iOS 5.1 beta

[jdsipod]

Hey guys, I have a developer account with apple and only have one iPhone and iPad and I keep seeing warnings to only run betas on devices that you want to run betas. My iPhone is my everyday phone but I really want to put 5.1 on it. Will anything really happen to it?

Thanks

 

[Peace]

Why don't you go to developer.apple.com and sign in. Then go to the discussions and ask the other devs.

 

[jdsipod]

Why don't you go to developer.apple.com and sign in. Then go to the discussions and ask the other devs.

I was going to do that too, just seeing if anyone on here had any opinions

 

[Kahnyl]

You can go back to the general release if you have problems.

 

[Ashwood11]

Hey guys, I have a developer account with apple and only have one iPhone and iPad and I keep seeing warnings to only run betas on devices that you want to run betas. My iPhone is my everyday phone but I really want to put 5.1 on it. Will anything really happen to it?

Thanks

Apple would be the one to ask and they say to use the beta only on a test device.

 

[jdsipod]

You can go back to the general release if you have problems.

Have you done that before?

 

[YMark]

I keep seeing warnings to only run betas on devices that you want to run betas.

What the hell does the above sentence mean?

 

[thewitt]

Apple recommends you not run beta software on production devices, only development devices. Plenty of people do, you just need to be prepared to do a full restore if the device gets fubared from the beta.

 

[Arelunde]

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For a test device, can you do it as wifi only or does your device have to have 3G connection to be beta useful?

 

[Kahnyl]

Have you done that before?

Yeah. ITunes might not let you restore from a 5.1 backup when you go back to 5.0.1, but what I do is before updating to the beta I backup my 5.0.2 backup. I literally copy the folder to another place. Then when I want to go back to the general release I just restore from that backup. I might lose a few days of stuff but with iCloud syncing everything anyway it usually works out ok.

 

[fabian9]

You can go back to the general release if you have problems.

You can, but you can't use 5.1 backups to restore a 5.0.1 iPhone, so chances are you'll lose some of your texts, photos, etc.

 

[Kahnyl]

You can backup photos to Photostream. Texts, yeah you lose them, but you'll probably know if a beta is problematic within a few days so it won't be that bad.

 

[jdsipod]

Yea and losing texts really isn't an issue with me, i delete them all the time, and when i have conversations via text they never are really important

 

[wsc9005]

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Yes, just restore your phone thru iTunes.

 

[gwerhart0800]

Betas expire sometimes ...

In the past, when I have run beta IOS loads on my phone, I have run into issues where the beta "expires" and the phone becomes unusable until I load a new version of the beta or the final release. I have not done this for a while since I am not currently working on any IOS code. This was before the over-the-air update method was available, so it might not be an issue now, but it definitely was a few years ago.

 

[applephanatic]

I ran iOS 5.1 on my iPhone 4s and iPad 2, I didn't really have any issues, other then the occasional fluky bug. I downgraded back to iOS 5.0.1 because of the Jailbreak, but if the jailbreak hadn't been released, I would of kept my iPhone and iPad running the beta.

 

[mms13]

In the past, when I have run beta IOS loads on my phone, I have run into issues where the beta "expires" and the phone becomes unusable until I load a new version of the beta or the final release. I have not done this for a while since I am not currently working on any IOS code. This was before the over-the-air update method was available, so it might not be an issue now, but it definitely was a few years ago.

Betas don't expire until a while after subsequent betas are released. Not an issue as long as you keep up with the new betas. Like you said, used to be a pain...but now with OTA updates, its really not.