Right, so putting the phone into recovery mode is your best bet. The way I've always done this is to connect the phone to a PC, then hold the home and power buttons down for about 10 seconds. Let go of the power button, and keep the home button held down until you hear the PC make its sound to indicate a device has been connected. You should then be able to do a restore, and I would think that restore will now be iOS 6.
Jonathan -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of E Steven S Sent: Thursday, 20 September 2012 8:17 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: RE: It Appears as Though My Phone is Brick'd! Bob, thanks, but the problem is my phone is completely dead to me. Again, I have not had someone view the screen yet, but nothing I have done has elicited any sound. I get warmth when plugged into the wall outlet, but nothing when connected to the PC and ITunes. Thanks! E -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Robert Fenton Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 4:07 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: It Appears as Though My Phone is Brick'd! I had a similar problem as described earlier. I wiped my phone clean and restored my back-up which I made before startting the install. Order was restored with the bonus of having IOS 6 installed. Try that and see what happens. Bob Fenton Sent from my iPhone On 2012-09-19, at 2:04 PM, "E Steven S" <[email protected]> wrote: > Les, thanks. It has now been 3 hours. > > I have not gotten a single answer how to kick start an apparently dead > phone. I have been Googling and can't find anything yet. > > It is amazing, since so many seem to have an answer for everything, or > several, many answers for the same thing. I guess the expertise is > saying something, not answering questions. :) > > I appreciate the support. > > E > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Les Kriegler > Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 3:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: It Appears as Though My Phone is Brick'd! > > Eric, it took mine about 15 minutes at least. I didn't time it exactly. > > Les > On Sep 19, 2012, at 3:03 PM, Eric SS <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Well, in my case, several minutes has been 75. >> >> If people could define "several minutes", "a little while", "just a >> few", it might be more helpful for those of us who think we are stuck. >> >> I am now two hours into things and nothing happens no matter what I >> try. I know the phone is getting power because it is warm when >> attached to the wall cord. Otherwise, nothing. Not with headphones, >> nothing when attached to the PC, tried triple clicking home button, etc. >> >> So, I guess I have waited just a little while. >> >> If there are any suggestions, it will be most appreciated -- short of >> take it to the Apple store... >> >> E >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Les Kriegler >> Sent: Wednesday, September 19, 2012 2:46 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: It Appears as Though My Phone is Brick'd! >> >> It will. It takes several minutes for speech to come on. Just be >> patient and it will come back. >> On Sep 19, 2012, at 2:42 PM, hannah day >> <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> Oh dear this isn't good i am wating for mine to reboot hope it does >>> >>> >>> Hannah Day >>> E-mail and Facebook: [email protected] >>> MSN: [email protected] >>> Skype: hannah.day >>> Twitter: hannahday2009 >>> >>> On 19/09/2012 19:17, Eric SS wrote: >>>> I let the over-the-air update begin and it got to the 96% mark. I >>>> let it stay there for about 30 minutes before I stopped the update. >>>> When I started again, it was at 75% and counted up from there. It >>>> reached 96% again and sat for quite some time, but I noticed it now >>>> said >> installation was in progress. >>>> About 30 minutes since then, there has been nothing; no speech, no >>>> sounds, cannot activate speech with the triple home click, cannot >>>> turn the phone off or on; dead. >>>> >>>> I began just after 1:00 PM Eastern. I think I am dead until someone >>>> can eye it in a few hours. >>>> >>>> Damn! Never had a problem updating before, although there have not >>>> been so many opportunities. 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