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Just upgraded my girlfriend's iphone to OS 3.0 and its finished downloading, done the bit which says the phone's about to restart, and then i got the message:

"Could not complete the iTunes Store request.  The store may be busy.  Check your internet connection or try again later."

The phone is now in the stupid pre-registered state where it says to connect to iTunes.

Anyone got any clues???

and before anyone states the obvious, yes she has an account and yes its iTunes 8.2somethingorother...

have you tried switching it off and back on again

Could just be the Apple servers acting up at the moment.

Also, do you use Internet Explorer?

http://www.petersopinion.com/2009/06/17/installing-iphone-os-3-0-fail/

Hmmm, didn't get that SIM message and that "Check for server certificate revocation" was already unchecked...

I've resorted to posting it on the Apple support forums... god help me!

Try recovery mode (basically a complete restore of the software on the iPhone):

- turn it off.
- unplug it from the computer.
- press and keep pressing the home button.
- plug it in to the computer (still pressing the home button).
- open iTunes (if not already open).
- it should now go in to recovery mode, then you can let go of the home button.

Apple kit is wonderful.

NOT

It is the most incompatible, unfriendly, buggy consumer good in the world.

My first experience of Apple was 25 years ago and that was a IIe computer. Fucking shite. My most recent was my youngest son's birthday present last week, an iPod Touch. Would the fucking thing work with my wireless router? Oh no. No way. I found an Apple forum thread with 32 pages debating which brands it would and wouldn't support with WPA 1/2/fucking any. I gave up in the end and recommissioned an old WAP as a second wireless network with stone age WEP encryption. It worked immediately.

Complete toss.  Even Windows is better than the crud 'compatibility' that Apple peddle.

And how shit is that? JUST FUCKING WORK YOU EXPENSIVE DOORSTOP.

I blame ;

Brown
Cameron
Clegg
MP's expenses
Anne Widdecome
Anne Snelgrove


et al

Did you have a PIN number on the phone's start up? I had the same issue and had to put my sim in an old phone and remove the pin. Then worked fine.

And illegal immigrants and princess Di dying.

I couldn't agree more, having to hold a button for 5 seconds and plug in a cable is a ridiculous amount of effort to restore a device. I've had to do it a few times and am absolutely disgusted. So disgusted that I'm planning to go back to Windows and a Sony phone.

How I miss those days of having to re-install Window every so often, the blue screen of death, being constantly on the guard for viruses and being unable to sync my phone with anything.

So much better than having to press a button for 5 seconds.

And the Chuckle Brothers and Wee Jimmy Krankie



I am pissed and in such a goooooooooooooooooooooooooooood mood soapy tit wank

You miss the point Andy.

Corporatism is the problem and Apple more than any. Politics is a sideshow.

If you had to do that with your car to get it started in the morning or with your cooker or freezer or microwave you would send it back.

You accept mediocrity and fair play to you. That is your decision. I disagree and I am entitled to that opinion too.

Haha, you're joking right? Ever heard of that little company called Microsoft, you know, the one that makes Windows.

They are just as shit Sam.

See the post above about non-acceptance of that sort of problem in cars.

I can't defend Microsoft, if you want a computer system that always works try Linux. Oh, it's not made by a company. Ah................................

read the post Al



I am very pissed and very happyness

Likewise  ;D

I'm not pissed. boo.

I'm not unhappy though. yay.

yay for you !

Have you got a pic of Angela Rippon's left piss flap though? That would make you truly ecstatic, drunk or not.

I have

I don't think you and me have much in common.

Well fucking get it out then.

So to speak  :(

If her legs are anything to go by then her piss flaps will be LOOOOOOOOOOOOONG and pink

I wonder if the darkprince ever solved the problem with his 'girlfriends' phone before we hijacked the thread.

promised her I wouldnt


what goes on in the bedroom stays in the bedroom

Is that a good thing?

Nah, he's on Google Images looking up "Angela Rippon" "left pissflap"

I bet a fiver that someone has just done this

Have you ever had a woman who had massive beef curtains?

Quite an experience. I had one who could pull them out down halfway to her knees. Truly memorable.

OH. MY. GOD!  :eek:

Apparently there is a security flaw which means an iphone can be hacked with just a text message.

i love apple. i love my iphone.

Just got a nokia N97.  Quite happy with it at the moment.

Hopefully will be getting the new Iphone with the 3G interweb stuff on Saturday pending stock!