iPhone OS 3.0 first review

Hi out there! I was waiting all day here in Austria for Apple to release the new iPhone OS 3.0. 30 Minutes ago iTunes told me that there is a new version for my iPhone 3G available. After downloading the 230 MB of the new image iTunes started to actualize the phone. 15 minutes later and one message “unplug the phone, enter sim pin code and reconnect” later my iPhone was flawlessly running with the new OS. Congratulations Apple. No painpoints there after the upgrade. No errors, all applications are there, all videos all songs, everything perfectly like it was before. First impressions in using the phone did not give me any lacks in responsiveness of the phone or any slowdowns I would have expected like there have been on the iPhone first generation and the OS version 2.0 Update. The new spotlight feature is very usable and the only app where the reaction of the phone (screen) gets a little dogged. I also synchronized to check out if everything works fine and here also everything as we expect it from Apple. So as a final statement after a few minutes of testing around: Congratulations, you did a great job so far as I can judge from here and now.

Add On 2009-06-18

Today I detected that the update erased the settings of the mobile data network settings for UMTS (3G). You have to set the properties new, details for what to set there you can get at your providers homepage! For A1 in Austria, see images below or settings here or directly at A1 homepage.

If you want to enter the information manually see images below or this list:

1. APN: free.a1.net
2. username: ppp@a1plus.at
3. password: ppp
4. MMSC: mmsc.A1.net (OHNE http:// !)
5. MMS-Proxy: 194.48.124.71:8001

(leave the last two fields empty). After having done these changes, restart your iPhone. To get your mobile provider data using profiles which is also possible to use with not jailbreaked iPhones use this site here.  After making all these settings and rebooting the iPhone MMS Button in Messages Application and MMS send possiblity in VoiceNote app where present and working.

(general settings for mobile data screen)

(MMS specific settings for A1)

Samba Problems on Ubuntu 6.06 LTS

I had some problems with samba upgrade with one of the latest upgrades from ubuntu archive. During the upgrade the upgrade process failed when trying to upgrade samba with this error:

Paketlisten werden gelesen... Fertig
Abhängigkeitsbaum wird aufgebaut... Fertig
Abhängigkeit werden korrigiert... Fertig
Die folgenden zusätzlichen Pakete werden installiert:
samba
Empfohlene Pakete:
smbldap-tools
Die folgenden Pakete werden aktualisiert:
samba
1 aktualisiert, 0 neu installiert, 0 zu entfernen und 0 nicht aktualisiert.
Es müssen noch 0B von 2845kB Archiven geholt werden.
Nach dem Auspacken werden 0B Plattenplatz zusätzlich benutzt.
Möchten Sie fortfahren [J/n]? J
Vorkonfiguration der Pakete ...
(Lese Datenbank ... 147280 Dateien und Verzeichnisse sind derzeit installiert.)
Vorbereiten zum Ersetzen von samba 3.0.22-1ubuntu3 (durch .../samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb) ...
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/K09samba
dpkg: Warnung - altes pre-removal-Skript wurde beendet mit Fehler-Status 102
dpkg - probiere stattdessen Skript aus dem neuen Paket ...
invoke-rc.d: dangling symlink: /etc/rc2.d/K09samba
dpkg: Fehler beim Bearbeiten von /var/cache/apt/archives/samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb (--unpack):
Unterprozess neues pre-removal Skript gab den Fehlerwert 102 zurück
Fehler traten auf beim Bearbeiten von:
/var/cache/apt/archives/samba_3.0.22-1ubuntu3.1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

The reason for the error are two dangling symlinks in /etc/rc2.d and /etc/rc3.d directories, called K09samba or/and S91samba. Just remove these symlinks using rm -f and do a apt-get install -f again, everything fine again. For details see this.