Those reports, I believe were just hoaxes.
Speaking from experience, with my iPhone 5s, the upgrade to 8.0.2 went 
flawlessly and I have not experienced and issues or faults.

robin

On 29 Sep 2014, at 10:57 am, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Didn't you read my post to the WAMUG Mailing list on 26 Sept. 2014 5:53pm:
> "Apple iOS 8.0.2 update backfires on Australian users"?
> 
> Cheers,
> Ronni
> 
> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
> 
> 
> On 29 Sep 2014, at 10:01 am, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Thank you Ronni.
>> Someone mentioned yesterday that iOS8.0.2 also has issues and suggested not 
>> upgrading to that yet.
>> Do you know if this is the case ?
>> 
>> On 29 Sep 2014, at 7:00 am, Ronda Brown <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Stephen,
>>> 
>>> Try starting iTunes in Safe Mode.
>>> 1. Hold down Command+Option and click to open iTunes
>>> 2. Continue holding the 'Command + Option' keys until you see the iTunes 
>>> Safe Mode warning.
>>> This will open iTunes in Safe Mode
>>> 
>>> Starting iTunes in Safe Mode allows you to be able to check things and 
>>> follow prompts that iTunes shows you. It allows iTunes to download and 
>>> update iTunes components.
>>> Safe Mode disables any non generic plugins / add-ons etc, allowing iTunes 
>>> to go 
>>> back to bare operating basics.
>>> 
>>> Cheers,
>>> Ronni
>>> 
>>> Sent from Ronni's iPad4
>>> 
>>> On 28 Sep 2014, at 6:06 pm, Stephen Chape <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>> 
>>>> I just tried to update from iOS8.0 to iOS8.0.2 on my iPhone 5.
>>>> Two times I got the message:-
>>>> 
>>>> “iTunes could not connect to this iPhone - session ID is missing”
>>>> 
>>>> Any ideas what the issue could be here please ?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Stephen Chape
>>>> 
>>>> Mac by choice
>>>> Windows because my employer knew no better
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>> Regards,
>> Stephen Chape
>> 
>> Mac by choice
>> Windows because my employer knew no better
>> 
>> 
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