I get that in Chrome in iOS 7.1.2
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I wish I could do that....I have over 130 apps on my iPhone5.
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iOS 8 on iPhone 5?
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Is there any way to save the data and have it transferred over e.g. the progress in a iOS game?
There's a simple rule of thumb here and I know it to be true because I've been burned several times. Apple simply cannot be trusted anymore to launch a non-buggy major update to iOS. Any new update is guaranteed to give you a headache, be it from battery problems or general usage issues. Quite what their testing and QC department does before these things go on general release is beyond me. Anyway, the rule of thumb is to wait the best part of a year before you finally update to the new o/s. Sure it will be almost outdated by then, but who needs the hassle and frustration of dealing with a BETA operating system?
iOS 8 on iPhone 5 here. All I can say is that it works like a charm 
There is certainly no lag compared to iOS 7, it even feels a little snappier.
What I do realize is that the touch response is different. Swiping up to reveal control center has gotten a little trickier. Sometimes browsing through photos in Safari or another app kinda refuses my swipe. But those are minor hiccups and IMO will be flattened out in an update.
Also it seems that the Youtube app has increased its buffer so it is taking longer to load videos. This is also the case when manually searching in the videos itself, which is a bummer.
There is certainly no lag compared to iOS 7, it even feels a little snappier.
What I do realize is that the touch response is different. Swiping up to reveal control center has gotten a little trickier. Sometimes browsing through photos in Safari or another app kinda refuses my swipe. But those are minor hiccups and IMO will be flattened out in an update.
Also it seems that the Youtube app has increased its buffer so it is taking longer to load videos. This is also the case when manually searching in the videos itself, which is a bummer.
This is so true. I really have no qualms about installing the latest version of OS X for example, and have upgraded in place from Mountain Lion to Mavericks to Yosemite. Never has there been a bug or any weird behaviour that has forced a wipe and reinstall. Not once.
Conversely the quality of iOS seems to be deteriorating with each major release. Apple hype up the new iOS major release prior to release day, not because they want everyone to upgrade in place, but because they want people to be seduced by the shiny new phones, rush out and buy the latest iPhone.
Meanwhile the rest of us are left to run a sub standard iOS that lumbers our previously great devices with various horrible bugs, and crappy behaviour.
Just UPGRADED my iPad from iOS8 to iOS7.1.2 and it is so much smoother in scrolling. Safari has yet to crash too.
my problems mostly come from apps that are not updated yet.
and i have a weird issue, that the music volume is sometimes lower than usual. but its very random and suddenly fixes itself after a few hours of not listening to music.
have had it happen with bluetooth streaming (where i always put the iphone to max volume) and headphones (where i suddenly had to put up the volume to almost "max" for it to be loud enough, while usually its just in the middle.)
and i have a weird issue, that the music volume is sometimes lower than usual. but its very random and suddenly fixes itself after a few hours of not listening to music.
have had it happen with bluetooth streaming (where i always put the iphone to max volume) and headphones (where i suddenly had to put up the volume to almost "max" for it to be loud enough, while usually its just in the middle.)
FWIW I intentionally ran down my battery last night, for calibration purposes, and it was normal. Got the 20% battery warning message then later the 10% warning and continued to slowly deplete, sequentially dropping to 1% before it died.
i always do clean installs of iOS and put other things on manually back on the device, gets rid of those quirks and glitches from upgrading to a new OS
I do wonder what sort of quirks and glitches that could be. An iCloud backup is simply a backup of your messages, contacts, photos and data that is tied to you specifically as the user. The rest of the install is brand new. I don't really see what kind of corrupt data could exist within those small segments. An iCloud backup does not backup your apps, it simply backs up the fact that you had those apps installed (hence why they take up a couple of 100 kb each).
If I wanted to piss away two hours of my valuable time, I'd go to work and they'd pay me overtime. lol.
iOS 8.0.2 works fine on my iPhone 5.
Is there some confusion what a clean install is ?
It can be done very easy using iTunes.
1) back up the device using iTunes
2) load the iOS update file using iTunes
3) update your device in iTunes
4) restore your device from iTunes
5) at the end of the restore process you will be asked if you want to set up your device as a new one ( the clean install already happened ) or if you want to restore from a previous backup. If you restore from a previous backup, all apps and their data will be installed new as well as iBooks, Music, etc. All you loose are the wifi passwords.
Performing clean installs is the way to go for me in the future, it solved some iOS 8 problems my iPhone 5 and iPad 4 had after updating OTA from 7.1.2 -> 8.0.0. Evidence enough for me that there is a difference between OTA and clean installs. Plus, it frees up some memory ( caused by previous fragmented files, I guess ).
Is there some confusion what a clean install is ?
It can be done very easy using iTunes.
1) back up the device using iTunes
2) load the iOS update file using iTunes
3) update your device in iTunes
4) restore your device from iTunes
5) at the end of the restore process you will be asked if you want to set up your device as a new one ( the clean install already happened ) or if you want to restore from a previous backup. If you restore from a previous backup, all apps and their data will be installed new as well as iBooks, Music, etc. All you loose are the wifi passwords.
Performing clean installs is the way to go for me in the future, it solved some iOS 8 problems my iPhone 5 and iPad 4 had after updating OTA from 7.1.2 -> 8.0.0. Evidence enough for me that there is a difference between OTA and clean installs. Plus, it frees up some memory ( caused by previous fragmented files, I guess ).
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i dont think thats a clean install tho... it puts all the crap you had before back on the phone. i just did it myself a few days ago.
i restored from a backup with 3 GB free, all the previous jailbreak crap was still among "other" just not accessabe for example. next i tried an actual clean install and set it up as new. put all my things manually back on the phone including manually backed up apps and game scores using a 3rd party tool and boom all of the sudden i had 7GB free even tho i put the same stuff back on it
oh and wifi passwords r saved in the cloud now btw
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The install mentioned above is clean. Just look at your iDevice what happens during the process.
The iDevice is erased, iOS is installed and as a last and optional step you can reinstall apps and data.
If you don't want "old crap", delete it on the iDevice before step 1) .
Thanks for the hint with the wifi passwords
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Are you sure about that? This keeps me off doing a clean install, asking for all those wifi passwords again...
yes its part of the keychain. in fact i am at my aunts for the first time since i set it up as new and it just logged me in without asking for the pw so i am pretty sure.
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iCloud Keychain keeps your Safari website usernames and passwords, credit card information, and Wi-Fi network information up to date across all of your approved devices that are using iOS 7.0.3 or later or OS X Mavericks v10.9 or later.
What you did isn't actually a clean install, because restoring from a backup puts everything that was on the phone before back on the phone. But that's okay, because it goes to show that you don't have to do a clean install if you weren't experiencing problems before.
It also proves that iOS 8 is running fine on someone's phone, which some of the constant whiners around here would probably say is impossible
Yup. I've carried my icloud backup from my iPhone 4 to my 5. Did GM installs for iOS 5, 6, 7 and 8 and the occasion OTA update with jailbreak permitted. And jailbroken with Limerain, Sn0wbreeze, Evasi0n and Pangu. No problems on stability and performance.