I just came home, found my own iPad in the same state. So I plugged it in, and upgraded it to the beta 3 ..

After it finished updating, iTunes said "You need to update iTunes to use this iPad" .. So I did. After updating iTunes aswell, when I connect the iPad it just says "There is a problem with your iPad. We're sorry, the iPad you connected may be damaged and can not be activated for service".

I have not registered the UDID of the iPad with the developer account, since it didn't seem to require this for the beta 2 to install - so I don't know if that will change anything. Could this be the issue? That I have to add the device to the developer account so it will verify and activate the account? (Didn't need that to install beta 2 anyway). It's a company account, so I don't want to eat up our device slots if it's not necesarry.

Any tips?

ok so i found out, beta 2 is expired beta 3 is available. guess i was on beta 2 gonna have to have a "talk" with my developer

yeah i think you have to have your udid registered. itunes told you that you needed to update itunes?? interesting since the new itunes is still in beta also

It asked me to upgrade to iTunes 10.0.1.

Managed to downgrade to the current latest iOS 3 version (by doing regular restore + recboot to kick it out of restore mode). So now I have a working iPad again (but it feels kind of crippled after having run 4.2 for a couple of weeks). Will now add my UDID to the developer account, and will then then try installing 4.2 beta 3 again.

iTunes 10.0.1 is the latest public release. i managed to put 4.2beta3 on my ipad after beta2 expired today. beta3 is due to expire on nov 29th 2010 but the public release should be before that. its a good idea to always make sure iTunes is always updated, and always do a backup.

You should be able to shift update to beta 3. I did it no problem.... I am a registered developer but don't have my iPad registered yet (yea lazy).

But it is probably not possible if you let a beta expire before updating to next beta. Now that you are down to 3.2.2 it should be ok.



Michael

Indeed. I'm now at beta 3.

After the downgrade - i registered my UDID just in case, and the beta 3 install worked like a charm. Going to have to try the same procedure on my brothers iPad to get his working again aswell.

Not the usual Apple painless OS upgrade I've gotten used to - but hey, they don't even sell the iPad in Sweden yet, so I can't complain

just google the download 4.2 beta 3 ipsw and you can find it