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

Same problem here. Agreed to upgrade to iOS5 and, 10 hours later, the progression bar is freezed at 1/20 of the way.

The post I'm replying to dates from the 12th. A lot of people are having the same problem. We are the 19th today - a week later, what solutions did Apple offer? Is there anyone reading these posts out there?

Please solve this mess, I'm not paying to have an iBrick lying on my couch, connected to my computer as in life support.

I finally got mine to work. My problem was because I had WIFI sync Downloaded on my computer(used for the jailbroken app). I deleted it with a file for the website, then the update worked.

Ditto... sitting at work with my iPhone home attempting to restore from backup... fingers crossed 😠

I had the SAME THING happen to me! FML!

same for me - waited until now to try and update my iphone 3GS. now wiped and restored the iphone twice in the process as it kept getting stuck!

This is not limited to the iPhone 4 the 3 GPS is also locked up and actually I never put a password in for recovery which after entering three times gives you the "internal error occurred". AT&T say's they entered the last four digits of my phone when I purchased it. That doesn't work either so who has any more suggestions?

I'm having similar issues when I tried to upgrade my 3Gs to IOS5. I backed up everything on 10-18, then on 10-19 downloaded IOS5 (2 hours) in the morning, but had to leave in the middle. Couldn't find the download when I returned, so downloaded again (2 hours), with my ipone plugged into my macbook. Expected it to go immediately to "update", but it didn't. Couldn't find the download, so hit sync. It installs IOS5, but then tries to restore from a backup that is more than a month old. Asks me for my restore password, but I don't recall ever needing a password, and I'm diligent about that. Sync it from the month-old backup, which takes another 3 hours, and when everything appears copied to my iphone, I notice that on the apps page of itunes that none of my phone icons/folders resemble prior organization, which will take another hour to clean. My phone is stuck on "Connect to iTunes", and I can't get past this. So now I'm going out of town for 5 days, no internet access, and I don't have a working phone at all. It's dead.

Way to go Apple!

Suggestions?

The issue doesn't seem to make a difference currently as calling them has done no good either although they offered me support per issue basis. So I asked what is the difference in paying or not paying and the CSR seemed to try and put the issue back on me... saying that if I was staying up to date more often I (Quote) "you most likely would have not had an issue". Personally I never update until at least five days after the most current update provides a successful change over. Come on Apple this after Steve's passing is not a good thing in keeping a vote of confidence you know what I mean.

unfortunately, nothing - holding down various combinations of power with/without home button, and vice-versa - nothing, no response from iPhone 3GS or from iTunes 10.5. Have given up - its a brick headed for recycling yard. thanks for suggestion.

I also tried the suggestion by bradkaos - no go, but thanks also!

How did you all finally get it resolved? Did you just keep sync'ing with iTunes and that did it? Did you his the "restore" option? HELP!

The first 2 - 3 you'll see error messages. It's better to wait till the next day so the apple server pressure will be down

I am experiencing the same problem. The iPhone 4 not even able to be identified by iTunes / Win7. Not sure what the remedy will be, but it appears this is one dead piece of hardware. Very disappointing from Apple

I literally had to take my iPhone to an Apple store where I was told the hardware was done with and tried to charge me $150 for the repair. In the end I was able ot get them to replace my 3GS it for free. Still trying to recover my contacts though.

went into the local Apple Store, made an appointment with the Wizards. The 2:20PM meeting was running 40 min late, for all Wizard meetings. Had someone connect my phone to an in store laptop and was able to have the phone be recognized by the Apple laptop 30 min later, the download appeared to have installed, after which I had to leave, with a still un-responsibe iPhone. Tried to get support by calling 800-694-7460, took me awhile to locate the device serial number (since it is bricked, and iTunes is of no use). Well I now know how to remove the SIMM card, and glad that my eyes can read the SN number stamped on the SIMM card bracket. Express Lane, seemed to be a good option, even paying for one time support. At this point, if I choose the someone contact me option, the earliest date woudl be Oct 28th ?? I guess that I will stay on hold for awile and rant about what a cluster $&^( this experience has become. NET - NET. Applying the IOS 5 upgrade has rendered a very useful little device into basically a paper weight (aka brick), which is not of much use. The options to remedy this situation which the manufacturer caused, seem to be poorly defined. Apple, go back to making consumer entertainment devices, and stay away from infrastructure devices, which you obviously can not support.

I have same problem.

I recently tried to update my iPhone 4 to IOS 5. The update failed and placed my phone into recovery mode. When I attempt to restore the phone it fails due to 'ERROR 1611'.