Did I Brick my iPhone? iOS6 Restore

I upgraded to iOS6.....My music would not show up, nor would it play via icloud. After a number of hard restarts, I decided to restore the iOS. For the last 5 hours, it has been stuck in a loading mode after trying to restore (I got passed all the initial promps). Not my iphone is stuck in the loading mode, but the bar won't move past the initial load.....say it is at 10%. I have tried to do hard restarts, but it loads to the 10% and stops.
I restored via wifi. it is a iPhone 4s, 32 gig. I had a ton of music and apps on there.
any advice would be greatly appreciated. I used this as my work phone too.
Thanks in advance.

As already provided, in order to install a firmware update on a no longer activated iPhone or restore a no longer activated iPhone with iTunes if wanted or needed, you need to the no longer activated SIM card used with the iPhone when it was activated with AT&T inserted in the iPhone in order to complete the process. What happened to the AT&T SIM card used with the iPhone when it was activated with AT&T?

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