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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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sigh My poor iPhone 3G and I are completely left out.

I did update OSX to make use of the new iCloud but its really no use unless you have an i-device with iCloud. I use Pages.app and was hoping I could make use of the iCloud storage feature but it appears I HAVE to have its equivalent Pages app for iOS to activate it.

:(

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

#73
Having lots of issues upgrading Xcode and iPhoto through the Mac app store. Just hangs. I thought it might be because my mini needed another restart after getting the lion update, but that didn't help either. Now since I tried to update them, the Mac app store is showing them as updated even though they aren't. No idea how I fix that...

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

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post #44
post #38

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-...

I'm on #12 and still nothing.

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

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post #71

sigh My poor iPhone 3G and I are completely left out. I did update OSX to make use of the new iCloud but its really no use unless you have an i-device with iCloud. I use Pages.app and was hoping I could make use of the iCloud storage feature but it appears I HAVE to have its equivalent Pages app for iOS to activate it. :(

I feel old school because of my 3G. Be proud, brotha!

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

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with jbondeson and in addition to that, Apple probably won't want to standardize and share this, it's a new incentive they've created to buy an iOS device.

I think it was more of a power move with their carrier partners, the user experience is nearly the same.

Even if so, why should Apple give Android similar leverage over carriers?

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

#77
post #54

List of things Apple is releasing today (perhaps incomplete?): iOS 5 (iPhone, iPad) Mac OS X 10.7.2 (and maybe 10.6.9?) Apple TV 4.4 Update updates to Pages, Numbers, and Keynote for iOS iPhoto 9.2 Aperture 3.2 Safari 5.1.1 (Mac, Windows) iCloud Control Panel for Windows the iCloud web apps Cards (and associated print/delivery service) Lion Recovery Update iTunes Movie Trailers app Find my Friends app AirPort Setup u…

Also: Xcode 4.2

Also: White iPod Touch

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

#78
post #62

With iMessage being released I wonder what is the plan for Facetime? Is it complementary, or is it going to be killed? Are we going to get iMessage on Mac/Windows as well?

Why would video chat be killed due to the release of a text chat service?

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

#79

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.

I highly recommend you backup with iTunes first. I have run the beta for months and hadn't backed up in a while. iCloud was wiped last week and when I updated to the GM I lost everything. My last backup was in July, so that's where I had to start from there.

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

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post #27

Does anyone know how iOS 5 runs on a 3GS? Does it bog things down?

Although there's no numbers for the 3GS and 3rd generation iPod touch, GigaOM did benchmark the iPad, iPad 2, iPhone 4 and 4th generation iPod touch to find small to otherwise noticeable improvements across the board: http://gigaom.com/apple/benchmarking-the-ios-5-update/

I have a 32GB 3rd generation iPod touch as my low-end development unit (the 8GB models can't be upgraded past 4.2.x), and I can also confirm that it is noticeably snappier.

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