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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
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