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Apple Re-posts iOS 9.3 Build For Older Devices Affected By Activation Lock Bug (macrumors.com)
An anonymous reader cites an article on MacRumors: Just a few days after releasing the iOS 9.3 update, Apple stopped offering it to a selection of older devices including the iPad Air and earlier and the iPhone 5s and earlier due to an activation issue. When the update was pulled, Apple promised to release a new version of iOS 9.3 shortly. Apple today made good on that promise and has released a new version of iOS 9.3, build 13E237, which is now available for all iOS 9 users with older devices as an over-the-air update or through iTunes. Customers with older devices who had not yet updated to iOS 9.3 will be able to do so now.
I do admit, I like the promptness of Apple when they do release upgrades. They may take a long time to actually patch a bug, but a bulk of their user base has the upgrade is rather short order compared to Android.
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What about the bug that crashes apps when you tap on a hyperlink?
you don't really expect us to click that, do you?
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
This happened to me. But after a few panicked moments I remembered. I wrote my password on a postIt! Glory be I was saved. Now your all gonna tell me how I shouldn't write my passwords on PostIts! In my defense, I did put the posit under the mouse pad on my gaming system. I should not have told you that....
I'm glad this was fixed, but for several days I had a bricked device (you ended stuck on the activation screen, with no option to skip that process)
Meh. This happened to me on an iPad2.
I fixed it by plugging it into the computer. Worked fine then.
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I'm not an Apple hardware user but it seems to me if your hardware is bricked it can't be recovered without extraordinary means. Maybe we should call hardware that doesn't seem to work when updating software "sponged", kinda like a soft brick.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
Or users that only try one method of updating as 'full of hot water'.
There are two types of people in the world: Those who crave closure
Meanwhile, I'm glad they finally released the update so that I could install it. My iPad kept prompting me to install iOS 9.3 but then told me that it couldn't. Even today, I couldn't use the OTA update mechanism and instead had to plug in the iPad (I almost never connect it to my Mac) and update using iTunes. All because some idiots couldn't remember their iTunes password.
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Is the user full of hot water or is the sponge full of hot water? Maybe we have dry sponges and wet sponges!
Anway, if getting a device restarted by a simple method like rebooting, plugging into a computer, removing the battery in a removable battery device (not easy these days), or some combination of these, I wouldn't call the device bricked, I'd call it sponged. Really, really bricked means one is excellent at diagnosing problems and need to take it to the Apple store or send it to the manufacturer for a major overhaul, like replacing the motherboard or some other component in the device. If the Genius at the apple store can't fix the device without such serious action not easily available to the customer, then the device was definitely bricked.
In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. George Orwell
Why isn't this iOS 9.31? When my phone already running 9.3 told me that and upgrade to version 9.3 was now available, I didn't know whether it actually was a new version.