3GS freezes on upgrade ipHone 4.0.2 - it's a brick now!
Hi,
I Have a 3GS on contract from O2 in the UK. Last night I got the note in iTunes to say that 4.0.2 is ready for installing. I was on 4.0.1 and have the lastest iTunes in Win 7 / 32-bit. So I did a sync, and started the upgrade. Unfortunately it stalled at some point and just froze.
So I removed the USB plug and got to the "restore iPhone" point, and clicked on "Restore" in iTunes. That unpacked the already downloaded software, verified with Apple, and started the restore. Unfortunately that gets about 3/4 along the progress bar in iTunes and 1/4 on the iPhone - and stalls.
So I tried a few things:
- reinstalled iTunes
- restarted Windows and tried again
- downloaded jpsw files for 4.0.1 and 4.0.2 (iPhone2,14.0.1_8A306Restore and iPhone2,14.0.2_8A400Restore) and pointed to these when I Shift-Clicked on the restore button. With the 4.0.2 it starts up, but freezes at the same point. With 4.0.1 it says something about being an incorrect version and doesn't attempt an installation.
I can't see anything else to try and my iPhone is a brick - please help!!
Hi again. Panic over. I deleted the ipsw file in %AppData% and started agai - and it seems to have gone well. The phone seems to work again.
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