Experience of installing iOS 5 beta 3
iOS 5 beta 3 installation on my iPad 2 is such an odd experience. To seamless there's a very specific sequence that I need to follow, and obviously I didn't aware of the sequence and thus the experience was less than perfect.
So here's the proper sequence to perform to upgrade:
So here's the proper sequence to perform to upgrade:
- Make sure your iTune (on Mac) is in version 10.5 beta 2 (not beta 1 and SPECIFICALLY NOT Beta 3, but 10.5 beta 2)
- Transfer all your apps from your iPad 2 to iTune. That way you don't have to manually reinstall all your apps one by one.
- Backup your iPad 2. Otherwise you will have to reconfigure all your application. That will suck.
- Now with your iPad 2 connected to your Mac, hold ALT/Option button and click [Restore] button on iTune. It will then kick off the regular restore process (like selecting the ipsw file of the iOS 5 beta 3)
- At the end of the process, proceed to restore your iPad 2 using the backup you did a while ago.
- Now here's the funny part: iTune 10.5 beta 2 will REFUSE to sync with your now iOS 5.0 beta 3 device because iOS 5 beta 3 does NOT work with iTune 10.5 beta 2. So now you have to first upgrade your itune 10.5 beta 2 to beta 3. And then you should be able to proceed to sync all your apps from iTune back to your iPad.
- Finally you should have a working iPad 2 with all the app working just like it used to be.
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