Merry Christmas Red Exclamation Point

[Bkfraiders7]

Opened my Apple Watch Series 1 all excited and set it up. Saw that it was on 3.0 and knew the benefits of 3.1 so I set it on the charger, made sure the battery was above 50%, kept my iPhone 7 Plus underneath it, and went to eat breakfast with the family. Came back to a red exclamation point

I'm going to try and exchange it at Target and hopefully they let me. If not Apple is sending a box which will be here Tuesday. I know Apple is better about refurbished items, but I'm pretty pissed a brand new Apple Watch is getting replaced with one.

 

[Dodgeman]

This was all over the threads a week ago.

 

[BaddAdvice]

Actually, that was for 3.1.1, not 3.1. Sorry to hear about your trouble with your new watch - not cool. I assume trying a hard reset didn't do any good?

 

[Bkfraiders7]

This was all over the threads a week ago.

3.1.1 was bricking series 2. 3.1 wasn't supposed to be bricking Series 1. So no, it wasn't in threads weeks ago.
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Actually, that was for 3.1.1, not 3.1. Sorry to hear about your trouble with your new watch - not cool. I assume trying a hard reset didn't do any good?

Unfortunately not :/ Going to Target in the morning to see what they said. I love my Apple products so this is my first bad experience. Oh well, personally gifts aren't the reason for the day anyway. So this won't get me down at all. Merry Christmas!

 

[verdejt]

That update did brick a few Series 1's not the 0's.

 

[44267547]

Opened my Apple Watch Series 1 all excited and set it up. Saw that it was on 3.0 and knew the benefits of 3.1 so I set it on the charger, made sure the battery was above 50%, kept my iPhone 7 Plus underneath it, and went to eat breakfast with the family. Came back to a red exclamation point

I'm going to try and exchange it at Target and hopefully they let me. If not Apple is sending a box which will be here Tuesday. I know Apple is better about refurbished items, but I'm pretty pissed a brand new Apple Watch is getting replaced with one.

Perhaps something interrupted the update? Something obviously went wrong during the software update. Perhaps your Wi-Fi cut out or something contributed to the technical error.

 

[Dodgeman]

3.1.1 was bricking series 2. 3.1 wasn't supposed to be bricking Series 1. So no, it wasn't in threads weeks ago.
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Unfortunately not :/ Going to Target in the morning to see what they said. I love my Apple products so this is my first bad experience. Oh well, personally gifts aren't the reason for the day anyway. So this won't get me down at all. Merry Christmas!

Just curious, software is software. What makes you think the different hardware makes a any difference?

 

[Julien]

Just curious, software is software. What makes you think the different hardware makes a any difference?

Because the update/install 'bricking' bug of 3.1.1 only effected Series 2 hardware. Series 0 (original) and Series 1 were't effected by the bug.

An example of could be that the install program ran a GPS test that got stuck in a for next loop (endless) on some Seres 2's. This code would have been ignored on the Series 0 (original) and Series 1.