I downloaded Alex yesterday in about fifteen minutes, for what that's worth.
On Sep 20, 2014, at 6:20 PM, Cheryl Homiak <cah4...@icloud.com> wrote:

> Mine took several hours to download Alex as I recall. But that was the first 
> day the new iOS was out.
> 
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> Cheryl
> 
> I tried and tried to turn over a new leaf.
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> Then God gave me a new heart and life:
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> "This I call to mind,
> and therefore I have hope:
> The steadfast love of the Lord
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> On Sep 20, 2014, at 2:55 PM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Brian,
>> 
>> Well, I am not sure if it's entirely Apple's servers or maybe slow download
>> speed on your end. I just thought I try this and I started the Australian
>> high quality voice download a bit over 1 minute ago and it's currently at 20
>> of 120 Mb. It does appear a bit slow on my end here as well, I have a
>> connection which gives me 25 Mbps down and 5 up. It seems that it takes
>> about 8 seconds in between Voiceover saying it's downloaded another Mb, so
>> about 7 or 8 Mb per minute which would mean it will take 15 or 17 minutes to
>> download the 120 Mb which normally would download on my connection in about
>> a minute. I now went out of the speech setting screen back to the home
>> screen and locked my phone, that was when the download was at 44 Mb. Now I
>> went back maybe a minute or so later and I'm at 61 Mb, in other words for me
>> the download is not super fast, but working just fine.
>> Have you tried to maybe do a Reset all Network Settings on your phone to see
>> if that clears things up? Make sure you know your WiFi password, though,
>> you'll need to reconnect after the phone reboots.
>> OK, now the download has finished and it took pretty much exactly 15
>> minutes.
>> 
>> 
>> Regards,
>> Sieghard
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf
>> Of Brian Fischler
>> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 9:29 AM
>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>> Subject: Re: Hilarious three days and still can't install IOS 8 on a 5S
>> 
>> Hey Sieghard,
>> 
>> Thanks for the laugh. Honestly the bugs for the most part I can live with.
>> While I do find them a major statement about Apple's commitment to
>> accessibility as I just can't get over the fact that Apple released a iPhone
>> operating system where blind people can't dial a phone number. I guess that
>> means that blind people won't be able to tell time with the iWatch. For the
>> first time ever I am going to actually start paying more attention to Droid
>> related info, as I do question how much testing Apple is actually doing with
>> VO if this kind of a bug is going to appear in the release. I also have not
>> been able to download any high quality voices after leaving the screen on
>> trying to download the Australian HQ voice for six hours it was only at
>> 25megs of 125 downloaded. I am sure this is a server issue but not being
>> able to download any of the HQ voices and I have plenty of room on my 64GB
>> is really pissing me off.
>> On Sep 20, 2014, at 2:04 AM, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Brian,
>>> 
>>> That was one bug I reported on very early theoretically even breaking 
>>> my NDA. Before the public release you actually had to power down your 
>>> phone completely to stop the tone, removing the phone from the app 
>>> switcher wouldn't do it so I guess there is improvement. Maybe in the 
>>> next update Apple will make it so the tone only sticks for 10 seconds 
>>> and then stops by itself. Anyhow, enough of the sarcasm, I was 
>>> actually going to reply and say that maybe you are in fact "lucky" 
>>> that the update didn't work. If it had continued to not work you'd still
>> be on iOS 7 without dial tones sticking.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Sieghard
>>> 
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On 
>>> Behalf Of Brian Fischler
>>> Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 10:30 PM
>>> To: viphone@googlegroups.com
>>> Subject: Re: Hilarious three days and still can't install IOS 8 on a 
>>> 5S
>>> 
>>> Hey David, well I guess they should change the saying to the 6th time 
>>> is a charm as the installation finally worked on the 6th attempt, and 
>>> it installed lighting fast. Now I get to deal with the hilarity of the 
>>> bugs as I already saw the bug dialing a phone number in the phone, pretty
>> hilarious.
>>> How serious can Apple actually test VoiceOver when dialing a phone 
>>> number with VO doesn't even work, pretty funny stuff as I had to quit 
>>> the phone in the app switcher to get the press of the button on the 
>>> dial pad to stop making noise. Good thing I do not often dial phone 
>>> numbers, but seriously Apple are you kidding me.
>>> On Sep 20, 2014, at 12:50 AM, David Chittenden <dchitten...@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> The best advice is to wait awhile longer for the rush to finish. 
>>>> 
>>>> David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA
>>>> Email: dchitten...@gmail.com
>>>> Mobile: +64 21 2288 288
>>>> Sent from my iPhone
>>>> 
>>>>> On 20 Sep 2014, at 16:35, Brian Fischler <brianfisch...@me.com> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Ok, since a Google search doesn't seem to find much figured I would 
>>>>> email
>>> the list as this is getting hilarious now. 5 attempts to install IOS 8 
>>> and all downloads have failed. I have reset my device, I have tried 
>>> installing through iTunes 3 times, and over wireless twice and all 
>>> have met with the same result the download fails. I have tried at 
>>> different hours of the day to download and install it and it still 
>>> doesn't work. any ideas, or am I just the lucky one who can't install IOS
>> 8.
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