ios5 update

Well updated phone, and I obviously wanted to spend a few hours finding out all my settings, passwords, and remembering pictures that fortunately were backed up onto a PC somewhere.

The update when it wanted to restore the phone back to previous settings was after a password, and none of my usual ones, and even old unused ones worked. Seems I am not alone, possibly the ios5 update when backing up the phone before uses some password that no-one can figure out. I had never set a password for backups before, as backups were on a machine that did not travel anywhere, and thus was happy enough with.

Well done Apple for one of the worst upgrades I've done in some years

Is that really something that has happened to lots of people?? I didn't put a password on back ups either and it just seemed to work.

It is mysterious, I grant you, that people with seemingly identical set ups, can have different experiences when upgrading.

I fear it will happen more and more...

I used to be confident about tinkering with a car engine... now with the advent of engine management systems, I don't even try...

So it is with computers, in the old system 6,7,8 days I would be able to tinker... but not any more...

Admittedly I don't add many things to my computers in terms of extra software or haxies and probably could still make do with a 68040 processor if it could download things at a reasonable rate

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Happened to me, and I agree with you 100% - Apple, it seems, for all their quality and genius, sometimes just ain't that damn bright.

If it helps you at all, I worked out what the password was. By some magical and still unfathomable reason, it decided to use my Gmail account password (which is the first email account I setup on the phone) as the password.

Try this, and other passwords you have set on the phone. Maybe one of them will work.

This is bizarre and suggests something amiss with your keychain.

Does this help?

https://discussions.apple.com/message/16342860#16342860

Seen it in two places.

Or this (a variant)_

https://discussions.apple.com/message/10081710#10081710

Edited by ian_c (Fri 18-Nov-11 22:49:53)

Not all of us are using an Apple to do the update, i.e. seems some things that work on a Apple OSX dont work on the PC.

will just curse and moan at phone for another few days, and go get an android tablet when tablet becomes irresistable

Not all of the posters on those threads are Mac users - and the common solution seems to be the first ever apple id password, or the first email account set up on the device. Smells of damaged keychain.

and go get an android tablet when tablet becomes irresistable

Which will then have its own set of problems (although on past form, an up-dateable OS won't be one of them).

Had tried a wide variety of my passwords, given the number I have it is slower to go back over the last year or so than rebuild contacts et al

Most annoyed at the now warning about needing a password later, which has left me guessing phone numbers

I had the exact same issue, then I discovered all of my contacts had vanised, then I discovered my phone no longer vibrates.

Been quite disapointed with the update process which seems to go wrong in a lot of cases.

The new features are pretty nice though

Which will then have its own set of problems (although on past form, an up-dateable OS won't be one of them).

What? Samsung release upgrades to Android on the Galaxy tab. And they even pull updates when there are unforeseen problems.

Android can even be installed on some tablets that didn't support it in the first place.

Andrew, there are apps to recover contacts, photos and bookmarks etc... from the iTunes backup file (the Mac ones I've tried don't need to know the password). Sorry I can't recommend software for the PC but there are some. When you're done setting things up again, get a free iCloud account for next time disaster strikes.

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Well done Apple for one of the worst upgrades I've done in some years

Ouch I've updated about 8 iOS devices, two 3GS's, one 4, two iPad 2, and two ipad 1, and friends, and none of them had a problem. All but one was on Win7, the other one was on XP. Sorry yours went wrong
 

Looks like as my itunes is windows based the testing is more lax, i.e. they want to absorb me into the collective

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

Looks like as my itunes is windows based the testing is more lax, i.e. they want to absorb me into the collective

Resistance is futile.

Or just upgrade my second phone from an old beast to an Android

And if you go with Android you'll be able to use TB's speed tester

Like others here I ventured an update of my 3GS (once the peak in demand had settled and server connection speeds improved!) without a hitch, even if it did take ages. Then I upgraded my wife's 3GS. No major problems either, as was the case with my son's iPhone 4 and a friend's 3GS. Not a hitch anywhere. I did have a panic with my wife's 3GS when I thought I'd decimated her Contacts file when setting up iCloud for her but quickly resolved the issue by restoring from SIM (the only instance I had to do this).

I've heard lots of people moaning about the update but perhaps I/we were just lucky.

Come the day when Apple shifts all its hardware over to iOS rather than MacOS (the Lion is the biggest cat, is it not?) I assume they'll have it all sussed!

I suspect you are living in an Android dream world AEP.

Why? Samsung released an Android update yesterday.