The Industry Standard - Briefly: iPhone 3G activation servers are back online? - Comments

I am in Delaware. The hone

Steven Smith — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:13:37 -0400

I am in Delaware. The hone itself is working and even downloading apps. But every attempt to connect in iTunes fails,

Same with me Steven where

Brad — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:10:33 -0400

Same with me Steven where are you?

My iPhone 3G lit up on its

Steven Smith — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:08:57 -0400

My iPhone 3G lit up on its own about an hour ago but it still won't sync with iTunes. Anyone know any tricks? If others are accessing via iTunes I wonder if there is something I should be doing on my end. I get a timeout error that suggests I am just not connected, although the rest of the iTunes store works fine.

LAS VEGAS IS UP AND RUNNING

JM — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:34:51 -0400

LAS VEGAS IS UP AND RUNNING 2.0 on iphone 2G

Well, know it changed error

Brad — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:33:34 -0400

Well, know it changed error messages on me. I guess thats still a good thing though.

im in los angeles and its

rick — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:27:34 -0400

im in los angeles and its finaly updated to 2.0

Error posting to Solr:

Steve Miller — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:26:09 -0400

Error posting to Solr: org.apache.lucene.store.LockObtainFailedException: Lock obtain timed out: SimpleFSLock@/usr/local/solr/data/index/write.lock at org.apache.lucene.store.Lock.obtain(Lock.java:70) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.init(IndexWriter.java:579) at org.apache.lucene.index.IndexWriter.<init>(IndexWriter.java:341) at org.apache.solr.update.SolrIndexWriter.<init>(SolrIndexWriter.java:65) at org.apache.solr.update.UpdateHandler.createMainIndexWriter(UpdateHandler.java:120) at org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2.openWriter(DirectUpdateHandler2.java:181) at org.apache.solr.update.DirectUpdateHandler2.addDoc(DirectUpdateHandler2.java:259) at org.apache.solr.handler.XmlUpdateRequestHandler.update(XmlUpdateRequestHandler.java:166) at org.apache.solr.handler.XmlUpdateRequestHandler.doLegacyUpdate(XmlUpdateRequestHandler.java:355) at org.apache.solr.servlet.SolrUpdateServlet.doPost(SolrUpdateServlet.java:58) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:154) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:92) at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletFilterChain.doFilter(ServletFilterChain.java:103) at com.caucho.server.webapp.WebAppFilterChain.doFilter(WebAppFilterChain.java:167) at com.caucho.server.dispatch.ServletInvocation.service(ServletInvocation.java:226) at com.caucho.server.http.HttpRequest.handleRequest(HttpRequest.java:263) at com.caucho.server.port.TcpConnection.run(TcpConnection.java:477) at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool$Item.runTasks(ThreadPool.java:591) at com.caucho.util.ThreadPool$Item.run(ThreadPool.java:513) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)

Not working for me

Brad — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:25:40 -0400

Not working for me still....Detroit.

It is amusing to note in

Steve Miller — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:25:19 -0400

It is amusing to note in passing that when I tried to post this here, something in The Standard's Web site threw a Java exception. (-:

Finally worked for me at

Steve Miller — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:23:55 -0400

Finally worked for me at around 3PM Eastern, though I still had a few of the usual "can't connect" errors after I started to see posts here saying that things were working, so presumably there's still some load-related issue.

I didn't have to unplug and replug the phone to get it to go -- I'd click on something else (the "normal" iTunes Store link on the left-hand side), then click on the iPhone again, and iTunes would immediately start trying once more.

When things weren't working, tcpdump said that it'd get about 9700 bytes into some https transaction, then pause for a long time without passing any data or retransmitting anything -- or, at least, any https, I was just sniffing port 443 -- then get a TCP RST segment outta the blue.

Oh, the humanity!

Got it to work finally in

Raim — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:19:09 -0400

Got it to work finally in Jersey...took only about 4 hours ;). I just kept on unplugging it and replugging it to make it work.

Disaster still in Cleveland.

Vende — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:15:46 -0400

Disaster still in Cleveland. All I have is a stupid emergency contact static, nothing else. Really got screwed on this one

Finally! Its Working (Took 4

Nilay — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:13:59 -0400

Finally! Its Working (Took 4 Hours)! 1:11 MST

My iphone is finally up and

kaufmac — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:13:47 -0400

My iphone is finally up and running @ 12:13 PST

Now working in Dallas, TX!

David — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 15:13:04 -0400

Now working in Dallas, TX!

Briefly: iPhone 3G activation servers are back online?

Jordan Golson — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 13:29:08 -0400

After the chaotic scenes at Apple Stores today as throngs of people were unable to activate their new iPhones, we've received a few reports that the devices are getting activated properly via iTunes once more. Anyone having more success now than they did before?

UPDATE 3:26PM EDT: Lots of commenters are saying that things are slowly getting back to normal.

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