How to Solve iPhone 3.0 Problems [iPhone Activation Server Temporarily Unavailable]

Posted by Alex Ion on June 17th 2009 | Respond?

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Today, Apple’s servers proved helpless in front of a bunch of iPhone owners who’ve been trying to upgrade their handset with the latest iPhone OS 3.0 software. Thousands of users have been thwarted by Apple’s overloaded servers that returned an annoying “iPhone activation server is temporarily unavailable”.

All these have happened due to the fact that there are simply too many download requests happening at the same time, it looks like there’s a way to get past the error. First of all you’ll have to make sure you’ve upgraded to iTunes 8 before beginning your update. Then:

– Click on iTunes Store, then back to your phone in iTunes – That’s how Ben Parr at Mashable solved his problem

– Keep clicking “ok” on the popup error: some have confirmed that if you annoy the iPhone enough it will install the 3.0 OS and will work like a charm.

– Don’t despair: demand will decrease and the servers will get to breathe sooner or later.

– Ejecting and plugging back in : apparently Joe Tech and Business Insider ejected their iPhones and managed to plug them back in without losing any data. Although it’s not recommended (you may not be that lucky) it could get the upgrade problem solved.

Here are other iPhone 3.0 errors that you may experience while trying to upgrade: