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I'm trying to figure out if I can update my iPhone to iOS 5 now rather than wait all the way till fall, is there a way to do this?
Your iPhone must be linked to a Apple Developer account in order to update to iOS 5. Find someone who has an account and ask them or pay $99 for a developer account and an early upgrade.
To answer your question directly, you can't: you need iTunes 10.5, a mac only application for now.
iOS betas are released for developers to test their applications, not end user to test Apple's. Unlike many other betas, a bug reporter exists but isn't the main purpose of this.
Also, developers are clearly asked not to install the betas on their main devices (their personal iPhone for example). Not only could doing so result in a very buggy day to day experience, but Apple sometimes releases versions a few days after the previous version expired, literally blocking the device in the meantime (the Purple Screen of Death).
Sorry to announce you just lost a hundred bucks, unless you buy a mac and start programming (this is a nice opportunity isn't it?).
IOS 5 is still in beta and available only to Apple Developer program subscribers.
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I'm looking at upgrading my development iPhone 3GS from iOS4.3.5 to iOS5. Now that Apple even rejects apps that use the older SDK and contain an iPhone 5 launch image, I see no need to keep my iPhone 3GS on iOS4.
Even though the latest s/w for iPhone 3GS is iOS6, will an upgrade to iOS5 be successful through the server verification. I ask because I tried to restore in a similar situation previously on a different device (and different iOS versions) but it wouldn't let me so I had to upgrade to the latest compatible version of iOS.
Success/failure stories would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
James
PS. this may not be a techy question, but as a community of developers, this seems to be the best place to ask!
Apple no longer signs iOS5 meaning that you can't restore to iOS5 unless you have previously saved the SHSH blobs either in Cydia or with a tool such as TinyUmbrella.
See Explained: SHSH Blobs
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On the Apple developer site, it states that "Devices updated to iOS 5 beta can not be restored to earlier versions of iOS." I believe this is new, and remember seeing that Apple is changing the way it provides older versions of iOS. I'd like to be able to install iOS 5, knowing that I can revert to iOS 4 if need be, since I have some apps that may not be compatible.
Does anyone know if this is possible? And if so, A) is it hard, and B), does it actually violate Apple's TOS?
Thanks!
Apple has repeatedly said that there is no officially supported way to downgrade from iOS beta OS versions. Don't play with beta OS versions except on test devices which you don't need for running apps that may not be compatible with the beta OS. e.g. you need a spare device to temporarily trash.
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Ive applied for the IPhone App developer license over a week ago but still havent heard anything back from apple as of yet.
Im quite deep into the development of my application and am wondering if there is a way i can deploy it to a device for testing in the meantime (while waiting for apple to get back to me)?
I cant jailbreak the phone because its not mine.
Also, does anybody know the average time it takes for apple to "contact your legal representative" and approve the application process?
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Unless you jailbreak, no, you will have to wait for a certificate to deploy a signed app.
I'm not aware of any way to load apps
Maybe one of your friends has a dev certificate?
I believe the apple process takes a bit over a week - at least that was the case for my UK based Ltd company.
Personal (non-company) applications are quicker; I believe these usually complete within 24 hours.
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How much does it cost to develop an iphone application?
Hope somebody can help. I have been googling trying to get an indication of how long it took apple to develop the AppStore & the iPhone SDK?
My Co. have had an idea to try and do a similar thing internally for our own apps and massively underestimating the amount of work that will be required.
If anybody has any idea how long Apple spent developing the SDK & AppStore, links to any pages even better, I would be very grateful for the info so that I can use that for discussion about the plans.
Cheers
Well apple has hundreds of trained engineers working for them, even still at launch, Steve Jobs said the iPhone took around 6 years to create. Along this time frame they were creating the iPhone SDK which they used to create all the apps built in to the phone. Since then they have been constantly updating the SDK several times a year, expanding a lot. The App Store, my guess is that they used the robust iTunes base they already had for distribution, and then all the rest (legal and technical) things should have taken no time at all.
I'm not sure what your company wants to do but it seems without Apple's resources you'd be better off not.
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i was wondering if i can get a iphone developer certificate for free?
I just want to learn objective-c and iphone development.
// No, the xCode iPhone Simulator don't have an accelerometer etc.
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As far as I know, no. It's not possible to get into the dev program without coughing up the dough :)
The dev kit (with the simulator) is good enough for most uses though, and you can certainly learn to develop on the iphone though that. As you mentioned, you don't get access to certain features, but such is life.
As everyone has already said you can't get a free certificate. If however your at university it might be worth asking around the various departments to see if they have signed up for a university licence, this is how I've got my development certificate.
The free developers kit that provides the simulator will let you learn how to do 90% of iPhone coding without having to use an iPhone. If you're new to iPhone development and don't know for certain you will be releasing apps for it, I think the getting an actual developer's license is a waste of money.
Instead, get the free stuff and use it to learn the ropes and then only get the license if and when you decide you what to learn the last 10% and/or release an app.
By jailbreaking your phone, you will not be able to always update your phone to the latest version, and therefore as a developer will face the problem when you sync your phone to your computer to test your code, that you will not be doing it with the latest version and Apple do not look kindly to people who release software that is older than the latest version available
You should check out Apple's developer website. They have objective-c and iPhone development tutorials there.