This is just a quick side-note post to help anyone out who may end up in the predicament I was in yesterday after upgrading my iPhone software. Seems I wasn’t the only user by far to have encountered this same problem, but worst of all, NOT ONE thread anywhere that I read while trying to find a solution, had a solution. Thankfully, I fixed mine BY ACCIDENT! So here’s the gist of it:
1. After successfully downloading the new version 5 and then your iPhone reboots and restores itself and all that stuff, you might get the following error right at the very end of your phone restore (just when you think everything was going to finish without any issues!):
2. ‘An unknown error has occurred (-1)’ or some other variation of this.
3. You will then get a message (if you leave your phone plugged to your computer) prompting you to choose from the following: CANCEL, RESTORE BACKUP, DELETE BACKUP.
4. First go ahead and try to RESTORE BACKUP a few more times.
5. If that doesn’t work and you keep getting the same error message, do the following:
6. Choose CANCEL and let the phone completely boot up and start to prompt you to set up your ‘new’ iPhone.
7. FROM THE PHONE ITSELF, you can then choose to RESTORE FROM BACKUP.
Seems like while trying to do this on my computer, it was a never-ending error loop, but when doing it only from the phone itself, it worked just fine.
Yesterday was wonderful. It rained a lot and stayed breezy and cool into the night (that’s a godsend in Arkansas this time of year!) and then there were rainbows…
…two of them practically over my apartment. And it continued to rain off and on even with the sun out, which is always interesting enough for pause no matter how many times you see it.
If you click on the photo and enlarge it you can see the rain on the left side. And yes, it only rained on the left side! Another interesting event that never fails to amaze me.
Oh, and before all this, I quit my job. Yep. I had to, and though I’m jobless at the moment, I feel such a huge burden and a lot of anger and anxiety lifted from me. In a way, the rainbows and the rain and all the beautiful little oddities seemed to come at the right moment, as if saying, “Hey, things will be alright now.” Or something like that….
It was surreal.
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Update 7/24/09 – I went back to the job I quit, yesterday. Misunderstandings cleared up, problems addressed and issues talked through with my employer. All is good again.
Don’t let the subject title deceive you. A short trip up a little mountain is not enough to really save me from everything I need to be saved from, but I did enjoy it and I did need it and so now I’ll blog about it.
The day began horribly for me. I woke up with a toothache and so I called-in to work, but that wasn’t the only reason. I simply just did not want to go for reasons that I mentioned in my previous post. Vague, I know, but that’s alright; it’s enough to make the point. The first half of the day I spent job-hunting and feeling like crap. Then when I got home, I just kind of lost it. Not because of the job-hunting (that went the way it usually does — nothing much out of the ordinary) but because I felt the need to be job-hunting. That, on top of a lot of personal woes non-work-related, which I’ll also not go into just because, really caught up with me and I lost it.
After my mini breakdown, I decided to get up and climb a fucking mountain. It was the perfect day: overcast, cool and breezy, the smell of rain in the air, but staying in the distance so we could do the ‘mountain thing’ and not get wet. It was beautiful. I needed to get out and feel the wind on my face. So I took my kids and we drove to Pinnacle Mountain.
And what I got out of today’s visit and why it was different from my visits at the top before, was knowing that my woes and all the things that break me, are nothing compared to the beauty and power of nature and the world. Jobs are nothing. Bills are nothing. The things we are forced to do in order to ‘live’ are nothing.
They only become something when we let them.
