i too went thru the same error, bricking my phone, restored into factory setting, and eventually got it to work. now, funny thing is as i updated the apps on my iphone, all these apps disappeared....!!!!!! something funny w/ the air-sync is going on where your apps will disappear and come back in the wrong folders. it's really a mess and apple should really roll out this update incrementally. let's see, there are easily tens of million devices and Mac out there worldwide, and each device requires 700mb of update at the same time....is it really smart to basically allow ten of millions of people downloading 700mb of data all at once? what kind of data center do they think they have? it's a miracle that apple.com, icloud service, as well as everything else Apple is running has not melted. this is like the worst denial of service attack.
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Real nice constructive help there.
Like I said, I had NEVER had a problem updating any of my iDevices before, so I didn't expect this to happen, especially at the degree that it failed today.
Maybe if people like you had more of a helpful heart instead of simply bashing others, it would be a much better place for all...
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Phew.......
.......6 hours to update 1x MBP, 2x iPad2s, and 2 iPhone4s....
...slow downloads.....error messages galore.......panic moments when i thought my devices were bricked.......relief moments when restore kicked in......
Starting at 6pm here in the UK doesn't give much time to play with the new toys though!!
Hope everyone is sorted out......
.......6 hours to update 1x MBP, 2x iPad2s, and 2 iPhone4s....
...slow downloads.....error messages galore.......panic moments when i thought my devices were bricked.......relief moments when restore kicked in......
Starting at 6pm here in the UK doesn't give much time to play with the new toys though!!
Hope everyone is sorted out......
Indeed.
After trying several times with the same message I rebooted my iMac. Then it worked although it may have worked on the next attempt. Of course it still took a while to restore. In total it took 4 hours to download and install iTunes and iOS 5 on the iPhone. Now all is well. I still have to do my iPad, UGH! I started to download the upgrade to Lion and the backup and saw it would take 22 hours. Nah, not tonight. I have to do iTunes and the OS upgrade on my MBP, again, not tonight It's already 7:21pm on the east coast.
I'm not disagreeing that there have been issues. I honestly think it's very strange that this is happening when they only have two OSs and like 6 devices. It has to be a server strain causing these issues. I updated everything in my tagline and not one issue.
Fail
Not impressed.
5 hours later and no phone - all past updated done on the day and worked within max 30 min. Not this time.
Bit of soul searching to be conducted, I suggest, dear Apple guys.
Not impressed.
5 hours later and no phone - all past updated done on the day and worked within max 30 min. Not this time.
Bit of soul searching to be conducted, I suggest, dear Apple guys.
Just installed iOS 5 on my iPad 2 and for the first time since I bought it back in march the screen froze while browsing the app store and I had to reset it. That never happen before.
Alright, changing the subject. iPad 2 has an A5 and probably the same graphical power as the iPhone 4S, so why can't Siri be available for it along iOS 5?
Alright, changing the subject. iPad 2 has an A5 and probably the same graphical power as the iPhone 4S, so why can't Siri be available for it along iOS 5?
Yes; I keep getting this error. First, it took about 30 minutes to download the ~70-90MB update for iTunes. Now I keep getting errors trying to download the iOS5 update.
I can imagine that they have a flood of people trying to update, which is stressing their servers. Hopefully I get through soon.
Same Here
2 hours remaining to update OSX Lion and 3 hours remaining to update my AppleTV.
WOW.
2 hours remaining to update OSX Lion and 3 hours remaining to update my AppleTV.
WOW.
Apple is not stupid. They are using different internet connections for their update service, iTunes, apple.com and iCloud. This way, if one gets saturated, it wouldn't hurt the others. Plus allows them to adjust the bandwidth accordingly and save money from an ISP perspective, at least that is what I would do.
18 hours to update lion....not even to the IOS 5 yet!
I was thinking similar thoughts. A poor showing for "the cloud*"
* generally speaking, i.e.: storage in the cloud, etc
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I guess I was lucky. I got my updated for phone, pad, 2 apple TVs, and the Mac and it all took less than 1.5 hours for downloads/installs on all fronts.
Live and learn folks. Day one is not good at all unless you have time to waste. We've been through this since the launch of original iPhone.