Q: IOS 7.1.2 is buggy, don't update

Thus the reason you should ensure that you DO have a backup before applying ANY update. Even though only a tiny percentage of people have had issues, (it may look more here in a Troubleshooting forum, but is reality these forums only represent a very small percentage) it seems that most who did failed to backup their iDevice.

Cheers

Pete

Hi Again,

Unfortunately, petermac87, there are people like me, who DID backup their iPhone and had access to four different iPhone 4S backup files from the past month, and each time iTunes backed the files up, it said the backup went fine, but once it came to restoring my same iPhone (after applying 7.1.2), none of the backup's worked, because iTunes kept telling me that the backup's were each corrupted!

So what do you do then?! What you end-up doing, is what I did: spending hour after poxy hour, faffing around trying to get your iPhone back up-and-running once more, through no fault of your own, simply because a user tried to update their iPhone in the first place!

If an update is going to cause this much grief and hassle, and I DO count 10 hours as a lot of unnecessary grief-and-hassle, then Apple needs to get its act together, and sort out a better form of Customer Service, to users who end-up bricking their iPhone's/iPad's through no fault of their own! Simply telling customers "It must be something you've done" is NOT acceptable Customer Service! In Apple's view, (and some of the user's on here too), it's never the update's fault, but always something else!

No it well isn't!!!

Pooch

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Seems most people are having no issues. But leave feedback with Apple if you believe otherwise.

Cheers

Pete

iPhone's/iPad's through no fault of their own! Simply telling customers "It must be something you've done" is NOT acceptable Customer Service! In Apple's view, (and some of the user's on here too), it's never the update's fault, but always something else!

Well, it probably is both. There are so many apps in the store nowadays that it is completely impossible to test the combined effect of all combinations of installed (& running) apps on an upgrade, even less so to test the various states those apps can leave a device in after it's been running for a given amount of time. There is a reason why I always booted my Mac off a cloned, external boot disk before applying OS X upgrades to the internal, main boot disk.

Of course that still means Apple have to acknowledge that issues after upgrading aren't necessarily only the user's fault. Esp. if said issues persist after doing a complete reinstall. It is also a pity that the way to downgrade (and the time lapse in which that's possible) isn't documented more clearly, and apparently not even something Genius bar personnel will (is authorised to) propose - if not even to do the upgrade to the latest OS once more...

7.1.2 is AWESOME!!!

boogeyman69 wrote:

 

7.1.2 is AWESOME!!!

some hundred  million users around the world appear to agree since I don't hear them whining

Hmmm, I wonder how many of those hundred million would have to learn English to come whine on here?

RJV Bertin wrote:

 

Hmmm, I wonder how many of those hundred million would have to learn English to come whine on here?

If you haven't noticed there are more than just English speaking users on here.

same issue with....iphone is lagging in apps

enosmac wrote:

That said, once the update is installed, it is very stable.

So it is only unstable when not installed? Thanks for clearing that up.

Pete

enosmac wrote:

 

Apple obvioulsy didn't test this release enough as far as the installation/update procedure.  As from this thread you can see people have had issues updating.

So, you, a student, know more than all the people who have actually gotten degrees in things like computer science and who have gone on to get jobs at one (if not the) top tech company in the world. Obviously. Just like, obviously, all the millions of people who are not posting that they are having a problem are wrong.

well it certainly has been buggy for me!! several of my apps stopped working and i couldnt connect to WiFi. i wouldnt dream of updating my ipads now. its made me dislike my iphone a wee bit. ive just finished backing it up to itunes so hopefully ive saved everything. what a pain

Isn't there line about when you land and the pilot shuts down the engines  ,you can still hear the whine from ................

Same problem here. Thanks Apple, like we don't have anything better to do than spend a sunday evening restoring iOS, contacts, apps and everything. Thanks.