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Apple Seeds iOS 5.0.1 Beta: Multitasking Gestures for iPad 1, Battery Life Improvements
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For the vast majority of the millions of people using the original iPad, Apple are adding multi-touch gestures. I know 6 people with iPad 1s and none of them enabled gestures.
Yes, that issue is really annoying, because it doesn't affect only Safari, but basically any app that is viewing web using Webkit. For me it also regularly occurs in FlipBoard and 1Pasword apps.
If you are not a developer, but have the seed, you need to get the source that gave it to you to add you to the developer portal
I have to say you are completely wrong.
Installed and battery life is much much better. Have everything turned on as well.
Whatever they did has worked for me.
Can anybody check and see if, out of compassion, Apple has finally activated the use of the USB Camera Connection Kit in the iPhone in 5.0.1?
It doesn't make any sense to release GarageBand for the iPhone/iPod and still block the use of decent USB sound cards and microphones through the Camera Connection Kit as we do in the iPad.
Thanks!
It doesn't make any sense to release GarageBand for the iPhone/iPod and still block the use of decent USB sound cards and microphones through the Camera Connection Kit as we do in the iPad.
Thanks!
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I installed iOS 5.0.1 on my iPhone 4S, it did improve the battery life. Before the update, my phone will lose 5-7% overnight, with wifi on. With the update, it only went down by 1-2%.
I installed iOS 5.0.1 on my iPhone 4S, it did improve the battery life. Before the update, my phone will lose 5-7% overnight, with wifi on. With the update, it only went down by 1-2%.
I am a developer. And my UDID is registered...
I have my apps that I am working on, on my iPhone. I had all the betas for iOS 5.
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It's a known bug. Restore your phone in DFU. Once everything is done, go to your iTunes on your computer, hold the option key and press check for update. It will open up a window for you to browse for the beta on your computer.
l.w41sh said:
It's a known bug. Restore your phone in DFU. Once everything is done, go to your iTunes on your computer, hold the option key and press check for update. It will open up a window for you to browse for the beta on your computer.
My iPad 1 is still on 4.3.5 since I didn't want to lose gestures. Once I have power back, I'll have to update it to 5.0.1 .
Whoever downvoted this one either has never used the music app on iPad or is an idiot. BY FAR the worst part of iOS5, many bugs in it and it's very disappointing to see no mention of music issues in the release notes.
Anyone running the beta on iPad, any improvements/fixes to the music app?
Known issues with 5.0 on iPad (note that the app is completely different than the iPhone version):
1) Lyrics completely missing
2) Playback speed for audiobooks and podcasts gone, many users stuck with half speed playback
3) Playlists only displayed as cover art stacks, no option to change back to text lists
4) No 30 second rewind button in audiobooks and podcasts
5) No more graphical display of which podcasts have been listened to
6) No way to get new episodes of podcasts in the music player (have to switch apps to the iTunes app and search for the podcast there)
7) Tiny displays for many of the fields - podcast info in particular barely shows any of it and it doesn't scroll
8) No dates shown for podcasts any more
9) In album view of the list of songs, it switches away from that view to the album cover at the end of every song
10) No sort options in most listings
11) Podcasts and audio books - no longer continues on to the next podcast or section of the book, have to keep manually starting the next one.
12) Chapter support for audiobooks removed
13) Graphics of things like random and repeat are just slight variations on shades of grey, very difficult to tell whether it's active or not
14) Music videos no longer with music, also no way to have them in playlists
I'm sure there are many more, that's just off the top of my head. In general the interface is very poorly laid out with tons of wasted space that could show more text info or have more controls more easily accessible. Honestly they should just scrap the new version and go back to the previous iPad music player and make fixes from there, still needs improvement (my main gripes with the old one were having to dig through multiple windows to rate songs instead of having the feature always available, and cumbersome way of putting songs into playlists) but much less to fix.
Here's one of many threads about the problems.
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1254178/
So anyone running the beta on iPad, are any of these things fixed or not? Any info would be appreciated.
Multitasking gestures on the iPad 1, yay!!!! Hopefully they'll fix stability issues though, I've found iOS 5 and especially the new safari to be extremely unstable. Not sure if it's just me, but my safari crashes extremely frequently now. Not cool.
I wonder if version updates via OTA will also be available as a full update using iTunes.
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Safari was crashing on me continuously last night while trying to watch a YouTube video embedded to a website. I had to reset the iPad (OFF and ON) to solve the problem.
Wow!!! I can't believe that so much has been removed from iTunes!
No lyrics, no audiobook chapters, not showing images embedded in audiobooks, it's horrible. I wonder if this new iTunes is a work in progress, and that Apple will continue to add features to it. Otherwise, the "cut the cord" phrase has no real meaning and I would go back to 4.3 if I could.
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For me battery life is now awesome,
3.5 hrs heavy usage (camera, browsing, uploading pics and vids) and 14hrs standby and at 64% battery left!
For me battery life is now awesome,
3.5 hrs heavy usage (camera, browsing, uploading pics and vids) and 14hrs standby and at 64% battery left!