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iPhone 4S AT&T Activation Nightmares

2011-10-14
what's up everyone jon rettinger from technobuffalo here today i got my brand new AT&T iphone 4s in the mail is really excited to dig in start showing you all the cool new features that it has seeing if they're cool least checking out Cirie checking the camera and doing all the regular iphone tests that we do and get a new device in so I took it out of the box turned it on presented with this gotta activate the phone you can do it all over the era that a computer and got the same results by the way when I did try plugging in and using iTunes so I will slide it to unlock there we go to ask me what language I speak it in English sometimes not so well go ahead and select them in the United States enable location services sure hit next ask what Wi-Fi network I want to connect to I want to connect to the TechnoBuffalo one it's going to pull out my phone number so make sure that's what I want to activate it is next step it asks for your billing information social security number I'm obviously not going to show that one on camera alright so I've got that information in its going to try and activate and ask me if I want to confirm and this whole thing is a waiting game there it is well go ahead and hit agree and hit agree again and now we wait we wait we wait we wait I'm going to speed this up to make things a bit more exciting citroen up to sit here and be as bored as i am so going fast now and we get this same air I've been seeing for the past several hours could not activate iphone your activation is still pending or receive an email notification once activation is complete we're sorry there was a problem connecting to the server please try again later so I've been doing this over and over and over again i called AT&T i was on the phone with them for 45 minutes and they couldn't do anything other recommendation was try going to an apple store so today is the 14th the day the iphone 4s launched going to an apple store probably wouldn't be the most enjoyable experience right now so this has now been two hours plus going whether or not i try connecting the cable to itunes and activating through itunes still wouldn't work now it's just a matter of waiting i haven't had any email comment telling I'd activate the phone I have now a completely useless piece of hardware that I cannot activate have you guys had these same problems as it exclusive to 18c I've heard things are going smooth around other carriers love to hear what you guys have to say I'm extremely frustrated and obviously very very very annoyed and maybe I'm not the only one jon rettinger for technical Buffalo and I'll see you the next video you
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