The work around is to ask a store employee or anyone for a working sim use that to activate then put in your sim. Problem temp. solved.
if the server is down no varience in sim is going to change that.
The work around is to ask a store employee or anyone for a working sim use that to activate then put in your sim. Problem temp. solved.
those isheeps....The reason why Apple is letting down customers is because they hired people like you. Satisfied with failure. It's all good man!
If I bought an expensive phone and contract, and couldn't use it for days... well, that would be my last Apple product.
Well, wonder how much this will effect the sales of iPhones until it's fixed.
This is outrageous
"A" server issue? Really? So the multiple billion $$ Apple has "A" server that has failed. (probably the one hard drive that was in it). Yes crap happens I get that (I am in IT and have been for 25+ yrs). However these days redundancy is more important that ever. There is no excuse for a multibillion$ company like Apple with multiple datacenters all over the place to be down totally. Especially for activations. Not to mention a week long outage of the developer site. With the resources they have there is simply no excuse. Sure an outage is possible and understandable, but it should be resolved swiftly not in days and weeks. I never had that luxury at the small business I worked for. If we were down it there was no way a week could pass and my answer would be "Well things happen relax people"
The reason why Apple is letting down customers is because they hired people like you. Satisfied with failure. It's all good man!
If I bought an expensive phone and contract, and couldn't use it for days... well, that would be my last Apple product.
Yep, just because its "multiple billion $$ Apple" it has to mean things cannot go wrong and we should take from you cause you work in IT. Right!
Let's be real here. Apple wont throw all their resources cause of something like this. They will do their absolute best to get it back up (as we now know it was just few hours) in timely manner. Throwing money out the window unwisely would never take apple where they are now if they did what you demand.
The bigger the company is the harder things get and you cannot simply expect the same approach as you experience in a small business is. In fact, I would dare to think that your knowledge doesnt reach that level to know how company of Apple size can do it effectively. I'm sure you are professional and know everything on your scale but I doubt you know Apple's scale.
I know how to bake a cake and I now how to make 50 cakes a day probably but i have no idea how to bake 100 000 cakes / day. Just because you know how to bake 2000cakes/day doesnt mean you know how to do 100 000cakes/day. - get the point?
And for developer site? They got hacked for crying out loud. They probably must follow certain policies etc. and make sure it cant happen again. That takes time. Sony playstation was down for weeks when they got hacked few years back so please get reasonable.
You remind me the guy CK Louise talks about.
Its just sad how people think these days. And in the centre of it all is money!
I am chilled. I just got fedup (talking in general) how people expect nothing but brilliance and there is no more room for an error. 20 years ago something like this would be met with a bit more "relax" attitude but these days that patience is gone.Wow ok So I have no idea how to bake cakes (other than Dunkin Hines) and I never said that "things cannot go wrong". In fact I said the opposite. I never claimed to know anything about a billion$ organization either. Just simply stating that with the billions of $$ at their disposal and some of the highest paid engineers and technical people in the world a week long outage should not be expected. That's all. The fact that I am in IT does not make me right as you stated but that IS my opinion. In todays world IT uptime is critical and most companies large and small have provisions and redundancy in place as to not to be totally down for weeks at a time. I would expect no less from the richest company in the world. Will life go on? Sure it will but it could cause major issues to folks livelihoods who rely on these companies technologies being available. If my company is an online sales co and the website host looses a server or is hacked or whatever, and it takes a week or two to get it resolved, it could cause me to have to go on the Obama unemployment plan. Anyway relax. Its ok if Apple is down a few more weeks. My device is activated and I am not a developer. So Apple can take their sweet time and get that hard drive economy shipped from TigerDirect and replaced so all will be right with the world again.
I am chilled. I just got fedup (talking in general) how people expect nothing but brilliance and there is no more room for an error. 20 years ago something like this would be met with a bit more "relax" attitude but these days that patience is gone.
Week is nothing considering they got hacked. If its 3 months then I think that is reasonable to be pissed off )
Hi,
I hope someone can help, previous to today I had the latest ios7 software registered with my Developer account so completely legit on my iPhone 5 and then this morning, it said i needed to reactivate!?!? However when i try to reactivate with login details it gives an error messages about the servers? Has anybody had this happen? Does anybody know any info? Thanks in advance
This same thing happened to me one tuesday and i haven't had a working phone since. I was waiting till the dev center was back up running so i could reactivate it without restoring iOS 6 and losing all the information I've had on my phone since. If anyone can help give further advice how to fix this since the dev center is coming back online right now. I was running beta 1 one tuesday and I'm assuming since it expired it kicked me off.
How would you do reactivate it in the dev center? If it works please let me know i feel lost without a working phone
Seems like activation issues didn't last that long and have been resolved already for a little while.Apple seems to be in trouble here...
Allot of angry customers buying their own iPhone from the store, and find they can't even use them..
May be just a coincidence, but I bet this is tired in to the hack of the Developer site.... Strange the 'activation" server has issues, *exactly* the same time as the Developer site is re-done....
Maybe its just over-loaded, but i actually think something else.....
If you have your receipt, take it back to the store, and trade it in for an Android. That way you can exchange your few hours of inconvenience for two years of mediocre, kludgy phone usage.
Problem solved.
Sorry to be so long repying...my new Galaxy 3 keeps ringing ...