{"id":1636,"date":"2011-10-12T22:44:40","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T20:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2011-10-14T19:16:26","modified_gmt":"2011-10-14T17:16:26","slug":"ios5-and-the-kinks-with-the-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"iOS5 and the kinks with the update…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Okay, it’s well-known that Apple has released the iOS5 update today. I hooked
\nmy iPhone to my laptop as well and wanted to apply the update. Nothing special
\nyou think because Apple=Plug it in, switch on and you’re done! Sounds nice but
\nain’t always the truth. So here’s my update-odyssey of my iPhone 4 to iOS5…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

First, I had to backup my device and synchronize everything with my computer. Went well so far… nothing special. Then I had to update iTunes to 10.5 (yes it IS mandatory to use that version for iOS5 update).<\/p>\n

There was the first tree in my way on the iOS5 highway… Bummer! An error during the update occured, okay… may happen. The second try went good. Seems as if iTunes has trouble updating 5 software updates during one update session…<\/p>\n

So I am ready now for the update. Hitting the “Update” button in iTunes to get my iPhone up to code brought up another message: Some elements will not be restored to your iPhone as they have not been synchronized on this computer…<\/p>\n

Huh? I just made a backup and also synchronized the phone 2 minutes ago?! What gives?<\/p>\n

Well… I ignored the warning message and iTunes started downloading the 779MB package.<\/p>\n

So everything’s OK now, is it? Nope. During the update process, iTunes reported that it could not extract the update file just downloaded. (Side note: Apple puts all your data from the iPhone on your system drive (usually C:) – in my case the smallest partition as I image my HDD partition quite regularly to prevent data loss.<\/p>\n

Okay. After having freed some another 2 GB of free space, the update process finally began. Took about 10 minutes and the iPhone was flashed.<\/p>\n

No worries here, the phone came back to the lock screen without any trouble. so the flashing was okay. Then the iPhone asked if it should restore from the previously backup that was made… (of course I want to have all my data back, so yes is the only answer here)<\/p>\n

So… another 2(?) minutes, the iPhone restarted (2 minutes – 26 GB restore…. quite fast in my opinion) and brought me back to the well known home screen. But what was that??? A lot of apps were just missing?! YIKES!<\/p>\n

Then I finally found out what went wrong. iTunes had the great idea to unhook all synching options due to the warning message. So no enhanced data was restored during the restore process…<\/p>\n

Okay, another try and activating all the synching options. Now it took more than an hour to bring back all my music, videos and apps. The result looked fine so far but with one bad effect. all apps were no longer sorted according to my grouping I had before. It can be really annoying to sort 145 apps by hand again that were spread over 8 homescreens! Gheez!<\/p>\n

2 special ringtones have also not been synched as iTunes still has that ridiculous 30secs limit for m4r-audio (Ringtone files). I hate such limitations.<\/p>\n

Well… all in all it’s not just click’n’happy with Apple. My example shows that you can run into much trouble when you upgrade your iDevice’s OS!<\/p>\n

I don’t know how the update process goes with Apple hardware but on the other hand I am too lazy to buy an Apple hardware and I don’t have the simoleons to burn right now on the hardware… maybe next year…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Okay, it’s well-known that Apple has released the iOS5 update today. I hooked my iPhone to my laptop as well and wanted to apply the update. Nothing special you think because Apple=Plug it in, switch on and you’re done! Sounds nice but ain’t always the truth. So here’s my update-odyssey of my iPhone 4 to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,4,3,19],"tags":[16,385,918,916,123,917,919,289],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-2","category-curiosities","category-news","category-thoughts-2","tag-annoyance","tag-apple","tag-errors","tag-ios-5","tag-iphone","tag-problems","tag-synchronisation","tag-update"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}