iOS 5 bricked my iPad.

[Chaos123x]

Well iOS 5 installed fine on my iPhone 4, but the install on my iPad 2 failed and my iPad would only display a black screen. Going to have to restore it. :-(

 

[spencers]

Well if you have a backup of your iPad already saved on the computer, a doing a restore is no problem.

 

[LDTaylor85]

mine is stuck in recovery mode and i cant even restore it...it says it cant connect to server, this really sucks. Android never did this to me

 

[Pressure]

Pretty sure the Apple servers are getting hammered as we speak.

Try again later.

 

[15danielp]

mine is stuck in recovery mode and i cant even restore it...it says it cant connect to server, this really sucks. Android never did this to me

I'm in the same boat. I can't use my iPad.

 

[taylor200588]

SAME!!

Downloaded the update, all going smoothly until it restored then an error message popped up! then it bricked, now its back to the old software and wont update

 

[iphone1105]

BTW your iPad isn't bricked, it will work again....just to clarify what bricking actually is

 

[taylor200588]

yeah it went into recovery mode. Now its working again but no iOS 5. My Apple TV failed as well to update!! I'll just wait and try tomorrow

 

[15danielp]

It's working now. I just kept trying, and trying, and trying, and trying.........................

 

[tivoboy]

backup

my backup it taking a FRIK of a long time, it's been about 20 minutes now, the bars seem to show that it might take another 2-3 hours at this pace. Is this normal, I thought the REALLY LONG backups were fixed before.

 

[jlluna]

Just keep trying folks I got that error a few times, but the restore finally went through, I pad up and running again, iOS 5

 

[Rodimus Prime]

Pretty sure the Apple servers are getting hammered as we speak.

Try again later.

not really an acceptable answer. No matter how you cut it Apple screwed up big time. There should be no need for the phone to connect back to Apple to get out of recovering mode. Apple at the very least should bulk up their servers for this or get the recovering server separated from the download ones.

 

[TheWheelMan]

my backup it taking a FRIK of a long time, it's been about 20 minutes now, the bars seem to show that it might take another 2-3 hours at this pace. Is this normal, I thought the REALLY LONG backups were fixed before.

Some apps take longer to backup because of their size. RealRacingHD and another I forget right now took most of the backup time.

 

[KHC831]

my backup it taking a FRIK of a long time, it's been about 20 minutes now, the bars seem to show that it might take another 2-3 hours at this pace. Is this normal, I thought the REALLY LONG backups were fixed before.

you can skip the backup part by holding shift and click update (or restore). Took forever for me as well so I skipped it. But you will have to resync everything later. iOS 5 is great, Im wifi sync-ing and using my ipad 2 at the same time

 

[taylor200588]

I just updated my partners iPhone 4, I kept getting the error message, so I put it in airplane mode and worked a treat!! I like the look of iOS5, now to try it on my iPad 2

 

[palpatine]

error

trying again...

 

[iTundra]

you can skip the backup part by holding shift and click update (or restore).

Am I correct that I can do a Shift-Update to update my iPad1 from the downloaded file (which will wipe my device and install iOS5), then do a restore to restore settings, etc? Then iTunes will re-sync all my music, videos, photos, apps, etc?

Thanks,

 

[edub23o3]

Update would fail with error code 3200, then it hung up, showed error code 3004 and iPad was stuck in recovery mode. Quit iTunes then used command line prompt "dscacheutil -flushcache" from apple support document http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3694#error3004. Restarted iTunes, and was able to do clean install/upgrade and restore iPad from previous backup.

 

[wrajr]

Fixed my problem by doing a clean download of iOS 5. My earlier download must have been corrupted.

 

[nwbusa]

No, it's not bricked.

 

[tsekh]

Bricking it means turning it into a non-restorable and non-function condition.

If the update really bricked your iPad 2, I'm sure Apple will replace it with a new one for you.

 

[gr8pics]

Am I correct that I can do a Shift-Update to update my iPad1 from the downloaded file (which will wipe my device and install iOS5), then do a restore to restore settings, etc? Then iTunes will re-sync all my music, videos, photos, apps, etc?

Thanks,

I would like to know too!

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Pretty sure the Apple servers are getting hammered as we speak.

Try again later.

So recovery is dependent on apple servers?
I thought it was done through your local computer?

 

[miamijim]

I ended up doing a factory reset on my iPad...

It actually felt good having it all new again... I did lose all my media from Stanza and comiczeal but that turned out to be a good thing as it needed thnning out and i have it all backed up on my imac anyway.

 

[gr8pics]

I ended up doing a factory reset on my iPad...

It actually felt good having it all new again... I did lose all my media from Stanza and comiczeal but that turned out to be a good thing as it needed thnning out and i have it all backed up on my imac anyway.

How do you do that?

 

[gr8pics]

Still no solution from APPLE?