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Apple’s iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

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Re: Apple’s iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

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Why does Techcrunch always offer such exaggerations as "SMS dies today?" I'm curious if people will actually use iMessage very much. It will be hard to keep track of the relatively small amount of friends you know are on iOS5, and people on iPods won't want to rely on having wi-fi for their SMSing.

I use WhatsApp instead of SMS mostly. It has benefit of working not only with iPhone users, but with Android as well.

Re: Apple’s iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

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Various errors when trying to install iOS5 on my iPhone 4. I'm getting everything from error 3194 "This device is not eligible for the requested build" to a generic error 3200 "Unknown error". Coupled with some crazy Lion crashes lately, my anecdotal experience is that Apple software is not "just work[ing]".

The iOS 5 update errors are being reported as server failures on Apple. Although, I admit I'm not helping the problem. It took 20+ tries to finally get it to phone home correctly. http://thenextweb.com/apple/2011/10/12/apples-ios-5-upgrade-...

For the impatient: after downloading and backing up at least once -- you can put your device in DFU mode to try again (and again) without having to repeat the backup process.

Re: Apple’s iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

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Anyone know how to do a restore without backing up first? Like a lot of others, the restore is failing for me when it communicates with Apple and every time I retry, it does a backup that lasts about 30 minutes. I'd love to just keep retrying without doing the backup each time.

Try putting your device in DFU mode. This worked for me, after that clicking restore (then update/restore) went straight to the verification phase.. Previous backup was restored when I finally get the update installed.

Re: Apple’s iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

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The only problem is that most people will stick to the unlimited SMS plan. If they have a small data plan (500 MB for example), they'd be using their limited data.

iMessage offers more: you can send photos and videos, and you see the other end typing if I understand correctly, so you can use it like a chat.

More: you can use iMessage on iPad and iPod touch to send message to someone using iPhone.

Re: Apple’s iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

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iMessage & location based reminders dont work on my 3GS :(

iMessage should work fine, location based reminders on the other hand are iPhone 4 and 4S only.

doesnt work for me..what do i do to make it work?? I cant see any option under messages for activating iMessage.

Re: Apple’s iOS 5 Update Now Available For iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

iMessage offers more: you can send photos and videos, and you see the other end typing if I understand correctly, so you can use it like a chat.

More: you can use iMessage on iPad and iPod touch to send message to someone using iPhone.

Has Apple mentioned anything about Mac OS support?
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