It was plugged in and a pop-up appeared asking to update. I clicked OK and within 1 minute, it flashed a blue screen followed by the 'connect to iTunes' graphic. I'm attempting a recovery now through iTunes and iCloud.
same thing happened with mine AND iTunes said it couldn't do anything with the phone, so I too have a brick that appears no longer usuable.
Me too. QUALITY UPDATE APPLE!
I can confirm that I had no quote-an-quote unsupported modifications (aka jailbreak) on my phone and it was a perfectly vanilla normal iPhone 5.
It just showed the recovery screen and powering on from the device did not work.
However I found a solution:
Use tinyumbrella (http://www.firmwareumbrella.com/) to forcefully exit out of recovery mode and you'll be fine, running on updated 7.0.4. I'd recommend a full DFU restore after though.
Apple, fix it right now.
Your phone was not bricked.
Bricked means the device does nothing- doesn't power on or function in any way.
There is always a chance something will go wrong during a firmware update.
You should always backup before attempting one.
A small percentage of users may experience problems.
Nothing for Apple to fix.
I didn't have an issue upgrading my 5S and neither did my fiance.
I upgraded my iPhone 5s to iOS 7.0.4 2 days ago and I woke up this morning with my completely unresponsive I have tried DFU mode and everything else I can think of, if you think there isn't a bug in it you are fooling yourself! I have owned every iPhone since they came out and I have never had this happen! If you want to blaming the user for just upgrading is something a company since to get out of liability! I have already posted on Facebook and Twitter not to update to iOS 7.0.4 and contacted some people like iDownloadblog so that no one else goes through this!
Thanks a lot man.
It worked like charm.
I wish I had seen your post. Just happened to me too. Apple fix this!
Ryan, I am having this issue right this moment and I have a several clients to contact before they arrive. How did you get your phone fixed? Samsung galaxy is starting to look good.
Apple is not here
These forums are manned by users
If you wish to let Apple know post at http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
Allan
Thank you Allan and I let Apple know before I found this site. So far no response. Ryan above described what just happened to me so I'd hope he could shed some light on how to fix this.
This happened to BOTH my iPad 3rd gen and my iPhone 5 when I updated to iOS 7.0.4. Fortunately I had a backup, but it takes a while and there are some user settings that are NOT restored from the backup.
Windows 7 Home Premium: updated with iTunes (current version) using a cable.
me too. Apple, fix it ASAP
No problem for me on either my iPhone or iPad.
It works fine for my iPad3 and iPad Air, however, no luck for my iphone 5.
Warning iOS 7.0.4 update bricked my iPhone.
