How long does iPhone 4 4.1 update take?

[LoneWolf121188]

I've tried this three times now and it just seems to keep getting stuck...the phone shows the Apple logo and a progress bar that's a little more than halfway through. iTunes has a box that says "Restoring iPhone Software" and the progress bar is a few millimeters from the end. And nothing is happening.

I downloaded the update file myself, so I thought maybe that was corrupted, but the MD5 seems to match up with one I found here: https://forums.macrumors.com/posts/10986822/

MD5: ac3031a7b5c013d6a09952b691985878

Is this supposed to take 1+ hours? What could be wrong?

I'm still using iTunes 9...would v10 help? That shouldn't break any jailbreaking, right?

 

[Compile 'em all]

An update to 4.1 ignoring download time takes about 10 mins.

 

[LoneWolf121188]

Looks like it was the host file problem...hadn't commented out the gs.apple.* line. Fixed!

 

[LUXURIUZ]

wait what do you mean

im having the sam exact problem but i havent dwnloaded the file, im just updating thru iTunes... the bar on the iPhone is a little past half and the iTunes bar isnt quite at the end... its been like this for a while now. im in 10.0 iTunes n also updating to 4.1.. help.?

 

[LoneWolf121188]

Go to /private/etc and open the file called hosts. you'll see a bunch of IP addresses followed by host names. put a # in front of any line that has gs.apple.com. Save, authenticate, and try the update again.

 

[Cico187]

Go to /private/etc and open the file called hosts. you'll see a bunch of IP addresses followed by host names. put a # in front of any line that has gs.apple.com. Save, authenticate, and try the update again.

Can you explain more specifically how to get to that folder on windows 7??

Never mind, found it, now giving it a try....