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Over-The-Air Software Update Saves 700MB of Downloading
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Just hang in there. Mine was at "<1 minute" for almost an hour, but it finally finished. It just came back up after the install, and all seems well.
My regular "Camera Roll" is intact, but other picture folders I had on my phone are gone. I backed up prior to the update, so I just have to sync them back on.
My regular "Camera Roll" is intact, but other picture folders I had on my phone are gone. I backed up prior to the update, so I just have to sync them back on.
Yes, and anything critical I have is saved elsewhere. But my only option now is starting over as a new iPad - that kind of sucks.
my iPad updated OTA no problem. but my iPhone was hanging. so I restet it. now settings crashes everytime I open it. I'm gonna have to reinstall from my Mac. which will take a good hour with all the music I have on there. fml. this was supposed to be easier.
I would rather get the entire download over 3G instead of the delta just because AT&T annoys me.
My computer internet (connected via ethernet) is faster than my iPhone on WiFi. Plus, downloading 133MB probably would take a lot of battery so I'd keep it plugged into the charger anyways. (I charge using my computer).
I'll see how it works when it's released.
Ignorant person's question time for people who know better:
So will this mean that if you update any device running iOS 5 through iTunes you can just download the smaller update, or will doing it connected to iTunes still result in the humungotron .ipsw download?
And does calling it 'OTA' mean 3G and WiFi or just 3G?
So will this mean that if you update any device running iOS 5 through iTunes you can just download the smaller update, or will doing it connected to iTunes still result in the humungotron .ipsw download?
And does calling it 'OTA' mean 3G and WiFi or just 3G?
I did OTA over 3G and it worked fine. It finished in around 9 minutes. Some others did it over WIFI. It works on both.
Crap, mine has been stuck at <1 minute for about 25 minutes now. I didn't make a backup either, so I'm running that right now. Hopefully it makes the backup without any issues. I had to reinstall iTunes beta 3 since Lion wiped that out, apparently.
To those who have their iPhones stuck at <1 minute, did you leave the settings app and do anything else and come back and now it doesn't have any details? Is that what is causing our devices to get stuck?
Haha, I just checked it again before posting and now it says Install Now on the button. I suppose I'll wait for the backup to finish since people are saying that it is removing their important data.
This is what we get for being beta testers! I hope Apple uses these issues to sort out the problems for the public release. I think they should also add some polish to the update screen. Something nicer looking, like when you first get your device and it has the animated activation screens with the linen and such.
To those who have their iPhones stuck at <1 minute, did you leave the settings app and do anything else and come back and now it doesn't have any details? Is that what is causing our devices to get stuck?
Haha, I just checked it again before posting and now it says Install Now on the button. I suppose I'll wait for the backup to finish since people are saying that it is removing their important data.
This is what we get for being beta testers! I hope Apple uses these issues to sort out the problems for the public release. I think they should also add some polish to the update screen. Something nicer looking, like when you first get your device and it has the animated activation screens with the linen and such.
Not in my case. Just picture folders that weren't in the standard "Camera Roll."
OTA isn't working for me in the UK, and iTunes Beta v4 is absolutely screwed!
EDIT: The screenshot shows the iPhone as restoring from Backup, however it was at the syncing stage.. Couldn't even see the iPhone GUI in iTunes.
EDIT: The screenshot shows the iPhone as restoring from Backup, however it was at the syncing stage.. Couldn't even see the iPhone GUI in iTunes.
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My OTA update got stuck at 90 % or so and its just been hanging there saying <1 minute for an hour.
Me too, but left it running while I was BBQ'ing, when I came back, I had an updated iPhone. Patience is the key here, I guess.
I get an error saying unable to check for update. It says an error occurred while checking for software updates. And it asks to cancel or try again, try again doesn't work.
Got my iPad fixed, power cycled it and it's restoring from iCloud now. Wonder if I caught a DNS hiccough.
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A5274d Safari/7534.48.3)
On my phone.. It downloaded then sent me a notification saying that I had an update. It installed pretty fast too. Much better than restoring.
On my phone.. It downloaded then sent me a notification saying that I had an update. It installed pretty fast too. Much better than restoring.
You made me curious. I've got a 100Mbps cable connection and didn't see a major speed difference between various test server from my PC and my iPhone. The internet is the bottleneck, not the iPhone. Downloading 133MB shouldn't take more than a few sec. Providing Apple provides decent bandwidth for a couple million people downloading.
At the moment it looks like Apple bandwidth is a big bottleneck. First 80-90% downloaded blazing fast and then it appears to have slowed down to close to zero. There is no speed or bytes left indication so hard to tell if its downloading at all...