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Last night I updated my iPad1 to iOS5.
At least it didn't brick the iPad. However, it seems that at Apple the words 'Backup' and 'Restore' have a different meaning than in the rest of the English-speaking World. This is a shame.
I synchronised the iPad first, then chose the Update option. Fortunately, I had used iPhoto to copy all images from the iPad first. Ultimately, I was very glad I had done that.
The device seemed to take quite a while to backup, then erased the entire thing and installed iOS5. Then it took some time to restore the backup taken earlier.
I had hoped it would copy everything on the iPad, upgrade it and then copy everything back. This was not quite what it did.
Before the upgrade I had Apps, Music, Movies, Podcasts and Images - leaving about 2 GB free.
Afterwards I had the basic settings (Wifi, AppleID, MobileMe, Calendars, etc), plus my custom Homescreen Wallpaper and all of the Safari Shortcuts I had saved to the Homescreen, on the correct pages. That is all. Not sure how much free space - it is a 32GB device, so there is about 28.57 GB in total. I think it had about 28 GB free.
I took ages trying to select the Apps and Music I wanted to put back on it.
As for the Images, I had to restore these from the iPhoto images - so now these are in different 'Events' than before.
On the positive side, it does still work and it does seem a little faster
It also seems to be just as confused as my iPod Touch about the use of AppleID or MobileMe ID - unfortunately not with the same solution as on the other device.
Starting to like iOS5 to some extent, apart from being stuck with the useless Newsstand App. I like the Wireless Sync. Still not sorted out the various Calendars yet - some on the iPad and some on the iPod Touch - just not the same ones. At least Google Calendar sorts that out![:\](/mac_images/images/smilies/Undecided.png "Undecided :\")
At least it didn't brick the iPad. However, it seems that at Apple the words 'Backup' and 'Restore' have a different meaning than in the rest of the English-speaking World. This is a shame.
I synchronised the iPad first, then chose the Update option. Fortunately, I had used iPhoto to copy all images from the iPad first. Ultimately, I was very glad I had done that.
The device seemed to take quite a while to backup, then erased the entire thing and installed iOS5. Then it took some time to restore the backup taken earlier.
I had hoped it would copy everything on the iPad, upgrade it and then copy everything back. This was not quite what it did.
Before the upgrade I had Apps, Music, Movies, Podcasts and Images - leaving about 2 GB free.
Afterwards I had the basic settings (Wifi, AppleID, MobileMe, Calendars, etc), plus my custom Homescreen Wallpaper and all of the Safari Shortcuts I had saved to the Homescreen, on the correct pages. That is all. Not sure how much free space - it is a 32GB device, so there is about 28.57 GB in total. I think it had about 28 GB free.
I took ages trying to select the Apps and Music I wanted to put back on it.
As for the Images, I had to restore these from the iPhoto images - so now these are in different 'Events' than before.
On the positive side, it does still work and it does seem a little faster
It also seems to be just as confused as my iPod Touch about the use of AppleID or MobileMe ID - unfortunately not with the same solution as on the other device.
Starting to like iOS5 to some extent, apart from being stuck with the useless Newsstand App. I like the Wireless Sync. Still not sorted out the various Calendars yet - some on the iPad and some on the iPod Touch - just not the same ones. At least Google Calendar sorts that out
