iOS5 Beta 1

[Petrit H]

so what do you guys recomand?? Should I upgrade to 5.0?

[DarkoNova]

Well it depends, are you jailbroken right now? If so, do you use a lot of jailbroken features? I was on 4.2.6 jailbroken, and I do miss SBSettings, Flashlight, custom sms/email/etc notification sounds and all that good stuff, but I'm digging the new features so much that I really don't mind losing that stuff. I'm hoping that someone will figure out how to jailbreak the beta and release it, but if not, I don't mind waiting.

I'm thinking about trying to downgrade back to a previous firmware, but mainly just to see whether or not I can, not really out of necessity.

[brownan]

the beta works almost flawlessly

[Petrit H]

Well it depends, are you jailbroken right now? If so, do you use a lot of jailbroken features? I was on 4.2.6 jailbroken, and I do miss SBSettings, Flashlight, custom sms/email/etc notification sounds and all that good stuff, but I'm digging the new features so much that I really don't mind losing that stuff. I'm hoping that someone will figure out how to jailbreak the beta and release it, but if not, I don't mind waiting.

I'm thinking about trying to downgrade back to a previous firmware, but mainly just to see whether or not I can, not really out of necessity.

thanks dude, im on 4.3.3 jailbroken and I do really use a lot of jailbroken tweaks, so better wait since my iphone 4 is the only one I use atm... when I had my ipod I always tried the new fw on ipod but since I lost it im gonna be patient, thanks for your reply dude

[southfrisco]

I have noticed quite a few issues with the first beta.

Using iPhone 4 AT&T model, 5.0 beta 1

- Calendar alerts are not showing up in the Notifications (Lock screen and Status bar list)
- Wifi no longer works on my device as of today (can't locate a wifi hotspot)
- Some third party apps are unstable (but this is to be expected)
- Apples main apps have crashed much more than when I had 4.3.3 running
- Had to delete and add my account three times to get the contacts from MobileMe to sync up correctly after a change (both on phone and on desktop)
- iMessage is spotty (some messages send and others do not) when sending and receiving to other iPhone users (especially ones on iOS 5 beta 1). Basic SMS text doesn't appear to be affected

This is with heavy use since the 8th of June.