Unlock Icloud Server
Hadi Sapre
So none of the stuff that worked for others is working for me. Everyone always blames Apple but they never help me or even admit they have a problem, so any help here is appreciated. Anyone have any other suggestions to try?
Okay, I did successfully turn on two factor authentication from my iphone, got an app-specific password, and put it into emclient, and it is syncing again! Yay! The glitch I encountered was that my icloud is SO OLD, I have an old ***@me.com domain name for iCloud, BUT a different AppleID for the itunes Store. I had to call Apple to straighten it out --for 2FA, log in at appleid.apple.com with the ICLOUD ID and password to get the Emclient password, NOT at the store ID. They are completely separate and Apple says it will never be possible to merge them (Thanks Apple for making my life even more difficult).
Just a comment on your text messaging woes and Apple 2FA. You can specify a landline to get a robocall that reads the authentication code, but not sure if that will work for you. Once I have logged in once with a code to a device, or the icloud webpage, it has not asked me again for a code, except for logging into appleid.com, which asks me for it every time, probably because of the financial information there.
Thanks, very helpful. I see my settings are the same except I use smtp, not outbound. Will try that, but as you will see below, that error is gone for now suggesting it is associated with Apple and not ATT email.
OK, I have 2FA now and entered the verification code texted to me in password field below. Is that where it goes? I used to put my AppleIDt here and it worked till a few days ago. Still get authentication error and calendar/contacts not synced with iCloud.
I agree, I still like iPhones way better than Android phones. I have a Microsoft Surface that goes with one of my roles, and it really is a sweet little machine, but still not quite as sweet as an iPad to my mind.
I started using Flickr because it was recommended and my 5GB of iCloud storage was getting full with backups, photos and such. I was attempting to create more room by deleting PhotoStream photos. I thought the correct sequence was to turn off iCloud PhotoStream on all my iOS devices and my iMac so the photos wouldn't attempt to be re-created wirelessly while I was trying to delete them. Then I manually delete all the necessary photos in iCloud.com. That's when I ran into the server warning problem.
Your answer got me thinking (well it's about time Pilgrim) - I activated PhotoStream in Settings>iCloud on all devices (OS X and IOS) and the went to my IOS devices first to use the iCloud>Manage Storage>iCloud Photo Library>Disable and Delete to let the server do it's thing. Then I went to the iMac System Preferences>iCloud and unchecked the PhotoStream radio button. Then did the same on all OS X and IOS devices for the family sharing etc. Then turn off Settings>Photo & Camera>iCloud Photo Library on the IOS devices. I'll check back in 30 days to see if the photos deleted in iCloud .com.
My primary data source is/was my MacBook Pro. It was all synced to MobileMe. (Contacts and iCal). iCloud came along. I "upgraded" to iCloud the frustrating process of "your account needs to be upgraded, create an appleID..." was a whole different pain.
To make life simple, I even allowed iCloud to be the source of data for my iMac as well as iPhone 4 and iPhone 4S by deleting everything and letting everything be populated from iCloud. Now, supposedly, all my contacts and calendar/reminder data is in iCloud and all the data on the iMac and iPhones if from iCloud.
Adding cards in AddressBook on the computer also does not propagate to iCloud, though edits to or changes to iCal DO show up in iCloud. But, adds/deletes/edits to Contacts on iMac OR iPhones do NOT show up in iCloud.
Can you edit your contacts in your Mac? I have the same problem both on my Mac and iCloud. My contacts are correctly added/edited on my iPhone, but they don't sync to iCloud. No edit can be done in iCloud ("server error") nor in my Mac.
I am having the same problems. I must use a PC at work period full stop. No choice. This means I have to use iCloud.com to try to get the far-too-many Mac devices I have to sync. This is perhaps one of the worst rollouts I have witnessed (and I am a mobilme member for a very long time). First it was trying to get explorer to get along with cloud. Lots of freezes. Asked the community about switching to Safari if that would help, no responses, so did it anyhow and it seems to have helped. Now I have this hot mess issue with the contacts on iCloud.com; sometimes they will take/sync and then others they do not...except that it will wait and act like it's accepted multiple changes and then when you finally see on a device that it is NOT syncing do you realize there is a problem.
