Existing users, 
Restore and update your iPhone 3G to squash bugs
Posted 14 July 2008 @ 11am in Troubleshooting
If you have an iPhone 3G and haven’t restored it yet, do so. The first batch of iPhone 3G units shipped with iPhone OS 2.0 5A345, but the current build is 2.0 5A347. A handful of bugs were squashed with the new iteration, which brings enhanced stability and other enhancements.
Unfortunately, Apple hasn’t designed iTunes to recognize the difference between the iPhone OS 2.0 builds. As such, you’ll need to perform a “Restore” function to pull the new release.
In order to restore, connect your iPhone to your system then click the Restore button under the Summary tab in iTunes. Restoring the phone will erase contacts, calendars, photos and other data on the phone (including any third-party applications), but will restore automatically backed-up information including text messages, notes, call history, contact favorites, sound settings, widget settings, etc.
The restoration process itself may eliminate some iPhone issues.
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Posted by thatchman1
14 July 2008 @ 12pm
2.0 5A347 is the version that many Gen 1 iPhone users downloaded from Apple servers and put on their phones… many later downgrading thinking the lower release number 2.0 5A345 may have been “more stable”.
Is there a particular reason to not put 2.0 5A347 on a Gen 1 iPhone? I had it on mine, it seemed fine, but I too downgraded.
Posted by themick1
14 July 2008 @ 1pm
I downloaded the 2.0 the day before the iphone was released with version 5A347 and agree - it was more stable than the 5A347 (which i updated to the next day). With the 5A347 versin, my phone resets itself as much as 3 times a day. Also, sometimes it just goes black like I had hit the sleep button; pressing the Home button immediately restores it but my phone never did that until I upgraded it. Dont know why either, battery life seems to be draining quicker as well but maybe Im just using it more because of the App store? Good update but has some bugs.
Posted by jbohn
15 July 2008 @ 10am
The only way I could get my iPod Touch to work correctly after upgrading to 2.0 was to wipe the iPod and Restore but NOT use my backup. I think it had to do with it being Jailbroken. Apps would quit right after launch (mainly Mail), settings would not hold (like wallpaper or adding a MobileMe account) and I couldn’t edit my Mail accounts.
Starting from scratch solved those problems.
Posted by kilburni
16 July 2008 @ 1pm
@themick1
So I bought a 3G and have 5A435 that crashes and automatically resets quite frequently. Would you recommend upgrading to 5A437 based on your experience? I can’t tell since you sited both firmwares in your response as “5A437″…
Posted by jungle
17 July 2008 @ 12pm
would be more useful solution if it was made clear whether one’s erased information gets re-synched or not, esp. for those of us using mobileme (oh how i hate that name!) push system — will the now-empty iPhone push the results to my cloud and then on to laptop?