iPhone has stopped working

Question

Good morning(day/evening/night),

A while ago I installed iOS 6.0 beta on my iPhone. Since then I've been updating to the most recent version of iOS whenever it came out(iOS 6.0 Beta 4 being the last one). But this morning something weird happened.

When I woke up and tried to turn off the alarm, I was shocked by the fact that I had a Wi-Fi choosing screen. After clicking Next at the right side of the navigation bar, it went to a new screen and said "It may take a few minutes to activate your iPhone". After that it told me that iPhone couldn't be activated.

After connecting my iPhone to the Mac, I tried updating iOS, but iTunes said "The software on the iPhone has expired and must be updated to a newer version". But when I try to update from iTunes, it says that iPhone has the most recent version(6.0).

Starting Xcode and organizer showed me that iOS installed is 6.0 (10A5376e), which is iOS 6.0 Beta 4(now it's obvious that it's expired and should be updated). The question is: How can I update to iOS 6.0 from iOS 6.0 Beta 4?

Thanks,

Any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

You must download the iOS6 release version and restore from iTunes with the alt+restore trick.

Note that you will lose all your data if you don't have a backup.

There is a way to do this though, without the need to restore and data will be preserved. This is by clicking the alt+check for updates instead of alt+restore. This is not what Apple recommends so I won't either, but if you don't have a backup and you don't want to loose your data seems like the only choice right now.