Well, I decided to upgrade my original iPad to iOS 5 this evening and received “Error -1303” (or “Error 1303” to help the search engines find it more easily) three times. I was offered the option to proceed without backing up my device but I didn’t think that was a good option.<\/p>\n
I ran another manual backup and I am This process should also work for iPhones and iPod Touches too.<\/p>\n I’ll let you know how I get on!<\/p>\n Update @ 2129 hours: I have updated the iPad to iOS 5 and now restoring from backup. Fingers crossed!<\/p>\n Update @ 2143 hours: All done, you wouldn’t have known that the upgrade ran into any hiccups unless you were here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I decided to upgrade my original iPad to iOS 5 this evening and received “Error -1303” (or “Error 1303” to help the search engines find it more easily) three times. I was offered the option to proceed without backing up my device but I didn’t think that was a good option. I ran another … <\/p>\nnot<\/del> performing a bare metal restore of the iPad which will wipe it and blast iOS 5 straight on then restoring apps and data from my backups. I am guessing it is similar to formatting your computer and putting the latest version of Windows on it rather than upgrading over the top again and again.<\/p>\n