iOS4: Upgrading Hangs; and How to Fix It

Yesterday evening, the evening before my birthday (which is today, yes, thank you!) I tried to upgrade my iPhone to the newly released iOS 4 (formerly known as iPhone OS 4.0). However, when after an hour and a half the upgrade was still at around 60% (according to my iPhone) and about 99% (according to iTunes), I got worried. I unplugged my iPhone, restarted iTunes. My iPhone was unusable and asking to be plugged into iTunes.

Crap.

Restarting the restore didn’t help. Same problem. Today after some searching I found other people are having the same problem. In case you find this post before the one I just linked to, here’s how I solved it: reinstall iTunes. First completely uninstall, and also clear out your Library/iPhone Software Upgrades/ (or something) directory. Then download and install iTunes again. That solved it for me, hope it will for you too.

Happy iOS4-ing!

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This entry was posted on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 at 13:09 by Zef You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

  • Joost

    Hey Zef,
    Gefeliciteerd met je verjaardag!! Zie ik je vrijdag nog bij Mark?
    Groeten,
    Joost

  • http://zef.me Zef Hemel

    Bedankt. Nee, we krijgen dan bezoek van Justyna's zus en zwager.

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