No, your phone will magically stop working if you don't update to the next beta.
So that means your phone will suddenly just brick? O:
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Upgrade to ios 6 beta 2 (non developer)
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So that means your phone will suddenly just brick? O:
It's not about being high and mighty. I'd welcome end user testing (although at a later stage, personally). What does get tedious is how people flock to the forums either bitching and moaning about the quality of the beta or expecting us to help fix an issue that could have easily been avoided with some patience. Also, a bit of common sense is good. I'm a developer but I've not put iOS 6 on my own phone because it's beta software, so to put it on a device I use a lot and regard as essential seems silly.
And again, to reiterate since some trained chimp voted me down for saying so previously (probably a jumped up "Developer") a DFU mode + restore allows you to restore to stock 5.1.1 without any problems.
my problem is my new ipad went in to recovery mode fml
i payed someone to register my ipad udid, im guessing they never do it!
so when i tryed OTA, my ipad went into recovery mode with the itunes logo,
so now im trying to get 5.1.1 back on wish me luck
OK so I have one iPhone 4S that is registered and one that is not. I have been able to update my iPhone 4S that is not registered to iOS 6 Beta 2 with no problem. Both ways OTA and holding down Shift and clicking Check for Update. I've done this both ways multiple times and it worked all 5 times.
Voted you up. Punks
And some other trained chimp down voted your comment above, which was at +1, then went BACK a page to the original comment you said you voted up, and voted back down.
To whoever done it. Go outside. Get a life. Get laid. You need help.
I moderate on a forum far more volatile than this (football, or "soccer" as it's known across the pond, related) ... we use an Appreciation system, where people who find things useful say so via pressing a button.
The up/down voting system sees far, far too many useful posts here marked down for the sake of it. It makes a mockery of the forum.
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Surely that would be good advice to someone who's so bothered by votes on a forum?
Life: Check.
Go outside: Hmm, I play golf, play 5-a-side, go watch rugby, work an honest living. So ... Check.
Laid. *looks at wife* Definitely Check.
Anything else?
So because they vote the opposite of your opinion, it automatically happened "for the sake of it"?
I upgraded to ios 6 without registering my UDID, I then updated to iOS 6 beta 2 and am now typing this from iOS 6 beta 2 which is fully working!
UPDATING your device does NOT check your UDID with apple, RESTORING does! As long as you update OTA or by doing alt/ shift/ option and 'check for update' you'll be fine. WHATEVER YOU DO DO NOT TRY TO UPDATE IT BY RESTORING IN ITUNES!
(Sorry for caps, didn't want anybody to miss read it!)
The people saying it will brick your device are making it up and are probably annoyed because they paid $99 for something you can get for free! You do need to update it to beta 2 before beta 1 expires though.
UPDATING your device does NOT check your UDID with apple, RESTORING does! As long as you update OTA or by doing alt/ shift/ option and 'check for update' you'll be fine. WHATEVER YOU DO DO NOT TRY TO UPDATE IT BY RESTORING IN ITUNES!
(Sorry for caps, didn't want anybody to miss read it!)
The people saying it will brick your device are making it up and are probably annoyed because they paid $99 for something you can get for free! You do need to update it to beta 2 before beta 1 expires though.
The point is, someone objected THAT much to me pointing out that you can successfully restore to 5.1.1 from the iOS 6 beta. And as I said, the likelihood is that it was a jumped up "developer" on here.
This place is nowhere near helpful, it's members are actually more AGAINST help, it seems. That's my point.
Just the fact that you feel you have to justify your life to a stranger on the internet suggests many things, most of all that you probably have some serious insecurities. It's quite amusing though, so thanks.I moderate on a forum far more volatile than this (football, or "soccer" as it's known across the pond, related) ... we use an Appreciation system, where people who find things useful say so via pressing a button.
The up/down voting system sees far, far too many useful posts here marked down for the sake of it. It makes a mockery of the forum.
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Life: Check.
Go outside: Hmm, I play golf, play 5-a-side, go watch rugby, work an honest living. So ... Check.
Laid. *looks at wife* Definitely Check.
Anything else?
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This thread would suggest otherwise. Some people have tried to help the poster. I stand by my point though, it's like people are willingly jumping out of the saucepan into the fire and then wondering why they got burnt.
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Hm, not at all. Maybe there are people out there who enrolled on the developer program just so they could play with the beta and show it off to their friends to be the centre of attention - that's sad. However, I doubt many people have done that and am sure that most people who enrol are actually developers, like myself. I get a lot out of that £59, so I'm quite okay with people getting it for free. It's just amusing (but quite sad) when their plans to show off the beta backfire and they come back to the forums with their tails between their legs asking for help. I remember with iOS 5 some guy was ranting about how awful Apple was because he had lost all his photos in his camera roll. It was entirely his fault, no one else's.
It works the same for everyone. How is this news? That's the way it is. They let you downgrade from a beta. It's a Beta
If I remember correctly the earlier versions of iOS did update baseband and so you could downgrade but the iPhone was bricked until the proper iOS version wasnt released?
Earlier iOS betas required corresponding iTunes betas and downgrading wasn't always as easy as it seems to be now.
DFU mode or not, sometimes the iTunes beta couldn't restore to the released iOS and sometimes removing the iTunes beta and reverting to the released iTunes posed it's own difficulties.
DFU mode or not, sometimes the iTunes beta couldn't restore to the released iOS and sometimes removing the iTunes beta and reverting to the released iTunes posed it's own difficulties.
Lol. I am still laughing out loud for real at the chimp. That's ****in hilarious. Thank you. I may be down voted for liking that comment. Thank you I was having a bad day.
The later OS5 firmwares updated baseband but it was never bricked. It would downgrade back but keep baseband and a higher level