Trying to update my JB iPhone now stuck

New to the whole jailbroken/iOS updates and I first rant the Limera1n jailbreak thinking that the update would be applied with the jailbreak. Nothing happened and I figured that I first need to update my device.

So I head over to iTunes, download the latest iOS update for my iPhone 4 and it got stuck about half way through. It had a progress bar that did not move for 3+ hours. So i just disconnected it and now it shows the iTunes logo with the plug in. After I attache the cable that stays on the iPhone and iTunes just says "Updating iPhone software" and has a progress bar that is nearly complete but has not moved in a very long time.

How can I get the update to take?

Goldinboy17 said:

Mine had the same issue, the only thing you can do is restore it. You'll have to hold the sleep and home button for about 12 seconds, then release only the sleep button. Make sure it's connected to iTunes and it'll pop up a message telling you there's an iPhone connected in DFU mode. You can then restore it.

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Well when I force quit iTunes and then unplugged and replugged it said the iPhone attached needed to be restored. The progress bar on iTunes is like 98% done and its tuck on the same 55-60% progress bar on the iPhone. Roughly the same position it was in (on itunes & the phone) when it hung up in the first place.

How long should this restore take, are there any other actions that can be done?

By the way I am trying to do the restore and update method. Perhaps its restoring fine but getting stuck on the update?

Goldinboy17 said:

That won't help, make sure the phone is in DFU mode. When you unplugged it the first time during the restore you prevented the phone from doing it correctly. Make sure it goes you put it in DFU mode and select restore when iTunes prompts you. You will lose everything, but the update should only take about 5 - 10 minutes with this method (since your phone is being wiped).

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I am following those directions and it's still stuck...

I tried to restore from my wifes mac but I got a 1004 error. Did some searching and found out that I needed to kick it out of restore mode. Did that with recBoot and it booted right up into 4.1... very odd

Now just doing a restore to get my apps and etc. back on. Thanks for the help!

No ideas what Tiny Umbrella is, pretty sure I never used it. I do have wi-fi sync setup however, maybe that is what caused the issue. Got me pretty scared for a while there (new to this). But I have everything setup find now.

Not sure if I want to go through this for each incremental upgrade but I needed that proximity sensor fixed.