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Activation frustration

Ah well, yes count me in for one of those "I gotta get it now" activation frustration rotations!

Try again.... Try again.... Try again... All I can do is laugh now. I'm not mad at anyone. Not at Apple or my device or anything, it's just one of those things. My Mini updated fine, no problemo. iPhone, not so much. I've hit that dandy Try Again Loser button umpteen million times, probably going on 2 1/2 hours now. It's funny though, everyone freaking out because now they can't use their devices. How many MILLIONS of devices are being activated/updated now? I'll get through... eventually. :) There are worse things in life than a temporarily unusable iPhone. I'm just grateful I have an iPhone, and a Mini, and house and car...

It's really not worth getting too frustrated over. Grab a beer, glass of wine, shot of whatever, sit back with the finger ready to tap tap tappity tap "Try again", and the iOS activation gods will smile upon you... eventually! :)

Good luck everyone!
 
CADer said:
WORKED!

I took my sim out and hit retry three times and it asks for a sim...after putting the sim back in it work first try!
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I popped out my sim and then it asked if I wanted to restore from backup. Kind of skipped over the activation portion (for now). Currently restoring from backup.
 
See!!!

josiemorehouse said:
Ah well, yes count me in for one of those "I gotta get it now" activation frustration rotations!

Try again.... Try again.... Try again... All I can do is laugh now. I'm not mad at anyone. Not at Apple or my device or anything, it's just one of those things. My Mini updated fine, no problemo. iPhone, not so much. I've hit that dandy Try Again Loser button umpteen million times, probably going on 2 1/2 hours now. It's funny though, everyone freaking out because now they can't use their devices. How many MILLIONS of devices are being activated/updated now? I'll get through... eventually. :) There are worse things in life than a temporarily unusable iPhone. I'm just grateful I have an iPhone, and a Mini, and house and car...

It's really not worth getting too frustrated over. Grab a beer, glass of wine, shot of whatever, sit back with the finger ready to tap tap tappity tap "Try again", and the iOS activation gods will smile upon you... eventually! :)

Good luck everyone!
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Patience is a virtue! As soon as I clicked "Submit reply", I tapped the good ol' "Try Again", and voila! Success!!! Hang in there, ya'll, it'll work soon! :) Patience!
 
Apple are making Samsung Kies seem like an efficient and reliable mechanism for updating a smartphone.
 
I restarted the phone and took the sim out then rebooted and reinserted activation went fine... seriously it was driving me nuts

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pmontanarella said:
Mine is taking a while too... i think it's already the 5th or 6th time I've hit Try again. I'm doing it on the iPhone if anyone is wondering.
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restart your phone, that did the trick with me.
 
Finally...!! 20 minutes of retrying... Even iTunes wouldn't connect to the servers... Finally got through...!
 
I've been hitting "Try Again" for over an hour though, must have done it over 100 times. WTF? I can't just be without a phone. How do I activate through iTunes? When I connect it says it can't be installed. I can't remove my WiFi network from the phone now that I've added it, even if I turn it off.

W T F
 
NMF said:
I've been hitting "Try Again" for over an hour though, must have done it over 100 times. WTF? I can't just be without a phone. How do I activate through iTunes? When I connect it says it can't be installed. I can't remove my WiFi network from the phone now that I've added it, even if I turn it off.

W T F
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Try taking out the sim and putting it back in, worked for me

Edit: it seemed to work but it's stuck again
 
I installed via iTunes and it worked immediately. Through the computer is tedious, but seems to be the best way to go.
 
same here...trying another DFU restore and ill jsut have to wait :( but i just something on twitter about it...they are saying its due to iOS 7 and its also causing network outages at alot of companies and schools. ever since it hit OTA at 1pm my schools internet has been so slow.
 
No Luck Here

Been getting this for 30 minutes in iTunes:

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The iPhone itself keeps giving me "Could Not Activate iPhone". Try Again never does anything.

Wondering if Apple should have at least had me click on an "I agree that I may not be able to use my phone again for a few hours" dialog before letting me proceed with the update...
 
So I got my phone back, and it restored... sorta. It looks like it restored from some old backup from about 6 months ago and not the one I did this morning. Anyone having similar issues?
 
this is so bad. i remember my bro activated on the first try. its about having luck.
i hope they fix this REALLY soon because im going to need my iphone during camping tommorow...
 
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