iPhone activation server temporarily unavailable

Hi

Yeah I'm having the same issue when trying to update mine! Did you have any luck?

me too

Everyone is having this problem.

It happened in the move up to 2.0 as well...

They haven't prepared for this very well.

Sorry, no tips. Just a rant that Apple has screwed it up -- again -- and doesn't bother to give us idiots of customers the smallest bit of information -- again.

Nope, You're not the only one...

I am having the same exact problem. I just figured traffic was bogging down Apple's update server. Which, if his is the case, is poor planning on Apples part.

same problem here...its basically just a waiting game at this point. Sit back and keep hitting it again and again until it finally works. pain in the @$$

having the exact same issue. software downloads fine, but "server temporarily unavailable".

This is a server-side issue, so there really isn't anything you can do besides waiting. Currently, there are a lot of people attempting to perform the activation which requires a 'green light' from an Apple server, and this server seems to not meet the demand. It's a shame that Apple did not prepare for the OS 3.0 launch properly - they knew there will be a lot of iPhone customers trying to upgrade right away and still failed to set aside enough computing power to perform activations.

There is millions and millions of people trying to update to the 3.0 software. This has bogged down the servers so much that they cannot handle it. It will probably be this way for a couple days. Best bet is to update late at night/early morning or just wait and ride it out. If you get lucky, you will click update just in time to catch a ride on the server.

Samething with me 😟 , that *****.

I having been trying for the last three hours. I assume that there are too many people trying to do it at once.

I kept trying and it worked after about 30 minutes. So keep trying.

This is the pain that we accept in being early adopters. Servers getting overloaded is annoying, but what are they going to do about it?

If I'm remembering correctly, the upgrade to 2.0 was on the same exact day as the launch of the 3G model, and that was just a pain. Releasing 3.0 a couple of days early makes a lot of sense, and is really customer oriented.

Now let's hope this is really server overload and not something else.

I do however see where some iPhone owners are having success updating to 3.0. There must be some reason, like geographic region, that accounts for this.