Try the steps at this link: http://lifehacker.com/5848640/how-do-i-fix-my-bricked-iphone-ipad-or-ipod-touch
Hopefully that works. As you probably know, interrupting a firmware update is pretty much the worst thing you can do to an iOS device, at least the worst thing not involving heights or liquids. :) Let us know if that helps or if you are still having problems. On Feb 21, 2013, at 4:59 PM, Danny Noonan <da...@familynoonan.net> wrote: > As the subject states, I've bricked my wife's iPhone 4. She had been > complaining of it playing up so this morning when she told me, > "It's fully crashed" > I did a sleep/home hard reset on the device. Only later did she tell me that > she was in the middle of an update to iOS 6.1.2. > > Those missing 5 words > "I just started updating my phone"" > did such damage. > > Now, even doing the 10 second sleep/home with the phone plugged into iTunes, > it won't show up at all. I either have a permanent bright apple logo or 4 > little dots in a diamond type shape. Well thats what my eyes give me. > > Any suggestions on how to force the phone to be recognised by iTunes so I can > restore it are so gratefully appreciated. > > Kind regards, > Danny. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > Have a great day, Alex (msg sent from Mac Mini) mehg...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.