Apple!

Has anyone been able to update or restore their iPhone to any version of iOS since Thursday (7-22)?

I’ve been having a slew of problems.

Day 1:

• Trip to Apple Store to replace a White 16GB iPhone 4 with bad home button.
• Arrive home and sync new phone with iTunes and install 4.3.4 update.
• Around the Firmware step, I kept getting iTunes Error 9. Tried restoring from 2 different PC’s and 2 different Mac’s. Same results.
• Made another Genius Bar appointment for Saturday, 7-23.

Day 2:

• Genius Bar confirms it’s a bad iPhone, replace with another.
• I ask to update to 4.3.4 in store, in case this happens again.
• Update completes, Activates in iTunes. Awesome. Let’s go get lunch.
• Driving home, I look at the screen of the White iPhone, it’s back at the “Activate Me” screen with the languages that keep changing. Ugh.
• Connect to iTunes again when I get home. “No SIM card installed.” Are you kidding?
• Finally get it to read the SIM Card. Activates in iTunes. It reboots itself and we’re back at the “Activate Me” screen. DAMN.
• Maybe it’s a botched restore/update. Try to restore to 4.3.4 from home.
• Around the Firmware step, I keep getting iTunes Error 1013. Checked hosts files, router settings, antivirus settings, Windows Firewall settings. I can ping everything that needs to be seen during a restore (gs.apple.com, gs-nwk.apple.com…etc). I CAN SEE APPLE. WHY ISN’T THIS WORKING? **I even released and renewed my external DSL IP address, just in case for some silly reason Apple had blacklisted my IP. Still no dice.**
• Talked to Apple Care people, they’re sending out a new iPhone again, free of charge.

Day 4

• Tried restoring again this morning, for shits and giggles. It 1013’d out again at the same step, but this time at the end:

Anybody?

Edit: It’s also now happening with the new 4.3.5 release.

Edit 2: New phone arrived from Apple, works like a charm…for now.