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by: DominusSteve March 10, 2012 4:10 AM PST

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IOS 5.1 upgrade frustrations

by DominusSteve - 3/10/12 4:10 AM

A lot of you are obviously much more familiar with Apple products than I am and most probably enjoy their Apple products however my experience is to the contrary and I'm ready to toss mine and stick with a good old fashioned Windows or Android/Linux product. Maybe someone out there can help me through my dilemma. I have a 3rd Gen Ipod touch and recently did a reluctant upgrade to IOS 5.1. All my apps worked fine until the upgrade. After the upgrade Safari crashes and the only game I PURCHASED (Scramble with friends) crashes as well. Neither will load at all. Clicking on the icon takes me immediately to the home screen. I've tried all I can think of to resolve this, going to far as rooting the device to no avail. After rooting even Cydia crashes. I've done multiple "reboots", every which way possible and even a factory reset but still no resolution. The problem is obviously the new OS and I have been unable to find any information telling me how to revert to an earlier OS. Any help would be greatly appreciated.


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Remember the backup that you did before "reluctantly"

by mrmacfixit Moderator - 3/10/12 7:16 AM

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upgrading?

Connect the iPhone to iTunes and do a Restore from Backup.

Locate the backup you did before the upgrade and you will be back to iOS5.0 on completion.

BTW, you were not forced to upgrade to 5.1, it was purely your own choice.


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You think that there is even a remote possibility

by mrmacfixit Moderator - 3/10/12 7:18 AM

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that rooting the phone has something to do with your current problems?

Is Cydia even compatible with iOS5.1?

Just asking

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by DominusSteve - 3/10/12 9:30 AM

In Reply to: You think that there is even a remote possibility by mrmacfixit Moderator

the problem existed after the OS upgrade, before the rooting. The rooting was done to try to correct the problem which it didn't.
I know no one twisted my arm to upgrade but they push it out to you without telling you to backup the existing system prior to upgrading...


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So you have all the apps/music/photo's on your computer?

by mrmacfixit Moderator - 3/10/12 11:27 AM

In Reply to: re: by DominusSteve

Taking the answer as Yes, I would suggest that you do a Reset to Factory defaults and
re-sync the phone.

That will give you iOS5 and all the other stuff you had on your machine.

BACKUP first


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You made a dumb choice

by Pepe7 - 3/10/12 3:10 PM

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Rooting to solve an issue? I think you should have done a little more research before making that particular choice. That research would have lead you to properly backup before making the newbie mistake.


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dumb choice or not

by DominusSteve - 3/10/12 7:42 PM

In Reply to: You made a dumb choice by Pepe7

be it as it may. The problem still exists, because it is an apple device. The point is that it is MY hardware that I purchased and all I'm wanting to do is put the software on the device that I choose.


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The problem is not an Apple one,

by mrmacfixit Moderator - 3/11/12 6:35 AM

In Reply to: dumb choice or not by DominusSteve

it is a user one.

Have you done as suggested with the Restore yet?

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What mrmacfixit say, and then some

by Pepe7 - 3/12/12 10:00 AM

In Reply to: dumb choice or not by DominusSteve

Where did Apple say you cannot modify your device? Why didn't you follow the accepted protocol before jailbreaking it?

This is very simple stuff if you actually pay attention to what you are doing <sigh>.


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Restore

by pinkzroxor - 3/12/12 10:48 PM

In Reply to: IOS 5.1 upgrade frustrations by DominusSteve

In your case, restoring is your best bet. Do a backup through the iTunes and restore the device


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