I totally agree. Since upgrading my iPad 1 to 5.0.1 Safari crashes all the time. Other browsers also crash (for example, Atomic Web Browser crashes a LOT...) I am hoping for a fix for this, but it is very annoying that apple didn't discover this issue in its testing...
Figured I'd bump this thread up and ask the question: Is iOS 5.1 work a lot better with 4th gens than 5.01? I'm seriously wondering if is worth upgrading (again)...
I have a few questions, if anyone can answer them, it would be extremely awesome: 1. How bad is the lag on iOS 5.1? Is it that bad on Safari, the app store, and games? (don't have many top-of-the-line games graphically though) 2. Should most games now pulled off the app store still work? Madden 11, NBA Elite, and Flip Riders (the original). I wouldn't care if they wiped my progress, but I don't want either of the games listed(i have a couple others that got pulled i wouldn't care about) to stop working. Could anyone please check those games if they have iOS 5 and the games backed up? 3. Is it smart to update while in the middle of beta testing a couple games? I think I can reinstall all of them via testflight, but I'm wondering if its smart or not. 4. Is there anything else I should be aware of before updating to iOS 5?
Alrighty... Lag for me is fixed, and the battery life is much better since 5.0.1 and 5.0 As for the games you hope work, I don't have NBA, but Madden 11 and the original Flip Riders work great for me. Not sure about beta testing in progress... You'll loose your game progress... Along with all your other apps info... When updating to 5.0 I lost EVERYTHING. But yeah, you can just reinstall TestFlight. And redownload your beta version apps, then restart them. I haven't experienced any of the problems I had with 5.0 or 5.0.1 since updating to 5.1. No game lag, no safari lag, no AppStore lag, I can play all the games in the AppStore, minus games that only run on iPad 2+3 + 4S (Kids vs Goblins comes to mind) - and I didnt care about iCloud when I first updated to 5.0, but having an iPad and sharing game saves automatically is AWESOME, and now whenever I get a new game, I always hope it has cloud support. But it's also nice having larger games that support it, because if you need space, you can delete one, and then just reinstall when you have enough space again in the future and start off where you were. I've got a 4th gen touch, 32GB... And it was full when I updated but now it's got 12 GB of free space. Took me about 3 hours total to download, backup, and everything when I got 5.0... Even though I lost everything... So it was a waste of time. But now you don't even need to have your iDevice plugged into your computer to update. I updated to 5.1 while I was at my sister in laws, and she doesn't have a comp. was able to do it over wi-fi. I know that's not too big of a deal, but it is for me, because my old pc crashed, and the one I have now sucks, and starts going haywire whenever I plug anything into a USB port. =oP **If it matters, I typed all this on my iPod. No issues at all with lag, or anything... Like I said, just if it matters. =oP
Sweet, thanks a ton for the info. Will update to iOS 5 very soon (I'd do it tonight, but one of the betas I'm in has a critical bug that might cause my device to brick up and wipe the memory, even if I delete it, so I won't chance it yet). Thanks a bunch for the info, though. Really glad to hear I can be safe in upgrading; I hadn't realized how many of my major fears had been corrected in iOS 5.1! Now I'll finally not have to worry about games requiring 4.3 or 5.0!
Manually backup your device first. In my case, I didn't lose anything and everything restored fine. I still get the lag after unlock..but overall a much better experience with 5.1 vs 5.0.1.
Yeah, I did. First April Fools joke to get me all day (and there have been a bunch). But yeah, looks like I'll upgrade tonight or tomorrow night. Doing it at night that way I don't have to wait for everything to load and all and so I can get the time my device needs to update out of the way so I can use it. Or is that a bad idea in case somethin' goes haywire? Either way I plan on [finally] updating!
