It took me about 5 hours worth of trying. I was ready to pull my hair out. I'm not looking forward to the iP5 coming out. Just imagine how many people would have been activating if there was a redesign.
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How long did your AT&T activation take?
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still trying. went to the store. spent an hour being "helped" they have no idea what is wrong. they told me to call apple and have a nice day.
Got my phone, called 611, did the activation steps, powered off my iPhone 4S and back on again and it was active. Really sorry to people having issues. I was at Best Buy getting a case and the people there were having activation issues as well. A good 4-10 people standing around.
Don't forget that you can activate online as well if 611 doesn't give you the option to activate.
http://www.att.com/activations
or business/premier peeps:
http://www.att.com/bizactivate
Don't forget that you can activate online as well if 611 doesn't give you the option to activate.
http://www.att.com/activations
or business/premier peeps:
http://www.att.com/bizactivate
I think that is only if you ordered from AT&T. Many, including me, ordered from Apple.
This was no scientific poll but it looks like almost 35% took more than 4 hours and almost 50% took more than 2 hours.
I think the steps necessary to activate your phone are important, especially if they're there as a safeguard to prevent against stolen phones. I'm wondering if anyone's phone was stolen if they contacted Apple, AT&T or whoever they ordered from and say "it was never activated, can it be replaced?" if they'd do something about it. I know leaving an authorization note for UPS is a big risk but without alternative secure methods of pre-ordering a phone customers will do that and there are bound to be thefts.
Does anyone know if AT&T (or any other carrier) allowed you to pre-order but pick it up in the store? I heard Best Buy did this but it wasn't as smooth of a reservation policy as advertised. What would have been ideal for me is if I could just have ordered the phone and picked it up at UPS without them ever attempting delivery. I pre-signed, and refreshed the UPS tracking screen every few minutes while at work and when I saw it was delivered (around 12:48 PM Eastern), I raced home and grabbed it off the porch. I live in a fairly safe area but didn't want to take any chances.
I think the steps necessary to activate your phone are important, especially if they're there as a safeguard to prevent against stolen phones. I'm wondering if anyone's phone was stolen if they contacted Apple, AT&T or whoever they ordered from and say "it was never activated, can it be replaced?" if they'd do something about it. I know leaving an authorization note for UPS is a big risk but without alternative secure methods of pre-ordering a phone customers will do that and there are bound to be thefts.
Does anyone know if AT&T (or any other carrier) allowed you to pre-order but pick it up in the store? I heard Best Buy did this but it wasn't as smooth of a reservation policy as advertised. What would have been ideal for me is if I could just have ordered the phone and picked it up at UPS without them ever attempting delivery. I pre-signed, and refreshed the UPS tracking screen every few minutes while at work and when I saw it was delivered (around 12:48 PM Eastern), I raced home and grabbed it off the porch. I live in a fairly safe area but didn't want to take any chances.
Mine took 17 hours for the included sim card to activate. It did tell me I could use the phone while I waited for the sim card to activate. I just put in my sim card from my iPhone 4 so I could use the cellular features until that sim deactivated at 11AM Saturday.