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

Same here

cant any1 from apple help us???????

Mine went threw after 3 hours of failures. All was restored exept my email was gone. Is there any way to restore the email?

I'm stuck in the exact same place in the update process."Restoring iPad Firmware" is where I get the error that the iPad can't be restored.

tried to get the installation pack offline, it just said that there was an internal error blah blah....finally succummed & hit the restore button. it wiped everything & installing ios5. hoping that this wouldn't time out as the previous 2 attempts did. it's really frustrating. oh well, waiting for het another 5 hours & hoping that it completes the cycle... *sigh*

how?

I decided to update my iPod 3G first, and it has been stuck in recovery for nearly a day. I've tried everything suggested in this thread and also everything on these Apple support pages:

http://support.apple.com/kb/ts1275

http://support.apple.com/kb/ta38603

Nothing has helped. Even tried restoring from two other PCs, tried using different cables, tried every USB port on all of those computers, all computers are up to date, etc etc etc... Getting errors 6 and 1603. I'm glad I did it with the iPod first as it only had audio and when/if I get it running again it will be an easy restore. iOS 5 is not getting near the other devices in my household.

Has anyone successfully restored a device that didn't respond to DFU restore?

bradkaos is an idiot. Let me know what they say cTigerC, I'm in the same boat. I'll probably give them a call today. Maybe we should start a new thread because the title on this one is misleading. Not all the devices are made in the same factory so it is possible only the ones made with a certain parts is causing the problems. Like said before update went fine for me but phone reboots constantly. My crash report in the settings\about\diagnostic & usage\diagnostic & usage data:

Incident Identifier: E26789E9-2A5A-492D-9CC5-

25B986C02C8E
CrashReporter Key: 8eaa2ca20171a3232e6ab7ed6342db722fdfde50
Date: 2011-10-15 12:12:20 -0400
Reset count: 1
Boot failure count: 0
Boot faults:
Boot stage: 0
Boot app: 0

-this is a consant crash report that is generated from the rebooting.

Why call me an idiot?

How about meeting me face to face and then call me it?

The world could do without lemons like you hiding behind a computer and calling people names.

I have simply taken the time to assist people with a workaround solution.

Consider yourself reported

Of course Apple knew there would be a "very substantial demand for IOS5" but what else are they going to do about it. If they roll out it for one device at a time people will be angry because there device didnt get the update yet. Apple cant do anything. Its not there fault.

There are thousands of people trying to download IOS5 and alot of them are having problems Apple doesn't have enough people to help everyone. Give them some time.

If all of you REALLY NEEDED your iPhone or iPod you should of stayed with the older version for a few days untill the demand was down for getting IOS5.

Hi guys!

I've finally found the solution to being stuck at "Restoring iPhone software" in iOS 5 update! The problem was the "WiFi Sync" app previously installed on your phone! Go here for the fix http://tinyurl.com/ipsw4-0g

Kix

Thanks Kiki Tay. Will try.

bradkaos: I call you and idiot because your not helping anyone with your workaround solutions by repeating what's been written now in this thread at least a dozen times. If you don't have any new relevent information then why post? No one is hiding behind a computer, this is a forum for everyone so everyone is behind their computer but please report your lemons as you please.

OK, so I'm back from the Apple Store and wouldn't you know it went all the way through the restore the first time the Apple tech tried (after something like 50 tries myselff over the past couple days and it always failing at the exact same point - restoring iPhone firmware). As soon as I got home and plugged it in, it began to restore everything and is currently restoring my apps. The good news (I guess) is that they never asked or checked to see whether I was covered by Applecare or mentioned anything about a fee for the service.

How do I fix this???