Iphone

So i've had an iphone for about 3 years, I think i blogged about my efforts getting it way back when. Its been very good to me, and only recently started giving me problems. Problems such as not charging every time when plugged in (making it no longer a wireless phone), Freezing when opening apps and kicking me back out to the home screen, and taking a long time to do just about anything. I decided that while it was only a 3G I was going to try upgrading the OS to 4.2...thats where everything fell apart.

I plugged it in to sync and it froze up, I restarted the sync and miraculously it completed. Now time for the upgrade! I downloaded 4.2 which took maybe 2 hours, and then it was time to load it on the phone....Everything started out ok and while the progress bar was moving slowly it appeared to still be moving. I went to sleep assuming it would finish over night and when I woke up my phone would be good as new.

I couldn't have been more wrong.

I woke up to find an error message on my computer and my iphone totally dead minus a picture indicating that I plug the iphone into itunes (which it already was). I unplugged it and plugged it back in.....nothing. The phone was dead. I quickly made an apt at the apple store's genius bar to see if they had any tricks up their sleeves. They made a few attempts at restoring the system, but nothing worked. There was nothing to do but buy a new iphone 4. I cant say I was disappointed. I really wanted one, but I couldnt justify buying one while my other phone was working almost perfectly well. So this evening was a draw...my phone was dead but I got to walk away with a brand new phone and a few less bucks in my pocket.