Is the Upgrade to iOS worth the pain?
Hi all, after everything I read here, I am wondering whether I really should follow the path to iOS4. I mean - how does the iPhone 3G feel after that? I read stories about having approx 3G less space than before and about the phone feeling slow and sluggish?
I would appreciate some decent feedback. Thx
Hi all.
I have to agree, I might just have added another 10 more years to my face today trying to get OS4 to work on my 3G.
1. last night at 3am, I downloaded the OS. Tells me backing up phone blah blah blah, fine with that. Went to bed. Woke up this morning to find out that iTunes has problems detecting my phone. Meanwhile, the apple logo and a white status bar is all I see. Progress hits, about half way line and the phone reboots. Called up my carrier, and the technical officer guided me through a HARD reset.
This time round, I got the phone to install OS 4. Yay.
2. Try to restore my backed up data on to the phone. iTunes, detects my phone and asks if I want to restore the backed up data. So I clicked yes. Apple logo and white status bar appears again. Progress hits the 25% mark and reboots. Again. and again. and again. Rushed down to the service centre. Tech staff there does ANOTHER hard reset. Went back to the car, plugged it in, 'Do you want to restore your backed up data? Yes. Apple logo and the white status bar comes back to haunt me again.
3. By now, I'm pretty adept at running a hard reset myself. Repeat process. This time, 'Do you want to restore your backed up data? I clicked No. I have lost all my text messages (some bloody sentimental ones), all my customizations, and all the habits the iPhone has picked up over the 2 years about me. i.e. Message short hand, application preferences, etc.
It is as though I am a new iPhone user. Welcome aboard
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Go to applied.apple.com
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On iTunes
Step #1
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Step #2
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iTunes free download from www.itunes.com/download
Then... Restore as New (not backup) and Re-Sync your Content.
Restoring > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1414
SYNCING with iTunes > http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1386 -
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Hi Guys,
I have post eariler on another forum and I have the same problem, I have tried all the things listed here and nothing was perminant in fixing this painful iphone hating problem.... and failed. You probably have the problem when you use youtube or your music external speaker that there is no volume bar and no sound. I have had the same problem But I need to happily say that I now have the fix!!!! This worked for me and I fixed it by myself so you don't need to go to apple or service centre or anything.
Ok I like so many of you here truly believed this was as IO5 issue as it only dropped the sound on the speakers once that IO5 update came along. I tried a bunch of reset, reboots, home clicks, lock and unlocks, to fix this and all failed. some worked for an hour but then failed. hours of my life that I will never get back. but since I have learnt this is not a IO5 problem but a hardware issue! ... and in paticualar is has to do with your bottom connection. Your phone is thinking it is docked all the time.
To fix the no sound problem what you need is...
1. a torch
2. a tooth brush
3. methalated spirits
4. a butter knife
Step 1.
get your torch and shine it down the bottom connection plate to see what kind of dust, sand, hair or anything you have stuck in there. all that need to be removed! everything! it might look clean but still thats ok go to step 2.
step 2.
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step 3.
Dip your tooth brush into some methated sprits. then at your sink tap the exess metho out of your brush as you just want the brushes to be slightly damp, not soaking wet and then scrub the bottom connetiors on your iphone. work the brush back and forward in a way that scoops the dirt out of the phone, not just pushing it side to side.
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Hi,
Following the upgrade to iOS 7.0.3 on all our iPhone and iPad devices, it has been identified that when sending emails around 100KB in size and over an error message appears on the device stating “Cannot Send Mail The message was rejected by the server because it is too large.” See error message below. The send/receive limit is over 10MB so this is not the issue.
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Many ThanksThis resolution have to attend at the server not with the ios device. My employer's mail administrator reject me to correct it from the server. As his concern is, if ither ios devices works why don't mine? So I am helpless than changing my iphone. It works fine for early versions of ios and with androids. And also one of my friends iphone4 with ios 7 (similar as mine) works too. So I guess it's something wrong with my iPhones settings. But basic question I cannot understand is it works in my phone before this ios7 upgrading. And currently working with my yahoo account too. Favourable reply expected.
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I upgraded to iOS 8 from 7 but the dictionary is not working. please help.
the moment I upgraded to iOS 8 I cannot refer to dictionary. no word found error is coming. this is happening. in iPad mini retina, cellullar and wifi model.
Just want to say that my 1st gen iPad Air is having the same problem. I get word not found error when I use my dictionary. There's an option to install dictionary. Have you tried that? I'd like to add that if you successfully add a dictionary, don't be surprised if the installed dictionary is missing sometime in the future. That's what happens to my iPad and a friend's iPhone 6 Plus. Our devices keep forgetting US English dictionary that we've installed. We both run iOS 8 (mine is 8.1.2 and my friend's is iOS 8.1.3).
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