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

I just tried your method and i'm now out of recovery mode and now have the USB screen, trying to restore my iPhone, but alas it still is coming up with error messages!!! Grrrr

So i am still trying this with the iPhone 4. And holding the Home button, then plugging in the usb lead, iTunes finds the device, loads and then i get this error message, " the iPhone "Iphone" could not be restored an internal error has occurred. ***!

Well atempt #8 was a fail. Oh well keep trying😠

try doing it from your phone, all your apps should be in the cloud so you should be able to download from there

I had the same problem with my iPad 2, but solved it. The problem was Bluetooth. I'd turned it on to use an external keyboard. As soon as I turned it off, I was able to update the system with no problem. Perhaps it's the same thing with the phones?

me too my phone is stuck in the recovery loop. tried everything and my mac isnt recognizing the phone

which OPTION key are you talking about? I found the file located in the Libary/iTunes. But what the heck are you suposed to do with it??

I am just trying to remember what was on my phone and going back and forth to the App Store and selecting each one individually. I opted to use iCloud when I was setting it up, is there a way for me to get there from my phone? I don't see an icon for it.

There must be something wrong with the update none of my friends or myself can upgrade, stuck at restore part Apple whats going on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Really?

Could Apple not have foreseen such large number of people would like to update to iOS5 on release date?

Come on Apple fix this **** server issue. I've been trying to update 5 HOURS now, no luck!

😠 😢

Dont despair the recovery loop can last upto 25 times just keep trying. Would advise rebboting you PC/Mac every few tries - it worked for me.

Tried about 10 times. I thought the Option thing would be a miraculous fix, but it just gets me much faster to the point where it tells me that my iPhone cannot be restored. It's stuck in some kind of endless loop. If I hold down the home button and the power button I can get it to be recognized by iTunes, but then after that when I do the restore, it says that the iPhone "iPhone" cannot be restored. Everything is gone. So ******.

Aparrently servers are swamped thats why release was time staggered but that doesnt help u just have to keep trying!!!!!!

All of the above for me ... I followed the advice someone left here to download RecBoot - it worked... so at least I've got my iPhone back and working ....

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

Oct 12, 2011 4:48 PM (in response to Joshua Blevins)

Someone else put this on all ready. At least it gets your MAC/PC to recognise your iPhone. After that I guess its waiting for the servers to cope?

Ensure iphone is unplugged from computer. Hold down home button and off button until it goes dark, then plug back in holding the holding the home button and usb screen should appear.

So I tried the new iPhone iOS5 update and failed. The Apple store broke my phone trying. They gave me a new one free 🙂 Sitting across from me at the Apple store is John Popper lead singer of Blue Traveller. Love Apple Customer Care. The new data center is not very impressive. The Genius bar tech said that the problem was the authentication servers could not be reached and that huge numbers of people were having this problem.