Text Message from AT&T

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1. BeSweeet on April 11th, 2009 1:49 pm:
   

   Weird… I’ve never gotten a text message from AT&T on my iPhone.

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2. AppStoreMod on April 11th, 2009 1:53 pm:
   

   I am on 2.2.1 firmware and I actully did not get a text message. Thats pretty wierd.

   -Dewan from AppStoreMod.com

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   iamse7en on April 11th, 2009 2:20 pm:

   You’re not supposed to, when you’re on 2.2.1.
3. Braden on April 11th, 2009 1:57 pm:
   

   It makes sense that’d they’d only send it to people who are not running the latest firmware, right? I don’t see why they’d send it to people who have already updated.

   I don’t understand what’s strange about this text message. You’re not running the latest software, and the text message is telling you this.

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   Ben Davis on April 12th, 2009 4:40 am:

   Its weird that they know what firmware you are on
4. Harold on April 11th, 2009 2:02 pm:
   

   I’m on 2.2 and I received it as well. I think you’re right. Only those that haven’t updated their firmware are getting the texts. Do you really think battery is improved with the update???

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5. niiiiick on April 11th, 2009 2:13 pm:
   

   lol i get these like every day, weather its about my plan, bill, phone, or firmware. they do NOT leave me alone.. i just ignor them

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6. TB on April 11th, 2009 2:17 pm:
   

   Received text message from ATT. I’m on 2.2.1 on iPhone 3G.

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7. iamse7en on April 11th, 2009 2:22 pm:
   

   I’m on 2.2, and I received the stupid text message.

   Was 2.2.1 worth re-jailbreaking? I didn’t think so.

   Also: fewer dropped calls? Hah! That’s everyone’s #1 complaint about the phone, and they’re all on 2.2.1.

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8. Ben on April 11th, 2009 2:23 pm:
   

   Better battery life? What a laugh!

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   aly on April 11th, 2009 3:43 pm:

   lol thats so true ..hahahaha
9. Sal on April 11th, 2009 2:29 pm:
   

   Sounds Weird,but then again, AT&T is that way…

   Ignore it if your phone is working fine…

   BTW,i always get a e-mail saying why i should check or register my e-mail account….

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10. Steven Tsujisaka on April 11th, 2009 2:51 pm:
    

    That is weird. I have an iPhone and I did not get a text message like that from AT&T. Do you have the 2.2.1 software on your phone?

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11. sumsh on April 11th, 2009 3:14 pm:
    

    I’m on 2.2.1, 3G and I got the message. At the time, I was standing next to a friend with a 2G iPhone with 2.1, and he did not get the message.

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12. Carey on April 11th, 2009 3:16 pm:
    

    My son got the message, and I laughed at him, because he thought it was referring to 3.0. He hasn’t upgraded. My Wife and I have and we didn’t get the message.

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13. Charlie Fountain on April 11th, 2009 3:26 pm:
    

    i have the 2.2.1 software and i received the text message! i am from puerto rico!

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14. IY on April 11th, 2009 4:12 pm:
    

    AT&T SUCKS !

    I pay $80 for unlimited voice, data and text at tmobile. The same with AT&T is probable $140 or more !

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    toNYc311 on April 11th, 2009 8:44 pm:

    AT&T definitely sucks if you are a new customer. However, I am one of the rare people that was with Cingular before the switch. And I had the ancient 1000 anytime minutes plan for $39.99/month. So, with that my bill is $99/month with all the additions and taxes and whatnot. I have the 1500 texts/month cause I don’t do a lot of texting. And I have many truckloads of rollover minutes because I don’t do a lot of talking lol. Yes it costs more for me than your T-Mobile plan but that’s cool. I’m still paying A LOT less than customers that signed up new contracts with AT&T for the iPhone.

    

    IY on April 12th, 2009 8:06 am:

    yeah. i’ve been with tmo for a while too. i dont know if new customers can get the same deal. ps. that deal is without contract extension

    

    Dave on April 12th, 2009 9:27 am:

    Gotcha beat toNYc311… I was on AT&T before they became Cingular before they became AT&T again. That’s what I pay a month (before taxes) for 4 phones including an iPhone. I only have 750 anytime minutes though.
15. IY on April 11th, 2009 4:12 pm:
    

    Tmo is running a promo

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16. Jerry Pirrung on April 11th, 2009 4:17 pm:
    

    I have iPhone 3G running 2.2.1. I have received similar texts in the past but not this one. My question is how would AT&T know what version of the software you’re running?

