Duration to update? iPhone.

munchings-n-crunchings

As this is technical / computer related, I thought I would post this here, rather than on the mobile phone board.

I don't know where the problem is, or even if there is a problem.

I'm currently having my 3rd attempt at updating my iPhone 3gs to the ios 4.3.5.
On connecting the first time, it says download 420.2MB, time 5 hours, the connection timed out partway thru.
Second attempt, duration 9 hours, and again timed out.
Currently, I am halfway thru the download, time duration 4 hours.

On all previous updates, I have had similar time and drop out issues.

Do other people have lond downloads like this?
Is it a problem with my internet connection / speed, and is there anything I can do to improve this?

Many thanks
Munchie

billywhizz

Often this is just because the servers are busy with everybody downloading it. Leave it a couple of days and try again.

Nikkisun

Are you by any chance running Kaspersky on your machine?

munchings-n-crunchings

Timed out for a third time, 3/4 of the way thru download.
7 hours last night spent trying to do 1 download.

My antivirus is AVG , the paid for version.

jayme1

hmmm I didn't have a problem when I updated to 4.3.5

you could try this workaround:
download the firmware form here: http://www.felixbruns.de/iPod/firmware/ (make sure you get the correct one in your case the iPhone 3GS 4.3.5/BL1) download and seve the file to somewhere on your computer.

then connect your phone to itunes and instead of just clicking 'update' hold shift while clicking 'update' (if you are on a mac hold option instead of shift) then navigate to where you saved the firmware file you downloaded from the site above and click ok. and it should update without a problem.