Unable to restore ios 5.1

Hi mates i am having issue while restoring .i was on ios 5.1 i got some issues missing reset option in general settings ipad restart frequently thats why i thought to restore my ipad 2 3g with itunes but it always fail with error -1 . can any body suggest me ho do i get rid of this . i hope some body must have the soltion

Well no, Apple does not force anyone to upgrade against their wish if they don't want to.  It is you and you alone who decided to upgdate your phone to iOS6 and if you didn't want to, then you could have stayed with iOS 5.1.1.
Unfortunately, now that you have updated your phone there is no way to go back.  Apple does not support downgrading and as you have found, you are getting error messages.
Perhaps in time, Apple might release a software update to fix small bugs as is often the case, but you can't go back to iOS 5.1.1 now that you have updated to iOS6.

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