Hi All, The Apple Discussion Forum was down so I am composing this on the new iOS version of Pages, using my iPad 2, Apple Bluetooth Keyboard, and Origami Workstation. It's my favorite combination for intensive productivity work using the iPad and comes dang close to using my MacBook Pro. Sorry...I digress. I hope when I copy and paste this into Apple Support it works!
I finally was able to download 5.1 to our family's 3 iPhone 4S's, one original iPad, and one iPad 2. When I turned on the devices, there was a notification screen saying an software update was available. Surprise! I have always updated my iOS devices via the wired connection to iTunes, but I decided, "What the heck," let's go for it. So, I downloaded via the wireless Software Update functionality (Settings-->General-->Software Update) on the phones and iPads. This is where things got interesting.
My iDevices followed two different procedures when updating. Yes, you heard that right. I am concerned that for some inexplicable reason this may mean that I didn't get the full, perfect update on some of my devices.
Version 1: I am in "Software Update" in Settings and hit "Update" (or something like that). I was then presented with the Terms of Agreement to which I hit "Accept." Immediately, my iDevice went to a Black Screen with the Update Progress Bar along the bottom half of the screen. After the progress bar slowly progressed from left to right, that screen cleared and eventually another Black Screen appeared with another progress bar. This time the bar progressed more quickly from left to about half way to the right. The screen then cleared and I was presented with the password login screen. The update was done.
Version 2: Everything was the same as in Version 1. BUT, this time, after accepting the terms of agreement the iDevice did NOT go to a Black Screen. Instead it STAYED in the Software Update screen and RIGHT THERE IN THE SOFTWARE UPDATE SCREEN appeared a progress bar with the word "Downloading" below it. This progress bar was a smaller version of the one mentioned above. It took about 3 minutes for the progress bar to move from left to right and THEN...BOOM...my iDevice went to the Black Progress Bar screen and went through all the steps in Version 1.
I have never updated via wifi before so I don't know which version is normal. Or, is it just a random thing and doesn't matter. Or, for some reason, did some of my iDevices skip part of the updating procedure (the part that occurred within the Software Update Screen). After waiting what seemed like a lifetime for this update I am unusually paranoid that I didn't get the "full monty" update on some of my iDevices. To the best of my recollection, one iPad went through Version 1, the other followed Version 2. One iPhone 4S followed Version 1 and 2 iPhone 4S's followed Version 2. I could understand the iPads doing things differently since they are different models. But, I don't get the iPhone's going through different routes as they are supposedly identical machines.
This would have been a lot shorter if I had taken screen shots of things but I didn't dare touch the iDevices during download. If anyone has got this far...I owe you. If anyone can shed some light on this, I double owe you. I probably should have posted this somewhere else, but all "my peeps" are in this thread and I felt more comfortable posting it here.
