FWIW, I have created a HN stream and added ~40 of you who sent emails. You should be able to signup to google+ using that. If it tells you to retry later, please do that. It works - eventually.
fk, you just described my life. I live in a fantastic bubble and work in a fantastic bubble. I travel in a car driven by my driver and I pretend the in between doesn't exist.
My experience has been horrible. I noticed bad slowdown in every app launching immediately after the upgrade. Apps took 30 secs to 1 min to launch (twitter, lose it, even calculator).
It progressively got slower. Keyboard response ground to a halt. It would take 3-5 secs for the keyboard response to show up on screen.
It became an useless paper weight.
I tried restore to 3.1.3 a few times and I would give up at the 1015 error and restore back to 4.0, which was probably a "clean" install. It didn't fix it.
The primary feature I was interested in was the orientation lock which is not available in iPhone 3G. Threaded email is nice, but not a deal breaker, same with folders.
Got it working. I followed the instructions and got stuck with error 1015.
I had to do two things.
1. Switch of your iPhone and put it in DFU mode with following instructions
- Click the Home + Power On button for 10 seconds exactly
- Release the power button and continue to click on Home
Please say Google+ in the subject and it would be helpful if you spell out your email in the body.
I will add it once they re-open invite.
https://plus.google.com/107117483540235115863/posts/PhJFJqLy...