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For those who upgraded, no need to do a restore. You can just option-click "Update" and downgrade the OS back to 8.0.0.

Instructions: https://gist.github.com/locriani/f0f5f4f71a28945c3750

I'm guessing the fact that they've seriously messed up people's phones means they will have to have a fix for this within hours. If you can I would suggest waiting.

...maybe not. They're promising a fix within 'days' and recommending downgrading [1]

[1] http://9to5mac.com/2014/09/24/apple-ios-8-downgrade-instruct...

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