I’ve done quite a bit of work on the Mighty Mite build, but this post is reserved for some ranting.
The new iPhone is a great wonder and a piece of crap. As I may have stated earlier, my vibrate switch broke the first day I had my iPhone. That was an annoyance more than anything but everything I read told me to bring it in and they would replace it. I did that today and I have a new phone that seems to have a working vibrate switch.
However, before today it was able to cause great havok. As I stated in a previous post, the phone had issues upgrading to 2.0.1. I had to yoink out the USB cable in the middle of a restore to get it to stop restoring everytime I plugged the damn thing in. (This did “fix” it.) A week or two went by and I decided to upgrade to 2.0.2 the other night. Mistake. That failed upgrade “bricked” my phone. Luckily Justin was there to help and provide some insight. I spent 3-4 hours Tuesday night and Wednesday morning trying to breath life into the phone. Thank god there is this mode “DFU” (which I think stands for “Definitely Fucked Up”), that allowed me to restore from a software boot (I think that’s what it did.) It failed 3 times. 2 times trying to go to 2.0.0 and 1 time going to 2.0.2. One last time before bed I tried to restore to 2.0.2. I awoke in the morning to find it had succedd and it was looking for a backup image. That was the final straw. I brought it in today and told Apple my issues. They were nice enough to exchange it on teh spot after running some diagnosis programs.
I brought the phone home, tried to restore the previous phones image. That seemed to succed, but it again asked if I wanted to restore the phone or set up as new phone. Not having anything to lose I choose to set up as a new phone. Only this time I named it “Phail” and not “Cube Phone.” Phail is certainly fitting for as I tried to upgrade to 2.0.2 tonight it again bricked my phone. I got an error 1602 the first time. I restarted itunes it saw the phone, thank god (unlike last night), and I tried to restore. This time I got an error 13. I fucking hate this piece of shit. I’m uninstalling itunes and going to reinstall it. Maybe I have a bad version of something. I’m also going to switch USB ports. If that doesn’t work I’m writing Apple a nasty email and I will demand retribution for all of my time. So far I figure I’ve spent 15 hours, 30 Miles of gas and car use and loss of sleep to try and get this thing to work.  Now to the reinstall and redownload and reimage and reboot and re re re re re re re re re re!!!!
Not happy.
Reinstall has not worked, going to delete the downloaded image and redownload if this fails.