iOS 8

randal · 11 Sep 2014 at 11:20

At risk of sounding like everyone who installs a new version of iOS... I can't help but think my battery is draining fast. It's 11am, phone came off overnight charge at 100% at 8pm. Few texts this morning and I'm at 88%.

Feek · 11 Sep 2014 at 12:17

randal said:
At risk of sounding like everyone who installs a new version of iOS... I can't help but think my battery is draining fast. It's 11am, phone came off overnight charge at 100% at 8pm. Few texts this morning and I'm at 88%.

Settings/General/Usage/Battery Usage and you can see what's sucking your battery.

BeatMaster · 11 Sep 2014 at 12:27

Feek said:
Yup, all done with no problems whatsoever. I started it going and went and watched GBBO while it did it. I have no idea how long it took but it was all over and sorted by the time the Princess cake came out of the oven!

Still finding out about new things but it's working well. I think it's a little quicker than iOS7 although that may be my imagination.

Perfect

I'll drop you a PM for info on the iOS 8 GM IPSW

Feek · 11 Sep 2014 at 13:36

BeatMaster said:
Perfect I'll drop you a PM for info on the iOS 8 GM IPSW

They're not too hard to find, I found one on Mega which gave a really good download speed but this might have what you want.
Once you've got the file, plug the phone into iTunes, option-click on Update, it will give you the change to select a file to use and then just let it do what it wants.

Sorted.

randal · 11 Sep 2014 at 13:53

Feek said:
Settings/General/Usage/Battery Usage and you can see what's sucking your battery.

Messages... 41%

Trig · 11 Sep 2014 at 15:04

Stop sexting...

Cosimo · 11 Sep 2014 at 16:14

Put it on my iPad Air this morning without problems. Feels faster than before.

Feek · 11 Sep 2014 at 18:34

The auto brightness is much faster to react and seems somewhat better in iOS 8. It's not going anywhere near as bright as it did before and as the room light changes, the screen is getting brighter and darker much quicker. I reckon that will improve battery life.

UberTiger · 11 Sep 2014 at 21:01

Feek said:
Settings/General/Usage/Battery Usage and you can see what's sucking your battery.

That a new feature for iOS8? On my 5 and iOS 7.1.2 it only shows a switch to turn percentage on and off there.

Feek · 11 Sep 2014 at 21:27

UberTiger said:
That a new feature for iOS8? On my 5 and iOS 7.1.2 it only shows a switch to turn percentage on and off there.

Yup and it's a good one.

BeatMaster · 12 Sep 2014 at 10:46

Now running iOS 8 on iPhone 5.

Sadly it didn't go without smoothly. I cannot stress enough, <b>BACKUP</b> before upgrading!

Thankfully, I did do a backup via iTunes and extract all my photos and videos. I applied the upgrade but it failed at about 90%. I unplugged the iPhone and had to go into recovery mode. Restored and re-applied iOS 8 which worked. Then re-sync my apps and all working as expected.

One thing I've noticed is Camera Roll is no-more..? Which is fine, as I've been meaning to organise and sort all my photos so this will encourage me to do so.

UberTiger · 12 Sep 2014 at 11:07

Feek said:
Yup and it's a good one.

Nice! Should help to know which power hungry background apps to disable

scoopex · 12 Sep 2014 at 13:17

I do consider myself pretty tech savvy buy what version of iOS 8 firmware do I need for my iPad Wi-Fi with Retina Display MD514B/A? Yes I have searched everywhere for the info.

KIA · 12 Sep 2014 at 13:27

scoopex said:
I do consider myself pretty tech savvy buy what version of iOS 8 firmware do I need for my iPad Wi-Fi with Retina Display MD514B/A? Yes I have searched everywhere for the info.��

iPad 4 Wi-Fi (Model A1458)

Code:

ios_8_gm_seed_ipad_4th_generation_model_a1458_12a365.zip

scoopex · 12 Sep 2014 at 13:36

KIA said:
iPad 4 Wi-Fi (Model A1458)

Code:

ios_8_gm_seed_ipad_4th_generation_model_a1458_12a365.zip

Thanks for that mate, I was going bloody nuts.

Spit · 12 Sep 2014 at 20:09

Feek, that link you put up earlier do you have to register your UDID with the website in the instructions txt file?

BeatMaster · 12 Sep 2014 at 20:12

Spit said:
Feek, that link you put up earlier do you have to register your UDID with the website in the instructions txt file?

Nope. Think that was for Beta versions.

I'd hold off as GM being re-released without some new features

Alpherah · 12 Sep 2014 at 20:48

BeatMaster said:
Now running iOS 8 on iPhone 5.

Sadly it didn't go without smoothly. I cannot stress enough, <b>BACKUP</b> before upgrading!

Thankfully, I did do a backup via iTunes and extract all my photos and videos. I applied the upgrade but it failed at about 90%. I unplugged the iPhone and had to go into recovery mode. Restored and re-applied iOS 8 which worked. Then re-sync my apps and all working as expected.

One thing I've noticed is Camera Roll is no-more..? Which is fine, as I've been meaning to organise and sort all my photos so this will encourage me to do so.

What is good however is if I add photo's into iPhoto they now show up on my phone, so i've got my entire collection with me at all times now (assuming you have enough iCloud storage)

Feek · 13 Sep 2014 at 14:40

BeatMaster said:
I'd hold off as GM being re-released without some new features

Not sure I follow what you mean? Surely the GM is the GM, once it's fixed, it's final?

BeatMaster · 13 Sep 2014 at 15:43

Feek said:
Not sure I follow what you mean? Surely the GM is the GM, once it's fixed, it's final?

That's what I thought too. I suspect they'd of done an 8.0.1 to remove/fix bugs rather than change the customer release.

http://www.macrumors.com/2014/09/12/apple-demotes-icloud-photo-library-beta/

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