3gs stuck in recovery/dfu and wont come out?

geekgirrl · Feb 28, 2012

I have a 3gs 4.0.1 I was trying to upgrade to 5.0.1. Something happened and itunes tried to restore back I guess and now it's stuck. No holding the power/home buttons system works. It kind of wont shut off and itunes 10.5.3.3 doesnt even see the phone. This is an non jb phone. It was jb a while back but I un jail broke it to 4.0.1.

Any ideas how to get out of this? I dont even think I can do a restore and itunes doesnt see the phone. I'm using windows 7.

Thanks.

ninjaw95 · Feb 28, 2012

geekgirrl said:
I have a 3gs 4.0.1 I was trying to upgrade to 5.0.1. Something happened and itunes tried to restore back I guess and now it's stuck. No holding the power/home buttons system works. It kind of wont shut off and itunes 10.5.3.3 doesnt even see the phone. This is an non jb phone. It was jb a while back but I un jail broke it to 4.0.1.

Any ideas how to get out of this? I dont even think I can do a restore and itunes doesnt see the phone. I'm using windows 7.

Thanks.

are you on ipad BB?

normanbates · Feb 28, 2012

Try tiny umbrella to force it out of DFU mode

geekgirrl · Feb 28, 2012

I'm on an iphone 3gs.

No other way to boot this phone out of dfu/recovery mode than some software?
I dont even know what mode I'm in except that itunes will not see the phone no matter what magic button sequence I use....so far. Grrrrrr...

Tinyumbrella doesnt see my device. The exit recovery & fix recovery buttons are grayed out.

I got it! I tried the 3rd usb port and it worked.

bring-ass · Oct 23, 2012

I love u geek girl i had like 2 days stuck on this, i had switched different USB port but never a 3rd... i hope God gives you like ten sons in return

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