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17. Strider on April 11th, 2009 4:34 pm:
    

    I received this message as well. I’m using firmware 2.2 and have no plans to update to 2.2.1. The minimal improvements didn’t seem worth the trouble of messing with my themes and jailbroken apps.

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18. Jason Burk on April 11th, 2009 4:41 pm:
    

    My girlfriend got it a couple days ago, she is on 2.2.0, I got it today and I am on 2.2.1

    Both phone are jailbroken.

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19. Thomas on April 11th, 2009 5:02 pm:
    

    My assumption would be that the tower sees the Baseband version the phone has as this is the portion of the firmware that communicates with the tower.

    Therefor all phones that were Jailbroken using Pwnage to generate a Jailbroken firmware would have had the firmware patched to not update the baseband that communicates to the mobile provider.

    AT&T would have sent messages to all users that appeared to be using the older firmware by identifying them via baseband firmware version.

    I received the message and am currently running 2.2.1 Jailbroken with the baseband from 2.2 which was 02.28.00.

    Just my two cents.

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    Braden on April 12th, 2009 7:10 am:

    Absolutely wonderful theory. Makes perfect sense.

    

    MC on April 14th, 2009 7:35 am:

    I have a 3g running 2.2.1 and my phone is jailbroken running baseband 02.08.01.. this theory does make a lot of sense!!
20. Puppster on April 11th, 2009 5:29 pm:
    

    I just jailbroke the other day up to 2.2.1 and I got the message. I’m assuming they thought I was still on 2.2

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21. C Reese on April 11th, 2009 6:25 pm:
    

    I am on 2.2.1 jailbroken and I received the message. May be because my wife and I are on a plan together and she is on 2.2

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22. Leviticus007 on April 11th, 2009 6:59 pm:
    

    I am running fw 2.2.1 as of 3 days ago, and hot the text

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23. TJ on April 11th, 2009 8:30 pm:
    

    My thought when I 1st recieved the txt was that the firmware 3.0 was out early. But when I checked everything out, I was dissapointed. Looks like we’re still having to wait till June. Bummer

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24. toNYc311 on April 11th, 2009 8:30 pm:
    

    I’ve never gotten that text message. When did you get it? I restored my iPhone to 2.2.1 2 days ago because it needed it. I hadn’t restored since 2.2 was released. So, maybe I missed the time frame where AT&T sent the text message because I am now on 2.2.1.

    I noticed that after I finished restoring an iTunes message popped up saying there was an update from my carrier (AT&T) and did I want to upgrade to it. iTunes did not say what exactly the update was but I selected yes and it did the update (whatever it was).

    A quick message about the so called fewer dropped calls. Last night I was talking to my mom and I experienced the most dropped calls EVER!!!!! So, I’m not sure if there was a network issue or what. I restarted my phone to see if maybe it was that but the dropped calls continued. It was so bad that it was searching for a signal. Then after a while the AT&T logo came back but there was no EDGE or 3G logo. And with all that going on I couldn’t get internet or make and receive calls.

    But again that was the worst I had ever experienced. It hasn’t happened again. The only other thing I have noticed is a reversal in service when I’m at work. I work in the lower level at my workplace. I used to get EDGE there with a reasonable signal. Wasn’t the best but at least I got service. Now even though the EDGE logo shows up I cannot connect to anything. No emails, no internet, no nothing. However I can text message and make and receive calls.

    This was an issue before I restored to 2.2.1. So, I’m lead to believe it’s an AT&T issue. I say that because for months and months I had received a signal with connection service downstairs at my work. Now nothing even though the “E” appears on my screen. Really annoying………….

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25. Fringgo on April 11th, 2009 8:42 pm:
    

    They are telling everyone to update because the update includes the new baseband that can;t be soft unlocked. Apple retail stores have also been instructed to manually update phones. This is all to attempt to stop soft unlocking. That is basically all this update does since everything else they claim like better battery life is totally fake.

