iPhone4 4.0.1 update bricking phone?

[mytakeontech]

Recboot saved the day! Great job to whoever made it!

 

[Torq]

Worked fine for me, updated via an iMac.

Worked fine for my wife, updated via a Dell/Windows 7.

 

[joshrholloway]

Had some problems initially, but I cleared the downloaded software update, rebooted the iPhone and my Mac, and it worked fine after that.

 

[aawil]

Bricked my i4, no matter what I did on my imac I could do anything with it, reloaded it on my macbook and that did it. Had the same thing happen with the last 3.whatever update on my 3gs, had to drive all the way to atlantic city to get them to fix it.

 

[SForester88]

Bricked!

My i4 extracted the new software fine...then it threw up and error once the blue bar finished loading after the extraction! It put my phone into restore mode so i tried a restore update and it failed. I eventually just settled for 4.0 and it worked fine! WTF???????

 

[Chetoc230]

download took about 10 min, install took about 5.

i dont know why people are having issues. worked fine here.

 

[c5ride]

Worked fine for me, no issues.

 

[Knowlege Bomb]

Bricked here as well.

Error 1004 over and over. I've uninstalled and reinstalled iTunes after removing all traces of it from my system. I've downloaded the firmware file from two different places (not counting iTunes).

What a joke this whole thing has become. I get to dig out my old clock radio because I need an alarm clock and I don't have any more time to deal with this **** tonight.

 

[mcdj]

Wirelessly posted (iPhone: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; U; CPU iPhone OS 4_0 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/532.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.5 Mobile/8A293 Safari/6531.22.7)

Yes. It bricked everyone. Jesus.

 

[Robweiser]

I'm bricked with an unknown error. RecBoot doesn't do diddly to exit Recover mode except tell me it's "exiting."

So, I called CNBC. They're installing a live webcam in my house to show 24/7 feed of my bricked iPhone 4 at the bottom of their broadcasts. Now that the BP oil leak has stopped, they needed another fiasco to cover.

 

[austinguy23]

No issue.

 

[brentsg]

I'm bricked with an unknown error. RecBoot doesn't do diddly to exit Recover mode except tell me it's "exiting."

So, I called CNBC. They're installing a live webcam in my house to show 24/7 feed of my bricked iPhone 4 at the bottom of their broadcasts. Now that the BP oil leak has stopped, they needed another fiasco to cover.

You should probably get in touch with your congressmen too. They should write some letters.

 

[darkfiber]

My 4.0.1 update went smooth on my iPhone 4 (32GB). No issues at all. I am running Windows 7 (64 bit).

 

[Moyank24]

4.0.1 Update

I know earlier in the day there were tons of problems with downloading the update. Was it because everyone was doing it at the same time.

I figured I would wait a bit when when there would be less traffic.

Has anyone has problems downloading it in the last hour or so?

 

[songa]

check out this program called recboot, it worked for me

http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2508016&tstart=0

gluck!

 

[Shasta McNasty]

No, coast is clear.

/thread

 

[CashDude]

I've had 4 download errors, but I've finally made it to about 95% *crosses fingers*

 

[dude-x]

My iphone bricked with error -9. I tried 3 other PC's and still got error 9. I take it to the Apple Store in Fifth Avenue, and the tech told me that their low level reset program failed, so I got a new iPhone 4 to replace my bricked one.

Now if I can figure out how to restore my previous backup...

 

[jarvijarv]

Took about an hour to download then install thru iTunes on my MacMini. No brick, no probs. I made a late night emergency call on my newly upgraded iPhone 4 for a couple of minutes....again no probs, didn't even pay attention to the bars.

 

[Leatherman]

All done and dusted in 14 mins, without a hitch, one would get worried sometimes reading these forums!

Down one bar. And that's it!? It'll be interesting to see what Apple have to say later.

 

[John T]

Having read the tales of woe and various problems associated with 4.0.1, I must admit to a bit of fingers crossing whilst updating my 'phone!

However, all went well

It just goes to show that you never want to believe all you read in various fora!

 

[robpow]

Upgraded with no problems too.

 

[andycrap]

Had a problem where 4.01 destroyed my camera roll thumbnails, all i had was 1 big black thumbnail (must have missed with the hammer whilst forcing the update in ) I tried power off and on and also full power off by holding home button and power button. Nothing would fix it, I then just deleted all my pictures from phone whilst connected to pc and took a few test pics and all seems fine now.

Andy.

Iphone 4

 

[Tedsallis]

No bricks here!

 

[Hunter109]

I had the same issues earlier. I had to use recboot as well. Apparently a lot of people are having the problem. You wouldnt think it would happen on brand new iphones.