Man, there is nothing better than shelling out 200 dollars for a new toy. It is like a kid in a candy shop. You take it home and you are all giddy. You can’t wait to browse the web a new fast speeds. You relish taking the device out of its packaging and plug it into your computer. You go to activate it and BAMB, you just wasted 200 dollars. Today anyways.

Tomorrow, you should be fine. Apparently, Apple did not plan this upgrade properly. They should of released the software update for the old phones either sooner or later than the release of the iPhone 3G. Now, old user and new users are battling it off with the servers in order to get an activation.

In the end, I hate them all. My phone is bricked and I blame iPhone 3G! I live in America and can’t blame myself right?

Well, I updated my iphone to 2.0 only to brick the device. During the update, it got an error and said it needed to rollback. During the rollback, I also got an error.

Now since everyone else is updating their phone at the same time, I am getting the following error:

“We could not complete your iTunes Store request. The network connection timed out.

Make sure your network settings are correct and your network connection is active, then try again”

I am unable to do anything with the iPhone but I will attempt to find a resolve.

UPDATE:
According to google, the way to “fix” this is to keep go back and forth between itunes store and the iphone. I have the 1.1.4 firmware downloaded so all I need to do is install it. I need the store to come up just so allow me to do this. This is the worst solution to the problem! I hated itunes before, now I hate it more now!!

UPDATE: I HAVE ROLLED BACK TO 1.1.4!

Ok, first you need to go to recovery mode. Here are the directions to do this.

Step 1. Turn off your iPhone.

Step 2. Hold down the power and home button.

Step 3. When you see the Apple logo, release the power button but continue holding the home button down.

Step 4. Open iTunes and wait for it to tell you that its in restore mode.

At this point, iTunes will not look for apple to validate or whatever and will try to roll back the software. My phone is recovering as we speak!

UPDATE: still bricked. Apparently, it needs to do some verification even when rolling back to 1.1.4. My mac contact LIED TO ME!!! Oh well, I’ll keep trying…

UPDATE: Finally worked. I am on 2.0 now. What a waste of a day!