iOS 5 & iCloud |OT|

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Tunesmith said:
To use your Apple ID with iCloud it must be formatted as an email address. If you have an older Apple ID that's not an email address and just a username you need to update it before it'll work with iCloud. You can edit/update your ID via iTunes itself by "viewing" your account and clicking edit.
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Should I try it on my computer instead?
 
xbhaskarx said:
Surely this will be fixed very soon, right?
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Unlikely, I expect Amazon will suggest you "upgrade" from Stanza to the Kindle app now, Stanza didn't see an update for iOS4, not expecting one for iOS5 either tbh.
 
JohngPR said:
Thanks for the tip, but I already did that, and syncing through Wifi DOES work on my phone. My issue is that my phone doesn't sync automatically when I plug it into my charger. I was under the impression that it's supposed to auto-sync when you plugged it into a power source.
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Curious-does it update your play counts when syncing over wifi?
 
JohngPR said:
Thanks for the tip, but I already did that, and syncing through Wifi DOES work on my phone. My issue is that my phone doesn't sync automatically when I plug it into my charger. I was under the impression that it's supposed to auto-sync when you plugged it into a power source.
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Oh, I was unaware of it 'auto-syncing' when it plugs into a power source.

Though, I just sync with the iPhone not being connected to a power source and it worked.
 
Sobriquet said:
My battery life sucks now. What is doing this?
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I noticed that Bluetooth had been reenabled after doing the update, I turned it off (ipad) and I'm getting better battery performance from iOS5 than I was from iOS4.3.5
 
Osiris said:
I noticed that Bluetooth had been reenabled after doing the update, I turned it off (ipad) and I'm getting better battery performance from iOS5 than I was from iOS4.3.5
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Huh, I just checked my iPad 2 and Bluetooth was on as well. I updated to iOS 5 last night and Bluetooth was most certainly off beforehand.
 
Osiris said:
I noticed that Bluetooth had been reenabled after doing the update, I turned it off (ipad) and I'm getting better battery performance from iOS5 than I was from iOS4.3.5
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Yeah, I saw that. Not sure why they would do that.
 
Gotta ask again since nobody has been able to answer this yet.

How do you get rid of the notification badge for Newsstand? It still tells me there's something new.
 
Jo Shishido's Cheeks said:
Anybody got any recommendations for any free Newsstand content?
Despite having an iPad I've never delved into the whole reading magazines/newspapers thing and wanna try some out before purchasing anything.....
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It's not in newstand but if your into gaming you should download the EGM app the magazines are free and I like it alot. Great example of the future of magazines.
 
Anticitizen One said:
It's not in newstand but if your into gaming you should download the EGM app the magazines are free and I like it alot. Great example of the future of magazines.
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Where is that in the App Store?
 
Okay, I'm not understanding iCloud.

For right now, what is the easiest way for me to keep my iCloud information but just turn everything off -- so that I go back to syncing via the USB came or WiFi to my computer, but nothing communicates with iCloud?

I'm getting annoyed at duplicate calendars, my iPad gets Contacts locked unless I turn on iCloud, my iPhone getting bookmarks locked unless I turn on iCloud .. WTF?

Can someone advise?
 
Is there a way to send a reminder to someone else then? I was hoping there would be someone way to email them.

I kind of remember Will from Tested talking about that...
 
Huh, this is bullshit.

My gf updated to iOS 5, but she doesn't have a data plan. Her iPhone is pretty much wi-fi only.

We messed around with iMessage on wi-fi and it was cool, however then we tried to disable wi-fi on her device to find out how things get along when she leaves a wi-fi area. I sent her a message, it was sent as an iMessage... of course it didn't get delivered, but the thing is that 5/10 minutes passed by and it didn't gave any warning, much less tried to be sent as an SMS. So basically I couldn't text her anymore.

Then I just disabled iMessage on her phone and tried to send a message from hers to mine and it worked (duh). I just figured out much later than even with iMessage disabled on her end, when I tried again to text her, again it tried to send an iMessage and again it get stuck. Just a blue text balloon with no receipts at all.

I just had to disable iMessage altogether on my phone too, which sucks. I already had my dad and a couple of friends using it with me. Now that I think about it, my father will have a hard time texting me unless he disables iMessage too. Fuck.

The system is not nearly as flexible as I thought it out to be.
 
jts said:
Huh, this is bullshit.

