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Install iOS 4.2 for iPad without Developer account

I went ahead and did the dev udid... Working great so far! This is my toy and Internet tablet while at school, and note taker, so some bugs is fine by me. Haven't had any issues with wifi or apps so far, but I don't have lots of apps, yet... I have used betas way worse than this on my primary phone.
 
So what's the story here. Does 4.2 really work without a registered UDID or nonsense?
 
Ok, so I attempted this and my iPad is now unusable, iTunes says that "We're unable to complete your activation, this device is not registered....

Is there a way out of this?
 
Well, that is a very interesting thread! :)

I'm willing to install 4.2 beta on my iPad, but I'm afraid that I would lose all my data.
Just to make things clear to me, if I clicked ⌥ while clicking on "update" button in iTunes and chose the beta file, my iPad would be updated to 4.2 beta without loosing my data (apps preferences, savegames, pages documents, notes, etc ...) ?
 
CrispyXUK said:
Ok, so I attempted this and my iPad is now unusable, iTunes says that "We're unable to complete your activation, this device is not registered....

Is there a way out of this?
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Try DFU mode:

1. Connect iPad to computer
2. Turn it off
3. Hold down power and home button for 10 secs
4. After 10 secs release power button but keep holding home button
5. iTunes should detect the ipad and allow you to restore it to 3.2.2

Hope that helps
 
FassoL said:
Well, that is a very interesting thread! :)

I'm willing to install 4.2 beta on my iPad, but I'm afraid that I would lose all my data.
Just to make things clear to me, if I clicked ⌥ while clicking on "update" button in iTunes and chose the beta file, my iPad would be updated to 4.2 beta without loosing my data (apps preferences, savegames, pages documents, notes, etc ...) ?
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That is what happened for me and others. As you can see above though, not for some people. I can't really think of why?
 
jongriff said:
That is what happened for me and others. As you can see above though, not for some people. I can't really think of why?
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Hmmm..
I think I should cut the crap and wait for the official update on November :D

Thanks a lot guys, you're the best :)
 
There's actually a program you can run that will put your iOS device into recover mode. The same program will also take it out of recovery mode. I used this latter option to downgrade my iPad. I can't remember the name of the app right now and I'm at work. I'll post it when I get home later.

I ended up downgrading to 3.2.2 due to 4.2's sluggish performance with magazines such as sports illustrated and the wall street journal.
 
javaGuru said:
There's actually a program you can run that will put your iOS device into recover mode. The same program will also take it out of recovery mode. I used this latter option to downgrade my iPad. I can't remember the name of the app right now and I'm at work. I'll post it when I get home later.

I ended up downgrading to 3.2.2 due to 4.2's sluggish performance with magazines such as sports illustrated and the wall street journal.
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I use RecBoot 1.0.2
 
So I finally had some free time earlier today and I decided to give it a shot and install the 4.2 beta on my iPad. I followed the instruction from the OP and less than 10 minutes later, I had 4.2 installed and running.

I had zero issues, it never once asked me to validate my installation, and I've been using it regularly for the past 2-3 hrs and I haven't had any app crash yet.

Thanks jongriff,
 
saving107 said:
So I finally had some free time earlier today and I decided to give it a shot and install the 4.2 beta on my iPad. I followed the instruction from the OP and less than 10 minutes later, I had 4.2 installed and running.

I had zero issues, it never once asked me to validate my installation, and I've been using it regularly for the past 2-3 hrs and I haven't had any app crash yet.

Thanks jongriff,
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I didn't have any issues at the start, it takes a while to notice them. I find safari a bit laggy at times, and some of my apps are broken (e.g. VLC Player). It's not enough to make me go back to v3. There are some features in the v4 beta which are too good to be missing:

- Folders
- Safari improvements, e.g. no re-caching of web pages when switching between tabs, find in page, etc
- Multitasking (even if few apps support it right now)
 
saving107 said:
Why pay when it can be installed for free, Option + Update doesn't ask for Validation.
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I concur. Just installed 4.2 on my iPad and no activation necessary. Just option-click on 'check for updates' and manually select the .ipsw

Working brilliantly on my iPad with no crashes or other nasty bugs uncovered yet.
 
So i was searching google bout a dev account and saw this thread, intruiged as i was i was still abit skeptical, in the end i got the balls to attemp it n it does actually work, im running imac OS 10 (the latest) and iTunes 10, ipad was 3.2 and now is on 4.2, ive literally only JUST done it so i havent noticed anything different yet, but ill play round in a few mins n see. any tips on how to create folders? lol..but i wanna thank the thread starter for the help! thanks
 
Drop an icon onto another icon and iOS will create a folder for you. Remove all apps from the folder and it will be automagically deleted.
 
Ohhh yes, thanks alot :) its alot cleaner lookin with this, and i think its doubel click the home button for the multitasking window? everythings working fine so far
 
I did this and it works great but now I can't get online on my company's wireless. It sees the network and is connecting but the iPad says it isn't connected to the internet. Sad. I love the multitasking! Any ideas?
 
bthompson said:
I did this and it works great but now I can't get online on my company's wireless. It sees the network and is connecting but the iPad says it isn't connected to the internet. Sad. I love the multitasking! Any ideas?
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Try powering off iPad and restart.
 
Enori said:
Wtf, it really worked. Just alt+update, no dev account.
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I forgot to say this earlier, but this method also works on the iPhone. I installed 4.2 on my old iPhone 3G just for fun, but not on my iPhone 4 (this is my day-to-day phone and I don't want to install a beta OS on it).

was this method possible with previous iOS betas? (Like iOS 4/3)
 
bthompson said:
Tried that and it worked. Yay it's working now. Some of my apps are buggy but not bad. Wifi is a bit buggy as well
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Ya... my wifi doesn't work anymore. I have to restart iPad for it to work and then within an hour it stops again. When it does work I don't see the wifi logo on top left (I just see "iPad"). I hope they release beta 2 next week only.
 
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