Originally Posted by richsadams

Well, I guess change is hard for some folks. Personally I generally like change in the tech world because things are improving. I'd say I'm very happy with about 90% of the iOS 5 changes on my iPad.

I am in full agreement that the original iPod App was better than the new Music App that replaced it. That may be because I haven't mastered the Music App just yet, but after a couple of initial test drives of the new UI, I liked the iPod App better.

After the iOS 5 upgrade I found the Music App had some serious bugs. I'd touch one song and a different song played or worse, nothing would happen. It was also slow to respond. There was some album art missing as well. These things really concerned me. Here's what I did to resolve everything. I connected the iPad to my computer and in iTunes under "Music" I unchecked "Sync Music". I clicked on "Apply". This removed all of the music/playlists that I had on my iPad. I then disconnected my iPad and shut down iTunes. I then reconnected it and re-checked "Sync Music", putting all of the music back on my iPad (with about 30GB of music this took a little while of course). Everything worked as expected except the response time was still slow. I decided to reset the iPad. Held the home and power buttons for at least ten seconds, until the Apple logo appeared. Ta-dah! My Music App is as snappy as the iPod App was and everything's working flawlessly. Phew!

Should I have had to go through that? I don't think so...that's not my normal "it just works" Apple experience at all. However I'll cut them some slack...this time. As compared to Windows updates and upgrades of years past, finding drivers, tweaking the registry, putting up with massive updates that made my PC's slower and slower, crashing on a regular basis, no...still not a snow ball's chance I'd ever go back.

Still don't like the Music App UI as much, but I'll give it some time.

Other than that iOS 5 is working wonderfully on my iPad and iPhone 4 as well as iTunes 10.5 and Lion our Macs so I couldn't be happier with this upgrade. I feel badly for folks that don't like "change" but as for me...I enjoy learning new things, it keeps me young and I don't shout at the kids to get off of my lawn nearly as often!

Some great points there Rich, but some of us are still taking the "wait and see" approach with this. My main for reason for waiting is simply because I really like the way my unit is working with OS 4.3.5 on it and there isnt anything or any feature in OS5 that I personally consider a must-have. Its not so much fearing change, its more finding enough valid reasons or benefits that make going through the change worth it. And, in fairness, there are people having a few sticky issues/dislikes with OS5.

Originally Posted by s2mikey

Some great points there Rich, but some of us are still taking the "wait and see" approach with this. My main for reason for waiting is simply because I really like the way my unit is working with OS 4.3.5 on it and there isnt anything or any feature in OS5 that I personally consider a must-have. Its not so much fearing change, its more finding enough valid reasons or benefits that make going through the change worth it. And, in fairness, there are people having a few sticky issues/dislikes with OS5.

Oh, indeed, I get that. No harm in waiting at all. It can be the smart move. It's never moving that'll get you in trouble.

ISO 5 is turning out to be crap. Is there a way to go back to the last version?
First sound goes out, then video goes, continuing crashes worse than windows ever.
Now my email will not send. Says will not authenticate server - any server

Originally Posted by DUCBOS

ISO 5 is turning out to be crap. Is there a way to go back to the last version?
First sound goes out, then video goes, continuing crashes worse than windows ever.
Now my email will not send. Says will not authenticate server - any server

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Sorry to hear about your poor experience with the iOS 5 upgrade. Unfortunately you cannot revert to an older iOS version.

You may want to try restarting or resetting your iPad, that's resolved problems for a number of folks.

• Restart the iPad: Press and hold down the Home button on the front of the iPad for few seconds until the red slider appears, slide this across to shut the iPad down. Restart the iPad by pressing the power button on the top until the Apple logo appears.
• Reset the iPad: If restarting the iPad didn't work then you will need to reset the iPad. You can do this by pressing the Home button and the Sleep/wake button on the top the iPad's case and holding them down together for at least 10 seconds, until you see the Apple logo. The iPad should then reset itself. The boot up process will take longer than the restart.

With respect to Mail, check your SSL and Authentication settings to see if they are correct:

1. Settings App
2. Mail, Contacts, Calendar
3. Tap your email account
4. Account
5. Advanced
6. Use SSL (if "On" turn "Off" or if "Off, turn "On")
7. Authentication (Set as appropriate, generally to use Password)

If that doesn't work sometimes deleting and setting up the email account again will work.

Hope that helps and let us know how it goes.

Welcome again and enjoy!

I upgraded a week ago to iSO 5 on my iPad. It worked fine until yesterday. I've rebooted several times. That fixed the sound problem. Later a reboot fixed the video. The mail issue I cannot solve. There is no reason for it. Nothing has been changed from when it worked correctly yesterday. It receives email, but will not recognize any email server I send out. Even replays. I guess I'll have to move to android phone.

Originally Posted by DUCBOS

I upgraded a week ago to iSO 5 on my iPad. It worked fine until yesterday. I've rebooted several times. That fixed the sound problem. Later a reboot fixed the video. The mail issue I cannot solve. There is no reason for it. Nothing has been changed from when it worked correctly yesterday. It receives email, but will not recognize any email server I send out. Even replays. I guess I'll have to move to android phone.

"Rebooted" = Restarted or Reset?

Did you have a look at your mail settings or delete and set up the email account again?

Also, have you considered that it may be a mail server or ISP problem and nothing to do with your iPad?

Not sure how an Android phone fits...but okay.

Reboot = restart
Looked at all settings. Same as the have bee and are correct
It says "server xxxxx rejected" I tried it with 8 different email from different people
Don't know why or how to fix.
Everything goes to outbox an outbox freezes or crashes when you try to send fom ther.
It worked fine yesterday

I just meant that I guess I'll need another way to use email now

Originally Posted by DUCBOS

Reboot = restart
Looked at all settings. Same as the have bee and are correct
It says "server xxxxx rejected" I tried it with 8 different email from different people
Don't know why or how to fix.
Everything goes to outbox an outbox freezes or crashes when you try to send fom ther.
It worked fine yesterday

Instead of restarting your iPad, try resetting it as mentioned in my earlier post.

The mail problem is a settings or server issue. If you only have one email account on your iPad you only have one mail server to "try"...where other emails came from or are going to won't make any difference. If the mail server can't authenticate your email account it won't allow you to send anything (to anyone). As mentioned above, check your authentication settings. That it worked yesterday may mean that there's something wrong with your mail account and/or with your ISP's mail server. To find out, check and see if everything is good on a computer. If so, match up your iPad's settings with those on the computer. If you can't send mail from your computer, it's a server issue and nothing to do with your iPad.

Again, it may mean deleting and setting up your email account on your iPad to clean things up...data on any computer can get corrupted.

I'd still try resetting your iPad first though.

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