iOS 5 Update Available 473
tekgoblin writes "Apple has released the iOS 5 update. To update to iOS 5 just open iTunes with your iDevice connected to your computer and press update. I recommend doing a manual backup of your iDevice and make sure all your apps are transferred."
Re:umm... (Score:2, Informative)
iCloud for music is excellent. Especially with the service that scans your MP3 stash and allows you to download AAC files on the go. This functionality is something Android lacks.
Perhaps you are unfamiliar with SugarSync? [sugarsync.com]
In fact I would choose SugarSync over iCloud even on an Apple product simply because I can sync/stream to just about any device with a browser although there are native clients for Android, BlackBerry, and iOS devices. They have a free 5GB plan and their $4.99/mo. plan gives you 30GB. I had been using DropBox until I discovered SugarSync.
Re:That didn't take too long to fail (Score:5, Informative)
I started downloading before the Slashdot story was posted. It was kind of fun to watch the "time remaining" thing slow to a crawl. The last 15 seconds took a good minute.
Also, small update: turns out the phone hadn't crashed, it was just frozen displaying the lock screen with a time 6 minutes in the past. It eventually rebooted on its own. So at least I still have a phone.
Another interesting factoid: you can't just drag iTunes into the trash to delete it. Mac OS X won't let you. Instead you have to open the Applications folder, select it, and press Command-Delete. (I'm doing the complete reinstall off memory, let's see how well this goes!)
Re:I did mine a year and a half back. (Score:5, Informative)
Re:That didn't take too long to fail (Score:5, Informative)
"That's right, the Apple official way to restart a crashed iDevice is to let the battery drain. I'd link to the article, but their support site is down."
Or you could use the official method of holding down both the home and lock button until it restarts. It'll even restart a crashed device.
Re:umm... (Score:5, Informative)
iCloud for music is excellent. Especially with the service that scans your MP3 stash and allows you to download AAC files on the go. This functionality is something Android lacks
Actually, Google has Google Music which does basically the same thing. You just select the files/playlists, etc for "offline use" and it caches them to your device. Or you can just stream it while on the go. Google Music has been available for...uh, 6ish months now.
Also, Google+ auto uploads any taken pictures to your G+ account, set to private, so you can share them at-whim. So, Android has that feature too...again, has for months.
Update process (Score:5, Informative)
1. Connect iPad to macbook ..Long update process, its 700MB after all... BANG! Your device coul not be restored, internal error occurred. .. bla bla bla all the iPad contents will be replaced by this macbook's library contents. VERY SCARY, but there is no other way as far as I see. Well... OK. .. and all my stuff is __GONE__ ! ..wait..wait..wait...wait.... FINALLY. DONE.
2. iTunes detects iOS 5 is available, I hit update button
3. WARNING! Unsynced items, I am going to delete all your precious apps, do you want to continue? Mind you, I won't offer an option in the dialog that says: "backup my stuff and then continue".
4. I click sync and the system detects that this is a new macbook: "Looks like this is a new, unauthorized device! If you proceed, all your iPad contents will be NUKED! haha!"
5. Cancel and look around for a while trying to find a way of doing the obvious thing.
6. Find the "transfer my stuff" option that warns that only authorized content will be transfered. Duh-huh.. OK.
7. Need to authorize my device, only 3 left. Geee... well, OK..
8. Everything but 4 items get transferred. Not pretty, but good enough.
9. Try to update now: warning about unsynced items persists. Scary, but I go on since step 7. doesn't improve even after trying several times in different ways.
10.
11. iPad library must be deleted because it can only be synced with one device at a time.
12. Update again...wait...wait...wait... yes, I want to use iCloud, yes I want to use localization, re-enter my apple ID, yes, yes yes a couple more times...
13.
14. Go to iTunes, explicitly tell it to sync applications, hit sync..
15. Only a few apps have been restored
16. Back to iTunes, manually check all applications that you want to have restored (why are most of them unchecked and not synced by default!?)
17. Sync..
18.
Conclusion: ARE YOU F****** KIDDING ME?
NOT pretty, VERY SCARY.
But in the end it worked (miraculously).
Seriously, why on earth would someone design a syncing process that makes it SO EASY to lose all your stuff? Why not a single step?
Let's hope that OTA updates take this nightmarish process away. We'll see.
Re:Troll? Re:That didn't take too long to fail (Score:5, Informative)
1) A brand new full iTunes download is 103mb, not 700 as you claimed.
Oh crap, you're right, that was supposed to read "the iOS update," which is 700MB. I have no clue how large the iTunes update was because I didn't bother watching that download.
2) I've never ever had to do anything remotely like you claim about removing kernel extensions and rebooting 3 times with iTunes
You only need to do that if you need to reinstall iTunes. Which is what the support article for "our update authentication servers are down" tells you to do for some braindead reason.
3) I just dragged iTunes to the trash. OSX asked for my password. I entered it. It deleted.
Only works in Finder. I was trying to do it from the Applications stack in the Dock, because you can do that with apps you've installed yourself. Doing it that way just silently fails.
5) Absolutely false what you claimed about Apple expecting a crashed iPhone to just drain off the battery.
It used to be in there somewhere, for what to do if a hard reset doesn't work. Which, now that the support site is up again, turns out to be holding both the Wake/Sleep button and the Home button for 10 seconds. That's intuitive.
Re:Neat. (Score:3, Informative)