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26. Tha38thParallel on April 11th, 2009 10:56 pm:
    

    Im on 2.1 and i received no message like that

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27. Doug on April 11th, 2009 11:36 pm:
    

    yeah i got this text message from AT&T yesterday at 2:07PM. i am running 2.2 firmware. funny thing is though, when i clicked the link, it took me to the “2.2 firmware update” page. :-\ weeeird.

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28. Adam on April 12th, 2009 1:27 am:
    

    im on 2.2 got it. my sister on 2.2.1 she didnt get it

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29. Lizy on April 12th, 2009 6:56 am:
    

    Yeah i got the message too, and i’m still on 2.2

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30. Zack Hébert on April 12th, 2009 7:41 am:
    

    Yup, I got the same text message yesterday… I’m on 2.2

    I remember back in January when 2.2.1 came out the Dev Team showed a screenie of their text message from AT&T.

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31. Scott on April 12th, 2009 1:05 pm:
    

    I got the text message yesterday. I was hoping to find a 2.2.2 waiting for me.

    I just upgraded to 2.2.1 last weekend from 2.1 — how I loved 2.1, it was the most stable release for me. I tried 2.2.1 when it first came out and had some WIFI problems, so I went back to 2.1, but there have been so many apps that require 2.2 lately, I finally caved. I’m jailbroken with a downrev baseband, prolly from 2.1.

    2.2.1 killed my wifi — it spends all its time trying to acquire new IP addresses, I can’t keep a connection long enough to download cydia or appstore apps. It was also slow on webpages. If I went to the google front page and just toggled between mobile and classic view, the mobile view would take over a minute to load. [ http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=9304271#9304271 ]

    I seem to have dropped calls in 3G mode now – it drops as soon as I answer an incoming call; I haven’t had problems with outbound calls. Switching to EDGE I have no dropped calls. Maybe if I go with the full baseband update things would be better? I wanted to keep the simunlock path open, I’m not sure if they’ve hacked the 2.2.1 baseband yet.

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32. edden Amber on April 12th, 2009 1:26 pm:
    

    im on 2.2 and i havent received the text YET! i tend to get them later then other people.

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33. owen on April 12th, 2009 2:58 pm:
    

    2G
    2.2
    i get tons of dropped calls
    jailbroken
    NO Text message from AT&T

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34. Fabritzio on April 12th, 2009 3:45 pm:
    

    still waiting for that iSmart dialer review.. any news?

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35. Collin on April 12th, 2009 7:38 pm:
    

    3G
    2.2
    Got the message.

    Was like whoa….and came to your site yesterday.

    Looked all around for a recent update like maybe 2.3 or 3.0 came out early.

    Oh well….weird

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36. exNewt on April 13th, 2009 6:40 am:
    

    I got the text yesterday roughly 1:30 PM EST. The only problem (for me) which is why I’ll upgrade is that at least 2 Apps NEED 2.2.1 to work!

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37. reza on April 13th, 2009 8:01 am:
    

    On 2.2 and yes. Got it last week

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38. optional on April 13th, 2009 8:52 am:
    

    ….I am on 2.2.1 (jailbroken/yellowsn0w) and got this message but my wife’s 2.2.1 non-jailbroken phone did not get it

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39. Interface on April 13th, 2009 10:42 am:
    

    I am on 2.2.1 (jailbroken) on my iPhone, but I only went from 2.2 to 2.2.1 about a week ago. I received the text.

    However, my girlfriend’s phone is on 2.2.1 (not jailbroken) and has been since it was released, yet she still received the text.

    The worst part of it for me, was not that we are both already on 2.2.1, but that the texts came within seconds of each other at 6:38AM on Saturday. I woke up from a dead sleep thinking there was some kind of emergency/problem, because we very rarely get texts at all (~5 a month each).

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40. aaron on April 13th, 2009 12:05 pm:
    

    i running on 2.2.1 with the 2.30 baseband did not recieve it, my wife however who is on 2.2.1 with the unlocked .02.28.00 baseband did recieve it, i believe at&t can only tell by what baseband your running on, in my opinion based on what happened in my case

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41. John on April 13th, 2009 9:51 pm:
    

    I received the text as well. I am on 2.2 and did not update.

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