In my experience, if it is all the way to restoring the apps, it shouldn't turn your iPad into a brick. It doesn't start reloading the apps until after the operating system upgrade is finished. You may have to reinstall the apps that haven't completed restoring, yet, and I'm not sure, but you might run a risk of missing data that you've saved in those apps. Maybe someone else will know for sure about that. In either case, if you find that you are missing data, the best thing to do is probably to just restore it again. (You shouldn't have to reinstall the iOS 5, just restore the backup that was made right before it upgraded, to bring all your apps and data back again, hopefully without hanging up this time.) If it is still stuck on the same app in the morning, I think you have no choice but to go ahead and stop the restoration.
I've had my iPad 2 hooked up to my Mac for over 4 hours. It appears to be frozen on restoring one of the last apps. Should I hit the "Stop" button if it is still at the same point in the morning? What will that do to the update? I don't want to turn my iPad into a brick.
Any advice?
Cathy
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