WhatsApp is obsolete on some iPhone 3G
Despite the fact that WhatsApp has continued to reap successes this Christmas, reaching 18 billion of messages on New Year's Eve, some of its users have been deprived of this service due to force majeure Specifically, they are users of the iPhone 3G that update the messaging application to your latest version, the 2.8.7, which no longer supports this terminal. A question technical that depends exclusively on Apple, and that has a solution, although It is not comfortable or simple for users less learned in the subject of Jailbreak
The problem is with the tool for developers and engineers to build applications, which depends on Apple and that has stopped supporting versions below iOS 4.5 In this way, updated applications and new creations are no longer compatible with terminals that have devices that are not updated to iOS 4.5 , among which is the iPhone 3G, which stopped being updated in version 4.2.1 of the operating system of the apple company A policy that Apple can take advantage of to force users to purchase a new model of their terminals if they want to have all the applications and possibilities
This way, when WhatsApp was updated to its version 2.8.7 last December, one of your essential requirements (and that was not indicated on your list of news) is to have iOS 4.3 or higher With which the iPhone 3G began to fall out of the support of the messaging tool, and with this, its uusers lost the possibility of using it Something that will have annoyed those owners of this terminal who updated theirapplication WhatsApp before Christmas
From the official WhatsApp blog explain this situation and show their impotence in the face of such a problem. Thus, they leave the ball in the court of Apple, the real people responsible for this problem by to stop supporting Xcode , the commented application creation tool, to old terminals.In the same post, however, praise the iPhone 3G, stating that “will always have a place in your heart” for what it meant in its time. But “Apple's pace of innovation comes at the price of forced obsolescence”.
Now, it seems some users have been able to use WhatsApp on their iPhone 3G without doing anything, which suggests that the problem is not really Apple's, but 's WhatsApp Be that as it may, there is a solution to avoid being forced to acquire a new terminal to use WhatsApp This is a solution that is very uncomfortable and requires certain knowledge by user, in addition to having done the famous Jailbreak to our terminal.
If we have these requirements, we just have to follow these steps, yes, always under the responsibility of each one:
1. Uninstall our current version of WhatsApp
2. Download the application iFile, launch it and go to / System/Library/CoreServices, open SystemVersion.plist select editand on the line below ProductVersion change the version number that appears (4.X.X ) for version 4.3.1 Finally press Ok
3. Download the program iFunbox from your website on our computer. Open the program with the iPhone connected to the computer via USB Click on iFunbox classic, then INSTALL APP.
4. Now tap install a previous version of WhatsApp, specifically 2.8.4.
5. Once installed, all that remains is to enter our telephone number and use it as normal. Of course, by not being able to update it we will miss the news and improvements of future versions, but we will have a functional tool.
