iPad

[Flojomojo]

Holy crap that was easy. A little scary that the machine could be rooted by a web site, makes me afraid of drive-by browser attacks.

[Cloudane]

Are you on 3.2.1? I've heard it's not working on that yet, but not sure if it's only for some people or for everyone.

[Flojomojo]

Not sure how well it worked, but I have Cydia on my 3.2.1 iPad now. A lot of the repositories are broken or mislabeled. The only thing that really interests me is the oldies emulation scene, and it looks like I'll need to download those apps by hand or enter non-default repo's.

[Misfit]

Not sure how well it worked, but I have Cydia on my 3.2.1 iPad now. A lot of the repositories are broken or mislabeled. The only thing that really interests me is the oldies emulation scene, and it looks like I'll need to download those apps by hand or enter non-default repo's.

I get the feeling Cydia is being hammered by a LOT of people at the moment and not coping. So it could be that.

Interested to hear how you get on with any emulation stuff please...

[Deckard]

I had the same last night with my iPhone but this morning it has seemed to install all the correct sources/repos. Should be interesting to see how the emulators do on this new speedy phone. Nice to see Rock reinstalled all my paid for software without a glitch so MyWi is back and I can now stop paying O2 for 3g access for my iPad.

[Yak]

Thought I'd update my pad to 3.2.1, so I started a full backup sync last night before I went to bed.

Got up this morning and it's less than a quarter done.

Something's *severely* fucked up with the backup method. How the hell can it possibly take that long, even for a 64gig iPad?

[Cloudane]

Similar with my iPhone except that it got half way and I went to bed. Got up and it was still half way.

So it might've frozen? If so it could be a case of doing a DFU mode restore. Welcome to the club!

[Yak]

Nah, it is progressing but just glacially fucking slowly. OK, 64 gig over USB takes a little while (and the pad's actually only half full anyway) but nowhere *near* this amount of time. Makes me wonder if the backup routines are written in Sinclair BASIC or something. It's just ridiculous that it can't complete a backup overnight really.

[PVB]

Maybe pop into an Apple store and ask the Genius bar staff if it should take that long?

[Deckard]

Mine did its backup overnight last night but mine is only a 16...

[Flojomojo]

I think this is the way it is ... but do make sure you're plugged directly into the port on your computer, and that you have the very latest iTunes. I too have a 64GB iPad and it's mostly full, and it takes for-EVER to sync and back up.

[RiK]

Just tried, my 32Gb 3G (about half full at the mo), six pages full of apps, lots of data on there for various apps.

Backup/Sync took just over a minute.

[VNVObit]

Both my ipad and iPhone are 32g and the iPad backup dies take noticeably longer even though there's less on it (don't bother putting music on it)

Does seem odd

[Yak]

Bit of a long way for me to "pop" to reach an apple store from here.

It's just over halfway through according to the status baa, and has been backing up for I estimate 16 hours odd.

Oh, and iTunes is also managing to consume half the CPU during all this. Doing exactly what, who the fuck knows.

[VNVObit]

Seems it isn't uncommon
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jsp ... &tstart=60