iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 2 slipped into the iPhone Dev Center earlier, but unless you’re a developer and really need to test apps, it’s best to skip this extra buggy beta and just keep playing around with the first.
I realise that you’re curious – after all iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 1 was full of new features – but Beta 2 is a bit of a letdown. Aside from the annoying inability to take screenshots, Beta 2 actually left me struggling to do simple things – like using the Camera app.
For whatever reason, the Camera app freezes and doesn’t save pictures, the on-screen keyboard refuses to pop up when I want to add my email account to the phone, and third-party apps go nuts.
Yes, this is all expected with a beta build, but many of us are prone to putting such things on our devices for the sake of trying them out and discovering new features. When it comes to iPhone OS 4.0 Beta 2 though, skip that step unless you have to and just keep playing with the first beta.
Or let us risk our iPhones – and patience – to find the new features and stay with a stable, public OS build.
Ben
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 3:01 PMI have found beta 2 to be much more stable than beta 1 so far, but both are really buggy and not worth it. Just stay with OS 3 for now!
Simon Reidy
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 3:19 PMAll this tantalising next gen iPhone news is starting to make me froth at the mouth. Please let another Apple employee drop their sexy next gen phone in a bar. This time someone get it to Gizmodo with the OS functional for at least two hours before remote bricking it!!
James
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at 8:33 PMthey should have held the found iphone 4g inside a lead lined box so that the signals can’t get to the iphone – therefore apple can’t remote wipe it!!!!!!!!!!!!
headcrablunch
Monday, April 26, 2010 at 1:26 AMtherefore you can’t use it.. hmm…
Toad!
Thursday, April 22, 2010 at 1:01 AMOkay so 4.0 b2 is buggy as hell every time i click the sleep/wake button it crashes every time it finishes sending a text it crases, i browse my pictures it crashes, i take a photo it crashes so basical it all just is a crashing chaos!!!
Miguel
Tuesday, April 27, 2010 at 1:21 AM- Camera Roll Doesn’t Work
- Wifi doesn’t connect
- Keyboard sometimes doesn’t allow you to press certain keys, instead it hits the keys beside it.
- Laggy
- Lockscreen takes a few seconds to disappear
My thoughts? Stick with Beta 1, I would have but didn’t want it to expire on me. Waiting for Beta 3. Beta 1 i found was pretty much flawless on the 3GS, horrible on the 3G though.
Miral
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 10:56 PMOS 4.0 Beta 2 seems to have a lot of bugs!
App store on the iPhone does not update apps and is giving me errors. It asks me to connect to Wi-fi network even when I’m connected to wi-fi! Another option was to sync with iTunes, which removed all my folders for apps!
Not happy, but am planning to go back to Beta 1, which seemed like a lot stable than this release.
Cheers,
Miral