This happens every time there's a major update. It took me a few tries to update my phone and iPad, but it's all working fine now. I don't know what the big deal is, frankly.

Direct links here (new window)

I'm in the process of it now. Took 3-4 tries for it to connect. But this happened last time they did a major OS upgrade. I waited until late tonight for that reason.

The iTunes update took a while to DL and reset. The actual iphone update is still going on if you count my music/movies that are still restoring.

First impressions: I like the new text interface/bubble as opposed to the previous. The iMessage functionality should be pretty slick, assuming Apple doesn't have the issues RIM does/did with BBM. I'm looking forward to not having to pay for an unlimited text plan as soon as the fetching Ms. Joker upgrades her Droid to an iPhone in a couple months.

Also, the Facebook, Twitter, Flixster, and Find My iPhone apps were available for immediate update. Unfortunately, Pandora, Netflix, and IHeartRadio are not, and I use them the most. I'm sure within the next 48-72 hours most major apps I have will have an update available.

Anyway, we shall see how the whole iCloud thing goes. I've already planned on buying the 55GB service soon and only getting a 16gb 4S some time in early 2012 or when my 3GS craps out, whichever is first.

Does anybody know if the Cloud will stream audio or is it just going to push the file to the device? Nothing on Apple's website I've seen says it will stream.

It's times like this I thank FSM that I no longer work in that hellhole of a call center for Crapple. I guarantee they are getting swamped with calls from people who have tried to update and now their music is gone, or their contacts won't sync from Exchange or whatever.

Good riddance.

F that noise.

Still my favorite phone call was from the woman who wondered why her iphone no longer worked after it fell into the cup of coffee she had the phone balanced on while she was walking up stairs. And then was pissed because that wasn't covered by the warranty.

jingks: Drunken_Irish_Joker: I'm looking forward to not having to pay for an unlimited text plan as soon as the fetching Ms. Joker upgrades her Droid to an iPhone in a couple months.

Couldn't you just skype chat or something?

We could, but she is looking to move to the iPhone because of her loathsome Droid. She really, really hates that thing. For that matter, my folks and my sis are all on iPhones as is, along with quite a few friends, coworkers, and such, basically 80% of the people i regularly text to. The iMessage thing for that reason alone could cause me to lower my ATT bill dramatically.

Now that everything is working properly on the phone, I'm really digging the wireless sync capability. I just need the damned apps to update and I'll be pretty damned happy.

FWIW, I'm with Blldg4life. There's more computing power in the palm of your hand than all the Apollo, Gemini, SpaceLab, and Mercury, programs combined with a healthy dose of Concorde and the Manhattan Project thrown in, AND its pretty damned easy to use. Lighten up, Franceses.

Sning: Drunken_Irish_Joker: I'm looking forward to not having to pay for an unlimited text plan as soon as the fetching Ms. Joker upgrades her Droid to an iPhone in a couple months.


Get Google Voice, it will integrate seamlessly into Android phones and gives you an extra number of your choosing, free calls and texts as well. It's awesome.

Don't want to lose my ATT unlimited data plan. Otherwise, I'd go for it. Its easier again for her to upgrade in a few months to a Verizon iPhone and I to keep my current unlimited data plan than to go Google Voice.

Going through the restore now when I should be asleep. Would have finished a couple hours ago if my ISP (for which I work) hadn't decided TONIGHT to do maintenance. Frakkers.

The iPhone update went pretty smoothly once my internet was back up. Next is my iPad, and I'm looking forward to the Notes update. Looks pretty cool.

/stupid stupid maintenance

I was about ready to throw my iJesusPhone 4 out the window. 5 times before I could get my phone back to normal. The first 4 were just trying to restore it to usability mode, rather than, you know, just a black glowing screen. Thank christ I did a back-up right beforehand. The stupid thing still didn't put my folders and apps in the way I had them, and it took a 5th attempt before my custom ringtones would actually synch and show up on the device. Apple kinda dropped the ball on this, things were going fine until the last point of installation, but then the servers couldn't connect and so it goes. It also claimed I had no disc space left on my computer, which is why it came up with an error code, despite having 1.5GB RAM and 170GB of HDD space free. I closed Firefox, and then had no issues, even though Firefox freed up maybe 50MB of RAM. Just works my ass.

I'm also not really seeing a lot of "revolutionary" features in iOS 5, and will probably finally jailbreak the little bastard so I can have widgets. Still no goddamn widgets, and it's still lacking a lot of functionality of Android, even though this release basically copied them. I'm not even running a "real/proper" Android device (Rooted Nook Color), and see that Android has a lot more going for it than the iJesusPhone right now. Hopefully Apple will get with the program within the next 2 years (Bell Canada has 3 year contracts on their phones, has the iJesusPhone for exactly a year today), or I'll be getting an Android phone for my next upgrade.

You know what really works? Waiting a couple of days.

I know this thread is probably dead, but maybe someone who checks in can help me figure this out.

Current phone: 3GS running 4.0, JB'ed using...something. I can't remember.

Next phone: a 4S, which hopefully will be ready for me to pick up tomorrow.

The correct answer to "how do I get all of my photos, apps, addresses, etc from current phone to next phone" is "backup 3gs" -> "restore to 4S", yes?

If that's not the case, what should I do? My theory assumes that the 4S will ship with iOS5, so I suppose if I'm wrong about that it's a whole other level of pain.


Incidentally I've abused my 3GS and admit it, but apparently it's quite bitter about being replaced and the volume buttons decided to fall off (!) sometime today. Good thing I stopped biting my nails so I can still jiggle the volume switch... of course that won't help the fact that the manner mode switch barely works either, and the power switch doesn't work at all... but at least I can still make calls and I've gone 2+ years without scratching the screen!

It's like your girlfriend knows that you're going to break up with her in a week and decides she's going to make your life miserable until the other shoe drops.

I was getting a 3002 error on my iPad, so instead of doing an update, I did a backup and restore. That got iOS 5 installed. I like I'll never have to plug into iTunes again. I just charge it at night like normal and it automatically backs up to iCloud.

I'm in Afghanistan, and I got that on release day... Don't know what your problem is...

Random notes (in case anyone cares) after having updated my iTouch 4G

-iTunes wants to be at 10.5, and it militantly refused to update in place. Had to remove & reinstall.

-It took FOREVER, even after the download updated, and midway through the content restore iTunes crapped out. Wouldn't even close with Windows Task Manager. Rebooted, restarted iTunes, and did a final sync and that seems to have fixed it.

-After it updates iOS, but before it gets to the content restore, you must answer a few initialization questions on the device itself. iTunes doesn't tell you "Hey, dummy, check your device", and the only way you know the device is waiting is if you unlock it yourself. Nice and user friendly, dumapples.

-On the plus side: the screen looks a lot sharper with the new display drivers.

moistD: Do iPhone users have to restore their apps every time they upgrade the OS?

/not being snarky, just seemed like everyone was commenting on restoring apps or losing the settings they had pre-update which seemed odd to me.

As long as you transferred your purchases from the device to iTunes, or bought them
through iTunes in the first place, and you have a recent up-to-date sync it should restore
them automatically (barring, of course, iTunes crashing as I mentioned above).

Everything looks like its where it should be (notes in my note program, music, high
scores on ANGRY BIRDS, etc).