iOS 5 Upgrade Bricked My iPhone 4 (Stuck in Recovery Mode)

Since Noon central - two hours download. Multiple attemtps and error messages to update. Finally seemed to have updated but now is stuck on hours of restoring content (wish I would have known it was going to wipe out the ipad and iphone). Now, I don't know if settings and data are lost. It is now 8:25 pm and I am completely guessing at the rate of restore that it will be past midnight to completion - whatever that completion is. Lion server disaster - now this. Apple's brand is going down the tubes fast. Apple Vista is what I call this and the Lion server mess. Apple's QA is now a joke. I will never trust them again. Just another Microsoft in the making. How sad!

Meant to also mention that much of the last few hours has nothing to do with the Apple servers being busy. Unacceptably long backups and restore process are not server dependent. This upgrade is a joke. I was an Apple fan and now will never recommend them again. Lion server could have been a fluke. But, this latest incompetent screw up is now showing a trend. At least Microsoft took many years to screw the customer. Why did Apple get so good in the last couple of years and then crash and burn so fast? A deplorable way to represent Jobs achievements and with his recent passing...

Same thing happened to me as well—ended up restoring with my 'trashed' iPhone restore .ipsw file but nearly all of my apps are missing (I had alot, and many folders), though settings seem to be the same. Extremely disappointed in Apple's preparations for this. As someone earlier in this discussion said, it's like they were surprised by how many people have iOS devices—they didn't consider the server load this would cause.

I know little about how this process works, but how can attempting to upgrade even result in phones being sent to recovery mode!?

(iPhone 4, by the way)

Same thing happened to me. Got caught in recovery mode, but it did progress but... It then told me my sim card is not there or it's bad. Went to AT&T check it, not the sim card. The phone is displaying an image I've never seen. Needless to say the phone is bricked. Have an appointment at the apple store tomorrow. We'll see what happens.

I've got 2 other iPhones in the house, not going to upgrade for a few days, don't need 3 bricks in the house.

****...same thing here. i got one of two of my phones working...messed up the wifes..

thanks apple, sure am not going to here the end of this one...

The same happened to me but now it won't turn on even when I have my iPhone plugged to the charger. HEEEELP!!

This upgrade is buggy !!!

Be patient. My phone was stuck in recovery-mode for a couple hours...until I did what has been posted before "disconnect phone from comp. Hold down power and home button until phone blinks black. Plug back into comp with buttons remaining pressed down...until USB screen appears on phone. Then iTunes recognizes phone and asks to restore - click restore. Took a few tries for the phone to verify with apple servers. problem was that iOS5 was half installed all the time - putting phone into recovery mode. iOS5 is worth the wait, it's amazing!

iPhone 4 32 GB.

holy crap... thought i was getting it to work...yeah right, now it is

restoring

again, trying to...and the only thing i saw come up so far was a bunch of chinese symbols....
***

I too have finally succeeded in the iOS 5 update! Patience prevailed and I again have contact with the outside world. A hard reset did it. I depressed both buttons until my phone showed up in iTunes and THIS time the update worked! Just a bad case of server overload. Should have known.

iRod

I ran into a similair issue....if you have a printer connected, unplug it restart and then launch Itunes and try to restore...i had to contact apple and apparently there is a conflict with certain printer drivers. Good luck

it will not stop "rebooting" its been at it for hours. showing an apple, then showing the loading sign. i would really like it to just stop and turn on. i havent figured out what the solution is though..

Yeah my update worked fine..Of course it would not restore from backup like everyone else mentioned as well. I don't care much for the backup since I have everything saved in gmail. But iPhone keeps resarting when plugged in. I get a few apps transferred over and then it just randomly resarts disconnecting it from my computer. I plugged in into the regular wall charger earlier and it was doing the same thing just resarting itself every like 5 or so minutes. ***? It was like a light show sitting on my nightstand. Not sure what to do at this point. I guess I'll have to call Apple tomorrow and I haven't updated my wfies yet, I think I'll wait on that one. Let me know what you all find out.

just a thought but make sure that you have done a software update on your mac or laptop ( provided you only apple products) there is a software update that prepares your mac or laptop for the icloud and iOS5 transition among other latest software updates.. do that first then do the update on itunes for you ipad, iphone or ipod touch...

my upgrade went sooth as silk by what i stated above>>

Ric

Got it to work!

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THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOUUUU!!!! I have a phone again! And a IOS 5 one!