Restore iPhone even if you get Error (1604) from iTunes

I hope this post helps my fellow iPhone owners avoid the frustration that I experienced last night. My iPhone was acting up, not charging even when it was seen by the USB 2 port on my Powerbook G5 and not being seen in the latest version of iTunes. I did the not destructive to your data Reset and the iPhone started charging and was seen in iTunes. The problem started when iTunes told me that my software was out of date and would I like to install iPhone software version 1.1.2, which I had already installed. I said OK but a few minutes after the download of the "new" software started, the iPhone screen displayed the iTunes disk-with-musical-note logo with an image of the power/data connecting jack that comes with your iPhone and the phone locked up totally! I was then confronted with a screen saying that iTunes had detected an iPhone in Restore mode, which destroys ALL your data on your iPhone, and that I would have to Restore the iPhone before iTunes could connect to it!!!! I became furious, both at myself for not having backed up everything on my iPhone recently, and at Apple for making such a buggy product/software that didn't do what it was supposed to either, but in the end I bit the bullet and pushed the restore button. To my horror, iTunes wouldn't even Restore my iPhone! I got the "Unexpected Error (1604)" message! I assume that whatever bug caused the iPhone software update to screw up on its way from iTunes was either in the iPhone or iTunes and maybe the hang had produced iTunes' inability to do the update. So I downloaded a pristine copy of iTunes on my SONY VAIO PC and the Restore worked!!! If you don't have an extra computer that doesn't have iTunes on it and you have this problem then I would suggest backing up all your iTunes stuff according to Apple's instructions, trashing iTunes, and then reinstalling a pristine copy of the latest version. You won't get your iPhone's information back, but at least you'll be able to make a call.

Google basically told me that its a bad connection to the computer. Everyone suggests to try a different cable and different usb port. I tryed all that. Nothing wants to work for me. Other people suggest taking it back to apple, but my phone is out of warranty.

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