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- Wed, 18:15: So. I guess I'm getting a Galaxy SIII. I should probably be more excited.
- Thu, 10:35: Back is still tweaking. Just remembered I own a ton of corsets. Wearing one now. Helps a bit.
Sep. 20th, 2012
apple, so not impressed with you.
Sep. 20th, 2012 03:35 pmThings are not really going right this week...
First I was sick, then yesterday I messed up my back somehow. It still hurts, but hurts less.
I just got a call from my gynecologist's office saying that my insurance probably wouldn't approve the Generess Fe because it's the first birth control I have tried. OMG, these pills are already low dose and everything else is higher I don't want to try another one! Frak.
Next, I tried to update my iPod Touch to iOS 6. (MAYBE DON'T DO IT.) It looked like it was going as well as these things normally do, but then when the update "finished", my iPod Touch started in Recovery mode and there really isn't a way out of that, so I had to plug it in to iTunes and restore it. Which I did. And it failed with an error. This seems to be happening to quite a few people across different devices.
And pretty much the only thing you can do it to keep trying a restore until it takes and hope the device isn't bricked.
Thank frak this isn't my phone or something and that I don't super-care about what is on here. It'll just be annoying to have to get my things back on it, but I have a backup on iCloud - we'll see how well that works if I can get the iPod back up and running.
This in no way makes me want an Apple iPhone.
Edit: So, I have uninstalled/reinstalled iTunes. Used two different cables in all the ports on my machine. Tried restoring from a downloaded ipsw file. Used iReb to get the thing in PWND DFU mode (which got me a 1604 error instead of the 1603 error I was getting before). I fraking give up. Going to have to take this thing to the Apple store and see if they can fix it. And I am going to effing kill someone if they tell me they want money to fix something their software update bricked.
First I was sick, then yesterday I messed up my back somehow. It still hurts, but hurts less.
I just got a call from my gynecologist's office saying that my insurance probably wouldn't approve the Generess Fe because it's the first birth control I have tried. OMG, these pills are already low dose and everything else is higher I don't want to try another one! Frak.
Next, I tried to update my iPod Touch to iOS 6. (MAYBE DON'T DO IT.) It looked like it was going as well as these things normally do, but then when the update "finished", my iPod Touch started in Recovery mode and there really isn't a way out of that, so I had to plug it in to iTunes and restore it. Which I did. And it failed with an error. This seems to be happening to quite a few people across different devices.
And pretty much the only thing you can do it to keep trying a restore until it takes and hope the device isn't bricked.
Thank frak this isn't my phone or something and that I don't super-care about what is on here. It'll just be annoying to have to get my things back on it, but I have a backup on iCloud - we'll see how well that works if I can get the iPod back up and running.
This in no way makes me want an Apple iPhone.
Edit: So, I have uninstalled/reinstalled iTunes. Used two different cables in all the ports on my machine. Tried restoring from a downloaded ipsw file. Used iReb to get the thing in PWND DFU mode (which got me a 1604 error instead of the 1603 error I was getting before). I fraking give up. Going to have to take this thing to the Apple store and see if they can fix it. And I am going to effing kill someone if they tell me they want money to fix something their software update bricked.
But the Apple Genius Bar wins
Sep. 20th, 2012 09:42 pmI'm currently writing this from my freshly restored iPod Touch. Apps are still downloading and I'm not sure what things need passwords and what are all set. I'll find out soon enough.
After dinner, mom drove me to the mall (what with my messed up back). I didn't make an appointment and decided to just risk going in to see if they had anything open. I stopped an associate as he was leaving the bar area and explained my problem. At first he said they didn't have openings tonight but could see what was open later in the week. Next week?! What if this was my phone? I said that I had already tried a restore and...suddenly he hanged his mind and grabbed a cord and a MacBook and asked me to follow him.
As he plugged my iPod Touch in and tried to do a restore in iTunes, I explained all of the things I had tried. He seemed impressed - especially when I said I already tried a manual restore several times. While the device was doing its thing, we had some banter where he marveled at a customer's Vikings sweater and I explained I used to work tech support so I always tried all the things before getting help. He said I should apply to work at the Genius Bar. Yeah...I dunno man. I sort of hate all these Apple things. (No I didn't say that.)
Anyway, the restore seemed to have worked and he was kind of sketch about the backup from iCloud would work...but it did! So huzzah! All my settings and apps seemed intact, though they needed to be downloaded again. I'd also probably need to re-verify some of my Google things because of 2-step... Which he didn't know about so I guess I helped him with that particular customer dilemma.
I thanked Andres for all his help and waited in the store long enough for my photos to download. I figured I could do the rest at home. I'd also need to reload my music and I suppose some of my comics though I could wait until I get my Samsung Galaxy S3 soon.
In any case, I appreciated the help from the Genius Bar, but find it frustrating that I had to go I the first place because restoring from a PC doesn't work 100% of the time. At least iCloud was able to restore my settings and data so yah for that.
Hopefully this will be an upswing in my so far disastrous week.
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