Iphone5 Bricked by Apple while using iOS7 *NEED HELP*
Hello all, I have been looking around these forums for awhile and just decided to join now. I figured I would let you all know what happened to me last night while at work, maybe it happened to some others as well?
I was at work and out of no where I went to go check my phone and I saw the apple logo pop up (iOS7 was really glitchy with this in there beta1) and it would just show the apple logo for about 7 seconds then just go back to the lock screen. But that didn't happen tonight, I saw the apple logo and immediately thought "this can't be good" sure enough, it wasn't turns out my phone got "bricked" or whatever the real name is called, but it basically restarted itself and came back with my lock screen and a white bar across saying "activation required" since I was at work I had no open WiFi to use, so there was an option to "activate your phone using cellular data". I got prompted with a message that didn't leave a good feeling in my stomach. Basically said something like this "This iPhone is not a registered developer device, if you have a developer please register your iPhone at developer.apple.com/iPhone, and the other option was the same thing but using WiFi.
So at this point I knew I was screwed and just waited until I got home. I had a couple options in my mind that I thought would work. I thought either A. Try using WiFi (didn't work, got the same error message) B. Search youtube on how to de-brick an iphone5 or C. just take it too Verizon. Luckily I found a video about plugging the iPhone into iTunes then putting it in DFU mode (which I was doing a lot at work but just wasn't working or doing anything
) and then continue to hold the home button until iTunes forces the phone into restore mode, which it did. Now here is where I need help from you guys if possible.
After it forcing me to update back to iOS 6.1.4 I got the "Welcome to iPhone" screen went through everything and was praying I didn't lose everything. I got too the iCloud back up page and it was only showing a backup from July. Which didn't make any sense to me considering I have been backing my phone up every time I charged it. So I was forced to choose an update from July (which I think was the last official back up I did before going onto the iOS7 software. So it finishes up and of course I get all old stuff but on iTunes it recognizes my latest back up which was yesterday, but when I press "restore from back up" it doesn't show it at all.
Is it possible that iTunes never logged any of my back up's while on iOS7 and the most recent back up its remembering is the one right before I went onto iOS7? The weird thing is it remembered some new contacts I put in my phone while on iOS7 and notes that I added and some apps (not all). But of course the two most important things I could not get back, Pictures and text messages.
Would it be worth it too go to Verizon and see if they can help me? Trying not to mention I was on iOS7 I think they will be able to see what software I was running and just know right away and not give me any help.
If you made it this far please respond with something to at least help me. I lost a lot of awesome pictures that I would love to have back and text messages that involve business that I need.
Thanks for reading and hopefully when iOS7 gets released to the public in two weeks iTunes will recognize my back up's or something.
Hello all, I have been looking around these forums for awhile and just decided to join now. I figured I would let you all know what happened to me last night while at work, maybe it happened to some others as well?
I was at work and out of no where I went to go check my phone and I saw the apple logo pop up (iOS7 was really glitchy with this in there beta1) and it would just show the apple logo for about 7 seconds then just go back to the lock screen. But that didn't happen tonight, I saw the apple logo and immediately thought "this can't be good" sure enough, it wasn't turns out my phone got "bricked" or whatever the real name is called, but it basically restarted itself and came back with my lock screen and a white bar across saying "activation required" since I was at work I had no open WiFi to use, so there was an option to "activate your phone using cellular data". I got prompted with a message that didn't leave a good feeling in my stomach. Basically said something like this "This iPhone is not a registered developer device, if you have a developer please register your iPhone at developer.apple.com/iPhone, and the other option was the same thing but using WiFi.
So at this point I knew I was screwed and just waited until I got home. I had a couple options in my mind that I thought would work. I thought either A. Try using WiFi (didn't work, got the same error message) B. Search youtube on how to de-brick an iphone5 or C. just take it too Verizon. Luckily I found a video about plugging the iPhone into iTunes then putting it in DFU mode (which I was doing a lot at work but just wasn't working or doing anything
) and then continue to hold the home button until iTunes forces the phone into restore mode, which it did. Now here is where I need help from you guys if possible. After it forcing me to update back to iOS 6.1.4 I got the "Welcome to iPhone" screen went through everything and was praying I didn't lose everything. I got too the iCloud back up page and it was only showing a backup from July. Which didn't make any sense to me considering I have been backing my phone up every time I charged it. So I was forced to choose an update from July (which I think was the last official back up I did before going onto the iOS7 software. So it finishes up and of course I get all old stuff but on iTunes it recognizes my latest back up which was yesterday, but when I press "restore from back up" it doesn't show it at all.
Is it possible that iTunes never logged any of my back up's while on iOS7 and the most recent back up its remembering is the one right before I went onto iOS7? The weird thing is it remembered some new contacts I put in my phone while on iOS7 and notes that I added and some apps (not all). But of course the two most important things I could not get back, Pictures and text messages.
Would it be worth it too go to Verizon and see if they can help me? Trying not to mention I was on iOS7 I think they will be able to see what software I was running and just know right away and not give me any help.
If you made it this far please respond with something to at least help me. I lost a lot of awesome pictures that I would love to have back and text messages that involve business that I need.
Thanks for reading and hopefully when iOS7 gets released to the public in two weeks iTunes will recognize my back up's or something.
