ipad won't restore, unknown error (1)

I had exactly the same problem.

FIxed it by uninstalling iTunes, then uninstalling my firewall and virus software (I was unpsing AVG) then download and reinstall iTunes and try again.

IT took a while and several times I thought it had stopped but it worked perfectly first time.

I was able to just reinstall AVG straight afterwards

Glad it worked. My local Apple Store Genius Bar spent 45 minutes working on it, gave up, and told me my iPad was broken. I am typing this on my "broken" iPad 1.

I too tried to update to IOS 5 tonight but now can't get my ipad off of the screen that says to connect to itunes. However, whenever I connect it a pop up comes up and says my ipad is in recovery mode and cannot connect to itunes until I can get it out of 'recovery mode' but of course I have no clue how to do that. I have been on hold for Apple Care for 26 minutes so far.

Check the Cult of Mac website. A recent article on there may help you.

Whoever told you that your iPad was broken is clueless. There is free software out there that fixes the problem just fine. Apple just doesn't want you to know about it even though it is 100% legal.

I got the error each of the 2 dozen time I tried restoring my iPad last night & in the wee hours this am. I discovered that it is still covered under Apple Care, but I gave it one last shot today after REMOVING the sim card & right now it's syncing. So I don't have to hassle with Apple about replacing it. Interesting to note, that I had turned off 3G before updating to ios 5.

Same thing happened to me. This is phucking bullchite!!!!

Just like the rest of you, had the same issues. Error(1). Went to Cult of Mac website and searched the error code and ipad. Downloaded the jailbreak program (redsn0w 0.9.9b7!) and my ipad is now fixed!!! It's very easy to install and my ipad has had no side effects from the jailbreak!! Good Luck, it only took me 3 hours to read all the complaints and search the web until I found the helpful advice from "smpdwag" on this discussion page. Thank you!!!!

Thanks a lot to longviewmac! I tried restoring dozens of times, with no effect. Your suggestion worked. Just goes to show that there was no hardware error, iOS5 just bricked some iPads and Apple should have assisted us, instead of ignoring the problem. Luckily the users stepped in, to do Apple's job. BTW, the iPad wasn't jailbroken - my iOS devices will certainly be, from now on. That's what saved the day.

in that case im lucky i had ipad 2 ios 4.3.3 non jailbreak. and then its started to shutdown everytime i open twiter or facebook or safari. then i try to restore and its keep showing error 1. i check everywhere on net but no news about error 1 and apple also dont say anything about error 1 then after more then 70 time try i download ios 5 from itunes and try to restore. guess what it work. now ipad 2 with ios 5 working nice and no problem. thanks but no thanks to apple.....

Hi, so can you share it please again off list, robert at chalmers dot com dot au, this is driving me nuts.

After reading all your very helpfull replys, i did not talk to Apple Support any longer (always did it 1h with no result) and did not go to the Apple Store, wich was the next Option offered by the Apple Support. I fixed the Problem with the Workaround you find at Cult of Mac. I can not post the full solution here, because as I read in the Postings before, Apple deletes any reply, that gives the solution to the Problem.

I met the same problem. Before upgrading to ios5, I disabled the 3G. I had two iPad 1s with 3G. The other one works because 3G is enabled when upgrading. The sucess log is

2011-10-15 22:29:03.660 [4176:420]: amai: AMAuthInstallBasebandHandleUpdaterStatus: commandAccepted: YES

2011-10-15 22:29:03.676 [4176:420]: <Restore Device 07CF5960>: operation 49 progress -1

2011-10-15 22:29:04.175 [4176:420]: <Restore Device 07CF5960>: operation 51 progress -1

2011-10-15 22:29:05.173 [4176:420]: <Restore Device 07CF5960>: operation 32 progress -1

2011-10-15 22:29:05.236 [4176:420]: <Restore Device 07CF5960>: operation 29 progress -1

2011-10-15 22:29:05.298 [4176:420]: <Restore Device 07CF5960>: operation 29 progress -1

2011-10-15 22:29:05.345 [4176:420]: device returned AMR error 0

2011-10-15 22:29:05.345 [4176:420]: <Restore Device 07CF5960>: Restore succeeded

But the failure log is

2011-11-02 20:56:01.236 [3040:10b0]: amai: AMAuthInstallBasebandHandleUpdaterStatus: commandAccepted: NO

2011-11-02 20:56:01.256 [3040:10b0]: device returned AMR error -1

2011-11-02 20:56:01.298 [3040:10b0]:

It is a bug for APPLE! It is not hardware failure! Hopefully Apple developers and managers can see that.

I am trying the approaches you mentioned here. God bless my iPad1.

After using redsnow, I can boot up my ipad1 but can't activate it, when reaching the step "is activating, will take 3 minutes", the ipad reboot always. Did anyone met that and how to walk around it?

Or another question is how to enable 3G before activating it because I want to refresh ios5 after enabling 3G.