Activation failed...

[OllyW]

How is this not blowing up the front page of every tech website?

Apple Insider has noticed.

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13...ity-alert-for-iphone-activation-server-issues

 

[pmontanarella]

Told me to sign in, and by the time i did, please try again later.

Yeah same here, I've gotten through to activation lock a few times up until now but every time I sign in it fails again

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I'm going back to the GM for now. I'll try again in a few days.

This is pathetic, Apple.

How exactly are you going back to GM? If you re-install you'll still have to activate it...

 

[ajay96]

Finally done, thank the Activation gods!

 

[JetBlack7]

Mine just went through!!

Did you activate it through iTunes?

 

[SchuettS]

I was having activation probs to until this method worked.. twice. Plug your phone into your computer with iTunes running. Click try again on your phone, then unplug your usb cable and plug it back it. try it, let me know.

 

[aquadisiac]

Did you activate it through iTunes?

not me but no i used wifi.

 

[pmontanarella]

Mine just went through!

 

[apollo1444]

present your offerings to the activation gods for best results

 

[JetBlack7]

I was having activation probs to until this method worked.. twice. Plug your phone into your computer with iTunes running. Click try again on your phone, then unplug your usb cable and plug it back it. try it, let me know.

I used this method, worked instantly. Thank you!

 

[Joxy]

Mine just went through, stopped trying for like a good 45 mins and went to do other things and came back and it went through right away.

 

[donjuan2009]

Why you updating from Gm, GM is the final version.

I'm going back to the GM for now. I'll try again in a few days.

This is pathetic, Apple.

 

[perabear]

Mine just went through on my iP5! Downloading iOS 7 now!

 

[PNutts]

I can't even get my phone to show up in iTunes it just gives me an error

Did you get that resolved? I assume you are not running 11.1 but there are other reasons, too.

 

[chriscrk]

Yay, it worked! And now it's restoring from my backup, all good!

 

[benfilan]

iPhone now stuck in DFU mode.

iTunes says the iPhone can't be restored because "the device does not meet the requested build"


Shoot me

 

[Tsuchiya]

Ugh, finally went though.

Really not amused at how long this update has taken. They make such a big ****ing deal about everything, at least make sure it goes smoothly.

 

[jlluna]

same question did you activated through itunes or within the phone?

Through itunes! Sorry it took me so long to respond had to go class.

 

[MatthewAMEL]

'could not activate iphone' since 1:30 Eastern.

Fails OTA and fails with iTunes.

Contacted Apple 3x's (two chats, one phone) and they shrugged and said the servers are overloaded. Try again later.

Epic Fail.

 

[beautifulcoder]

Just did the update. I love how everything went smooth in 45mins.

 

[jason300b]

I tried all day to get this to work. Called Apple. Called Verizon. must have tried again 200 times. Then, popped out the sim card, waited for the phone to tell me to insert a valid sim card, insertes the sim card I just removed, and bam!, authorized the next try.

Moral of the story...try removing the sim card