Bricked and now unbricked

I did the update with my wife's phone first and everything went through with no problem but my iphone however was a different story i had hacked it and only had tic-tac-toe and blackjack on it and right towards the end of my update an orange triangle came up saying unable.... (what ever) my itunes was also displaying "itunes has found a iphone in recovery mode or something.." after doing everything like hard reset, soft reset, itunes uninstall/install nothing worked. After about 45 min later my iphone went dead (all while plugged in usb) tried everything but could not get it to power on at all, well long story short i took it to my local apple store in woodbridge nj they plugged it into there computer and bam my phone came on and they even installed the update, while update was loading i told the genius that it was going to get stuck with that yellow triangle message and guess what it did and im standing there thinking there goes any hope. Well the lady pressed a couple of keys on her computer and another download starts while the triangle thing was still on my phone after about 15-20 min my iphone was back up and with the up date installed she smiled and said have a nice day i asked her what she did and she just said she had the magic touch. I dont care how she did it but i dont care right before i left the genius next to her was saying something in her ear nut as this point i did not care i ran out of there.

Sorry about your iphone getting bricked but that's a great story glad you got it unbricked.

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