iOS 5
 

In the process of updating the 3GS.

The download seems very slow. I guess several million people are also updating...

Let us know if the 3GS runs slow with iOS 5 and if there is an option to turn off features. We have a 3G (not S) and two 4 (not S) and I don't know which we should upgrade. The 4S is coming Friday, I think.

According to Apple, on the 3GS and the 4 can be upgraded.

It is claiming 6 hours remaining on the download. 105.7 of 668.8 MB. The servers must be swamped.

I will install 5 on my wife's work issued 3GS tonight and report back.

The jailbreak has not been released yet for 5 so my 3GS is off limits to upgrades.

My new phone is being delivered Friday with '5' factory installed!

"Can" and "should" may be two different things. The 3G could be upgraded to iOS4 but after I did the phone became almost unusable. I downgraded back to 3.23 or whatever was the last v3.

I would not be surprised if the 3GS is pokey. The 4 should work ok though. Not sure about the chip differences.

How do I get to the upgrade? App store?

iTunes. Click on phone and then check for upgrade.

It has been downoading since I started this thread and is barely 1/4th the way done. It now says 7 more hours to finish download...

Duh! Thanks James!

-Z

I'm updating my 4 now but already had one internet interruption and had to start from scratch, 87 minutes remaining.

LOL - it's going to suck for you guys if the upgrade goes as smoothly as iOS4 did :) I held off and was one of the few working iPhones in the building that day.

I got the download in literally minutes.

Mine farted twice on restoring so I decided not to push it.

After what I just went through to get a 3g unlocked I don't have much sympathy for you guys. :D

Had a little trouble with the update. Had to restart my phone and my computer to get it to work.

So far I do not notice any BIG difference. iMessage is cool and the notifications on the home screen are nice. The only negative about this upgrade is my Rennlist App doesn't work.

not happy.

lost my flipboard settings and had to reinstall almost all of my apps.

oddly enough this morning I picked up my Galaxy S2 and have it all set now. So far so good. A friend bricked his iPhone with the iOS5 install so proceed with caution.

Giving it a go now. Downloaded ios5 in a few minutes.

Error 3194

Upgrade failed during the verification process with apple's servers.
They must be slammed.


I will try later in the evening.

IPhone 4 is done. Now doing the MacPro and then comes the iPad. Phone went smoothly.

Not bothering with my 3GS at this point. It will be relegated to iPod duties in a few days when my 4S gets here....

My attempt was dropped because the servers are too busy. I'll try again later in the week.

I've been trying to download it for a few hours now... slow. Everyone on the planet must be downloading it right now...

I cant get it, can you order the dvd?

Hiccuped on my iPad 1. Had to restart and restore everything. We'll see....

I've done two iPads today. The download wasn't the problem, but their authentication servers seems swamped so it fails in the final stages and you have to do the whole back-up/restore dance every time. I reset mine to factory so restore took no time at all, so even with 7 fails between two machines I was still done in a couple of hours, plus 45 minutes to restore the one I'm keeping from a back-up.

People rave about the split keyboard, but I like the ability to share my library and that you can keep working while it syncs (wirelessly, finally).

15 minutes... today @3:00

The files were on my machine last night. I've loaded it this morning. The restore is in progress right now.

Doesn't seem very different.

So .... best way to backup my iphone data before I upgrade is via itunes?? I am running Time Machine on the MAC that I will use to upgrade my iPhone -- is there a way to attach my iphone data to Time machine?

Sorry - I guess I'm not that Apply savvy yet...

-Z

Nope, not seeing much either.

Will need to do the wifes later so we can check out the unified messaging.

It does a backup as part of the install but I ran a sync prior just to be on the safe side.

It's cheap insurance.

Think of Time Machine as a snapshot.

So if you back up your phone via iTunes it will be captured in the next snapshot.

In terms of the upgrade one really has nothing to do with the other though.

Unless, of course, the upgrade fails, and you need to recover from the backup. :eek:

Just did my update. I am posting this from it.

Here is a link that shows some of the new features.

iOS 5 for iPhone and iPad walkthrough | TiPb

I installed 5 this morning on my wife's phone and all went smooth. Gave up last night - servers were too busy. I used the backup and restore option rather than upgrade and it worked well.

Still working on discovering the changes.

I noticed it added an appointment app that looks interesting, a magazine rack app, iCloud and WiFi syncing.

I like that the videos are in a location of their own. Not mixed up with the music.

I think the task sharing will be great. I can share a task list with my wife and have a separate list for just me. It has a feature that it will remind me to do things by location. I often think to myself "the next time I am at the parts store I need a (whatever)" and then later go to the store and forget it. Now it will know I am at the store and that I need to get that thing.

I know all the privacy folks will think that is nuts but I can't care less if big brother knows I am at the auto parts store.

Watch the first video in the above mentioned link.

So I can give my wife a "task".


Sent from my iPhone

Oh yeah, like that is going to work...:rolleyes:

SOOO much to process. Holy crap.