iPhone 4S necromanced after faulty iOS upgrade

Like a lot of folks, I tried upgrading the iOS on my iPhone 4S from version 8 to version 9 last fall, and ended up with a phone that had an upgrade failure error message, and also could not be restored to the previous version.  Thanks Tim Cook.

This wasn’t as much a catastrophe as it was an annoyance, since I had already moved to using an Android based phone prior to this issue.  In fact I keep my iPhones pretty much just to support a couple of things that I bought which require iOS, or use the special Apple connector.

I bought a really nice alarm clock/speakerphone from the iHome folks, and also have a Withings Aura which communicates to my iPhone about my sleeping habits, which I still use daily.  Fixing my iPhone restored proper operation to these for me.

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I had given up and left my iPhone 4S in an inoperative state for months but this week I hooked it back up to the program I despise the most, iTunes, and was able to complete the upgrade to a newer version of iOS 9.  So if you find an older iPhone that’s still got an upgrade error message on it, you may also be able to raise to from the dead now, like I did.