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No, not yet. Earlier today Apple's activation servers were down, and people got around it by disconnecting from the Internet while updating the firmware; appare
by dhess 17y ago
No, not yet. Earlier today Apple's activation servers were down, and people got around it by disconnecting from the Internet while updating the firmware; apparently this bypasses the Internet part of the activation at least, c.f.,
http://twitter.com/JeremyCurry/statuses/2211487905 http://twitter.com/JeremyCurry/statuses/2211487905
(This workaround was verified by multiple people on Twitter and on HN, see other posts in this thread.) So it sounds like there is a portion of the activation that happens over the Internet, but I don't know whether there's also a carrier wireless network activation.
- dhess 17y agoI just upgraded to 3.0 from my hotel room in Osaka and it worked fine. I put the phone into airplane mode before upgrading, but after the firmware update finished, it was out of airplane mode and communicating with the Softbank mobile network again, so I don't think it made any difference.