My phone has been restoring since yesterday at 5 pm, its now the next day at 8 am. what do I do?
I have an Iphone for and still have ios 6. For the past couple of days icannot Imessage, it keeps saying "waiting for activation". I alsoo had a ridiculous amount of "other" space on my phone.
Well I took it to the apple store and the guy restored my phone which seemed to fix all my problems, but I still cannot imessage unless connected to wifi and my phone is still restoring. I tried plugging it to my computer and itunes wont let me restore it.Plus the messages won't send from my number, only my email. I can see my number as an option but I cant click on it.
1) How can I get this to restore faster? Or how much longer will this take?
2) How can I immessage again?
3) How can I get my phone to send messages from my number and not my email?
I didn't know you have an MBP. It doesn't have antivirus unless you added it, and the firewall is off by default. And iTunes on a Mac knows how to get around it. It's beginning to look like a hardware problem. Do you have another computer you can try to restore it with? Or an Apple store where you can make a genius appointment?
Do you have the latest version of iTunes (10.4). If you don't you should get a warning, so you probably do, but worth checking. You can try reinstalling iTunes; as it's a Mac you can just download and install over the old one.
What version of OS X? You need at least 10.5.4.
I asked about TinyUmbrella, but let's check anyway. Using textedit, open the file /etc/hosts. You may have to enter the file name directly, as it's hidden and you may not be able to browse to it. It should look like this:
# Host Database
# localhost is used to configure the loopback interface
# when the system is booting. Do not change this entry.
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthost
::1 localhost
fe80::1%lo0 localhost
If it has any other lines, especially lines that contains gs.apple.com, delete those lines and save the file. The Update should then work. I doubt that this is the problem, but we've tried all of the standard ways to fix it.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4236
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