iOS 5 firmware update errors

iOS 5 update error 3014 or encountered any problem

 

1. Upgraded iTunes to the latest version available and rebooted our computer (in our case 9.2.1)
2. Downloaded the iPhone iOS 5 firmware directly from Apple manually*** (by clicking in iTunes download only)
3. Hard rebooted the iPhone (press and hold both home and the power button until an Apple logo appears)
4. Connected the iPhone to our computer and when iTunes told us it had detected a device requiring a recovery we shift clicked restore** (click restore if it doesn’t work then try held down shift on the keyboard and clicked the restore button) within iTunes*
5. We browsed to the location where we’d saved the firmware we downloaded in step 2 and left iTunes to do its thing with the iPhone (if the firmware not detected automatically)
6. When the iPhone rebooted having successfully applied the firmware we re-inserted the sim card, waited for the iPhone to tell us it was activated
7. We ask iTunes to re-apply the most recent backup it had to the device, thus restoring configuration and content.

 

And you are all done