Problems activating iPhone... Anyone else having problems?
I bought a phone and my buddy bought a phone. We came back to my house and my phone activated fine and his did not. His phone just wants to mount like it is an iPod under devices tab but with iPhone icon.
Anyone else having problems. Been on support with Apple for over 2 hours but no luck yet with his. He is surfing the web right now via wi-fi but we are bummed out over this.
Anyone else having problems. Been on support with Apple for over 2 hours but no luck yet with his. He is surfing the web right now via wi-fi but we are bummed out over this.
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Have a great story about picking it up at the SF Apple store.
Haven't unboxed mine yet. (Being nice and waiting for my SO to get home.) Will report in later tonight.
Have a great story about picking it up at the SF Apple store.
Be happy to read it.
So far, I don't think you can set purchased iTunes songs as ringtones and no typed search contact option.
Still on hold...
How is your friends credit rating?
In the 700's and they accepted his credit card at the store.
We can't get the Activation Screen to come up in iTunes. Not come up at all like it did for my phone.
Looks like users with verizon are having problems as well. Is he trying to transfer from another service?
My account activation took about 2 hours before AT&T emailed me and said all clear. However, the actual syncing of the phone and SIM to the AT&T network is still pending, I'm sure they are getting hammered. So at least now I can play with everything EXCEPT for the phone service, hopefully overnight it will get resolved.
Yes I'm guessing that's one of the downsides of being on the West Coast. I picked it up at an AT&T store and they said that their network was slow from all the traffic. It took a long time to get through a line of <100 ppl (and they had 13 registers open).
If any AT&T or Apple Stores are open, i'd suggest taking it there and getting them to do it instead of waiting on the phone for 2 hours.
Looks like users with verizon are having problems as well. Is he trying to transfer from another service?
I am going to run it to the store for him tomorrow. He is so bummed. He doesn't own a computer and this was his first Apple purchase. You just have to know this guy. I feel for him. Especially after forking out that $$$ on a phone that works great on my wi-fi here at home but can't place a call because we can't get iTunes to activate the dang thing.
Tomorrow, I go to AT&T and get this resolved, I hope. He lives about 1.5 hours away from the store and I am only 30 minutes so I will be a good bud for him.
And the fact that Apple told me to call back at 9 am in the morning ET because they are having these issues so much, people are in que for a "Genius" for over 2 hours after the initial tech goes through their paces with you.
He doesn't own a computer and this was his first Apple purchase.
Can you use the iPhone without a computer?
Will it let you do that?
you must activate your phone through iTunes as of today but AT&T said they would do it tomorrow.
Mine won't activate either. It says that it requires additional time to complete, but I can't even do anything with mine, even though the FAQs say that I should be able to use all of the other functions (iPod etc). Can't even surf. It's locked out.
I'm in the same boat... just sitting around waiting.
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That's all I can do.
(Side note: Kevin Smith was in line behind me at the Apple Store at The Grove, LA - and they had plenty of iPhones to go around)
different accounts and different macs. He used my mac bookpro but apple support says itdoesnt matter about that because activation is independent of iTunes accounts.
Everything that I've read explicitly stated that you need an iTunes ID & account to activate the phone. You therefore need to sign into your iTunes account before the phone can be activated. I assume that when you say that you used different accounts you meant different iTunes accounts, in which case, this is not applicable.
http://www.apple.com/iphone/usingiph...ion_small.html
Hope this helps.
6 hours still waiting for email... thoroughly pissed.
I don't get why peolple are mad. Not to belittle you, but what did you expect, buying and activating the thing at the same time as a half miillion other people.
Did you ever try and get through to a radio statoin when they're doing a call-in contest? Or call into a popular talk radio show when the guest or topic is particularly hot?
UInless Apple could have made plans to get more bandwidth for the next few days. But I have no idea how that works.