If you can download the full installer with the fix you can install it manually using iTunes.
If Apple will sign it that is.
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Apple Releases iOS 9.3.6 and iOS 10.3.4 With GPS Bug Fix for Older iPhones and iPads
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If Apple will sign it that is.
Still trying to figure out how to load this iOS 10.3.4 into my iPad mini 4.
Adobe Acrobat with iOS 12 is crappy as hell to learn all over again!
Adobe Acrobat with iOS 12 is crappy as hell to learn all over again!
Only Apple could release these updates for such old iOS devices.
No Android OEM would ever do it.
No Android OEM would ever do it.
Provided that it does not brick the device. Think I'll wait a while and let other be trailblazers.
I’m going to update tonight and let the chips fall where they may.
I would expect a lot of people sitting on those older iOS versions did so because their devices are jailbroken. I wonder if, in addition to the GPS fix, the ability to jailbreak was also "fixed"?
Actually couldn’t you download the ipsw file and upgrade it manually. It’s an active signed firmware by Apple so technically it should work in theory so you don’t have to upgrade iOS 12?!
But if it isn’t only for the devices affected for the update I don’t think so
iOS 6 may still have GPS issues, depending on how it handles the rollover. Not all impacted GPS receivers will encounter problems at the same time.
How many Android devices has GPS issue? I know none of my Android phone has? Buy the way, Apple obligate to fix this, because without this, customer does not have functional phone. So now, it is Apple that doing the honorable thing for giving customers a functional devices?
If you follow the link, you will see the 4S can be upgraded to fix that.
It is good, but we only feel that it’s “amazing” because we are trained by the Android OEMs to not expect updates after a year or two. So we lowered our own standard. Glad that Apple do this update. We should really demand similar software support from other companies as well, especially those who charges premium prices like Samsung and Google.
I never said I am going to load it into the device using conventional methods.
Did read the article completely though.
Not if you update it using the ipsw file.
Bingo!
Edit: Just saw this solution was already recommended-whoops
Older Android phones will have the same problem, because it‘s a design issue of older GPS chips that only have a 10 bit week number mixed with a software issue that will reset the date to 1980, if the WN is falling to zero.
I know lots of people who use Android phones that old. They don’t care about malware, privacy or features, but they care about a functional phone.
I see some of them switching to Apple...
Yea but to clarify, they're all running iOS 6. I knew the 4/4S weren't going to work anymore but I wasn't expecting the 5 to have issues (unless updated) as well. However, while annoying, it doesn't matter because there is still zero chance I'm ever letting any of them get updated.
It's the greatest moment in the history of the universe.