Phone is bricked?

[thomamon]

So I was doing the OTA update and it seemed to be doing along fine, until a screen came up that is showing me to plug the phone into iTunes. I have attempted that and its telling me "The iPhone software update server could not be contacted."

So now I have a phone with the attached picture and I can't do anything else. Should I head to the apple store?

 

[Toltepeceno]

Mine kept saying that, "he iPhone software update server could not be contacted", and I kept trying about 10 times before it finally connected.

Keep trying to see what happens.

 

[Mr Hands]

Busy server I'm sure. Wait it out a bit and try again.

 

[bd4]

Same problem here. My iPhone 5s started to install the update and then I had a black screen. I rebooted it and it said that I have not enough memory for the update (???). So I deleted some things and tried to install it again, getting the same screen as in #1.

Now iTunes is restoring the phone, the server seems quite busy.

What the hell are they doing at Apple? Even a simple software update doesn't work...

 

[Jman13]

The activation servers are hammered right now. I have downloaded the update but can't contact the servers either. Give it a little while and eventually they'll not be so overloaded and you'll be able to update.

Actually, after trying again, I just got through, so keep trying and you'll eventually be able to restore through iTunes. (I did exit iTunes and restart it between failing and success)

 

[thomamon]

Finally got it to go through and its not good.

iTunes finally tried to update it, but it failed. Said I have to restore my phone to factory defaults to update.

Ugh, pain in my ass.