My iPhone 4 is taking forever to update to ios7?

My iPhone 4 has been updating for about 6 hours connected to the computer. I'm currently on ios4.1, is that why it is taking it so long? I can't update it on my phone as the software update is too old and doesn't have the option on it. I do not know what the problem is. It just keeps saying " connecting to iTunes store" " contacting the iPhone activation centre" it has already spent 4 hours updating to the ios7 but it never updated.

It will take a long time. A few of my friends had the same problem and for some of them it took 24 hours to work. It did work eventually though and put it on charge whilst you're updating it, it will update faster this way.

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