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7:36 pm
July 28, 2012
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Hopefully just a quick question/answer. I'm not using the data. (But might in the future...) I just have an Iphone 4 working relatively well on SO and I'm wondering if there's a reason to update or should I just leave it alone? The phone is a tiny bit glitchy now and then, and some nights the battery drains and others it doesn't, so I was thinking the update to OS6 (or whatever the latest is now). The phone is locked to Rogers, but I don't have the original SIM, so when I updated to 5.11 they had to unlock it at a shop before the SO SIM would work...
But basically, is there a reason to upgrade from 5.11? Would it smooth anything out or make anything faster? Or do I have to do fancy things to set it up again after the upgrade?
Thanks!!
12:30 pm
January 5, 2010
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Had you saved your SHSH blobs you could have always downgraded using the standard ipsw and tinyumbrella, or I believe you can still create a custom .ipsw using your current IOS with ifaith or some other too.
But if you do upgrade to 6.1 which was released this past week, you can never downgrade unless you complete one of the above steps.
5:27 pm
July 28, 2012
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Thanks for the reply!! As I suspected, I got an answer that would not understand... So after reading a bit I've saved my SHSH blob using tiny umbrella (which sounds vaguely manga-pornographic...) I'm still a little worried that I'm going to upgrade and my SO SIM just won't work... But I'm tempted to just go for it because I'm dumb that way sometimes... Thanks again! Any reasons I shouldn't upgrade would be appreciated, but then I'm assuming everyone else has upgraded at this point and the phone will hopefully run better...
6:56 pm
December 30, 2010
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upgrade to 6 would not break anything other than the missing of map etc. Nothing to do with SO though. But why should one upgrade as iOS 6 has nothing special.
The only slightly remote advantage it may have is that yahoo mail app only runs on iOS 6 and that given my experience with their android version, it would work over UMB(i.e. it is not IMAP as in the built in client).
But not that many people care about yahoo nowadays.
And I would stay with 5.1.1 forever on my apple devices(3)
7:16 pm
July 28, 2012
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Ok, thanks for that! I'm just having a lot of problems with dropping my own home wireless network and some apps randomly close (facebook does it at least twice a day...). Scrolling while I'm reading things is super jerky relatively often... Stuff like that. I'm just hoping that updating might smooth that sort of stuff out. But after reading for a while about 6.1, I'm a little worried now... Sounds like at lot of people are having troubles with it. Anyway, thanks again!!
8:42 pm
September 18, 2011
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I'm running 5.1.1 on three unlocked and jailboken iphone 4 (16GB, 32GB, 32GB) and on one iphone 4S (32GB) and have never had a problem like you describe with disconnection on the LAN or jerky scrolling.
On the other hand, I tidy up and don't leave many programs running simultaneously.
11:32 pm
July 28, 2012
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I don't leave much running and usually close out everything about once a day. I've done the upgrade now and after some initial terrible wifi action (wouldn't connect at all for the first hour or so and just couldn't figure it out... and then after resetting the phone and modem it started working), it's been good and definitely a few things are loading quicker. No crashes or weird program closures.
The only big problem was, for some reason, at some point the install messed up and I had to use the backup to reinstall everything. Problem is, "backup" doesn't mean exactly what I thought it did. I lost all my applications and will have to contact a few companies of the next few days to get coupony type things set up again... But all in all, I think it is running a little better and as long as the wifi weirdness doesn't come back (which I fear it probably will....), it seems like an ok upgrade. But maybe it's not much of a big deal either way... Thanks again for help and comments!
Now to consider tackling the 10 buck monthly browsing....
