Robert Hampton

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13th October 2011

iOS, I like the way you dress

Last night I got home, plugged my iPhone into my computer, and got this message:

"A new iPhone software version (5.0) is available for the iPhone 'Robert's iPhone'. Would you like to download it and update your iPhone now?"

Yes, after a summer of feverish anticipation, iOS 5 has finally made it out of Apple HQ and onto the flash drives of eager users everywhere.

Well, almost. The first time I tried to download it, the download aborted after about 50 megabytes (although I think that might have been my dodgy wi-fi). It worked the second time, but that proved to be the easy step, as every attempt to install it was met with this message:

"The iPhone 'Robert's iPhone' could not be restored. An unknown error occurred (3200)."

I wasn’t the only one. Error 3200 was trending on Twitter for much of Wednesday evening. It didn’t help that the “More Information” button linked to an Apple support page which didn’t even mention error 3200 (although it has now been belatedly added).

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