Oy! I used to have a phone. Now I have a brick.

    I did the upgrade to iPhone 2.0 and now my phone forgot its number, and everything but the ability to make emergency calls. Uchgh.

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    1. ojbyrne (59 months ago | reply)

      Seems like almost enough reason to call 911 :-)

    2. stevegarfield (59 months ago | reply)

      Oh man.

    3. kosso (59 months ago | reply)

      I've been trying to get my iPod Touch upgraded to 2.0, but keep getting 'iTunes store unavailable' booooo!

    4. coleorton (59 months ago | reply)

      i'm glad i chose to upgrade to 2.0 yesterday.

    5. betsythedevine (59 months ago | reply)

      Can't believe that iTunes has picked this day of all others to call in sick.

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      magerleagues added this photo to his favorites. (59 months ago)

    7. magerleagues (59 months ago | reply)

      They didn't test it?

    8. nonaesthetic (59 months ago | reply)

      same thing here...

    9. mikemylen (59 months ago | reply)

      Glad I upgraded yesterday.

    10. easea (59 months ago | reply)

      Bummer. It worked fine for me yesterday. It sounds like the activation servers aren't keeping up.

      Seems like it should try again if you disconnect the phone (and maybe restart iTunes) and reconnect the phone.

    11. rwitte42 (59 months ago | reply)

      Same problem for me. Rats!

    12. jmargolese (59 months ago | reply)

      stick with it and keep trying. Took me about 30 minutes.

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      ashley & traci added this photo to her favorites. (59 months ago)

    14. ptone (59 months ago | reply)

      I - like many are in the same boat. Pretty atrocious for Apple given their experience of last year. If you are going to hype a big one day roll out, you better have the resources to back it up. Note also that this is messing with their in store activation.

    15. yacitus (59 months ago | reply)

      I had the same problem.

      It's likely this is just a coincidence, but this recipe (from bit.ly/2R7Gdy) worked for me:
      1. launch iphoto
      2. launch itunes
      3. connect phone
      4. close iphoto

      My iPhone is now restored. But my music, podcasts and videos are missing. And iTunes wants to connect to the iTunes Store (which it can't) before it sill let me sync!

    16. scriptingnews (59 months ago | reply)

      Seems like Apple could use their own version of the Fail Whale.

      images.scripting.com/archiveScriptingCom/2008 /07/11/apple...

      And maybe this could be the last earth-shaking rollout. They're bullshit, these are just products, and people depend on them. To hold them sacrifice to Steve's pride or vanity or whatever causes them to try to do everything on one day for the whole fucking world.

    17. scriptingnews (59 months ago | reply)

      In other words, no more pictures like this.

      newsjunk.com/photos/2008/07/11/02692.html

      Thanks Apple.

    18. davemee (59 months ago | reply)

      You're lucky, my Nokia just carjacked a police van, shot a priest dead, and set a whale on fire.

      It still has a working address book, though.

    19. scriptingnews (59 months ago | reply)

      No shit!

    20. scriptingnews (59 months ago | reply)

      A Fail Whale for Apple...

      www.flickr.com/photos/91493251@N00/2658279825 /

      I guess Apple sleeps with the fishes too. :-(

    21. inko9nito (59 months ago | reply)

      Get the firmware off modmyifone.com and upgrade manually by shift-clicking on "Update" in iTunes.

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