my bricked phone just activated on its own without itunes (what the hell)

[MotionxxUSxx]

I've got a unactivated 3g iphone that the apple store sent me home with since the activation servers were down. I'm at home and I keep getting the " we could not complete your itunes store request. An unknown error occurred (-4)" error trying to activate through itunes. All of a sudden I got a text message from att and the phone activated. I now have 3g service.

What the hell is going on, how is that even possible?

[ziggo]

you got lucky??


Seriously just count your luky stars because i'm getting the same "network timed out" error and I'm on like my 12th try with no end in sight...

[nickspohn]

Uh, probably when they tried to activate the phone in the store, it finally kicked in?

[MotionxxUSxx]

Uh, probably when they tried to activate the phone in the store, it finally kicked in?

they never hooked me up in store because they knew itunes was down.

[surferfromuk]

I had this with my Gen 1 iPhone. It's o2 who activate over the cell network. Didn't happen for a day!

This doesn't look like anything different. I'd say the activations happen when someone manually types your contract into an activation server and presses 'Go'...

[Mike2128]

This happened with mine. I had an old iPhone and upgraded. Initially had problems with the at&t look-up part of the process but that finally went through and immediately put my phone into No Service. Kept getting the same error messages as everyone else but then randomly got a text message from my girlfriend that had been waiting in queue. Phone works now but won't sync with iTunes on my computer.

EDIT: After letting it sit a few times in iTunes and browsing the board, the iTunes activation server seems to have caught up with me and is now syncing. Heyo!