When Fruit Spoils, my edition
I read Nick’s post, “When Fruit Spoils” a couple of days ago, and I laughed, then I cried. I felt bad for his experience but good knowing that the almighty Apple is not exempt from problems.
Unfortunately my fruit spoiled today.
Here’s my story, up to now, with updating my iPhone to the 2.0 software.
- Plug in iPhone for Sync
- Click “Check for Updates.” iTunes tells me that an update is available for the iPhone but I must first update iTunes to version 7.7.
- I run Apple Update to get the current iTunes. All seems to go well, and Apple Update tells me to reboot.
- I reboot. Uh-oh, iTunes wasn’t updated. So, I did it again. Apple Update tells me to reboot.
- I reboot again. This time iTunes shows that it’s updated. Hooray!
- I go to sync my iPhone again, and now all of my data (music, etc) is listed as “Other Data.” and cannot be accessed through the iPhone or iTunes. Also, when I click “Check for Updates” now, there is no longer an update available for the 2.0 software, 1.1.4 is the current release.
- I forget about it for a while, because I need to work on Photoshop. Oh, guess what - the iTunes update broke Photoshop too. It hangs on “TWAIN Device - Apple iPhone.” Grrr.
- So, I do the only thing I know to do, an iPhone restore. Everything seems normal, but…
- When I go back into iTunes to finish the restore, it times out (every time) when trying to access the iTunes Store - even though I can get to the normal music store just fine.
- So, now my iPhone can only make emergency calls.
Thanks Apple, for my revolutionary communication device!
UPDATE: After a bunch of tinkering (1.5 hours), it’s not a brick anymore. Still no 2.0. Still having problems with Photoshop, but the phone works.
