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U.S. iPhone Launch, More Photos, and Impressions

swagi said:
Sorry to say so, but if you are so dependant on a mobile phone, then comes my question:

Why on earth do you dare to do a rather unnecessary update to your phone without knowing, if there are any serious issues?

If you need your phone for...errr...sending and receiving calls, well you didn't need v2.0 on launch day, did you?

Just ask any professional here on the boards, that use their Apple Products for WORK. The major part of them waits at least a couple of days for the dust to settle, before they jump on any point upgrade (and yes, I'm referring to stuff like going from 10.5.2 to 10.5.3). We all know, that updates can break stuff.
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Because it did not occur to me for a second that it would brick my phone half way through the process. I dropped my phone in the dock when i got to the office like I do every morning and hit "OK" when it asked if I wanted to update. Never had this happen before. I just don't see why SO MANY people are excusing Apple for this. Yes, I could have waited, I could have combed the internet for news before I updated - but the whole reason I love Apple products so much is their ease of use and scalability. I don't WANT to have to comb internet boards for an hour before I update software on a cell phone. And Apple has developed that in me as a customer - it's why I'm happy to give them thousands of my hard earned dollars over and over again. It seems like the apologists here just want to feel smart for having foreseen the problem (better than, oh I don't know, APPLE).

They screwed this up. It's not the end of the world, but they screwed it up. No one's asking for their head on a plate. Just a simple "We'll learn from this - sorry, we will do everything we can to prevent it from happening again."
 
Sheep! They're all sheep!

Wait a week or so and you'll be able to stroll in and get your iPhone in no time. Doesn't anyone remember last year?
 
Does anyone know for sure if this new 'official' version is any different than the one that leaked yesterday? Or just a simple rename?

BTw in my experiences of acutally using the phone heavy is that performance is HORRIBLE and battery life is down....and I have 2 1G's and I am expereincing the same thing on both...
 
Honestly, I'm very surprised by all of these problems. After the initial launch of the iPhone I would have taken it for granted that Apple would have looked at the traffic and load generated by activations and used that data for load testing the activation servers long ago in preparation of the wave of 3G activations. Not only does it appear that Apple failed to do any load testing, it appears the activation delays are worse than the first time around.
 
mrJnC said:
I'm sure the billion people on this planet who are living in poverty and hunger would be moved by your suffering of not being able to have a working iPhone right now.

Fill up your SUV, drive down to Starbux and buy a $5 latte. We'll all feel better.
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That's exactly what I'll do. While I, as an American, will donate to the various charities that help those people. I always forget that Americans give more to charities and help more people around the world than any other country. But why would you take notice of that. hmm...

Now let's get those servers up Apple so us greedy Americans can enjoy our new toys that we work so hard to pay for.
 
mrJnC said:
I'm sure the billion people on this planet who are living in poverty and hunger would be moved by your suffering of not being able to have a working iPhone right now.

Fill up your SUV, drive down to Starbux and buy a $5 latte. We'll all feel better.
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Actually Starbucks gives the local farmers fair market trade for their crops and they build schools and medical centers for the people in the local area. So yes so spending money at Starbucks is a good thing. Nice try though.
 
Colourfull metaphor from the UK!!!

After being bricked for 2.5 hours (BST 16:00 - 18:25) hrs my mark 1 iPhone has at last gone past the -4 error and sorted itself - activated and currently restoring all my music and videos, etc. Don't know how; don't care; just glad it was able to finish the update without screwing up. I hope all you other eary upgraders get lucky too. Shouldn't be done to luck though should it. I just hope Apple manages to get on top of this almighty poo. Mobile me is off to a server-crawling start/stop :eek:
 
So other than constant complaining, does anyone have helpful advice to get this problems fixed. Do you need to keep switching back and forth from music to phone? should we keep unplugging or just leave it alone?

Let's try to help each other instead of freaking out:eek:
 
HALLELUJAH.

Finally up and running. A major annoyance, yes, but I think after 20 minutes or so of Monkeyball it will pass.

And yes, just clicking off of iPhone in iTunes and then back will restart the connection attempt. Seems pretty random - but at least the servers are up and running, however congested.
 
thecartoonguy said:
I think you may be one of the few lucky 1% :cool:
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Mine is perfect as well...the experience was great, there was quite a few that did not get them as stock ran out...but here is the thing...

We all knew that Stock would be limited - if gambled your time and lost and did not get one that is your own fault, wait a day or two there will be more.

I will compare the screen to my original as soon as I get back home but it looks fine to me now, the only real complaint I do have is battery life does suck beyond belief, other than that I am happy. Everyone needs to chill I think and enjoy life as it is much bigger than having the latest gadget/iphone. If that in itself gets your all worked up...dont know what to tell you.
 
betaclone said:
HALLELUJAH.

Finally up and running. A major annoyance, yes, but I think after 20 minutes or so of Monkeyball it will pass.
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just wait till Level 7 - major annoyances will arise again! You don't know pain til you've played that level.
 
im getting real sick of you people sayin stuff like "spoiled kids complaining on christmas morning" and "you deserve this" and "poverty in the world is more important".

this isnt a board about the poverty and hunger in the world. its a MAC forum. and an iPhone thread. So naturally people are going to talk about it and complain about this BS of a launch. if you dont like reading all the "spoiled little kids" posts, dont effing look at the thread! what else would you think would be discussed in here right now? gimme a break.

and yes, apple absolutely should have been prepared for this. i mean, hell....they announced this thing in february. then again in june. they advertised "you will walk out of the apple store with a WORKING iphone". so the fact that people are pissed that its NOT what theyre getting is absolutely understandable and expected.
 
i was told by an AT&T employee that i had to take my old original iphone sim card out and place it into the new 3G iphone. Then activate on itunes. Is this correct?
 
Whoever said to Jobs, "don't worry, the servers will be fine" is getting fired...at least I hope. Between this and MobileMe, whoever is in charge of servers clearly doesn't know what they are doing.

My iPhone 3g is still in the activated, yet not registered state, so still no synching. Anyone else with the 3g have any luck at home for a Full activation?
 
Original dock does work with 3g, sort of

FYI, if anyone was wondering, the original dock does work with the 3g, sort of. It's a tight fit, and wants to pop out, but it does fit...
 
Fast Shadow said:
Not only does it appear that Apple failed to do any load testing, it appears the activation delays are worse than the first time around.
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The delays are worse, but this time they are also doing a world-wide release. It wouldn't surprise me if the infrastructure to support activation simply wasn't turned all the way up.

On the other hand, it is more than slightly annoying that as an existing iPhone user I have to re-activate for the 2.0 firmware update. I was not expecting this and having my phone bricked because of it does not make me happy.

The dscacheutil trick that's worked for others did not work for me.
 
Chicagomac08 said:
So other than constant complaining, does anyone have helpful advice to get this problems fixed. Do you need to keep switching back and forth from music to phone? should we keep unplugging or just leave it alone?

Let's try to help each other instead of freaking out:eek:
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Walk away. Try it tomorrow.
 
After several hours and many retries, my 1st gen with 2.0 firmware has been activated. Its a slow process, but seems to work with much patience.
 
Very confused

My iphone suddenly unbricked and came to life but i can not sync it with my computer...very confused?!?
 
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