How to Recover Your iPhone from the Grave
You’ve probably been in a situation in which your iPhone seems dead (white apple logo on a black boot up screen).
You may ask yourself: "Huh? What did I do?" Try to trace your steps:
a) Have you installed any new applications?
b) Did you do a hard reset while your iPhone seemed frozen?
There’s nothing you can do about some app crashing your iPhone. But you gotta stay away from hard resets, do them only after you’re 100% sure that your Phone is not responding.
You probably tried this method (getting the device in recovery mode) and still cannot connect to iTunes. If all failed, follow the following steps:
1. Turn off your iPhone. You may need to do a hard reset: (hold Home and Sleep buttons until the screen turns off).
2. Connect USB cable to your iPhone and open iTunes
3. Now, this is the most difficult part of the process.
You need to get your iPhone into DFU (Device Firmware Update)
Timing is everything, so make sure you have a timer.
a) Hold Home and Sleep Buttons for 10 seconds
b) After 10 seconds release Sleep Button
c) Continue Holding Home Button for 10 more seconds
If you performed the steps above correctly you will see this message in iTunes:
If not, repeat the steps above again – timing is everything.
4. During the next steps, iTunes will restore the original firmware to your iPhone:
After the process, your iPhone gets restored but remains blank/empty.
5. After the restoration process, the iPhone reboots. If you are still connected to iTunes, you will have an option to restore your iPhone from the back-up.
Note: If you have been stopping backup during the iPhone sync process and have never completed your backup in full, shame on you. You will not be able to restore from backup unless you have completed a full backup in the past.
Select your option of choice and click continue.
If you selected the backup option, you will see a backup progress bar.
Note: The backup process will move at a steady pace until the last 5-10% (see screenshot above). After that, the progress bar will not move for a long period of time (1- 3 hrs). Do not stop the restore process. Everything is fine, it just takes a long time. FYI – it took us 2.5 hours for the restore process to complete.
6. After the restoration process completes, iTunes will give you a prompt and the iPhone will reboot.
7. After that, you will need to sync your iPhone. If your iTunes is configured to start sync automatically, you don’t need to do anything.
We hope this iPhone restoration process via DFU mode worked for you. Make sure to give yourself ample time, since it may take you up to 3 hours.
If you have any questions/comments, feel free to post them.
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My Iphone has switched off completley. It seems not to react to any buttons…even if i comence to reset it completely like mentioned above. however i have realised when battery is low it will charge and the normal screen will come on again, but not in recovery mode. It seem like everytime i want to pereform the above, it stays on a blank black screen…that until battery low again. Any ideas??? Oh also all the applications are still installed even though on the uninstall page on installer there are no applications….???? Thanks
thanks for these tibs i had this prob alot when i install updates for new source i what to know is there is a software for uninstall the applications and manage them from PC (windows)like nokia pc suite
and thanks again for tibs and triks
@ahmed, you can remove apps using itunes on your PC. right mouse click on your app and select delete.
My iphone contact is wiped out. How do i get it back.This is what happen i updated my firmware 2.2 using the Restore and never backup anything on my iphone. Now I have tried everything and i still can’t get my contacts
@Danny, go to iPhone sync option in iTunes and select sync contacts.
how about if i’ve finished step4 but then all the things appear to be like before? it did restore my iphone but didnt wake it up!!
soso I think your iPhone is in a coma, that’s what that famous old Smiths song is about, you know that one ‘iPhone in a coma’. Yes I know it’s called ‘Girlfriend in a Conma’ but I just thought it was funny, OK it was a cheap one, especially as it not my phone, and it doesn’t bring much to the debate, isn’t technology great, I mean a phone is a pretty kick arse kind of device as it is, for the first 100 years or so all you could do was call your Mum up, but then they added the ability to watch a video of a monkey taking pee pees, and all that other great stuff like MMS’ing a photo of your junk to your wife on valentines day, or any other kind of chinese boat, Alexander Graham Bell would be amazed. I seem to have gone on a bit here, you can see why youtube have a minimum of 500 chars.
PS this worked for me and my phone only took about 5 mins to restore the back-up and not 3 hours, but I have read that ppl have been having this issue of the restore taking pure time to complete. You could always spend the time typing useless replys to stuff like I just have.
i have reset my iphone, unluckily, its low batt… after i charging n turn it on, it shown connet to i-tune, then when i connect to itune, it shown sim card not verify… so, now i cannot go into de function… no more menu out.. no icon… help me..
My 1G iphone was frozen and slide to unlock was totally unresponsive. I tried hard restart with no success. I just got to DFU mode and now it’s restoring. So far so good…
Thx –
is it me or wen u update to 3.0 u recieve texts really late and sometimes dont recieve a call at all?
no it’s not just you, other people have the same problem.
Best way to fix it is to, restore back to original state, activate your phone, then use redsn0w to jailbreak it.
I attempted doing this and I received “Error 1600″. Any ideas? If possible, e-mail me. I’m going to blog about my experience getting this hacked and if it’s ID10T error I’ll make sure people know . . .
I attempted doing this and I received “Error 1600″. Any ideas? If possible, e-mail me. I’m going to blog about my experience getting this hacked and if it’s ID10T error I’ll make sure people know . . .
I tried updating my iPhone to the lastest update. It led me to: “sync to backup” then 3 hrs later, recieved “Error 1600″. This error soon led me to My iPhone Device: saying “Recovory mode has been found and needs restoring”. So right now, im restoring in process(restoring from backup) and hearing from other people’s reviews:
Will my iPhone 3G restore all my “lost” applications (that I paid for by the way), contacts, pictures, notes, calendar dates I posted important, etc?
How long will this process take?
sorry about your situation. If you had recent back-up, everything should be restored. restore time depends on how much info you had on your iphone
My iPhone 2G just crashed, and I have put it in DFU mode, but I’m afraid to restore it through iTunes. I live in Belgium where the iPhone 2G was never officially supported, and i don’t have an AT&T sim card, so there is no way for me to activate it normally. Can anybody tell me what i should do to get 3.0 on it and then jailbreak it without having to legally activate it first? Or don’t I have to activate at all before I jailbreak it?
jailbreak process will activate your phone.
so you have to get 3.0 on it and then jailbreak it.
If I jail break my iPhone 3G with redsnow ,then can i restore it back to factory state(non jailbreak).
After step 4, it rebooted, then nothing happened it went back to the same black screen with apple logo and iTunes didnt do anything.
Is there anything I can do furthermore???
i have an iphone 3g running on 3.0 firmware, jailbroken. I was installing this apps from cydia when it freezes. I tried to restore it using itunes but it updated my firmware to 3.0.1, I was able to jilbreak it using the redsnow, i also installed repo666, but still i can’t use my sim card. how do i unlock my iphone so that i could use my simcard from it? or if i can restore it back to 3.0? thank you so much! your site is a big help.
You said you configured repo666 but did you install untrlasn0w, after repo config, search for ultrasn0w on cydia and install it.
aha the part that i missed! thanks for your help!
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