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SRLMJ23

SRLMJ23

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What do I have to do? Sign up as an Apple Developer and pay for an account?? If so could someone point me in the direction of what I need to do. I'm willing to fork out the cash but I'm a little confused on what to do. I'm on a Windows machine so I'm not sure if that will effect anything? Thanks in advance.
 
What you need to do is wait for a public release. The 4.0 Beta is developers-only and not intended for use outside of a testing environment. Under no circumstances should it be installed on a phone you use.
 
SRLMJ23 said:
What do I have to do? Sign up as an Apple Developer and pay for an account?? If so could someone point me in the direction of what I need to do. I'm willing to fork out the cash but I'm a little confused on what to do. I'm on a Windows machine so I'm not sure if that will effect anything? Thanks in advance.
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You will get if for free in the summer. Hold your horses.
 
Plus it has some pretty annoying bugs and I wouldn't recommend it for daily use.
 
You *can* install from a Windows machine. You don't need to install XCode, which can only be installed/run on OSX. But you can install the OS onto the phone from Windows if you know what you are doing.

But there's really no point in doing so. The beta is, of course, buggy. For one, you won't be able to back-up your phone. And third-party apps aren't going to run in background, which is probably your reason for wanting 4.0. The apps have to be re-written, and they can't be released to the App Store until 4.0 is officially released for the public.
 
SRLMJ23 said:
What do I have to do? Sign up as an Apple Developer and pay for an account?? If so could someone point me in the direction of what I need to do. I'm willing to fork out the cash but I'm a little confused on what to do. I'm on a Windows machine so I'm not sure if that will effect anything? Thanks in advance.
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You're willing to fork over $99 for something that's currently buggy, and you'll get FREE in a few months?
 
Patrick J said:
I thought you couldn't brick it, just restore back to older firmware?

If you can have a jailbroken device, you can spoof your firmware.
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If your UDID is not registered with a developer's account you can risk bricking your iPhone by installing beta firmware. Rolling it back is also difficult because the firmware updates the baseband.
 
Roessnakhan said:
If your UDID is not registered with a developer's account you can risk bricking your iPhone by installing beta firmware. Rolling it back is also difficult because the firmware updates the baseband.
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This. You're also forgetting that some apps don't work on the iPhone OS 4.0 platform.
 
Just go on craigslist and find a developer that is willing to add your UDID to their developer account for like 10 bucks. Thats what my friend did, and he has it on his daily use phone with no bugs. The only problem he is having is not being able to back up his phone with iTunes.

This is of course if you have access to a Mac because from what I am hearing the update is not working with windows. you will get an error message.
 
bigjnyc said:
Just go on craigslist and find a developer that is willing to add your UDID to their developer account for like 10 bucks. Thats what my friend did, and he has it on his daily use phone with no bugs. The only problem he is having is not being able to back up his phone with iTunes.

This is of course if you have access to a Mac because from what I am hearing the update is not working with windows. you will get an error message.
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It is working on Windows.
 
bigjnyc said:
Just go on craigslist and find a developer that is willing to add your UDID to their developer account for like 10 bucks. Thats what my friend did, and he has it on his daily use phone with no bugs. The only problem he is having is not being able to back up his phone with iTunes.
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You also have to trust that the developer isn't going to remove your UDID until 4.0 Final is out, not to mention being forced to upgrade every time they release a different beta.
 
Well I thank you all for commenting, I'm glad I consulted with people on the forum than just going ahead and doing it, saved me a 100 bucks. I appreciate all the responses, thank you!
 
ct2k7 said:
Either way you shouldn't be doing it on a Windows machine. I only did it on Windows as I couldn't be bothered to turn on the mac.
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But how?
Once Beta 2 comes out, I want to be able to do it from windows.
 
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