iOS 5 - iPad could not be restored

I have the feeling this issue mostly affects PC users, since we're the ones that usually have USB ports on monitors, keyboards, etc.

The Director of my department just tried updating his iPad2 to iOS5, as per his normal morning routine, by plugging it into his Dell monitor.. For some reason, this time the update failed and his iPad2 was stuck in "connect to iTunes" and he got an Error 1611. He brought me the iPad2 (I'm IT support) and I couldn't get it to connect or update on my computer, either. I also used a USB port on my PC's Dell monitor.

After using Google and seeing a few posts here, I tried to plug directly into my PC's front USB ports and the update succeeded. My Director's meeting notes and voice recordings prior to his last backup (about a week ago) are all gone, which is quite a bit of information. I was a little frustrated that I couldn't even see the iPad2 as a browseable device where I could save everything externally before iTunes nuked it.

No warnings say that the iPhone/iPad should be plugged directly into the PC, do they? Why was this update any different?

I think, for the better of all, and since the Director lost a lot of meeting notes and time this morning, the department will be replacing 10+ iPads with Android tablets in the near future.

Like a lot of other folks, I'm getting errors (internal error with no errror code) when I try to do the update on my IPAD. I appears to be locked up with the little spiral of lines. Every once in a while it will beep and the spiral will move a little like it thinks it's doing something. I tried restoring but it fails to restore from the last backup. I tried the hard reset (home and power button) but it just ends up back with the same spiral. I tried resyncing and ITunes goes throught the motions and thinks the it did the resync but the display on the IPAD doesn't change. How can I resatore from an earlier backup? Any other suggestions?

I just solved my problem here.

IPad 2 was frozen with the apple logo and progress bar, during iOS5 update, using Windows 7 64bit.

I pulled the cable - that's when I started looking around for solutions.

Hard Reset the iPad - press and hold power and menu buttons for about 7 seconds. Fortunately it worked, going back to factory settings (awaiting to be plugged to iTunes)

Updated the iTunes SW.

Entered my Firewall suite settings (Avast 6) and disabled both firewall and real-time shields.

Plugged the iPad to a single USB port (not a hub).

This time iTunes recognized it, restored the backup and applied the update.

All good.

If it works for you, please hit "like" at the bottom of this post.

I resolved the issue by connecting to a different computer and setting up a new account and did the software upgrade. I then reconnected to the original computer and restored the backed up files from ITunes. The firewall settings didn't matter in my case.

Hello,
I was wondering if anybody could help me out, I put my iPad 2 into dfu mode it recognises the iPad in iTunes but when I click restore it does the extractong software stage and then error 3194 pops time after time I looked into it tried a few things but it continues also once or twice iPhone restore cannot conect or something pops up but thats only happened twice.

ANY HELP FAST?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

same problem in here to restore ios 5.1.1 on New iPad 3, it stuck in verifying ipad restore with apple...then the error apper code 1602...i'm using windows 7 64bit PC...please some one help.....sorry for bad english.....

@Soumen Koley I don't know if this may work for you but what I did is go into control panel>program's>iTunes>right click>repair wait for it to repair and then it worked fine for me, hope this helps. :)

@Soumen Koley I don't know if this may work for you but what I did is go into control panel>program's>iTunes>right click>repair wait for it to repair and then it worked fine for me, hope this helps. :)