I then get MULTIPLE servers error messages from apple on several changes I made previously...which I then have to do all over again, but hey, I get to "send a message to Apple" about 30 times a day to "help" diagnose the cerebral failure in the programming/coding/whatever...
I am totally frustrated. Ironically, I first waited a 2 weeks before making the move to iCloud. Ironically, initially everything worked fine. MacBook Pro primary synced with MobileMe migrated to iCloud, which synced well with iPhone 4, iPhone 4S and iMac.
I first noticed it when changes I made disappeared. A business connection I accidentally ran into gave me his new number, which I fed into my iPhone 4S replacing his old dead number. When I did not see it on the MacBook Pro, I checked iCloud, which also did not show the change. Went to the iPhone 4S only to find the OLD number had replaced the new number, and I have no way of running into that person again. This is a DATA LOSS issue.
I finally bit the bullet, logged out of iCloud on all devices, deleted everything from iCloud, deleted all iCloud login and accounts from iCals and ABs on my devices. Then, I started just with the primary MacBook pro feeding iCloud like new.... Now, nearly 10 hours later, it is still adding contacts to iCloud about 1 every few minutes with AddressBook hogging the CPU and unresponsive. Console shows uploads, and then repeats of:
There are no other apps running (until I was barely able to fire up Safari). Who knows how long this will take and THEN I have to wait for iOS and iMac to download it too... for safety's sake I enable them one at a time.
I added this comment to a thread about trying to get rid of iCloud once it has been used... it is much harder than you'd imagine... I am sharing it here because it includes steps I took after the problem we are discussing above....
I love Apple since it started and been a Mac user since it came out. Much that MobileMe was frustrating and had a lousy launch, I thought it was impossible to make something worse than MobileMe. Apple succeeded with this disaster, data destroying, heart burning, stomach churning and hours wasting beast called iCloud.
See iCloud Server Error: Can't add/edit contacts + it overwrites AddressBook edits By IMRAN Happy to have your thoughts on how to solve that nightmare. My last attempt (manually restorying my 5000 contacts in AddressBook, then painfully manually deleting contacts in iCloud Select All > Delete there gives Server Errors also. Finally managed. Then resyncing the MacBook Pro to iCloud led to 1000 contacts NOT syncing and no way except manually listing each address list side by side to figure out which ones it missed pulling in. Horror. Disaster. Shame.
Like an evil spawn of SkyNet and a PC Boot Sector Virus, once iCloud has grabbed your data IT becomes the master of your data, your digital life. Deleting stuff means the stuff on your DEVICE (e.g. MacBook Pro, where you created and have all the ORIGINAL data in that iCloud sucked in) is what will be destroyed. Be careful.
I am literally having to make a decision tonight, keep my MacBook Pro as the master, and sync via iTunes to the iPhone 4S and 4. I have an iMac mostly for music and video, which it was "cool" to have synced iCal and AB on, though not regularly used. But, after the hours wasted with iCloud, and the repeated data loss, I can live without the iMac being a synced device.
Despite clean starts, I am finding an additional bug... not only does iCloud not sync properly even with a fresh start from a MacBook Pro AND/OR iPhone 4S, even setting up a parallel separate environment with an iMac AND/OR iPhone 4 also shows the same erratic behavior.
An additional annoyance is how Apple's apps across platforms provide inconsistent look and feel (something Jobs supposedly prided). e.g. when you select all contacts starting with A in iCloud Contacts, it shows a total number for the selection. Doing that in AddressBook on the Mac does not do that. You have to manually semi-drag the cards to get a count to appear. (Unless I am missing something).
Anyway, here is the continuing frustration. I reset iCloud (removed all records there also) and the MacBook Pro was no longer using iCloud and neither was the iPhone 4 (environment A). Instead, I took the iPhone 4 (part of Environment B) with its 5400 contacts all working fine, and decided to use that as the iCloud connected device first to sync.
This led to 3902 records appearing in iCloud (just like had happened with Environment A). Annoying because it is still less than the 5400 in the iPhone 4 but also because this number is different from the number of the same records iCloud took in from the MacBook Pro. Inconsistent behavior. And, there is no easy way to figure out what records did not get pulled in.
I did a manual search and found a few records on the iPhone that don't appear in iCloud. To force an exchange of data I manually edited a few... e.g. added URLs, added a city, etc. Yet, iCloud did NOT take the changed records from the iPhone.
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