Activation failed...

[JLemm]

Stil nothing here. Been waiting for nearly 2 hours now.

same! This is driving me crazy! Hopefully it works by tomorrow mooring, I need my phone for work. lol

 

[ToyGun1]

I still don't get why Apple didn't roll iOS 7 out in each time zone separately.

We're 8 hours behind Cupertino here in the UK, and while it's great being able to come home from work and see your 10am keynotes at 6pm here, it's not realistic when it comes to releasing software.

Same here 4 hours still havent finished updating my ipad 4 and ipad mini.

 

[WeegieMac]

I think you'll find we are 8 hours in front of Cupertino.

Back on topic, iPhone updated, iPad stuck on an endless loop of failed activations.

Yeah, sorry ...

My head is fried sitting by a combination of Chelsea losing to Basel and this Activation Server being down.

 

[borgqueenx]

Activate this freaking phone! if i cant activate it by tommorow morning i have a HUGE problem....i have travel plans on my iphone to go to germany to get the 5s....but this way i wont have any idea how to get anywhere.

 

[perabear]

I knew I should've checked here before going to the Apple store!

 

[aquadisiac]

im having this issue on my iphone too.

 

[OllyW]

Ha, the iPad has finally activated after 5 hours of trying.

Just noticed the new calendar app on my already updated iPhone is bloody horrible.

 

[ajay96]

Really pissing me off, been waiting 3 hours now.. Idk what to do, i need my phone by tomorrow morning..

 

[naasrd]

and that you have the white version of your iDevice. then it also goes faster.

also ive clicked the retry button for 50 times now.

Well it worked for me, I kept getting the failed message, then deleted some apps and a pile of photos and it extracted right away. But I must say I'm enjoying your frustration, not so smug now, are ya?

 

[GBrooks]

Relieved to see i'm not the only one...
Probably just best to sleep on it, try again in the morning.

 

[Carlanga]

did it work for you after several tries? i've tried like 1 million times by now this is ridiculous

1 million? imposible
GL

 

[ceva321]

I totally forgot it was today but


apppp by Ceva321, on Flickr

 

[dukebound85]

how do you activate? After installing, I have not seen any pop ups

 

[dannyyankou]

Keep trying, it will work. Eventually....

 

[gentlefury]

Took me a few tries, but it eventually authenticated on my iPhone 5

 

[matttye]

And this is why you'd have to be bonkers to update in a McDonalds on your lunch break, as I saw somebody suggest earlier...

 

[Gutwrench]

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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restart your phone, that did the trick with me.

I'm confused. If the problem is with contention on Apple servers, how is bouncing your phone solving the problem?

 

[OllyW]

how do you activate? After installing, I have not seen any pop ups

The activation is failing before it installs.

 

[Iceage]

Can't activate iphone

Anybody else with this problem?

 

[aquadisiac]

Keep trying, it will work. Eventually....

Took me a few tries, but it eventually authenticated on my iPhone 5

keep trying for hours?

 

[Zellio]

And days and weeks and years...

 

[bp1000]

Relax most of us have seen this too

Millions of people are trying to do the same thing at once.

 

[zerozoneice]

Anybody else with this problem?

yes, duhh
right after downloading and verifying update...
OTA here

 

[Jim L]

The best way to do it ....

1. Use your Mac (or PC).
2. Update iTunes to the latest version supporting IOS7.
3. Then plug in your i-device.
4. Do a download only of the IOS7 update when prompted within iTunes.
5. Then apply the update to your device in a separate step.

Works much more reliably than your phone or iPad directly through wifi. I got tired of the error and did this and got both my iPhone 5 and iPad done quickly.

 

[chriscrk]

Meh, I'm just going to go do something else and try again in a few hours.

Obviously thousands of people are trying to download/activate it right now, you can see it all over Twitter, so the servers are bound to be slow.

I had it working before but then I tried to do a backup-restore and it messed it all up lol. Should have done it later on