It Says Verifation failed.

Sorry - just a clarification

Presuming you are having the error on the 4S?

That is a rare and unusual occurrence for the server to be down

I would wait a little and try again

Try to force restart the 4S

Restart your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

If this continues the other option would be to do a full restore of the iPhone 4S as new using iTunes and starting over - which I realize you indicated you would rather avoid

OR

Make a "Genius" appointment at an Apple Store, or go to another authorized service provider.

Here are the reasons you might get the message that the Activation Server is unavailable:

• It really is unavailable. Rare, but it happens. You can check its status here: http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
• Your antivirus or firewall is blocking access to gs.apple.com. Try disabling it.
• Your router's firewall is blocking access to gs.apple.com or to a port that it requires (443).
• Your phone is jailbroken, or it was at some time in the past.
• Your computer was used to hack or jailbreak some iOS device in the past (not necessarily the device with the current problem), and its network database was corrupted. Hacking includes using some questionable apps such as recboot, reiboot, Tinyumbrella, redsn0w, etc.

For the last possibility inspect your computer's hosts file. If there are any lines in the file that reference gs.apple.com that is the explanation. You will need to rebuild the hosts file.

Howdy Lawrence

All your links are looping back to this thread - all threads that I have seen are affected similarly, for everyone

(maybe you have seen tt2's discovery that only " httpS:...." URLs work right at present)

ChitlinsCC wrote:

Howdy Lawrence

All your links are looping back to this thread - all threads that I have seen are affected similarly, for everyone

(maybe you have seen tt2's discovery that only " httpS:...." URLs work right at present)

The Apple links I have posted seem to be working (thankfully!)

Howdy ManSinha

Let's see if we can fix your Genius Bar URL by making the prefix 'secure' > https://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/

Lawrence Finch wrote:

Here are the reasons you might get the message that the Activation Server is unavailable:

• It really is unavailable. Rare, but it happens. You can check its status here: http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
• Your antivirus or firewall is blocking access to gs.apple.com. Try disabling it.
• Your router's firewall is blocking access to gs.apple.com or to a port that it requires (443).
• Your phone is jailbroken, or it was at some time in the past.
• Your computer was used to hack or jailbreak some iOS device in the past (not necessarily the device with the current problem), and its network database was corrupted. Hacking includes using some questionable apps such as recboot, reiboot, Tinyumbrella, redsn0w, etc.

For the last possibility inspect your computer's hosts file. If there are any lines in the file that reference gs.apple.com that is the explanation. You will need to rebuild the hosts file.

Lawrence Finch

Have you or would you be willing to consider making that a user tip?

Only one of mine was a link, the one to System Status; the others are just part of the text. https://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus. Let's try this.

ChitlinsCC wrote:

Howdy ManSinha

Let's see if we can fix your Genius Bar URL by making the prefix 'secure' > https://www.apple.com/retail/geniusbar/

Thank you very much - fixed it in OneNote

Good idea; I will, once the link problem is fixed.

Too late to "fix" this, I fear

No I meant I fixed it in my OneNote app - where I have the links stored for re use

It will work in future posts - you are correct about this one

OH, I getcha... you preferred WorkFlow.

I found that Rich Text capable apps - TextEdit is a Mac app - did not transfer the formatting copy/paste into this TinyMCE editor, so I now use browser bookmarks for top level links and links to posts for copyText>paste

Many "auto-title" pages I get from letting browser History suggestions show me the previously visited pages

That is another way of doing it 🙂

Thanks for letting me know!

ManSinha wrote:

Have you or would you be willing to consider making that a user tip?

Done! How to deal with the "Activation Server Unavailable" error message when restoring an iOS device

Lawrence, you are a very brave soul!!

Now if they could fix the inability to compare versions and view changes

As author, can you do either or both?

.: OR :.

one gets