Hey all, I have been trying for 2 days now to get this thing restored. I plugged it into my car deck and it immediately rebooted to the apple symbol and stuck there. Using every tool I can think of I have been able to get it into restore mode DFU mode and pwned DFU mode, but no matter what during a restore out of iTunes it gets to loading the OS and the progress bar stops at 0% Itunes says waiting for device, after a couple minutes the screen flashes white and it goes into the restore mode with the little Itunes symbol and the plug in symbol. I am stuck, and frustrated any help would be hugely appreciated.
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4G will not restore
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Yes, my itunes is at the newest version, is there a way to SSH into your device and force install the iOS?
no
your iphone stuck on recovery mode
don't put it on DFU Mode
just plug it to the itunes & restore it again
leave it alone on recovery Mode
let's see what happens
Not to my knowledge. Have you tried a different computer and/or USB cable?
Are you going to be using the latest firmware? If so, why are you putting your device into DFU/Pwns DFU? You should just connect to iTunes and click restore.
Have your tried using RedSn0w or TinyUmbrela to kick the device out of recovery?
I have tried all of the above including multiple cables and PC's. I am wondering if there is some kind of diagnostics utility that I can run against it to see if it has a hardware issue. I am close to sending it in, but want to be 100% sure I can't fix it first.
If you want to mess with it, I'm sure you can do a search about how to diagnose & repair/replace a screen. Personally, I would just take it in & get a replacement....
Well, its out of warranty so I want to try as much as I can. The thing is it gets all the way to loading the iOS on the device before it fails. I have just run out of ideas.
Well I just found out that I bought a BestBuy warranty on, course that is going to take forever since I am living in Germany now. But its something