The 4.2 Update killed my iPAD - Need help

[iPadCharlie]

I know this doesn't help anybody, but...

I am Ukrainian, not Irish, and I know by saying this, my next upgrade will be totally jinxed... but I am using Vista with the "real" version of iTunes 10.1 (as opposed to the beta) and the whole upgrade was flawless.

I also upgraded my wife's iPod Touch on her PC (also running Vista) and it was just as painless.

 

[GaurhothW]

For those that have used tiny umbrella, make sure it hasn't modified your HOSTS file. It will cause the update to fail.

 

[Digikid]

How do we find that out please? ^^^^^

 

[Demandarin]

I will hold up for a lil b4 trying this update. Windows users seem to have issues. Plus is a jailbreak available already for this update? If not then ill definitely wait. I gotta have ifiles. ;-)

 

[Oscar]

Used windows 7 pro here. No issues however when I was going back throughout the IPad manual it looked up in and the IPad froze. Had to do the power home button thing to get it to unfreeze and reboot.

 

[GaurhothW]

How do we find that out please? ^^^^^

Open tiny umbrella and go to the Advanced tab. Uncheck the 'Set Hosts to Cydia on Exit' option. Click Apply Changes.

The Cydia server appears like it was/is down, causing the update to fail if you have that modified host record by tiny umbrella.

 

[BrennB]

I'm good to go... required manually uninstalling itunes and (well deleting the cache from the hidden files) and then I was able to download and install the official 10.1... plugged in iPad and updated without a hitch. This was the first time it didn't work for me through all the betas and ipods I've ever used... Lucky I didn't panic an lost nothing (via tiny umbrella popping me out and the fact I had saved a backup folder to desktop incase I needed to restore anything...

 

[peled]

While in the process of preparing the update (After the backup done by the upgrade program) I suddenly notice that I have a picture of a USB connector with an Arrow pointing toword a circle designated as iTune. Can't get rid of it. Tried to reset the iPOD ( Long press on the power button) . Nothing.
By the way. I didn't have any jailbreak on it. No Cidia. Nothing. Just a new iPAD one month old with very few free programs, and some books.

Well it finally updated it self (V4.2.1) , after getting a little heart attack. My final conclusion at home was that I have some problem with the iTune. For some reason , suddenly iTune did not liked my iPAD . So in the morning I carried my iPAD to work , and connected to my XP LapTop.
Bingo. It immediately discovered that I have a problem and asked permission to restore. I granted permission for everything. Took an hour an a half to download the new version ( iTune decides for it self what version to download), and another half hour to recover, At the end I got my "Darling " back with Factory default. Didn't care much since it was a month old and had almost Zero Stuff on it.

Bottom line. Seems to be some kind of bug that is on PC with Windows 7 the upgrade crippled my iTune 10.1 .

 

[Mariane]

i think so

 

[gentlefury]

I gave up....no backup...starting over fresh. Sucks

 

[rwsimon]

To answer people about the problems I had with installing 4.2, I was using OSX, not Windows. So problems are not just limited to Windows users.

Things seems ok now except that my iPad Mail app now is stuck in one orientation. It won't rotate no matter how I turn the iPad. For everything else, the screen turns as usual. Anybody having this weird problem?

 

[newfmp3]

Windows 7 and Vista here. Both machines, same result. 4.2 failed upgrade, ended up restoring, lost all of my apps, the backup was worthless, can't even see my apps in itunes on the pc anymore.

I wish there was some way to tell itunes to redownload EVERYTHING in purchase history again???! is there?

 

[iPadster]

Hasn't killed mine yet, but 12 1/2 hours latter and it's still in back up mode. Bar shows 7/8 done.

 

[Rishabh]

After similar difficulties to most on this thread I managed to upgrade to 4.2.1, but lost everything I had. Then I tried to restore to factory settings and get back my stuff from the last backup. iTunes seemed to take ages to estimate the time to restore all the data, so I lost my patience and cancelled the process. I guess I will restore my iPad once again tonight and before sleeping I will ask itunes to restore my apps from my latest backup. Hopefully something will be done by the morning. Nothing else has worked for me in getting my old apps back on my iPad.

 

[gentlefury]

Windows 7 and Vista here. Both machines, same result. 4.2 failed upgrade, ended up restoring, lost all of my apps, the backup was worthless, can't even see my apps in itunes on the pc anymore.

I wish there was some way to tell itunes to redownload EVERYTHING in purchase history again???! is there?

I have heard of people contacting apple and getting them to redownload all of their purchases actually.