My gf updated to iOS 5, but she doesn't have a data plan. Her iPhone is pretty much wi-fi only.

We messed around with iMessage on wi-fi and it was cool, however then we tried to disable wi-fi on her device to find out how things get along when she leaves a wi-fi area. I sent her a message, it was sent as an iMessage... of course it didn't get delivered, but the thing is that 5/10 minutes passed by and it didn't gave any warning, much less tried to be sent as an SMS. So basically I couldn't text her anymore.

Then I just disabled iMessage on her phone and tried to send a message from hers to mine and it worked (duh). I just figured out much later than even with iMessage disabled on her end, when I tried again to text her, again it tried to send an iMessage and again it get stuck. Just a blue text balloon with no receipts at all.

I just had to disable iMessage altogether on my phone too, which sucks. I already had my dad and a couple of friends using it with me. Now that I think about it, my father will have a hard time texting me unless he disables iMessage too. Fuck.

The system is not nearly as flexible as I thought it out to be.
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Are you sending an iMessage to their phone number or their email? As far as I know, if it's their phone number, it will first try to send an iMessage and if it fails (in this case, when your gf isn't on wi-fi) then it will switch to sending an SMS.
 
ecurbj said:
Yes...
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Well, I kinda thought it was maybe like when you sync up with the wires. Anyways I'm assuming you have to be a certain distance from your computer for it to work. I was in my bathroom on the same network and it didn't start syncing till I got closer to the computer.
 
Baconbitz said:
Well, I kinda thought it was maybe like when you sync up with the wires. Anyways I'm assuming you have to be a certain distance from your computer for it to work. I was in my bathroom on the same network and it didn't start syncing till I got closer to the computer.
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Not really. I'm down in my living room as I'm typing this and just clicked the sync button on my iPhone and it's syncing with my PC and it's upstairs in my room.
 
Finally updated my iPad 2 after one hour of restoring. What ever happened with the option to stream a movie or music from iTunes to the iPad when connected in the same wi-fi network?

I'm looking all over and can't find the option?
 
Sh0k said:
Finally updated my iPad 2 after one hour of restoring. What ever happened with the option to stream a movie or music from iTunes to the iPad when connected in the same wi-fi network?

I'm looking all over and can't find the option?
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Turn on home sharing in iTunes and in settings->video.
 
giga said:
Are you sending an iMessage to their phone number or their email? As far as I know, if it's their phone number, it will first try to send an iMessage and if it fails (in this case, when your gf isn't on wi-fi) then it will switch to sending an SMS.
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Phone number definitely (all this happened on her SMS thread on my iPhone). I thought it would work out like how you described it but the text didn't actually fail. It just stood there. Undelivered and unread. No red circle with an exclamation mark either, nothing.

Maybe the servers are hammered on these first days or something? Should I just wait more than 10 minutes? Anyway, makes me think there should be a way of enforcing SMS when needed.
 
had to force the ipad2 to reboot as twitter failure notification popped up but wouldn't be cancelled and that meant i couldn't unlock or even shut down with the slider.

hmmm?
 
jts said:
Phone number definitely (all this happened on her SMS thread on my iPhone). I thought it would work out like how you described it but the text didn't actually fail. It just stood there. Undelivered and unread. No red circle with an exclamation mark either, nothing.

Maybe the servers are hammered on these first days or something? Should I just wait more than 10 minutes? Anyway, makes me think there should be a way of enforcing SMS when needed.
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It takes a while for it to fall back to SMS. I had this happen with a friend, at some point I checked back and it said "Sent as SMS". Regardless, I think these issues will clear up after the iOS 5 rush dies down.
 
xbhaskarx said:
I did a restore and only like 75% of my apps are showing up on my phone... should I just try restoring again?
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Are they still in your iTunes? Why not just sync with iTunes and carry the missing ones over?
 
jts said:
Phone number definitely (all this happened on her SMS thread on my iPhone). I thought it would work out like how you described it but the text didn't actually fail. It just stood there. Undelivered and unread. No red circle with an exclamation mark either, nothing.

Maybe the servers are hammered on these first days or something? Should I just wait more than 10 minutes? Anyway, makes me think there should be a way of enforcing SMS when needed.
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Yeah that doesn't seem right. Try rebooting both and send it again when she's disconnected from wi-fi?

