iOS 5 & iCloud |OT|

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kkaabboomm said:
My brother had this. Go to settings-iCloud- and turn on sync contacts with iCloud. Reboot phone (maybe) and it'll work (you can then turn off iCloud contacts sync and you'll be fine)
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Thanks, yeah we just figured it out together lol.
 
Treefingers said:
Not sure about #2, but regarding #1: I think it sends a request from your phone to his to find out if he has iOS 5 via wifi when you're in the conversation view. At least I'm not sure how it could work otherwise.

If I turn off wifi and 3G it doesn't show me that it will send an iMessage. So I think I'm right.
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So, via wi-fi from my phone, it sent a packet asking "do you have iOS5" to Apple's servers. Apple's servers routed the packet over SMS to my friend's phone (remember he turned off wi-fi), and then he responded with a packet saying "yes" over SMS to Apple's servers, which routed the info back to my phone via wi-fi? Basically Apple sits as the intermediary to translate between wi-fi and SMS?

And the same thing happened in reverse for him?

That's kinda crazy/cool.
 
Gila said:
Anyway to have a customized vibration set only when the phone is in sleep?

I don't want it to have it vibrating while the messages or iMessages are being sent, and I'm already viewing it on the screen

Not sure if it's possible? Or was it always vibrating no matter what? I can't even remember how it was before lol
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Politely bumping my question
 
Jme said:
Sorry if this has been asked/talked about already but this thread is rather daunting to check through.

Is anyone else having major battery life issues with iOS 5? I have a Verizon iPhone 4 and holy shit this thing drains like 4x faster than it did before I updated.
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Not really. After I updated my Verizon iPhone 4 yesterday. I left it connected to my PC till it was fully charged then. I took it off and didn't connect it back to be charged till about a hour ago today.

I got 10 hours of use out of it. That's Netflix and browsing the web, listening to music, texting and Facebook/Tweeting, Wi-Fi abuse. And I had 18 hours of standby. This was my first battery usage of iOS 5. Pretty awesome !
 
is there a good app that monitors the health of your battery? as in charge cycles, percentage of original charge that it gets, etc. or is that in the os already somewhere?
 
So how does Find My Friends work exactly? Is it constantly updating your location and chewing up the battery?

btkadams said:
is there a good app that monitors the health of your battery? as in charge cycles, percentage of original charge that it gets, etc. or is that in the os already somewhere?
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I use Battery Doctor.
 
btkadams said:
is there a good app that monitors the health of your battery? as in charge cycles, percentage of original charge that it gets, etc. or is that in the os already somewhere?
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It's in Settings --> General --> Usage. Go to the bottom and you should see the status of the charges and such. There is a option to turn 'batter percentage' on so you can see it in display bar at the top of the screen next to the batter icon.
 
404Ender said:
Can someone explain to me (or post a link) how exactly iMessage works?

1. As an experiment, I took my phone, with iOS5 installed, and turned off 3G and cellular data. Wi-fi only. A friend took his phone, with iOS5 installed, and turned off his wi-fi (3G and cellular data only).

I selected his phone number (I don't know his Mobile Me/@me/iCloud info) and in a matter of seconds, it switched from "Text Message" to "iMessage" and green to blue. Same behavior for him.

How in the world does it figure out, without me even needing to send a message, to use iMessage instead of a txt/SMS?

2. Under the same conditions I sent my friend with an Android phone a message. It was green, and the message said it went through (there was no red exclamation point like I might normally see when cellular data is turned off), but he didn't actually receive a text until 10 minutes later when I turned my cell data back on.

Does iOS5 just hold onto those messages until you have enough service to send them out? Shouldn't it give some sort of indication (like the red mark) that it hasn't actually been sent yet?
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Yes, it held the message because you back on 3G, and iMessage only works between iOS devices. It seamlessly sends them via iMessage when it can, but when it can't, it sends them via your texting package.

Jme said:
Sorry if this has been asked/talked about already but this thread is rather daunting to check through.

