Problem downgrading 3.4.5

Stout

Thanks for all your constructive positive inputs.

Believe it or not. Battery life is just fine. I can (if I want) watch Netflix 1 hour/day for a month and then I get a warning that it´s 10% battery left. That's good enough for me, age doesn't matter, it's working!

But who needs a battery when It can easily been connected to USB. I can even use it as an extension controller to Logic Pro without any problem, so why throw it away? Beacuse it's 12 years old?

droftarts

@Stout I've got a Gen 4 iPad. Yes, Netflix works still, just. Barely anything else does! Games and other streaming services, and iOS updates have left it behind. My 4yo uses it to watch Paw Patrol, to avoid fights with her older brother for the newer iPad, that actually can run everything. I had an even older Gen 3 iPad (Retina), which was even worse, so I bought an Adafruit Qualia board (https://www.adafruit.com/product/1716) and converted it into an external monitor. I may eventually get around to mounting it to one of my printers, and use it as a RPi display. Or perhaps build it into RPi tablet format, and reclaim it for it's original use. At least it cuts down on the e-waste.

Ian

infiniteloop

@Stout

Thanks for all your constructive positive inputs.

Meh. Just wanted to generate some understanding for developers and the decisions they have to take.

so why throw it away? Beacuse it's 12 years old?

Beware! Remember the venerable Newton I mentioned above? Or look at @droftarts’ suggestions. BTW: until now, I replaced more than 10 batteries of iPhones and iPads instead of trashing them. The monitor of my M2 is a 12 year old iMac (modded), I run a G5 „cheese grater“ for elaborated HDD recovery, and my Duet lives in a G4 casing.

The thing is: Apple cuts support for older machines, so we are on our own with how to keep them alive and useful. Some of us then install Linux, some jailbreak their iOS devices in order to install unsupported software.