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3G S iTunes activation: Painless?

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Synthetickiller

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I haven't received my 3G S yet, probably around 6 PM since thats when the UPS guys usually shows up. How has the activation process via iTunes gone so far, mostly everything is getting through it hassle free or are the servers starting to get overloaded?
 
I plugged it in, 3 minutes later, I was messaging my wife that I got my phone.

PAINLESS.
 
Synthetickiller said:
I haven't received my 3G S yet, probably around 6 PM since thats when the UPS guys usually shows up. How has the activation process via iTunes gone so far, mostly everything is getting through it hassle free or are the servers starting to get overloaded?
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It took me a total of two minutes at the store at 6am. I'm sure it will be a different story come 6pm.
 
Synthetickiller said:
I haven't received my 3G S yet, probably around 6 PM since thats when the UPS guys usually shows up. How has the activation process via iTunes gone so far, mostly everything is getting through it hassle free or are the servers starting to get overloaded?
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ive been trying to activate mine for about 30minutes. it still says please wait while we process your request.
 
Claypidgeon said:
The number of threads complaining about activation issues are starting to multiply :) Tonight could hurt...
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I'd bet you my entire life savings that if its already getting bad, it IS going to be super difficult, if not bordering on impossible tonight. I won't bother to keep you guys posted, there'll be enough complaints later.;)
 
I had mine delivered this morning as well. So far 30 minutes to process activation and still going...
 
very painless for me. I was set up and home within 30 minutes of the process starting at the app store
 
Haven't even gotten to the activation process yet... As soon as I plug it in, it keeps getting stuck on "We could not complete your iTunes store request. The network connection has timed out."
 
Quick

Mine activated at home via iTunes about 10am EDT. Only took about 1 minute.

Last night, I upgrade one of the kids 2G to a 3G. That took about an hour. Eventually, I had to power off the iPhone and back on, to get it to activate.
 
Can you use the phone itself without activation? I'd rather play with it than have it sit there. At least I'd have a working phone temporarily.
 
I signed for package
I unpacked iPhone
I plugged in iPhone
I activated

5 minutes in all.

Syncing a my phone now. Not doing a restore from backup. I want mine fresh as lettuce.
 
ljmjag said:
I just got off the phone with AT&T. At home activations can take 3-4 hours.
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so how should we do them? i just called at&t and the guy said "if you got your phone from apple, you should do them from itunes and not come in stores" ... i don't know. should i try going to the at&t store to see if they can activate it for me? i also need to port a number..
 
jchiou said:
so how should we do them? i just called at&t and the guy said "if you got your phone from apple, you should do them from itunes and not come in stores" ... i don't know. should i try going to the at&t store to see if they can activate it for me? i also need to port a number..
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I would like to know too. I don't see what the issue is, besides the fact that they don't want to activate a phone.
 
Synthetickiller said:
Can you use the phone itself without activation? I'd rather play with it than have it sit there. At least I'd have a working phone temporarily.
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Yes, you can. In fact, it tells you that you can disconnect the phone from iTunes and use any function that doesn't require the phone connection while waiting for it to activate.
 
diabolic said:
Yes, you can. In fact, it tells you that you can disconnect the phone from iTunes and use any function that doesn't require the phone connection while waiting for it to activate.
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Thank you!

I guess if the activation takes too long, i just unplug and plug in again anyways? I'm a little confused honestly.
 
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