IPhone restore trouble

Basically my iPhone was backed up on another Laptop. I now have a Mac and my phone turned itself off. When it turned back on it asked me to connect to iTunes but the only trouble is when it goes to restore a message shows up saying… "iPhone could not be restored, unknown error occurred (2001)".So basically I can't get it to function without restoring. Plus my lock button is broke to add insult to injury. Anyone had this trouble before?

IPhone countdown apps that don't include days that you specify?

So I'm a senior in high school, and graduation is approaching fast. We have our senior countdown in the hallway already. I've been using an app called "countdown" for all of my countdown stuff, but it's not very accurate if it includes weekends and days we have off of school. I've looked at some other countdown apps that have an "exclude weekends" option, but as far as I know, we have two days off during two weeks before the end of school, which those "exclude weekends" option doesn't cover. Does anyone know of a good iPhone app that could give me an accurate countdown, without those days off included in the countdown, and still has the hours, minutes, and seconds counting down? It would be much appreciated if someone could tell me about a good one if they know one (preferably free, but if it's not, then that's fine. As long as I have my accurate countdown.) Please let me know if you find any or have a good one that you use!

Added (1). Also, I'd just like to add that I wouldn't be using this app for just a graduation countdown, but for all my countdowns, so something like a school countdown app won't work. I just would like an app that eliminates counting specific days that I choose, such as if there's a 3 day weekend, which most apps that have the "exclude weekends" option do not have.

Is the iPhone 5 any good on Cricket?

So my dad was going to buy me a new 16g iPhone 5 for my birthday. And he was going to move on to T-Mobile, but my mom doesn't want to. She thinks the prices are "high".So she wants me to get an iPhone 5 for Cricket. So now my choice is either a Cricket iPhone 5 or nothing. Is it worth it? All i know is that Cricket won't allow 4G into the iPhone 5, which sucks. I mean I didn't get anything for my b-day last year… So i kinda hate that my mom is being cheap:/

Why can't I open my text messages?

I have an iPhone 4s and I can't open the message app. Like it pulls up but its just a blank screen then it closes and goes back to the home screen. I've restarted it 3 times and nothing happens. I can receive the text, like it sends me a notification but I can't open the app.

I hate everyone at my school?

Everyone here irritates me so much.ill start with the groups of people. 1.populars. The populars really annoy me for one thing the popular girls dress so innapropriately and the guys love it and every popular has an iphone. And all the popular guys play sports all i hear about all day long is sports sports sports. Even most of the girls play sports. Then there's the nerds. The nerds all they do is do there homework constantly and read under there desk and play video games. Then finally there's in between people and those are my friends.exept there not really my friends there all desperate for boys and all they ever do is talk about nonsense. Oh and they ignore me half the time but i don't want to be friends with anyone else because i hate everyone else. How am I supposed to survive 4 more years with these people?