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iPhone 3.1 update is not available for download and install through iTunes. PING!

Thanks to Cyropaedia for posting this and the heads up.

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Be advised that if you're using Windows in a a virtual machine to update your iPhone, you can run into problems.

The iPhone is my only Mac, I run Linux on my laptop. iTunes doesn't support W2K, only XP or later. I have W2K set up in VirtualBox, but since I needed XP or better, I downloaded Windows 7RC1 and set it up in VirtualBox. Works great in there, and iTunes installs and syncs the phone just fine.

The problem arises with the iPhone OS upgrade. I've bricked my phone twice. From the 3.0 to 3.01 upgrade, and then again from 3.01 to 3.1. I somehow managed to get 3.01 installed, but I had to reset the phone to factory before it would upgrade, and even then it was a bit of a kludge as to how I did it.

This time, same thing. but I got farther in understanding what was going on. When doing the upgrade, and iTunes is prepping the phone it resets, and VirtualBox loses its USB capture. Doiing some digging, I discovered that somehow, the USB identifier data changes slightly, and therefore VirtualBox does not recapture the device. iTunes freaks out and the phone is left a brick, with a factory reset the only option. The suggested remedy was to plugg the phone back into the USB and add a new USB filter for the iPhone.

This seemed to work. So now that I have both filters defined, I'm hoping it won't be a problem with the next upgrade.

Probably a VB issue, but might be that W7 is a release candidate, and therefore not fully supported, or the iPhone driver is not up to snuff, I don't know. Just thought I'd offer this warning for those running a similar setup.