update to the latest firmware, especially since it's free and now that 3.0 is out, it won't be long until most apps require that, let alone 2.2. > P.S. : By the way, I originally bought Band when I only had a PC and > therefore used a PC backup copy to restore the app onto my MacBook. As I > suspected, I encountered no compatibility issues ! there shouldn't be any issues since the app is for the phone, not mac or pc. archived from misc.phone.mobile.iphone

nospam a écrit : > In article <4a3df07f$0$17102$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr>, Thierry > Larivičere <ttllaarriivviieerree@nnoorrddnneett.fr> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> I'm still under (jailbreaked) iPhone OS2.1 and have the latest version >> of iTunes. >> I'm both a Mac (Leo) and PC (XP) user and I regularly backup my >> computers - most of the time I make a complete image backup (called >> ghost for pc users) of my hard drives. >> >> A few months ago I bought Band from the iPhone App store, which worked >> perfectly. >> Yet after an official upgrade of Band, this software became no longer >> compatible with my iPhone, which I found very unfair and frustrating ! I >> wrote to the company and complained about that. They didn't bother >> replying... > > no doubt they used some of the changes for audio apps in 2.2, which was > also a free upgrade. the error message would have said you needed to > upgrade. > >> So I decided to try restoring the app from an old backup dating back to >> the period when I bought BAND. I thus erased the newly-updated app and >> replaced it with the original version. >> >> Guess what : Band is now back on my iPhone ! >> >> My advice is : make regular backups of your iTunes files ! Most of the >> time a simple restoration of the faulty app should do the job... > > better advice is update to the latest firmware, especially since it's > free and now that 3.0 is out, it won't be long until most apps require > that, let alone 2.2. True, provided your iPhone isn't jailbroken and sim-unlocked... If it is then you'd better think twice before updating your iPhone as soon as the new firmware is out. Mine is jailbroken and uses a third-party French network. It's also so cool to customize your springboard and to run even more apps than what Apple can offer : take the xGPS app for example, sooo flexible and sooo... free ! I've also been able to take movies, copy/paste text and send/receive MMS's long before OS3 was out - even though I find the App Store much richer in terms of choice now for OS2.x than what it was back two or three months ago. So I won't rush for the next upgrade before a few weeks as long as I'm happy with my current OS. > >> P.S. : By the way, I originally bought Band when I only had a PC and >> therefore used a PC backup copy to restore the app onto my MacBook. As I >> suspected, I encountered no compatibility issues ! > > there shouldn't be any issues since the app is for the phone, not mac > or pc. I totally agree with your point. But one might also have thought that the PC and Mac versions of iTunes would each have adopted their own file formats when saving their apps onto hard disk. But this fortunately is not the case. Thierry archived from misc.phone.mobile.iphone