Tweaks to iPod Touch screen settings in Apple’s 1.1.1 firmware
Posted on September 27th, 2007 in Apple, firmware, iPhone, iPod Touch, iTunes |
While iPhone owners agonise over the choice between third-party functionality or Apple’s latest firmware update (and those with unlocked iPhones hopefully sit on their hands and ignore it, lest their handsets get re-locked and refuse to recognise the original AT&T SIM), rumours are afoot that the 152.3mb download may just have some benefits to iPod Touch owners too.
“My screen is now perfect. Videos and pics don’t have the negative issue anymore, and overall, the screen looks crisper. I’m not sure if I’m just imagining it, but bright colors look clearer and brighter” MacRumours Forum member ‘thesdx’
Users at the MacRumors forums are reporting significant screen quality changes after applying the 1.1.1 firmware upgrade, which downloads via iTunes and is advertised by Apple as “bug fixes”. Currently contentious, it looks as though Apple have attempted to tweak the inverted colouration effect witnessed on some iPod Touch by altering the default brightness and contrast settings.
There’s plenty more 1.1.1 firmware coverage over at our sibling site MY iTablet…
Written by: Chris Davies
7 Responses
Can a iPhone update also update the iPod touch?
The 1.1.1 update also updated the calendar app, if you look closely.
Not the update we were hoping for though- it moved Sunday to the first day of the week instead of the last.
Maybe one day we’ll get adding/editing events?
Is anyone really stupid enough to believe this? You can’t fix a hardware problem with a software update. Furthermore, if it really had been a software issue, everyone would have had the problem, not just “a few people”, as Apple kept claiming. Basically, the fanboys that are claiming that the Firmware patch fixed the Hardware problem are probably the same fanboys that kept denying that there was ever a problem in the first place.
Maven, you’re wrong. It wasn’t a hardware issue, it was the contrast settings being wrong. If it was possible to change them manually there would never have been a problem in the first place, so its quite possible that the update did it.
There are reports from owners with week 37 ipod touch that the update to firmware 1.1.1 did indeed fix the negative effect issues.
Good…
My iPod touch arives from the 15th in stores
Boys lets stop complaining.
I had a week 36 Ipod Touch.
Terrible problems with negative black whilst watching Heroes on it.
Then the update came out.
Everything sorted, screen is perfect!
I even had a new Ipod Touch on order from Apple to swap with the Week 36 one.
Still gonna do it though as I cant risk the chance there maybe something faulty still in there.