It should definitely switch between the two.

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I find it kind of funny that Apple basically stole the idea for lock info from the jailbreak scene.... and then completely and utterly missed the damned point.
 
I backed up my iPad and updated to the new iOS, but after upgrading my iPad is wiped clean, none of my apps are there. How do I get them back?
 
Vyer said:
Are they still in your iTunes? Why not just sync with iTunes and carry the missing ones over?
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I'm sorry, can you explain what you mean by this?

To elaborate, I was using like all but 2 GB of my phone with my apps organized into folders. I did the restore, and 75% of the apps or so are there, organized into their folders, but the rest are missing and there are 10 GB free. I restored from the top option it gave me, even though it didn't have a date or time, because they appeared to be in chronological order.

I guess I could install the missing apps one by one, but then I assume I'd have to go through all the apps I don't have installed, pick out the ones I want to install (some I deleted to save space), and then organize them into folders. That would take hours when I had everything just the way I wanted it prior to updating to iOS5.

Any advice?
 
Here's something to keep an eye on for those of us that use Instapaper (and stuff like comic readers) a lot...

Instapaper has stored its downloaded articles in Caches for years, since I didn’t want to slow down iTunes syncing for my customers or enlarge their backups unnecessarily, and full restores don’t happen often enough for it to be a problem for most people. This new policy now locks me into using Caches: I no longer have a choice.

But in iOS 5, there’s an important change: Caches and tmp — the only two directories that aren’t backed up — are “cleaned” out when the device is low on space.

There’s no longer anywhere to store files that don’t need to be backed up (or can’t be, by the new policy) but shouldn’t be randomly deleted.
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http://www.marco.org/2011/10/13/ios5-caches-cleaning
 
I hate that I can't quickly turn off Push notifications anymore so I don't get some drunk friend waking me up with a silly text on whatsapp at 4 in the morning, or some random email. I know I can just mute the phone but I can't go to bed knowing people won't be able to reach me with a phone call in case of an emergency.

Also mute switch doesn't complete shut the phone up and the phone can still make noise if an app feels like it. Ugh!!

And it sucks that I can't let people use my phone freely (to browse the web, or call someone) without giving them access to a lot of my private stuff. There should be a guest mode or something.

Can't wait to jailbreak it and try to fix most of that, it's a pretty nice OS.
 
RDreamer said:
I find it kind of funny that Apple basically stole the idea for lock info from the jailbreak scene.... and then completely and utterly missed the damned point.
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I actually like the way iOS5 handles it. The lockscreen shows all new notifications that I have not read. Notification Center houses all notification.

If the lockscreen shows all notification it can get cluttered fast. Though I see your point... it would be nice for apple to give the option to do both.
 
thewesker said:
How'd it miss the point?
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Ok, so now I have a few widgets, but they're only whatever Apple has done, so my todo app is useless (and apple's reminders app is a terrible replacement anyway, since I don't think you can do recurring reminders). On top of that, though, widgets are pretty useless because they can't even be seen from the lock screen! It's supposed to be a spot to quickly access information, but you have to unlock your phone to see it. You can't do anything with the notifications on your lock screen either. You should be able to touch one and be taken straight to it (put in your lock code, obviously), or to even dismiss the notification altogether from there. I just think apple's solution seems poorly thought out compared to what the jailbreak scene has had for so long.


Sarye said:
I actually like the way iOS5 handles it. The lockscreen shows all new notifications that I have not read. Notification Center houses all notification.

If the lockscreen shows all notification it can get cluttered fast. Though I see your point... it would be nice for apple to give the option to do both.
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The thing is with Lockinfo I could just hit the X and get rid of a notification. It was never cluttered. You have to fully unlock the damned phone to get rid of them in IOS5. And there should really be an option to put those widgets and things in the lock screen. I want my calendar and to dos right there on the phone when I pull it out.
 
WiFi sync is cool in theory, but since you have to have your comp on with iTunes up and your phone plugged in it's not AS great as advertised. Windows Phone 7 people came to a similar conclusion.
 
Brettison said:
WiFi sync is cool in theory, but since you have to have your comp on with iTunes up and your phone plugged in it's not AS great as advertised. Windows Phone 7 people came to a similar conclusion.
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Phone doesn't need to be plugged in. That's only required for the automatic once-a-day sync.
 
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