upgrading?
Connect the iPhone to iTunes and do a Restore from Backup.
Locate the backup you did before the upgrade and you will be back to iOS5.0 on completion.
BTW, you were not forced to upgrade to 5.1, it was purely your own choice.
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A lot of you are obviously much more familiar with Apple products than I am and most probably enjoy their Apple products however my experience is to the contrary and I'm ready to toss mine and stick with a good old fashioned Windows or Android/Linux product. Maybe someone out there can help me through my dilemma. I have a 3rd Gen Ipod touch and recently did a reluctant upgrade to IOS 5.1. All my apps worked fine until the upgrade. After the upgrade Safari crashes and the only game I PURCHASED (Scramble with friends) crashes as well. Neither will load at all. Clicking on the icon takes me immediately to the home screen. I've tried all I can think of to resolve this, going to far as rooting the device to no avail. After rooting even Cydia crashes. I've done multiple "reboots", every which way possible and even a factory reset but still no resolution. The problem is obviously the new OS and I have been unable to find any information telling me how to revert to an earlier OS. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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