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iTunes been poping up telling me to update my iPhone to the new 2.0.2. I know I could turn the popup off, but I want it to be there to alert me next time! Anyway since I’m using the first-generation iPhone, and since it has been pwned, I’m not in any doubt to push the “Update Now” button.

Yes I will lost all 3rd party application. But I’m sure this will be taken care of by the amazing iphone-dev team with their pwnage tool (sorry if I sounded like I’m taking your effort for granted!).

So the update went on. Nothing much happened. iTunes backed up my phone, reboot, upload firmware, reboot, yada yada, then another round of backup. Surprisingly, the backup only take like.. 35 seconds (previously it was like 45 minutes!). There is no sync, no asking to setup as a new phone. Nada!.

Apparently it didn’t really format the phone, just that the jailbroken apps are not there. Even my “Stocks” app are gone (because I hide it with BossPrefs). So my previous 2.0.1 customized springboard which looked something like this:

Fird's iPhone 2.0.1

Now turned back into the plain old boring iPhone as how Apple wants it:

Fird's iPhone 2.0.2

Anyway, let’s get down to details. In the changelog, Apple said the update is for:
- Bugfixes

(ok, talk about vague, but it is probably something they don’t want the public to know, either it is too cryptic or just risky)

So far from the update, I noticed:
- Much faster response (almost to the level of 1.1.4 performance). 2.0.0 was terribly horribly slow. 2.0.1 is better, and 2.0.2 is even better.
- My Appstore crashes the springboard the first time I run it (it went to that spinning wheel thing for a while before restarting the springboard). But it works fine after the second run.
- Faster backups from iTunes (averaging under 5 minutes per sync backup. This is probably due to Apple’s decision to make incremental backup rather than one full backup each time).

Anyone else notices anything else?