[fazman]

Damn! I upgraded my iPad last night to iOS9 and all was good. So I decided to upgrade my iPhone 4s from 7.0.4 --> 9.0.0 and now I am stuck in an endless rebooting/install phase. The sad part is that I backed up on iTunes on my WinXP box... using 12.1 version of iTunes and the latest is 12.3... the problem is 12.3 will only install on win7 so now I have a backup that I can't access because after the install Apple requires me to use v12.3 of iTunes to get to my backup. DOH!

I've been trying the hard reboot and trying to "upgrade" from recovery mode so I can maintain my data on my phone. For a brief moment I was able to get into the iOS 9 on my 4s when it first installed and noticed that all my contacts were blown away... but since that time it's just gone down hill.

Hopefully I can wait it out till 9.0.1 is out and then try to upgrade again in recovery mode so I can keep my data safe. I really don't want to restore/blow away all data and settings to get my phone back