Have to reactivate the phone after restore...

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Have to reactivate the phone after restore...

I have decided to restore the phone and hoping it might fix the syncing problem I was having. When I sync my phone it just idles and nothing happens. Anyways, I hit restore and after it's done, guess what, I have to reactivate the phone. But that's perfectly fine with me. The globe shows up again on my iphone screen and itunes detected the phone and the AT&T activation screen showed up. And it said:

"iPhone Activation is Unavailable at this time. iPhone activations are not currently available due to scheduled AT&T system maintenance. We apologize for the inconvenience this causes. To activate your iPhone, please connect it agaib after 3pm EST Sunday."

I went like ***! now my phone is a useless piece of metal and plastic until tomorrow afternoon. This is just GREAT! Thanks AT&T for being so crappy on services and My World is NOT Delivered (Also remember the AT&T servers down on iPhone launch day?). Also, thank you Apple for not releasing the iphone patch that fix the bugs that everyone is complaining about.
In fact, I just had an issue with my address book on my powermac this afternoon that causes all my contacts went poof! and gone! I was lucky that I made a sync with my iPod last night which save my day. Today is just not an Apple day for me...sigh.

I'm gonna switch my SIM card back to my trusty Nokia E62 for now...

PowerMac G5 Dual 2.7, PowerBook G4 15", Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Jul 14, 2007 7:49 PM

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PTBoater

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Jul 14, 2007 8:00 PM in response to hh83917

Sorry for the troubles. I restored my phone yesterday and it had to reactivate via iTunes.

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hh83917 Author

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Jul 14, 2007 8:07 PM in response to PTBoater

Thanks for the comfort, I felt like s* due to a bad apple day...sigh... Apple should've fix the address book issue long time ago and AT&T service is just screwing things up for the iPhone.

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PTBoater

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Jul 14, 2007 8:12 PM in response to hh83917

Man, I know exactly what you are going through. I run Windows XP and used to use WinCE PDAs, and I had my ActiveSync days of fire. Back then I learned my lesson and I have like seven copies of my contacts in CSV format in seven different places. 🙂 First thing I did before I installed iTunes on my laptop was make a copy of the PST file to another folder AND an external hard drive.

I found Palm's sync the best of the bunch, with the most features and the most reliable with Outlook. So far I am not impressed with how iTunes and Outlook play together, but at least my PST did not get demolished, and that is a good thing.

Good luck! 🙂

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Answer 4

Jul 14, 2007 8:13 PM in response to hh83917

I just did the same thing now my Iphone is down. But I still have my old V3 I put the sim from the Iphone in and can use it, your Iphone sim is still active if you have a old cingular/at&t phone you can put it in better than no phone.

I was having a lot of problems with my iphone and have a app. with the closes apple store to me which is a 2 hour drive. I wanted to save the drive and decided to do a restore first. But now I can't reactivate and I don't know if the apple store will be able to check it in this state or not.

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Jul 14, 2007 8:17 PM in response to hh83917

My phone froze this morning and after talking to an Apple tech, he suggested I restore the phone to the factory settings. Same here, ATT couldn't reactivate. And after the reset, the phone is still frozen. I don't know if it has anything to do with ATT not being reactivated yet? Somehow I don't think it should be related. Is anyone else having this "freeze" problem? This is the second time my phone has to be restored to the factory settings. The first time, the phone works fine but not this time. It's so frustrating.

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Gauchos

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Jul 15, 2007 11:00 PM in response to hh83917

I have a similar experience. Beginning 4 days ago, I awoke to an "iPhone Needs Repair" screen. I rebooted the phone and within the hour I got the same message. Apple suggested I restore the phone, which I tried. Next day, same error message...in fact I got 4 more that day. So, on Saturday, July 14, I decide to do another restore, without installing the backup, so as to eliminate my content as the source of the problem. Well, to my surprise, after iTunes finished the restore, I had to wait for AT&T to activate my phone. But wait, their servers would be down until "3pm EST" (it's daylight savings time by the way AT&T). So, like the previous posts, I waited to activate the phone today at Noon PDT. Now I've been waiting 11 hours and still no service is available on the phone. I can browse, check email, but I cannot watch movies or listen to music. I've swapped the sim out to my old phone and the sim worked fine. What gives? So, I'm off to the nearest Apple store (2hrs) to get an exchange. Oh, and the speakerphone is terrible.

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