Fellow Nerds... just like the GM release of iOS5, if you can locate the ipsw for your device for iOS6, you can download it and install it on a non developer phone.

Here's a site that I found that lists out ipsw locations for each device. I downloaded and installed the iPhone 4S ipsw this evening, and it worked perfectly.

http://jailbreakios6s.com/download-ios-6-gm-ipsw-direct-links/

If you haven't manually restored your phone before - it's pretty easy... download the file, then plug in your phone and back it up. Once it's backed up, press and hold the Option key (on a Mac, I think it's ALT on a PC?) and click the Restore button. That will allow you to browse to the ipsw and install it.

Good luck everyone!

(FWIW - the new OS doesn't seem all that different... haven't played with it much though.)

[This message has been edited by Scan Man (edited 9/12/2012 8:43p).]

I've got it running on my iPhone 4S and iPad 3. It's AWESOME!!! Siri has been giving me Rangers Game updates.

Can you dumb this down for me?

I'm wanting to do this also, but have never really messed with torrents before. anybody willing to give advice, or even a step-by-step?

Looks like the direct download links are starting to show up. You can avoid the torrent stuff with those.

Unless you're at work and everything is blocked.

How would one go about doing it the torrent way though if that is what they wanted to do?

will this wipe my phone?

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How would one go about doing it the torrent way though if that is what they wanted to do?

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http://www.utorrent.com/

It will wipe your phone, but that is why you do a backup/sync before hand. It will do that for you by default, but I like to do it manually anyway. Instead of just clicking 'update', you can shift+click 'update' button and you will get a window where you point it to the ios .IPSW. Then it will just update as usual. When its finished, you should be able to follow the on screen directions to hook it up to itunes and restore.

Just updated my 4s. We'll see how it goes.

Can I do this on my MacBook?

Can someone hold my hand?

Was going to update the wife's phone but somehow figured it would be better to wait for the actual official release. Any reason they would revise something behind the scenes like they did with 5.1.1, where its not really a new release, but they increased the build number?

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Was going to update the wife's phone but somehow figured it would be better to wait for the actual official release. Any reason they would revise something behind the scenes like they did with 5.1.1, where its not really a new release, but they increased the build number?

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What's out there now is the golden master that is being offered to all developers. This lets anyone who has an Apple developer account download the release and test on it. It's no different than what you will see released in a week or so.

That doesn't mean there won't be updates, but this release is what you'll get when it becomes available in iTunes.

BTW...the "Do Not Disturb" feature is pretty cool.

Would it be possible to apply one of the ipad 2 wifi updates and force it onto an iPad 1? It just sucks because my first gen ipad won't get iOS 6.

Updated this morning, forgot to check "sync apps".

I want to die.

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It just sucks because my first gen ipad won't get iOS 6.

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Just curious, but what new features do you want on the iPad? I've got the original iPad and I don't see anything in iOS6 that I could really use on the iPad.

Plus, I have a feeling this is going to be like when iOS5 came out and anyone who updated their 3G, their phone was pretty useless. I just don't see the need to update the iPad.

Do you have to have iOS developer access? I have a free developer account, but assume you need the $99/year account to get iOS6.

even if we have iOS 5.1.1 do we need to download and install the fresh 5.1.1 file on our phone?

i used the links above to get the torrent file. downloaded real quick and update my iPad 3rd gen. Running smoothly. Very nice.

No, you don't need dev access, and no, you don't need to do a fresh install of 5.1.1.

Make a backup of 5.1.1, install 6, restore from backup to get apps/texts/settings back.

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Jorts, did you make a backup before upgrading? If so, I think you could restore to the backup and then reinstall 6.

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Jorts, did you make a backup before upgrading? If so, I think you could restore to the backup and then reinstall 6.

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Here are some quick instructions on how to do this:

1) Download the iOS6 GM file from the links above. You should get a file with an extension .ipsw
2) Plug iPhone/iPad/iWhatever into computer and sync it.
3) After it finishes, just for good measure, right click on the iPhone icon in the left bar and click "Back Up"
4) With the iPhone still plugged in, hold down the option key (on a mac, or alt on win) and click the restore button. This will bring up a find a file box and look for .ipsw file you downloaded earlier. Click on that.
5) Now just walk through it like you are upgrading your phone.
6)After it finishes installing everything, leave the phone plugged in and walk through the activation on the phone.
7) After you do that, iTunes will ask if you want to set this up as a new phone or restore from a backup. RESTORE FROM BACKUP!
8) This will take about 8-10 minutes depending on how much you have on your phone.
9) After the restore is complete, make sure and sync your phone again, other wise a lot of your apps will still be missing.

Hopefully this helps some of you.

And I take no responsibility if you screw up your phone and lose all your information. If you're really worried about that, wait a week until iOS6 is release to the public in iTunes.

If you download this, then do you still have to download 6.0 on Wednesday? Or will this officially be recognized as 6.0 by any app you have?

It's the official release of iOS 6, that's what Gold Master refers to, it is the release point distribution that everyone will get next week.

Also, you can do the Option Click (Mac) / Alt Click (Windows) on Update instead of doing a full restore and works just fine.

I did the Restore method for my iPhone (it was having some issues with 5.1.1 and the restore method to 6 was recommended) and I did that for my iPad as well.

However, I did my wife's iPhone 4 and iPad 2 tonight just using the Update method and both her devices went significantly faster as the process did not restore to factory defaults, resetup and then sync, the Update just applied iOS 6 in place, so I highly recommend that if your phone and iPad are working well with 5.1.1.


-S

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4) With the iPhone still plugged in, hold down the option key (on a mac, or alt on win) and click the restore button. This will bring up a find a file box and look for .ipsw file you downloaded earlier. Click on that.

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I had to hold down the "shift" key and not the alt key.

Just FYI to those having trouble.

I tried to do the direct download on my mac but when I got to the download manager it said it couldn't run a windows application on your machine (obviously because it's a mac). How can I get the direct download file to download on my computer?

I don't know how to do the torrent download. Do i need to install something to download and use the torrent file?

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I'm updated. Got a little worried because I was never asked if I wanted to set up as new or restore from backup. When I saw that my second page of apps only had the music icon on it, but I had some of my personal folders and organization on the first page, I got a little worried. Tried to restore from backup and it said there was not enough room on the phone. I figured I would sync the apps manually and if I lost data, then I would just deal with it. When I went to sync again, that's when I noticed that my apps were all on page 3 and and beyond.

However, I just backed up again after the update and it still says it can't restore because there is not enough room on the phone.

Any ideas on why my restore from backup is not working? I still have 5.2 gigs free on my 32GB phone.

Edit: The only time I have restored from backup is when I upgraded my 3GS to the 4S. Do I have to restore to factory settings first and then restore from backup or can I just restore directly as it is?

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I'm unable to download the .torrent file from anywhere (I'm not on a Windows machine). Any advice or could someone email it to me?

TIA!

Finally updated my iPhone 4 and had absolutely no problems. It runs perfectly.

Yep updated my iPhone 4 as well. Running smooth and everything works like it is supposed to.

Running smoothly on my 4s. Somehow I lost my battery percentage indicator. Any ideas in how to get it back?

Go to settings, General, and then the switch is under usage.

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