But the Apple Genius Bar wins

[amezri]

I'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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