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  1. cocacoka

    Fusion Drive upgrade to SSD problem

    I have a late 2013 21.5 iMac and using 1TB Fusion drive option. I want to swap the HDD to SSD lately and I did some research so I planned to do below 1. Clone everything by Carbon Copy Cloner 2. Remove boot camp. 3. reboot to recovery mode. open terminal, split fusion drive (Step here...
  2. J

    iPhone acting extremely strange

    One night, I was watching a YouTube video, and I realized that my iPhone 6s with iOS 9.3.4 wasn't charging even though it was plugged in. I made sure everything was plugged in, and it was. Then, I rebooted my phone to try to fix the problem. Once it started up again, the top hotbar dissapeared...
  3. neha123

    Please help!! Stuck in recovery mode while trying to upgrade iOS

    I was upgrading my iPhone 6S to iOS 10.0.2 when my phone went into recovery mode and now it shows the iTunes logo. When I connect my phone to iTunes, it says "There is a problem with the iPhone that requires it to be updated or restored" so I go along with restore because right now I don't care...
  4. XxUnkn0wnxX

    macOS Sierra Reset ACL's & Permissions Gone

    Hi, Since the update I have been having some miner issues. now I would usually Reset Home Folder Permissions and ACLS but when I typed in resetpassword command in recovery mode it gave me a new reset password window with no option to select drives just my account username. there was no option...
  5. BovanBackpack

    iMac - Mid 2011 - Recovery Mode Reboot.

    I've been trying since yesterday to factory reset my iMac, Erased everything on the hardrive. Reinstall Mac Os X > Apple Store Connect with Apple ID > Downloading additional Components. It goes from 31 minutes for the download to 42 hours, It was downloading all night it hasn't moved, I...
  6. J

    iPhone Help - Jailbreak restore

    I have an iphone 5c that is jailbroken (I wasn't aware of this). anyway, I was having some issues with the phone 'searching' for service, so I did a factory reset. From there I as not able to activate the phone. After trying numerous things, I put the phone into recovery mode, tried to...
  7. Mostafa89

    Iphone 6 recovery mode (error -1 iTunes while updating from iOS 8.1 to 9.3)

    Hi guys I was trying to update my iPhone 6 to 9.3 that during updating i got iTunes error -1 and my phone didn't update and also its on recovery mode now , unfortunately i didn't get back up before updating and my data information including photos massages are important for me ! plz help me if...
  8. K

    iPhone 1st gen bricked?

    I was trying to software unlock my iPhone 2g with an old version of redsn0w (9.2), which I've done before on other phone 2G's and it worked fine. Everything was running smoothly and bootneuter 2.1 had just come up on the phone but it was taking longer than normal and seemed to be stuck so I...
  9. K

    iPhone 2G bricked after trying to jailbreak? DFU restore not working keep getting error 23

    I was trying to software unlock my iPhone 2g with an old version of redsn0w, which I've done before on other phones and it worked fine. Everything was running smoothly and bootneuter 2.1 had just come up on the phone but it was taking longer than normal and seemed to be stuck so I (stupidly)...
  10. jeffgoes

    Inactive Phone

    Hello everyone, I am just writing because I am not quite sure what it's happening with my phone. I've never had a Computer so I don't have an iTunes account. I stopped using the iphone for while since I dropped it and it started to present some problems. However, one of these days I tried to...
  11. N

    ONLY Disk Utility Works on 2011 Macbook Pro

    Hello all, **Lots of detail below. At the end is a TL;DR if you'd like to skip to that. TIA.** A week ago I noticed my 2011 MBP (Mountain Lion) was acting sluggish, slow to respond with static on one of the windows (when I opened it up and logged in, the first program on the screen would...
  12. Banana_CEO

    iPhone Having trouble Jail-breaking IPhone 4 IOS:7.1.2

    I want to jail-break my IPhone 4 but I cannot manage to do it. I am using Pangu for the jail-breaking process and it works until the point where it needs to reboot, at which point the Iphone switches off and goes into recovery mode and the jail-breaking process is halted. Please help, if you...
  13. Z

    recovering files after recovery mode

    I had to put my iPad in recovery mode to fix a freeze it would go into, but, i was not aware that after putting it to recovery mode i would loose all my photos etc. that i had on the ipad.Now is there a way to recover those files and save them from loss?