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IOS 5 beta 4 is out

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The OTA update worked without a hitch for me on an iPhone 4 running beta 3. I haven't noticed much different except that it is a little faster maybe.

I had an interesting problem with the OTA update (also from an iPhone 4 on 5.0b3): iTunes (b4) refused to sync with the device after it was updated, claiming I was no longer authorized to use the applications on it (repeatedly, verifying that I was then reiterating that I wasn't), and the iPhone stopped appearing as a wi-fi sync device. It also took several seconds to negotiate a connection when I plugged it into USB before it would register. Rebooting didn't seem to fix this, but restoring from the full 5.0b4 firmware seemed to. Oddly, my iPad 2 (also on 5.0b3 previously) pulled down the same update at the same time but had none of these problems. Perhaps the iPhone's update got corrupted while downloading?

Nice little auto complete addition. If you type a word that is auto completed and hit delete you are prompted with a list of possible auto complete changes. It has always been one of my biggest complaints about auto complete. If a word is auto completed and it varies considerably from the one that was intended you have to delete more characters that you would have normally typed to get back to the beginning of the wrong word. This is an excellent addition.

Looks like this update is available over-the-air. Glad to see that.

Although I seem to be getting an error when I try.

Anyways, full changelog here (without login): http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/22/apples-full-change-log-for-ios...

Update appeared and worked after plugging my iPhone into a computer. Hard to know if that was a coincidence or a prerequisite, though.

Seems like it is still quite flaky. Rebooting my iPad helped things along for me.

Rebooting my iPhone stopped the errors, and is currently downloading the update.

Anyone know how the OTA works? Does it update packages like Debian or is there a binary diff to the new version that is downloaded and installed?

Ofcourse in iOS 4 and earlier it was the full binary image. Have they adopted the same mechanism as OSX use for updating iOS now?

I'm getting the "you device is not eligible for requested build" error in iTunes. Never had this before. Anyone here who did successfully activate?

Same thing here.. I was searching the error in Google and found a bunch of blog/forum posts saying that adding the following comment line to /etc/hosts, restarting iTunes, and trying it works:

# 74.208.10.249 gs.apple.com

I was totally skeptical because it's a comment line, but I thought, "wtf, i'll give it a shot. it's just the hosts file." and it worked.

iPhone is restoring now with 9a5274d.

Perhaps you have TinyUmbrella installed?

Try updating OTA, it worked perfectly for me.

Thanks, that did it for me.

Oh phew, looks like custom APN settings finally got fixed, meaning you can get 3G data with a GoPhone SIM again :)

Linked page wants username/password. A copy/paste of the contents, anyone?

Everything iOS 5.0 is still under NDA, but here is the full changelog: http://www.bgr.com/2011/07/22/apples-full-change-log-for-ios...

Anyone heard anything more about the fall release date?

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