After yesterdays melodrama, I bit the bullet and when on a mystery tour down the rabbit hole. And, I thought instead of rambling on about it, like yesterday, I would just put a few lines of text below some pictures, so that’s exactly what I’m going to do!
As you can see from the above, I shifted the firmware over to the Mac and then worked on backing up my old Applications and the like (after the break).
That’s the backup done, next, into iTunes for the upgrade.
To select the firmware from your Hard Drive, Option click (Mac (alt)) or shift click (Windows). I chose to do this on the upgrade button, rather than restore.
Next, and no screenshot for this, we wait for it to prepare the device for upgrade..
Now onto the upgrade process itself;
Step 2, the update begins…
Step 3, verifying
Step 4, more updating
Step 5, update complete, restart time
Oh noes, an error. Either way, the error didn’t seem to do anything as the iPod connected up soon after it showed
iTunes asked if I wanted to restore from a backup, of course, yes was the answer.
Backup seemed successful, applications that I had previously kept their place on the Springboard. Not yet checked bookmarks.
In iTunes showing the update.
Remember kids, don’t take a screengrab while your iPod wants to sync… (Hold the home button and press the power button, the grab should appear in your pictures on the next sync)
The first sync… We could be here a while…
Jaz
Update: After I wrote this post, I did a secure erase of my data, and then a restore from a backup, sync error is now gone, as is the issue with mail.app.
Jaz
Update 2: Testing something once I revert to 1.1.4 to the tune of;
For the Remote App, doing the above reveals, iTunesArtwork, iTunesMetadata.plist and a Payload folder containing Remote.app. Just need to wait for the secure delete and the firmware downgrade until I can test.
Jaz
Update 3: Can’t downgrade, even with iTunes 7.5. Will need to do further testing for that another day. The secure delete fixed the problem I was having with mail though… Let’s hope that sticks.
I also discovered that iTunesArtwork is the thumbnail image for the application in the app store, and iTunesMetadata.plist is versioning info, download details etc.