The Geek and I

Call 1-800-331-0500

Have your iPhone 3G S box handy.

Explain that your iPhone 3G S won’t activate and that you would like to read off your IMEI and SIM Card # and ICCID # from the back of the box.

Power off, Power on.

Zing!  You are done!  How easy is that?

Found info via Apple Forums here.

Each time an iPhone release is done, the activation system is overload.

Both phones for my wife and I failed (look below), while friend of mine just did his phone moments ago and went through fine.  Guess I get to wait the ‘48 hours’ or some such.

Todays fail included for your viewing enjoyment…

Now that’s some fail!  Thanks!

OOoh, so I upgrade my 3G (and my wife’s 2G) to 3.0 yesterday.

And now we both have battery life issues with the battery draining quite quickly and charging is pretty lame as it charges but never gets full.

Others via the Apple forums are seeing the same thing.

I’ll be updating and adding to this post as I find more information, but as of right now, I am not a happy user of iPhone OS 3.0 on phones available today.

Update 1: Push notification issues with email accounts – one idea is to delete them and recreate from scratch as they are actually in an always on ’state’ on the phone after upgrade.  Will try.

Update 2: Well, I did a complete wipe and reinstall, reinstalled my apps (and only set up 1Password), leaving the rest for later, phone was ~20% charge and left for the office.  Charged phone at the office and things seem to be okay right now, phone hasn’t been warm and it is still doing well on the battery.

Sorry, but it is true.  I figured we had an open relationship.  At least I hope that’s the case.  If not then please do accept this sincere apology.  Regardless I’ll try to do better, I promise.

The $ayjob takes my time and keeps me busy..a lot.  Balancing said job + family + WoW is quite the juggle, but if taken in moderation..can..be..done.

That is where I have been posting the geeky side of things.

Over on that blog I expose my random musings dealing with technology and sometimes, how some companies decide that spamming is acceptable.  We know better, they don’t.

I’ll be back, I have some things I wanna blog about that aren’t necessarily $ayjob related, or as the case may be, not appropriate for that venue.

Check it out as it is full of the ramblings that haven’t been seen on this blog in some time.

Another option is to read the blogs put up by other employees of ipHouse.  They aren’t as technical, but not everyone cares if a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port.

But I know you care…

In the newest edition of the ever present Yahoo! Mail Beta game, applications are now available to allow many different things.

One of them…blogging to your WordPress blog!

Now this is a little overboard, but I figure I’d post via their new application into my personal blog.

Ignore, or not.

Soon you’ll be able to blog from anywhere, via any device, with any amount of thought, or lack thereof.