iPhone 2.0 - Error -9838

The later it gets the more people are going to be updating their phone so itunes is probably overwhelmed with activation requests. You can try redocking your phone but it may be a while before apple compensates for all these requests or untill people slow down on the update.

I got a new error -4

I'm also listening to my itunes... I probably shouldn't be doing that though

Wait!

9:56 Accessing iTunes store going on 20+ minutes now; has not timed out yet though.

I've just had the -4 error too, " now Accessing iTune Store... "

i'm back to -9838 😟

I'm also back to - 9838 , not good !

same here, back to immediate -9838, they just started selling the 3G in California didn't they! This won't clear up until later today I'm afraid.

But will it ever be sorted ? no one from Apple is saying !

must be bottle-necking pretty badly now, i've been unplugging for over an hour and no go yet. this blows.

I hope my boss doesn't come in to my room while talking on his Blackberry! That would be humiliating!

I'm back to error -9838 too.

Quick work-around: smoke signals!

must be bottle-necking pretty badly now, i've been unplugging for over an hour and no go yet. this blows.

finally made it past error -9838. The phone is now activated. However, I am still not able to restore it. Clicking on the iphone icon in itunes yields an empty screen and the "Accessing iTunes Store" message at the top. I got a -4 error after the activation completed.

At least the phone is "working" now :-/

AWESOME!

Although I'm not 100% satisfied that I now have an original iBrick AND an iBrick 3G, I think that this experience is absolutely fantastic!

Who could have imagined that Apple could have created such a demand for a device that it has managed to crash iTunes, MobileMe AND (sometimes) this Discussions board? The service was pretty slow when the original iPhone came out but never this slow. I'm proud to be an early adopter and happy to experience problems such as these.

OK, it is pretty small consolation for the fact that I now have two iBricks but it gives me a strangely warm feeling to feel part of something HUGE that isn't driven by Nature, Government or, dare I say it, Microsoft!

Well done Apple! An historic moment.

Stu

I'm not getting this error any more - I just get 'Accessing iTunes Store' in the iTunes window. Could this be progress?!!!!

Stu