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is it taking anyone else FOREVER to update to ios5?
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My backup is taking ages. Just a small sliver of a progress bar that's barely moving.
I guess Apple didn't have time to test this part of the iOS 5 update?
Also, there's no reason backing up a device to a local machine should depend on Apple's servers.
I guess Apple didn't have time to test this part of the iOS 5 update?
Also, there's no reason backing up a device to a local machine should depend on Apple's servers.
it's because with iOS5 you can restore from the iCloud, when you get it working you will understand...I just got mine to work did a clean install and am restoring from MY backup. Hopefully it works
Are you implying that Apple is uploading all of my personal information to their servers as the progress bar says "backing up"?
yes I am, when i got iOS5 installed from a fresh install it gave me the option to restore ofver the air...now how would one have done that if they didnt upload all that info.
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I can confirm that this works.
Backup regularly.
Do a clean install, update to iOS5 and restore to from iTunes and select you backup...takes a little time but finally got it working.
Hmm well now I'm really confused. iTunes has spent the past 2 hours with a dialogue window claiming that the iPhone has been restoring Music and Videos, but while it was doing that the iPhone itself showed no indication at all that any syncing or restoring was going on. Now that the dialogue window finally completed iTunes then went into a more familiar syncing mode (with the progress bar in the top status bar), and the iPhone had the rotating sync icon next to the wifi symbol. Not sure what has actually been going on over the past two hours?!
Well now the music and videos seem to be back on my iPhone, but still none of my applications. I've now done a restore from the backup I did earlier on before applying iOS 5 but I still don't have any of my apps on the phone?! If I go into the Apps tab of the iPhone screen in iTunes it isn't set to sync them (it was before I applied iOS 5), but if I change that to sync now I suspect it will simply load fresh installs onto my iPhone and won't have any of my saved data.
[Edit: Grrrrrrr!!!! I suspect that at some point in the recent past iTunes has randomly turned off syncing my apps and unfortunately I didn't think to check before I applied the update as I hadn't changed the setting myself
As a result I appear to have lost all my saved data for each and every app! So pissed off - this is the first iPhone update I have done where I have lost all this sort of stuff, and I was even being very careful to back it all up in the run up to iOS5 launch.]
[Edit 2: Phew! After resyncing my apps back to the iPhone it appears that the saved data was retained somewhere - at least for the apps I was most concerned about!]
Well now the music and videos seem to be back on my iPhone, but still none of my applications. I've now done a restore from the backup I did earlier on before applying iOS 5 but I still don't have any of my apps on the phone?! If I go into the Apps tab of the iPhone screen in iTunes it isn't set to sync them (it was before I applied iOS 5), but if I change that to sync now I suspect it will simply load fresh installs onto my iPhone and won't have any of my saved data.
[Edit: Grrrrrrr!!!! I suspect that at some point in the recent past iTunes has randomly turned off syncing my apps and unfortunately I didn't think to check before I applied the update as I hadn't changed the setting myself
As a result I appear to have lost all my saved data for each and every app! So pissed off - this is the first iPhone update I have done where I have lost all this sort of stuff, and I was even being very careful to back it all up in the run up to iOS5 launch.][Edit 2: Phew! After resyncing my apps back to the iPhone it appears that the saved data was retained somewhere - at least for the apps I was most concerned about!]
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I am getting a message that my iPhone 4 cannot be restored, error 3004. I've tried restarting iTunes, etc... nothing seems to be working. Sometimes it looks like it is restoring, gets about 3/4 done and then the message pops up again.
Same.
Seem's apple's verification servers are hammered and can't process the request to restore - which has now left my iPad unusable at the moment.
Contacting iPad software update servers
Been stuck here for over an hour, tired for another hour before that. I can't even get through to the servers let alone download this. And this is on my first device. I started the update with my iPad 2 because if something goes wrong, I can live without that for a few days. In light of this, I'm downright afraid to try and update my iPhone 4.
Been stuck here for over an hour, tired for another hour before that. I can't even get through to the servers let alone download this. And this is on my first device. I started the update with my iPad 2 because if something goes wrong, I can live without that for a few days. In light of this, I'm downright afraid to try and update my iPhone 4.
Took mine 3 hours to do. 32 GB iPad 2 with 3G through AT&T. Working great now though. AirPlay Mirroring is phenomenal.
My Ipad 2 keeps trying to verify the ios5 download with apple after it backups and such and i get different errors and one that does not give a code saying it just cant do the backup which is odd as it set to go to my mac mini
Ok i think its working now just a massive hit on the servers at apple
Ok i think its working now just a massive hit on the servers at apple
lol i know but i think its because the ipad2 is like almost 1gb down load and the ipod touch 3gen is like 6-700 mb download
I did that and got it said lost contact with network error and it stopped altogether it was on 5 hrs after 3hrs now it is on 40 hrs because I had to start from the beginning.