Is anyone else having major battery life issues with iOS 5? I have a Verizon iPhone 4 and holy shit this thing drains like 4x faster than it did before I updated.
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AT&T iPhone 4 here, and it's behaving just like normal.
 
iPhone updated. Took 4 tries.

iPad is dead, crashed iTunes after it started, restoring now, hoping it goes well here...
 
solarus said:
GIFs are waaaay faster now on ios 5 I've noticed, it was like watching a slideshow before.
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I know lol I notice that also.

By the way. Is iTunes songs DRM or are the DRM free? I sometimes use my Xbox 360 for streaming music and I wanted to know if those songs I buy off iTunes will stream with the 360 or not?
 
ecurbj said:
I know lol I notice that also.

By the way. Is iTunes songs DRM or are the DRM free? I sometimes use my Xbox 360 for streaming music and I wanted to know if those songs I buy off iTunes will stream with the 360 or not?
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iTunes files are DRM-free AAC files. Some files you purchased before 2008 might have DRM, you can pay a small fee to upgrade them to DRM-free. I can't remember if the 360 streams AAC stuff or not, but if it doesn't, it won't be a DRM thing.
 
Stumpokapow said:
iTunes files are DRM-free AAC files. Some files you purchased before 2008 might have DRM, you can pay a small fee to upgrade them to DRM-free. I can't remember if the 360 streams AAC stuff or not, but if it doesn't, it won't be a DRM thing.
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Xbox will not stream AAC, but will play them off of a connected ipod
 
Do I have the official iOS5 installed on my iPad now?

It says:

Version: 5.0 (9A334)

Is that the official release or still the beta?

And I keep getting Error (1630) when trying to look for an update for iPad in iTunes 10.5.
 
So I'm having trouble getting my iPad to backup to iCloud. It won't even do it when I manually tell it to do the backup from the iCloud settings it tells me there is a problem completing the backup. It works fine with my iPhone : /
 
So after two nights of trying finally managed to install iOS5 through my old WinXP pc. I did it in the end through Shift-Restore after making a backup first. When i restore that backup though, all my apps are gone. Syncing through iTunes won't work anymore. I can however re-download apps through App Store > Purchased, but i don't want to search all my current apps among all the apps i download over the years. Saves etc. are all there as well.

Is not being able to sync anymore a known issue? Manually dragging apps from my library to my ipad won't work either :/
 
PhoncipleBone said:
Xbox will not stream AAC, but will play them off of a connected ipod
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That's just because of the software on your computer. I use Rivet on the Mac and it can stream my entire iTunes library (including AAC) on my 360 just fine.
 
Anastacio said:
Do I have the official iOS5 installed on my iPad now?

It says:

Version: 5.0 (9A334)

Is that the official release or still the beta?

And I keep getting Error (1630) when trying to look for an update for iPad in iTunes 10.5.
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Yes it's the official release.
 
I'm sure this has been answered many MANY times before, but I don't have time scour the thread. If I'm running the iOS 5 GM and have the beta version of the Mac iTunes, what should I do? Should I download the actual 10.5 iTunes from Apple's site and update to the actual release of iOS 5, or would it be pretty pointless at this point?
 
DeathbyVolcano said:
I'm sure this has been answered many MANY times before, but I don't have time scour the thread. If I'm running the iOS 5 GM and have the beta version of the Mac iTunes, what should I do? Should I download the actual 10.5 iTunes from Apple's site and update to the actual release of iOS 5, or would it be pretty pointless at this point?
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The GM is the actual release.

You need to update to the 'official' iTunes because the betas expire.
 
ckohler said:
That's just because of the software on your computer. I use Rivet on the Mac and it can stream my entire iTunes library (including AAC) on my 360 just fine.
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So I suppose WMP. Just doesn't have the ability to stream AAC files then?
 
