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iPhone 4 and iOS 6 question

mrskullfreak said:
My daughters iPhone 4 8g won't let her Down load iOS 6 saying not enough space. She has very few apps and 400 pics on it. Any tips or info would be great.
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plug it in to the computer and download it the old fashion way
 
Best would be to do the update from iTunes iOS 6 itself is 600 mb but requires 2.5 gb of available space to do the install. I don't know if that space becomes available for apps and photos afterwards. Might not be worthwhile to update.
 
I had exactly the same problem with exactly the same phone.

I ended up backing up my phone, then stripping virtually everything off the phone, including almost all apps, video and music, then downloading wirelessly.

Do NOT download via iTunes on your computer. Took me three hours of messing about and it ultimately didn't work. I recommend just doing it off the phone.
 
I have a 16gb iPhone 4. I tried at first to do it using itunes on my computer but in the instal it said that the version that was down loaded wasn't compatible with my phone(weird I know seeing as itues told me there was an update and asked me if I wanted to down load it so you would think it would know what phone I had and down load the right file). I then tried to do it right from the phone after three tries it still keeps giving me an error. This is getting me so mad. When I did the ios 5 update it was smooth as butter and didn't give me any problems. Oh well maybe it's for the better.
 
kaielement said:
I have a 16gb iPhone 4. I tried at first to do it using itunes on my computer but in the instal it said that the version that was down loaded wasn't compatible with my phone(weird I know seeing as itues told me there was an update and asked me if I wanted to down load it so you would think it would know what phone I had and down load the right file). I then tried to do it right from the phone after three tries it still keeps giving me an error. This is getting me so mad. When I did the ios 5 update it was smooth as butter and didn't give me any problems. Oh well maybe it's for the better.
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Maybe wait til tomorrow.
 
AppleDApp said:
Maybe wait til tomorrow.
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It's funny that the update doesn't work and itunes won't even let me do a restore to my iPhone 4 just keeps telling me the device is not eligible for requested build. So weird.

By the way the phone still works it's just stuck on 5.1.1
 
Ive read that some owners who were jail broken and then did a restore before attempting to update to iOS6 have had issues with errors.
 
bandofbrothers said:
Ive read that some owners who were jail broken and then did a restore before attempting to update to iOS6 have had issues with errors.
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I see. Well I was jailbroken the last time when I did ios 5 and no problem. Now granted I did lose my jail break no big deal I just rejailbroke it after the update. Well if this is true then this suck and means I might be stuck on 5.1.1 for a long time. Thanks Apple lol.

By the way my phone is jalebroken on ios 5.1.1
 
kaielement said:
I see. Well I was jailbroken the last time when I did ios 5 and no problem. Now granted I did lose my jail break no big deal I just rejailbroke it after the update. Well if this is true then this suck and means I might be stuck on 5.1.1 for a long time. Thanks Apple lol.

By the way my phone is jalebroken on ios 5.1.1
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Yeah it does suck. Remember tho its just what I've read. I'm stock so cannot say its a personnel
Experience for me.

I assume you restored thro iTunes to remove the 5.1.1 jailbreak before attempting to update to ios6.

Also don't use a backup you made while Jailbroken as this puts redundant Cyrus files back into your iPhone which could be causing issues.
 
bandofbrothers said:
Yeah it does suck. Remember tho its just what I've read. I'm stock so cannot say its a personnel
Experience for me.

I assume you restored thro iTunes to remove the 5.1.1 jailbreak before attempting to update to ios6.

Also don't use a backup you made while Jailbroken as this puts redundant Cyrus files back into your iPhone which could be causing issues.
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No just tried to do the update with out trying to do a restore. I didn't think to do this because the ios 5 update (and all the ios 5 updates for that matter) just updated no problem (I mean yes I lost my jailbreak but no big deal) Now iTunes won't let me even restore my iPhone back to factory setting (stock). It's getting me kind of mad. I did do a quick google search and no answer. Oh well not the worst thing in the world I will be getting the new iPhone in January and as of right now ios 5.1.1 isn't really all that bad. And on the plus side I get to keep google maps and my youtube app lol.

Side note is it just me or is it weird that there isn't more posts about this seeing as I can't be the only on this has happen to.
 
mrskullfreak said:
I did not know u can do it that way??
Never had the problem before doing it on wifi.
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So, never had an iPhone before the 4S huh? ;)

Actually, you've never been able to do a full upgrade over wifi "before" - as that feature only became enabled with iOS5. Incremental (5.1.x) updates were not the same deal, space-wise.
 
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