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Need Help iPhone 7 bricked!!
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Go to ipsw.me and find the right image for your device. Go to iTunes and when you click "Restore", hold the CMD key and it will give you the option of using the downloaded file. This should work if the automated restore process isn't.
I had to do this with my iPad Pro last week when I downloaded the botched iOS 10 OTA update. The regular iTunes restore process kept failing so I had to manually install it. Worked fine after that.
I had to do this with my iPad Pro last week when I downloaded the botched iOS 10 OTA update. The regular iTunes restore process kept failing so I had to manually install it. Worked fine after that.
Thanks for this info it will help if it happens again!
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hardware failure great!! If anything else happens I'll take it to the Apple store near me.It's running perfect now and have it back to to where i was before it all went down hill. Again thanks to all for the advice it makes a bad situation a lot easier!!
Actually I live in retirement community and no one has an Apple product, just Windows. Shouldn't have to be this way but an easier method to fix your iOS device without having another computer.
My nan and grandad are fellow retiree's and they've got more apple products than me! what you on about! I'm specifically jealous about my nans 27" iMac. It's such a stunner.
bricked - means your device is now useful as a doorstop, or the equivalent of a brick, if it turns on it's not bricked.
Put it in DFU mode pre-iPhone 7 hold home and power until the device shuts off, release only the power button and hold home until you see the connect to iTunes logo.
For iPhone 7 same process but hold down the volume down button instead of home.
Connect to iTunes and you'll get a prompt, we found a device in recovery mode.. blah blah blah... Restore the iPhone, (from backup or fresh install is your pick). Wait until your phone is restored. iTunes will need to download the iPhone firmware which may take a while depending on your Internet connection.
Put it in DFU mode pre-iPhone 7 hold home and power until the device shuts off, release only the power button and hold home until you see the connect to iTunes logo.
For iPhone 7 same process but hold down the volume down button instead of home.
Connect to iTunes and you'll get a prompt, we found a device in recovery mode.. blah blah blah... Restore the iPhone, (from backup or fresh install is your pick). Wait until your phone is restored. iTunes will need to download the iPhone firmware which may take a while depending on your Internet connection.
I was doing everything your saying but when I got to the part where you connect to iTunes it said there is a problem with your phone and you need to restore. When I hit restore or update it kept coming up a minute or later saying there was an error and it would have a code associated with it and it couldn't complete or continue. That's when I thought the thing was toast....
Since you are receiving a bunch of error codes, what is the most recent? Look up the error code (e.g. search: iTunes 1671) and see why you are receiving those error messages.
For example 1671, from looking it up, says your Antivirus is outdated on your PC or Mac (or just blocking the connection), you are using a low speed usb connection, the update is not valid for your device, if there are too many USB devices connected to your computer, or your iOS software is just too old (which is obviously not the case).
Go through that list, try using a different USB port with no other devices connected to your computer.
Now I did another check from Apple's iTunes Error webpage (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203174) and found this
email Phil Schiller and ask him, he said on the SE launch event that the iPad Pro could replace your computer, i would love to hear his response
, no doubt he would skirt around the actual issue and say take it to one of their many Apple stores to been seen at the Genius bar.
I got the phone restored yesterday and has been fine since. I don't have any anti virus and there wasn't anything else plugged in to the MacBook Pro but the phone. When the phone was restored it didn't have Pages Keynote Numbers IMovie or GarageBand installed and I'm pretty sure they were on the phone when I got it on release day. I can get them in the App Store for free they have the cloud with the download arrow. It must be something they add separate...
Since plenty of people likely "could care less" about something like that, it's not likely to happen...and in fact that usage will (unfortunately) likely become incorporated into the definition of "bricked" at some point, kind of like "literally" came to also mean the very opposite of itself, literally.
It's alright I don't mean to single you out. It's just bricking means the phone is literally unusable. It's hard to brick a iPhone since you can just put it into DFU mode and restore.