Marty Chinn said:
So how does Find My Friends work exactly? Is it constantly updating your location and chewing up the battery?
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I would imagine it works similarly to Find My iPhone - which appears to update your location only when it is requested (by another user booting the app), and otherwise does not chew up your battery.
 
ckohler said:
That's just because of the software on your computer. I use Rivet on the Mac and it can stream my entire iTunes library (including AAC) on my 360 just fine.
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I'm actually looking into such a program, I used to use Connect360 years back but it looks like it hasn't been updated in forever, so I'm deciding between Rivet and Playback at the moment.
 
Fixed my bricked iPad. Multiple restarts of Mac, restore, restart, restore. Then it took. Lost some data. Lost some songs which now error and cannot be redownloaded. Otherwise, OK.
 
AbsoluteZero said:
I'm actually looking into such a program, I used to use Connect360 years back but it looks like it hasn't been updated in forever, so I'm deciding between Rivet and Playback at the moment.
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Is there any software I can use on Windows PC that can allow AAC playback on the 360?
 
The only things I'm missing now, and the reason I will no doubt JB again once the untethered is out:

Tweeting from anywhere, seems silly to integrate it into iOS but not let us tweet from anywhere using say a notification center widget like the existing weather one, same for Messaging, the app is nice, but it would be so much quicker sending a quick one off from the notification center instead of changing an app.

A menu bar icon for notifications, seems kinda silly to not have anything besides badges across icons that could be anywhere across the homescreens and in folders.

Contacts/Messenger pictures, an annoying thing I find is that there are still no contact pictures in either, more so messenger, and numerous times I have text the wrong person just because the names are close or I forgot who I text last and don't look at the name when opening up the app. Would also be great if there was a way to see what number from a contact I was texting for those with multiple mobile numbers and such like.
 
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/scott-forstall-the-sorcerers-apprentice-at-apple-10122011.html
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Pulled my 3GS out of the case earlier today and it was running VERY hot. Obviously something in iOS 5 was making it churn, even when I wasn't using it. I shut it down and restarted, and that took care of it, but what ever had it working so hard also drained the battery fairly significantly as well.
 
alright, so after a day, next big q: any reason why itunes refuses to see my iphone or ipad wirelessly anymore? my laptop is on wifi - the same wifi it was on yesterday, my iphone is on wifi (i opened up safari and the app store to ensure it was 'actually' connected) as is my ipad, but they refuse to be seen anymore wirelessly. yesterday, they were fine, i was dragging music and syncing to them like it was my job.

ideas?
 
Our friend numble sent me that link, crazy eyes seems to be hated by a lot of people. Haters gunna hate tho but a person that rubs rubey the wrong way is ok in my book.
 
guest1321 said:
I'm pretty sure that the restore/back-up will tell iTunes to put the same music back on there as you had prior. Making a playlist of all the music you have on your iPhone and then syncing the iPhone will put that playlist on your computer. It seems like a safe back-up solution but I think you should be fine without it.
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that doesn't work. if i make a playlist on my phone that playlist doesn't even appear under my phone in itunes once i plug it in. there's also no syncing of playlists going on at all either way.

it happened to my wife that the restore afterwards didn't put her music back on. all the apps and contacts, but not the music. i'd rather be safe than sorry... and i still don't really have a solution :/
 
Ok, how the hell do I delete a calendar from the cloud? I had everything synced and then I realized I had a calendar that I didn't use and was really annoying (used to put my bills on there, but stopped doing that and they just piled up on that calendar). I deleted it from my computer and keep trying to sync, but the goddamned thing won't get off my notification screen calendar. It's annoying as hell. I can even uncheck it in the calendar, but it still shows up on the notification screen.
 
Is it just me, or is there anyone else having a problem downloading Ultrasn0w ? it gives me 2 sub-process errors whenever I try to install it.
 
Regarding my Apple ID issue it looks like a higher up went in and fixed things after my issue got escalated in the MobileMe Support Chat. I can now verify my me.com email address with my me.com account.

Yay.
 
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