Today while on my daily run I decided to stop and take a breather. I also wanted to check Tweetie to see if I had any new @mentions. To my surprise while Tweetie was pulling my replies down from the server an alert message displayed on my screen that read, “Baseband Core Dump in Progress. This should only take a few minutes.” I pressed ok on the message to watch  the typical loading spinning circle in Tweetie keep spinning for about two minutes. The podcast that I was listening to went static for about half of a second and my reception meter hit 0. Then almost as quickly jumped back up to its normal five bars and my podcast went on playing normally.

When I got home I decided to investigate just what exactly this message meant. I posted the message on Twitter and here’s what I learned:

jonrojas: @Ultimo119 if you are running the 3.0 beta, that coredump dumps complete error info to be uploaded next time u sync to iTunes

doza: @Ultimo119 A coredump is basically a memory dump when a program crashes. It can be used to debug the crash. http://bit.ly/1Gh4cE

So basically what this all means is that the Baseband Core Dump is the iPhone’s way of “Sending an error report” a la Windows. Thus, if you ever get this message, don’t panic, your iPhone is perfectly normal…hopefully