Error 14

[Zgold]

Hello Friends,

Error 14 is a very sad epidemic. Unfortunately, to date there’s nothing that can be done to retrieve the data. Only Apple can do something about this but they chose to sweep the problem under the rag.
The only way to get them to do something about this problem is to make sure our voice is heard everywhere. I tried to approach several media outlets and tech journalists, with the hopes that they’ll pick up the story!

This problem comes without any notice whatsoever!! They shouldn’t be selling junk for so much money!!

Please watch the following YouTube video. It’ll give you all the info you need about “error 24”.

 

[TerenceYong]

Push and pray for solutions

 

[Kiro]

push. this .... happend to me yesterday. exactly one year after delivery.... no real help from apple support. Lost a lot of data, if I can't get back in.
@Apple: Please fix error 14 !

 

[TiggrToo]

Lost a lot of data

So, no backups then? Whilst I feel sorry for the predicament of having a none-working device, this is also why you should ALWAYS have a backup.

 

[Kiro]

So, no backups then? Whilst I feel sorry for the predicament of having a none-working device, this is also why you should ALWAYS have a backup.

sure, but some days old and not all data is in the backups.
last backup is from friday morning. -> on the weekend I was at a wedding. no wifi, just LTE -> no automatic backups...
lots of vids and photos of the party. all gone, if apple can't create a proper update workflow...

also, why didn't the iphone have a warning mechanism if the memory runs full? just reserve some gigs for this purpose?

 

[Kiro]

http://chng.it/C9JFzCwgyj
Here is the Change.org petition. Please sign it.

 

[TiggrToo]

sure, but some days old and not all data is in the backups.
last backup is from friday morning. -> on the weekend I was at a wedding. no wifi, just LTE -> no automatic backups...
lots of vids and photos of the party. all gone, if apple can't create a proper update workflow...

also, why didn't the iphone have a warning mechanism if the memory runs full? just reserve some gigs for this purpose?

Welcome to real life. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but life is.

Way way back in the good old days of film based cameras I lost a whole load of pictures when the Royal Mail failed to deliver them from the processor.

Lesson learnt: don’t use mail based processing.

Years later I had a digital point and shoot that you had to plug into USB to download the pictures (no SD). Camera suddenly got confused, refused to connect and I ended up having to accept they were gone.

Lesson learnt: Use an SD card

After that I lost my SD card full of pictures over multiple weeks when I was moving it between my camera and PC

Lesson learnt: don’t leave it so long between copies

My Droid Incredible got full up with pictures and would not boot whilst I was in San Francisco on vacation. Lost a huge number of pictures that were no on Google’s cloud.

Lesson learnt: There are multiple ways to back up images and I had to learn the cost benefit between backups and loss.

Life’s full of lessons. Should this error have happened just because the phone became full? Hell no - I totally agree there should be controls in place to prevent this error.

But what if the phone had been stolen instead, what if it suffered a hardware malfunction, or what if it went missing?

Move on and accept that baring a miracle, the pictures are lost forever.

 

[A4orce84]

This just claimed me as the latest victim.

 

[Kiro]

Nice, apple found a new way to annoy me: after trying again to update the iphone, it automatically restored the phone. So, it killed everything on it… after having it in the drawer most of the times for over a year… and NO, I did not want it to restore! I specifically opted to update (without erasing my data). Most absurd thing about it: after that, I read that there might be a new solution to solve the error 14 problem wirh 3utools (windows program). I hate apple right now…