iOS 5 beta 5 now available


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iOS 5 beta 5 now available

As Fall's iOS 5 release grows steadily nearer, the iOS 5 beta updates continue.

iOS 5 Beta 5 is now available for your downloading pleasure at the iOS developer site, along with the other expected items that continue to be synchronously updated to support the beta. Paid developer members can sign in with your developer credentials to gain access to this beta.

Because our own Mike Grothaus ran into trouble this last beta, let me remind you to register your device at the developer portal and prepare it for development before installing the new beta onto pre-beta equipment.

The beta is, as always, released under the terms of Apple's NDA. For that reason, enhancements, APIs and features are not listed within this post.

Source: TUAW

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My beta 4 is saying it's up to date. Someone mentioned that the phone needs to be reset to see the update. What type of reset are we talking about? Some people say the Home+Power is a reset (which didn't work). Beta 4 was detected automatically and downloaded OTA.

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My beta 4 is saying it's up to date. Someone mentioned that the phone needs to be reset to see the update. What type of reset are we talking about? Some people say the Home+Power is a reset (which didn't work). Beta 4 was detected automatically and downloaded OTA.

By reset, they mean the "Erase All Content & Settings" type of reset.

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It's what I had to do to get it to appear.... :(

It's not really a problem if you have a backup, it's the syncing of apps + music that takes ages, especially if you have the "Convert to AAC" option on.

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I was lucky .. I was able to OTA update my iPhone and iPad without erasing anything.

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I remember reading an article that said the "middle of the screen" notifications had returned in Beta 2 as opposed to the MobileNotifier type notifications with the Slide to Reply that was in Beta 1 and demoed at WWDC. Can anyone running Beta 5 confirm what the current Notifications are like?

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I remember reading an article that said the "middle of the screen" notifications had returned in Beta 2 as opposed to the MobileNotifier type notifications with the Slide to Reply that was in Beta 1 and demoed at WWDC. Can anyone running Beta 5 confirm what the current Notifications are like?

Because I don't think that has changed with beta 5 and I don't think I violate NDAs too much by saying that...:

They changed it so that the first time you get... say.. a text and nothing else has triggered notifications, you will see a pop-up like notification on your lock screen which tells you what you got. You can slide to view/listen/whatever.

If the iPhone locks itself (or you lock it) and you unlock it again, it will look like in beta 1 again. Also, automatically if you get 5 texts while your iPhone has not locked itself in the meantime, you will get the list.

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I was lucky .. I was able to OTA update my iPhone and iPad without erasing anything.

Yup me too. Though i am wondering if those with problems going from b4 > b5 OTA are down to b3 > b4 OTA.

Looking around the web it seems those that installed beta4 via iTunes (I did my b3>b4 OTA first, then did a "clean install" of b4 about 3 days before b5 came out) were okay but those that installed b4 via OTA couldn't get b5 without a content/device reset.

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Wow, safari on ipad lags like a ***** now. I have a beta4 ipad2 (haven't update yet) and a beta5 ipad2 and everything seems sketchy, specially when i change orientation.

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Well, did the reset and got the update. I had used the iCloud backup when I upgraded to beta 4 and also when I reset it this time. I forgot how much less pain there is when everything is on the cloud. Besides the time it took it was completely painless. So, basically resets aren't the big deal they used to be and caused me to say "Ugh..."

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can anyone add my Identifer(UDID): 5491286f10132049c5c373093a004a5bb2ff6738 pretty please :rofl:

its a long shot and most likely violated some sort of forum rules..

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can anyone add my Identifer(UDID): 5491286f10132049c5c373093a004a5bb2ff6738 pretty please :rofl:

its a long shot and most likely violated some sort of forum rules..

You shouldn't trust anyone to add you. Once they do and you use it your at their mercy. They could turn around and delete your device for any reason (or Apple could delete it if caught) and then your stuck in in a bad spot not able to restore, upgrade etc.

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