Lion, iOS5 and iCloud....sweet!

[Yorkshire_Jon]

Well I took the plunge yesterday and upgraded my Snow Leopard to Lion, then proceeded to update the ipad and phone to iOS5 and started playing with iCloud.

How sweet it all integrates. RIP Steve - Long will you be remembered!

[PhilipA]

What model hone? I am afraid to update my 3GS .
Regards Philip A

[Yorkshire_Jon]

:D Me too! The Mrs has a 4, i have a 3GS and am waiting to hear from others before that gets the iOS5 treatment!

Unfortunately trying to run iOS4 on my old 3G is still too much of a painful memory to expose the 3GS to iOS5;)

On a slightly different note, I understand its a bit easier to rollback iOS5 to 4 than it was 4 to 3 if needs must.

J

[Tombie]

I'm loving it too... Upgraded our households devices last night.

[Timj]

Just upgraded my 3GS this morning. Seems to be working fine.

TimJ.

[Yorkshire_Jon]

Just upgraded my 3GS this morning. Seems to be working fine.

TimJ.

Thanks. Perhaps you can let us know after the weekend after youve tried it more?

Is email and general performance OK?

Thx
Jon

[Timj]

Seems to be working if anything slightly faster, but then I had no issues when I upgraded to IOS4 despite what others were saying. Will report back after a few days though. I have also just upgraded the iMac, the Macbook Air and the iPad, a couple of iPods still to go.

TimJ

[OffTrack]

3GS updated to iOS5 yesterday. No troubles updating, and has been running smoothly. I'd say there is no apparent performance hit moving from iOS4, if anything the upgrade runs smoother.

I have 4 imap email accounts configured and haven't had any issues in that regard.

[twr7cx]

I'm running iOS 5 on my original iPad (wifi + 3G 64GB) and my iPhone 4 (my 4S was sent to TNT for delivery yesterday). Very very happy with them.
The girlfriend has it on her 3GS too and also prefers it.



Unfortunately trying to run iOS4 on my old 3G is still too much of a painful memory to expose the 3GS to iOS5;)

There is a reason why Apple stopped support for the original iPhone and 3G model at iOS 3 - because they lack the internal power for iOS 4.
The 3GS is powerful enough for iOS 5.

[abaddonxi]

Well that was a pain in the arse.

Several hours of mucking about, lost a bunch of apps, music, etc. Failed to start recovery, or failed in the middle, or just went wrong half a dozen times.

I really don't understand why Itunes' definition of backup isn't the same as the rest of the world's.

Ahh, the magic of Mac.:twisted:

[Tombie]

Well that was a pain in the arse.

Several hours of mucking about, lost a bunch of apps, music, etc. Failed to start recovery, or failed in the middle, or just went wrong half a dozen times.

I really don't understand why Itunes' definition of backup isn't the same as the rest of the world's.

Ahh, the magic of Mac.:twisted:

Was your phone pretty full?

Hot tip for upgraders...

Back up all the device
Delete enough stuff to leave at least 2gb of space
Now upgrade
Restore missing files. Eg, music

The new OS is a bit larger and it also needs a 'work' area to pre-install to.

Failure to leave some space before upgrade will cause issues.

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[abaddonxi]

11GB free, backed up yesterday.

[WhiteD3]

With iOS 5 You (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/ios5-tracking-feature/)

Big Brother (aka Steve) is watching......

[OffTrack]

With iOS 5 You (http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/10/ios5-tracking-feature/)

Big Brother (aka Steve) is watching......

Apple gives you the option to turn on or off location services as part of the set up procedure. You can also turn location services on or off for individual apps in preferences.

Big Brother would't bother making it easy to choose.

If you are concerned about Big Brother, I'd be avoiding any use of Google products.

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-evil-side-of-google-exploring-googles-user-data-collection

[Scallops]

Well that was a pain in the arse.

Several hours of mucking about, lost a bunch of apps, music, etc. Failed to start recovery, or failed in the middle, or just went wrong half a dozen times.

I really don't understand why Itunes' definition of backup isn't the same as the rest of the world's.

Ahh, the magic of Mac.:twisted:

That's a pity Simon - my upgrade was completely straightforward and seamless....:confused: Maybe the weak link in your setup is the computer running iTunes! :p

[twr7cx]

That's a pity Simon - my upgrade was completely straightforward and seamless....:confused: Maybe the weak link in your setup is the computer running iTunes! :p

Likewise. I upgraded 4 iPhones and an iPad with no data loss.

[Yorkshire_Jon]

I bit the bullet and upgraded the 3GS last night.

No dramas at all and performance is just as good as it was on iOS4.

[abaddonxi]

That's a pity Simon - my upgrade was completely straightforward and seamless....:confused: Maybe the weak link in your setup is the computer running iTunes! :p

Two other mates, both run all Mac, both had similar problems to mine. Don't think you can blame the PC.:D

[incisor]

some anti virus programs GREATLY affect it

biggest culprit i have found so far is kaspersky

it needs to be turned off for the upgrade to go well.

some others are nearly as bad