Another victim of IOS 6

Well, this *****. I have had a refurbished, unlocked iPhone 4 for around a year now and have been using it on StraightTalk without any problems at all until today. Today I decided I would upgrade my iPhone 4 to IOS 6, which I had already done on my iPad 2 without a problem. Well, the progress bar on the phone got to about 25% and just sat there for a long time. I read that people were rebooting and it would solve the problem. So I rebooted and of course it goes into recovery mode. Then it wouldn't accept the update I downloaded directly, giving me some sort of error. So I tried to run the 5.1.1 update that I downloaded and it errored out with the error message that I wasn't authorized to install 5.1.1. So I found out you can get out of recovery mode by holding down power and home and then releasing power and holding home for so many seconds, which worked great, and I could restart the IOS update process. However, every single time I do it, get stuck on 25%.
So it seems I'm stuck now in iPhone update ****, and no way of getting out of it. I WAS thinking of buying an unlocked iPhone 4S or 5 from the website, but now I'm not so sure i want to risk it. I think I'll take my changes on a cheaper Android phone.
Anyone have any suggestions or links...I've pretty much ran out of ideas. I have been googling and trying things for hours with no luck

jonnyohio wrote:
Then it wouldn't accept the update I downloaded directly, giving me some sort of error.
Was it Error 1015?
jonnyohio wrote:
So I tried to run the 5.1.1 update that I downloaded and it errored out with the error message that I wasn't authorized to install 5.1.1
That's not supported and unauthorized.
jonnyohio wrote:
Anyone have any suggestions or links...I've pretty much ran out of ideas. I have been googling and trying things for hours with no luck
Nope you've successfully bricked your device without our help

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