Hi all,
After about 6 hours or so, my iPhone (on O2 in UK) is upgraded. A few notes though:
1. Once the phone was active again it appeared that there was no music in the iPod app. However, powering off and then on again cured that. The songs were there all along.
2. The normal sync process now stalls on the 'Accessing iTunes Store' activity just as it did before activation, so I haven't been able to complete a post-upgrade sync.
3. The clock on the home screen shows 8 hours behind the clock application, the latter being correct. I assume this is because a sync has not yet been done.
4. The sounds for my ringtone and incoming text had reverted to defaults. Again, probably due to lack of sync.
5. All the rest looked okay. Mail worked straight away. Contacts, photos and calendar entries all there. It would be nice to have the multiple calendars display in the same colour as they do in my iCal. Perhaps that'll happen after sync too.
6. I wonder if and why the sync process now needs to talk to the iTunes Store every time now. That seems to have been the one thing which has created the problem today.
7. I worked as a network designer and then a technology strategist for 25 years. It is very plain that Apple have failed to be diligent enough in their capacity planning in this instance. This was not a network problem as some people have said (the initial software downloads were not problematic). It was clearly the lack of capacity in the server farm which was responsible for servicing this particular function (other iTunes Store functionality being unaffected). I am a big Apple fan, however, on this occasion they cannot be excused. And posters, lets not flame each other - we've all been inconvenienced unnecessarily today through no fault of our own.
Best of luck to all,
Cloud.
