iOS 6.0.1 OTA forced a recovery mode restore from iTunes!

This just happened to me, I'm so pissed as I hadn't synced forever and I don't use iCloud as I am on Snow Leopard. Luckily I had backed up only 10 days ago.

 

That sucks. Mine went fine. I would have hated to spend the hours re syncing everything.

Why would you not have synced your phone to ML at all, though? Sorry, that just seems like you're asking for trouble. What if your phone was lost, stolen, or damaged beyond repair? You'd have lost all your data then too.

 

thats really strange. I'm in the UK and i literally just downloaded and installed 6.0.1 in less than 5 minutes, with no problems at all.

It's more than likely an isolated incident. Or maybe your wifi/cellular signal dropped during the verification process which then prompted the error?

Since restoring, have you managed to update to 6.0.1?

Thanks

 

I guess I won't be doing the OTA update for this version as my computer is 8,000 miles away right now. This can wait till I'm back home. Even if the odds are low, I'd rather not take a chance.

 

Updated OTA last night. Just seen that all 20 gig of my music on 4s had been deleted without warning (match user). Not impressed!!

 

Something like this happened to me as well. Initiated the update on the phone and moments later screen of my iPhone tells me to plug it into iTunes and the phone needs to be restored.

I'm not too pissed about it since the backups should be there but syncing all that music back will take some time.

 

Same thing just happened to me on my iPad (connected via the computer not over the air) i've never had to restore to factory settings, thank goodness i just backup everything but this is going to be a pain and i don't think i will do my iPhone now. I've had the iphone/ ipad since day one and it's never happened to me.

 

Same problem here on 4S

Bad issue I think. Don't know what I lost yet, but there's is 5GB extra space on my iPhone...

 

I registered just to say that this happened to me also. However, I am using an iPod Touch 4 32GB. It is interesting because all I did was tap update, next thing the iPod turned off. Unfortunately I do not have my cable with me at the moment so I can't fix the issue. I thought that was the whole idea behind OTA! It is strange that so few people have experienced the problem. I wonder why...

 

My iPhone 4S and 3rd gen iPad didn't have any problems updating, but my parent's iPad 2 has just gone into recovery mode.

My mom doesn't backup often and to top it off my dad has gone on a business trip for the remainder of the week taking his macbook with him (and their iPad backups! )

 

updating to ios 6.0.1

Hello anyone can help me? i just update my iphone 4 to the new vertion and i restore to factory and i got back all the app but the problem is all the information photos and messages is not in there how can recover the old one? pls help me....

 

strange issue this. just writing in to say my wife's 4s faced the same problem but the outcome was a bit different from u guys. she plugged it into her cousins laptop (once the 4s screen said connect to itunes, as she was on a trip)... the risk was obviously that she'd lose ALL data. what happens next is beyond my understanding... turns out the update comes through, no data loss, no restore, nothing... while upgrading to 6.0.1, she got some weird error screen and so i (sitting in a different country) ask her to go to settings n see the software version she's on n it shows 6.0.1.

Not sure how this happened... but its happened. so that's that. bit of a fluke im thinking.

 

My IOS 6.0.1 wont restore even by default ipsw

Holla, at 1st my iphone 4 was normal on ios 6.0.1. Then it experienced "Restore Needed, iphone cannot make or recieved calls"
So that i tried to normally restore to ios 6.0.1 using itunes, during the process almost 70% complete, it get itunes error (-1).
So my phone is bricked, the new firmware ios 6.0.1 is not completely installed on my phone.
WHAT CAN I DO NOW?!!!