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Apple Releases Official iPhone 2.0 Firmware
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I was also stuck at iTunes Store not responding dialog box this morning while trying to update. Unfortunately, I had to go to work before some of the remedies were posted so I'll have to wait until tonight to complete it.
For those of you saying, what did you expect?, everyone is trying to download at the same time, I'll say I have to side with the people that say Apple dropped the ball on this. No, installing a gazillion servers to handle a single day load spike probably wasn't the solution, but they could have at least written better software to handle the high load, like a dialog that says servers are under high volume right now, you've been placed into a queue for updates, and update a queue counter in real time. I've seen file servers do this and it works really well. Instead, we get cryptic messages worthy of Microsoft software.
For those of you saying, what did you expect?, everyone is trying to download at the same time, I'll say I have to side with the people that say Apple dropped the ball on this. No, installing a gazillion servers to handle a single day load spike probably wasn't the solution, but they could have at least written better software to handle the high load, like a dialog that says servers are under high volume right now, you've been placed into a queue for updates, and update a queue counter in real time. I've seen file servers do this and it works really well. Instead, we get cryptic messages worthy of Microsoft software.
by reading the above posts....it's a cinch, shouldn't take you more than a minute or two and you'll be flying.......
honestly, read the boards before you post something please....
iTunes error
Holy crap. I don't understand why people that have ALREADY activated their phones have to go through the process again. I've been trying for hours and I keep getting the iTunes unknown error. My phone has essentially been bricked. For all the money I'm paying them this thing should friggin work
ESSSpecially since they went through this process once already...they should have known what to expect and prepared for it!
Holy crap. I don't understand why people that have ALREADY activated their phones have to go through the process again. I've been trying for hours and I keep getting the iTunes unknown error. My phone has essentially been bricked. For all the money I'm paying them this thing should friggin work
ESSSpecially since they went through this process once already...they should have known what to expect and prepared for it!
Somewhere at Apple is a test engineer saying. "I told you we should have tested this with 6 million connections."
I still can make emergency calls
Thank you apple and att for letting me at least make emergency calls
Thank you apple and att for letting me at least make emergency calls
Holy crap. I don't understand why people that have ALREADY activated their phones have to go through the process again. I've been trying for hours and I keep getting the iTunes unknown error. My phone has essentially been bricked. For all the money I'm paying them this thing should friggin work
ESSSpecially since they went through this process once already...they should have known what to expect and prepared for it!
Nope - hate to say it, but it is your fault if you really thought that in the first few hours of a major update like this that you'd be guaranteed to get software installed.
The fault of having a phone that isn't working is YOURs if you had a critical need for your phone today - then YOU SHOULD HAVE WAITED.
I suspect that you didn't NEED the 2.0 software today. You should have chosen to wait if you needed your phone working.
YES, so is everyone else and their brother! Read a few posts before posting the same thing everyone else is.
/ 2+ hours and counting on "Accessing iTunes Store..."
i'm in the same boat. i didn't update it with whatever was leaked yesterday, shouldn't be any issues, just a normal legit iphone bricked and i'm minutes away from a conference call for work without a phone. WTF?!?!?!?!?!?!
this is total BS, it is no user's fault that apple's system isn't working and our phones are now bricked.
This is BS
All this mess is caused by AT&T's greed and stupidity of Apple. Who in his right mind would release a Software update to a few old million of phones and try to activate a few other millions all over the world... ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
And btw, I am shocked that no one complained about the re-activation fee Greedy AT&T is charging people that about a year ago paid another $36. This is ridiculous!
Peace!
All this mess is caused by AT&T's greed and stupidity of Apple. Who in his right mind would release a Software update to a few old million of phones and try to activate a few other millions all over the world... ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
And btw, I am shocked that no one complained about the re-activation fee Greedy AT&T is charging people that about a year ago paid another $36. This is ridiculous!
Peace!
i hate to say this, cause as a fanboi i really don't like to get down on apple, but someone screwed the pooch on this one. Who's idea was it to do a mobile me launch, and iphone 2.0 launch, and the iphone 3g launch in 24 hours? Anyone know?